Hell Bent for Leather: Heavy Metal’s Gay Rock God

Rob Halford rocked so hard he had straight guys lining up to be whipped with his leather riding crop.

H - CultureDiana RamosOctober 25, 2024Currents, Jacob Bielecki, C - Chris Colt

The Kindred Spirits of Queer Witchcraft

Today’s witchy subcultures are queer as hell — but how queer was historical witchcraft really?

H - CultureDiana RamosOctober 21, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul, C - Old Maids

The Salty Boys of the Populist Right

Every MAGA accusation of liberal resentment is a confession.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosSeptember 30, 2024Currents, Matt McManus, Trends, C - US Becoming Russia, C - Lesbians Like Me, C - Two and a Half Men, C - Half Erased

The Looming MAGA-Muslim Axis

“I fear the day the populist right realizes it has more in common with American Muslims than it does with NYU graduates.”

H - PoliticsDiana RamosSeptember 27, 2024Currents, Samuel Boghossian, C - Salty Boys, C - Lesbians Like Me, C - The Queering, C - Two and a Half Men, C - Cannon Fodder, C - Israel is Not Weaponizing

Karim: The Bisexual Cat Who Defied Putin

As state propaganda hijacked Russian LGBT activism, it took a special kind of mascot to claw through the noise.

H - PoliticsDiana RamosSeptember 23, 2024Currents, Ayman Eckford, Trends, C - Homophobic Conspiracies, C - US Becoming Russia, Featured Jan 2025, C - Cannon Fodder, C - Donetsk, C - Kremlin

“I’m Not Like Other Girls”: The Trope That Just Won’t Die

From Cool Girls to Girl Bosses to Bimbos, Tradwives, Brats, and Cat Ladies, the next “other girl” trope keeps reinventing itself.

H - CultureDiana RamosSeptember 19, 2024Currents, Silver Rose, Trends, C - GamerGate

Lying Bi Omission: Hollywood’s Retconned Bisexuals

Blockbusters have more bi characters than ever, but you’d never know it from watching the movies.

H - CultureDiana RamosSeptember 9, 2024Currents, Jamie Paul, Trends, C - Zeudi, Featured Jan 2025

TERFS, BERFS, and QUERFS

How radical feminists and gay separatists allied with the religious right against trans, bi, and queer rights.

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosAugust 30, 2024Currents, Kaylee Walker, C - Guilt By Association, Trends

The Ripple Effect of Britain’s Far-Right Riots

"As a queer refugee from Ukraine, I take the UK’s Southport riots personally. So should all LGBT people."

H - Ideas, H - PoliticsDiana RamosAugust 19, 2024Currents, Ayman Eckford, C - Karim, News, C - Homophobic Conspiracies, C - Untapped, C - Swallowed Machine

How Rick Castro Became the King of Fetish

No one has mastered the art of tying up men like Rick Castro.

H - CultureDiana RamosAugust 7, 2024Currents, Chance Goode, C - Leather, C - Chris Colt, C - Porn Tycoon

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, C - Lesbians Like Me, C - Half Erased, C - Kremlin

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, C - The Queering

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, C - Love in the Age, C - 5 Dating Tips, C - Polarized and Lonely, C - Simply Unerasable, C - Dating Apps

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, C - GamerGate

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

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