Before I learned about beauty, I delighted in my body. I sensed a deep well at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives.

In staying, I was not only denying myself the chance at true happiness, but I was keeping him from having it, too. It was that realization—that I was preventing my husband from having the life he deserved—that ultimately outweighed the fears I had about leaving.

For many trans people, getting gender-affirming surgery can be life saving. But a complicated and quickly expanding system can sometimes leaves patients feeling left behind.

The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Upon returning to my hometown, though, some twenty-odd years after that bus ride, I kept seeing signs that perhaps, even in rural Appalachia, the times had changed.

Christmas memories, lost love.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

In September 2017, a police officer shot and killed a queer college student in Atlanta. By the end of the year, several of the student’s friends had been arrested, and two were dead. What happened at Georgia Tech?

Seventeen years before the Stonewall Riots, Dale Jennings proclaimed to a California court that he was a homosexual. It was the first glimmer of a civil rights revolution. This is the story of an unsung, and reluctant, hero.

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

The pros and cons of computerized boyfriend models.

A story of maps, travels, and (un)couplings.

How Bill Kennedy, the only openly gay referee in the NBA, came out.

Visiting a semi-secret LGBTQ commune in the middle of Tennessee.

A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.

A gospel singer comes out.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.