Currents
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.
South Africa and Lesotho have passed important LGBT protections, but without changing attitudes, these laws are paper-thin.
Lesbian culture is disappearing beneath our noses, erased as part of a homophobic feedback loop — one I became painfully ensnared in.
In the years since the Russian invasion, the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine have seen a dramatic backslide in LGBT rights and tolerance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gay and lesbian communities may never fully outgrow their biphobia, but bi people will outgrow their reliance on gay and lesbian communities.
The political right welcomed LGBT moderates with open arms. Once they took power, the mask came off.