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News and Features

The Officer and the Diva (Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Regions and Countries, Society)

This spring, two important chapters in the surprising story of Israeli gay and lesbian politics concluded.

Joshua Gamson
Nonsilence = Death, Too? (Social Justice, HIV and AIDS, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Theater, Society)

In seven novels and a collection of essays published since 1981, Sarah Schulman has methodically chronicled the history of her longtime neighborhood, Manhattan's East Village.

Mark J. Huisman
Where's the Revolution? (Racism and Discrimination, Social Justice, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Organizing, Sex and Sexuality, Society)

When I came out in Boston in the mid-l970s, I had no way of knowing that the lesbian and gay movement I was discovering was in many ways unique.

Barbara Smith

Blogs

This Week: Deliberating on DOMA and Prop 8
Katrina vanden Heuvel

A watershed moment for marriage equality—and Tony Kushner’s moving essay nearly two decades ago: Introducing The Nation Archive!

March 30, 2013
The Supreme Court Is Fractured on Prop 8
Nan Hunter

By the end, several Justices appeared skeptical at best over whether their decision should reach the merits.

March 26, 2013
Queer Abby
Rick Perlstein

In a nation where it’s easy to despair of suffusing reaction all around us, some had the guts to tell the heartland to be free.

January 18, 2013
Jodie Foster Refuses to Be a Role Model
Richard Kim

Good for her, better for us.

January 15, 2013
After DADT Repeal: Choosing Our Battles
Timothy Patrick McCarthy

A year ago, the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” was a great step for LGB rights, but it did not nearly go far enough.

September 26, 2012
The Glaring Problem With National Starbucks Appreciation Day
Cord Jefferson

Since when did giving millions of dollars to already wealthy corporations become a protest?

August 4, 2012
Gore Vidal and the Unfinished American Revolution
John Nichols

A literary lion who ran for Congress and the Senate, Vidal was a displaced American founder in the tradition of Shays’ Rebellion. 

August 1, 2012
Lee Fang: It's Not About the CEO, It's That Chick-fil-A Supports Discrimination
Nation in the News

A company that supports hate runs the risk of being told that it’s not welcome.

July 31, 2012
Liberal Defenders of Chick-Fil-A Unwittingly Defend Corporate Personhood [Updated]
Lee Fang

Why are some liberals misrepresenting the debate and claiming corporations have First Amendment rights?

July 30, 2012
The Adjectives of Sally Ride's Life and Death
Ilyse Hogue

Was Sally Ride’s choice to stay private about sexual orientation a personal one? In a country increasingly fractured on equality, the personal unfortunately remains political.

July 25, 2012