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Here's why Trump's win is turning some straight women to political lesbianism

After a tsunami of misogyny, transphobia, and orange hair, some straight women are considering a more sapphic political point of view.

Before Stonewall: The Women's House of Detention Changed Queer History

The historian Hugh Ryan will change how you think about our history.

Queer Life in the '70s and '80s: Art, Activism, & AIDS

These decades were filled with joy and horror, and a disease that would test our existence.

In the Mississippi Bible Belt, a Family Wrestles with Raising Trans Kids in the Mormon Church

Amid the surge of anti-trans bills in America, this Mississippi family is still trying to raise trans kids in a faith that tends to have a strict binary view of gender.

Have We Got Matthew Shepard All Wrong?

A new book argues that America’s most notorious hate crime was not a hate crime at all.

Comic Casts Gay Men as Superhero, Villain

A popular gay Web series has inspired an anthology-style comic collection.

How The Nonreligious 'Nones' Are Driving LGBT Equality

A deep look inside a recent Pew Research survey hints at a link between antigay attitudes and declining religiosity.

45 Big Homophobes

The LGBT rights movement has had its share of villains. These are some of the worst.

Here's Why Sally Kohn Hopes Her Kid Is Gay

Writing in the Washington Post, Kohn says a gay child can be just as happy and fulfilled as a straight one.

The other code

While the Catholic Church denounces The Da Vinci Code's central conceit, that Jesus was married, other secrets about the homoerotic aspects of Jesus' life are also worth exploring.

LGBTQ+ History: When NOW Purged Lesbians From Its Feminist Movement

This the history of Betty Friedan, "feminine feminists" and the Lavender Menace.

The 25 best queer films of the century so far

From But I'm a Cheerleader to Brokeback Mountain to Bottoms, the first 25 years of the 21st century have witnessed a sea change in LGBTQ+ films like trans stories starring trans people and queer movies becoming major awards contenders. Here are the best ranked.