The populist right talks a big game about cultural conservatism, but their lifestyles don’t reflect it.
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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.
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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.
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For many queer people, the scars of abusive or religious upbringings run deep. Catastrophizing the Christmas season isn’t the answer.
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The postwar optimism about progress is nearly gone. It won’t be revived with moral certainty or demographic assumptions.
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Just as trans activism and visibility were taking off, an intra-community clash helped set the movement down a doomed path.
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Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.
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LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism.
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Charlie Sheen may never have sexually explored “the other side of the menu” sober, but he doesn’t regret it.
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I’m bisexual, polyamorous, and an atheist. But my family goes to church every week.
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The untruths of trans activism caused a backlash, but the LGBT movement has been on shaky factual ground for decades.
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You don’t need to be a celebrity to be a bi role model. You just need to be visible.
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Michael Shane Hale has accomplished more behind bars over the past 30 years than most people do in a lifetime.
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Activist platitudes kept me in the dark about my shifting bisexual attractions. I had to wait for ChatGPT to get real answers.
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In their frenzied crusade to “embrace tradition”, right-wing populists haven’t defended Western civilization — they’ve become Moscow’s unwitting pawns.
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Lesbian culture is disappearing beneath our noses, erased as part of a homophobic feedback loop — one I became painfully ensnared in.
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AI matchmaking and dating advice promises better connections — but at what cost?
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Nearly a third of teen boys look up to Andrew Tate, but you don’t need to be a sleazeball to be a man.
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Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
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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.
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