ISSUE XII
CINEMA
As queer cinema goes mainstream, can it hold
onto its defiant roots?
The true magic of Christmas is the opportunity to open our minds and forgive old grudges.
As the absolute labels once needed for acceptance begin to peel off, a clear trend re-emerges: We are more bisexual than we think.
Inclusive Masculinity Theory sees gay acceptance as evidence that the patriarchy is fading. So why are we still so fixated on sticking it to The Man?
Studies tell us that people perceive men’s and women’s wellbeing very differently. What does that say about the discourse that currently dominates our culture?
Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.
Most people have never heard of autogynephilia, or regard it as an anti-trans cudgel. But new research shows it’s far more common — and human — than culture warriors think.
South Africa made history as the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage. A new bill has reinvigorated its loudest critics.
Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.
The First Amendment allowed LGBT people to gain equal rights — will it also usher in a new age of conversion therapy?
LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism.
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
Zohran Mamdani smiling next to an anti-LGBT Ugandan politician is nothing new. Leftists have a long history of siding with tyrants.
From the US to the UK to Russia, banning LGBT literature is always the first step in a wider assault on free expression.
The untruths of trans activism caused a backlash, but the LGBT movement has been on shaky factual ground for decades.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t the monster his critics have painted nor the authoritarian his supporters have become.
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.
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.
The political right welcomed LGBT moderates with open arms. Once they took power, the mask came off.