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Moralising about relationships between consenting adults has dangerous precedents
James Greig
Online storms over age gaps between partners have become depressingly common More
Virginia Denver Riggleman beaten in convention in state’s fifth district Hardliner Bob Good could face strong Democratic challenge Denver Riggleman speaks in the House of Representatives. Photograph: AP A Virginia Republican congressman who angered social conservatives in his district when he officiated a gay wedding has lost his party’s nomination. Representative Denver Riggleman lost on […] More
The Trump administration has finalized a regulation rolling back Obama-era protections for transgender Americans against sex discrimination in health care. According to the new version of the policy, the Department of Health and Human Services will be “returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as […] More
Eric Cervini’s story of one man’s struggle touches on many others and leaves the reader wanting 500 pages more Frank Kameny picketing in a still from a documentary, The Lavender Scare. Photograph: PBS Trained at Harvard and Cambridge, Eric Cervini is an LGBTQ historian. His debut, subtitled The Homosexual vs the United States of America, falls […] More
Former congressman Aaron Schock came out this week, with no acknowledgement of the harm he caused gay Americans Sign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Continue reading… More
For those who recall when just entering a gay bar was dangerous, seeing a gay presidential candidate get so far while being mercilessly pilloried was a disorienting experience The day after Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, the writer Mark Harris, who is married to playwright Tony Kushner, tweeted, “Even if you support someone else, as I […] More
Advocates hail a senator who is ready to listen, learn and fight for them: ‘There is openness. There is empathy’ A group of prominent transgender activists have rallied behind one 2020 presidential campaign – and it’s not the first openly LGBTQ+ candidate with a shot at the nomination. Elizabeth Warren has earned the support of […] More
Zachary Ro told candidate ‘I want to be brave like you’ while on stage at a campaign rally in Denver At a campaign rally in Denver, a nine-year-old Pete Buttigieg supporter asked the presidential hopeful to “tell the world I’m gay”. Zachary Ro, from Lone Tree, was called on stage so Buttigieg could answer directly […] More
