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A left-wing newspaper claimed the Iranian support for Prince Reza Pahlavi was a hoax created by Israeli war hawks. Then Iranians themselves spoke up.

South Africa made history as the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage. A new bill has reinvigorated its loudest critics.

Charlie Kirk wasn’t the monster his critics have painted nor the authoritarian his supporters have become.

South Africa and Lesotho have passed important LGBT protections, but without changing attitudes, these laws are paper-thin.

In the years since the Russian invasion, the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine have seen a dramatic backslide in LGBT rights and tolerance.

Deconstructing and debunking the latest libel against Israel.

Derek Huffman moved his family to Russia to escape “LGBT propaganda.” Now he’s been sent to the front lines in Ukraine.

The Second Pan-African Conference on Family Values was nothing if not a monument to the homophobia raging across the continent.

The Trump administration tried to erase bisexuality from government websites, but they only awakened a sleeping giant.

For about a decade, critics and tastemakers were obsessed with aligning actors' identities with the characters they played. Now we’re seeing a return to craft.

For many queer people, the scars of abusive or religious upbringings run deep. Catastrophizing the Christmas season isn’t the answer.

The postwar optimism about progress is nearly gone. It won’t be revived with moral certainty or demographic assumptions.

Just as trans activism and visibility were taking off, an intra-community clash helped set the movement down a doomed path.

Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.

LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism.

Charlie Sheen may never have sexually explored “the other side of the menu” sober, but he doesn’t regret it.

I’m bisexual, polyamorous, and an atheist. But my family goes to church every week.

The untruths of trans activism caused a backlash, but the LGBT movement has been on shaky factual ground for decades.

Most people have never heard of autogynephilia, or regard it as an anti-trans cudgel. But new research shows it’s far more common — and human — than culture warriors think.

Gay and lesbian communities may never fully outgrow their biphobia, but bi people will outgrow their reliance on gay and lesbian communities.

Sex researcher William Costello’s viral poll on Olly Murs’s fitness transformation reveals truths about our ancient past and modern culture.

Bi people are the sexual ambassadors the world needs right now. It’s time we better understood them.

New research suggests that more people aren’t just coming out as bi, they are becoming more bi.

Critics are convinced that the rise in LGBTQ+ identification is driven by the TQ+, but that’s not what the data says.

You shouldn’t need a Tumblr thesaurus to figure out whom you’re attracted to.

28% of Gen Z is LGBT. Has being queer become a craze or is there more going on?

Some critics think that younger generations are more bi because it’s trendy. New research shows otherwise.

Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.

The First Amendment allowed LGBT people to gain equal rights — will it also usher in a new age of conversion therapy?

Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

Zohran Mamdani smiling next to an anti-LGBT Ugandan politician is nothing new. Leftists have a long history of siding with tyrants.

From the US to the UK to Russia, banning LGBT literature is always the first step in a wider assault on free expression.

The war on DEI has exposed the LGBT movement’s overreliance on the state.

Left-wing LGBT activism has not only fallen flat with the public — it’s driving away LGBT moderates.

Until liberals rediscover the fundamental truths of their own tradition, right-wing populists will continue to eat their lunch.

The political right welcomed LGBT moderates with open arms. Once they took power, the mask came off.