LGBT Rights Are No Longer Radical, Opposition to Them Is

There is nothing “conservative” about yanking society back in time.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosAugust 2, 2024currents, mike burke, c - queer conservative, C - Pope Francis

The Doomsayers Were Wrong About Same-Sex Marriage

20 years of data paint an unambiguous picture: when LGBT people win, everyone wins.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJuly 31, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul

I’m Here, I’m Queer, I’m Conservative

The LGBT community’s political diversity isn’t a weakness — it’s a superpower.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJuly 25, 2024Currents, Zane Landin, C - LGBT Rights Radical

Dating Double Standards: The Biphobia Women Won't Admit

Women may say they don’t want to date bi men, but they already are — these bi guys are just in the closet.

H - CultureDiana RamosJuly 17, 2024Currents, Lewis Oakley, C - Guilt By Association, Featured Jan 2025, C - Love in the Age, C - 5 Dating Tips, C - Polarized and Lonely

I Blew Up the Internet by Wearing a Dress to a Gender Conference

The fury over a “man in a dress” shows that the “gender-critical“ movement has become just another authoritarian cult.

H - CultureDiana RamosJuly 4, 2024Currents, Phil Illy, C - Autoheterosexuality, C - QUERFS

The People’s Joker and Her Army of Queer Rebels

“How do you stay humble knowing you made Gay Citizen Kane?”

12 AF Slava, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Yentl, 12 Whiz BamDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Vera Drew, C - Leather

Artist Feature: Slava Mogutin’s Sexy Underground Hooliganism

Slava Mogutin fled Russia to the US as a political refugee, but his true home is wherever artistic freedom thrives.

Artist Feature, 12 Joker, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bradford Nordeen, Artist Feature, AF Slava, C - Rick Castro, C - UK Riots, C - Karim, C - Homophobic Conspiracies

Family Values, Gay Ghosts, and Taiwan’s Queer Blockbusters

For queer cinema in Taiwan, embracing modernity means embracing tradition too.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024Zheng Yi Sung, ISSUE12, C - Pick Me

A Thousand Clouds of Peace and Rainbows: Mexico’s Queer Film Trailblazers

When it comes to Mexican films, the sexual is political.

12 Yentl, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 TSAI MING, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 MBOA, 12 Joker, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 AF SlavaDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Julián Hernández, C - Pick Me, C - Leather

The In-Between: Erotica and Porn

Bruce LaBruce has been told his work is too pornographic for the art world, and too artsy for the porn world.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, The In-betweenDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bruce LaBruce, The In-Between, C - Rick Castro

The Censored Canvas: Queer Art in the Age of Online Censorship

As culture migrates to digital spaces, the two most dreaded words for queer artists are “community guidelines.”

12 AF Slava, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 Yentl, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 1000 CloudsDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Slava Mogutin, C - Homophobic Conspiracies, C - Porn Tycoon

My Body and Other Adventures: My Pregnancy in Movies

What Gattaca, Venom, Bridget Jones, and Mad Max taught me about my pregnancy.

My Body and Other Adventu, Talia Squires, 12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Talia Squires, My Body and Other Adventures, C - Lying Bi

The Cruising Grounds of Tsai Ming-liang’s Slow Cinema

Amid the neon wash of urbanscapes thrumming with erotic energy, Tsai Ming-liang reveals the queerness beneath the surface of all things.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 Whiz Bam, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Travis Jeppesen

Yentl, the Wonderfully Queer Yeshiva Boy

The unlikely tale of how a cross-dressing Jewish girl from the Old World inspired a Cuban-American lesbian in the New World.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 Whiz BamDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Anna Margarita Albelo, C - Pick Me

Whiz Bam!: The Video Gays That Made Me

For a gay teen in the 90s St. Louis, this queer video store was a top pick.

12 1000 Clouds, 12 AF Slava, 12 Censored Canvas, 12 Cinema Taiwan, 12 Joker, 12 MBOA, 12 TIB Erotica, 12 TSAI MING, 12 YentlDiana RamosJuly 1, 2024ISSUE12, Bradford Nordeen

The Messy Truths About False Rape Allegations

The online kangaroo court of public opinion is where due process and women’s safety go to die.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJune 28, 2024Currents, Chris Ferguson

The Hypocrisy and Homophobia of Anti-Surrogacy Radicals

How far-right homophobia and radfem misandry have teamed up, once again, to stop the gays from having families.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosJune 13, 2024Currents, Daniel DeStefano, C - Can SAH Dads

The Common Ground We Dare Not Speak

In a time of supposedly universal polarization, highlighting common ground is a revolutionary act.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMay 24, 2024Currents, Chris Ferguson, C - Conspiracy, C - Academia Assholes

Is Feminism Starting To Resemble the Religious Right?

Is Gen Z’s revolt against sex an act of rebellion or just conservative prudery?

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMay 17, 2024Currents, Sophie Saint Thomas, C - Anti-Surrogacy, C - QUERFS, Featured, C - Porn Tycoon, C - Polarized and Lonely

The Long, Whitewashed History of Communist Homophobia

Many activists insist that LGBT rights are an extension of communist ideology, but history says otherwise.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosMay 9, 2024Currents, Alexander Von Sternberg, C - Karim, C - Homophobic Conspiracies

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