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The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.
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.
You don’t need to be a celebrity to be a bi role model. You just need to be visible.
Michael Shane Hale has accomplished more behind bars over the past 30 years than most people do in a lifetime.
Activist platitudes kept me in the dark about my shifting bisexual attractions. I had to wait for ChatGPT to get real answers.
In their frenzied crusade to “embrace tradition”, right-wing populists haven’t defended Western civilization — they’ve become Moscow’s unwitting pawns.
Lesbian culture is disappearing beneath our noses, erased as part of a homophobic feedback loop — one I became painfully ensnared in.
AI matchmaking and dating advice promises better connections — but at what cost?
Nearly a third of teen boys look up to Andrew Tate, but you don’t need to be a sleazeball to be a man.
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
Behind the sitcom shenanigans, Two and a Half Men captured the ethos of pre-Trump America — glamorizing excess, deception, and a performative masculinity that set the stage for the cultural chaos to come.
How the confluence of GamerGate, Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Hulk Hogan changed politics.
When same-sex love can spell death, gay and bi Iranians party like there’s no tomorrow.
Young people themselves want sex education brought into the 21st century.
Long before President Trump went to war with universities, academics were busy destroying their own reputations.
How radical politics, fringe views, social media, and dating taboos screwed a generation — though not literally.
Don’t take dating advice from incels, and other pearls of relationship wisdom.
The mistreatment of a bi woman on Italy’s Grande Fratello shocked international audiences, but it reflects the country’s regressive social attitudes.
Ewan Morrison’s sci-fi thriller, For Emma, takes AI and the crisis of meaning to their most horrifying logical conclusions.
Bree Mills had never made a porn film or even seen a penis. Now she’s one of the industry’s heaviest hitters.
Technology has turned dating into a powder keg of political purity tests.
The new Dungeons & Dragons has confused safetyism and cringeworthy stereotypes for inclusivity.