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Participants cross the Elisabeth Bridge during Budapest Pride in June 2025. Viktor Orbán’s now-ousted government cited the protection of children as its rationale to ban Budapest Pride, but demonstrators marched anyway.

Protecting Children Means Defending LGBT Rights Protecting Children Means Defending LGBT Rights

Around the world, governments are scapegoating LGBT people to build popular support for their erosion of individual rights—often under the guise of protecting children.

Jun 26, 2026 / Ryan Thoreson

Frederick Douglass petitions Abraham Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War (in a 1943 mural by the African American artist William Edouard Scott).

The American Revolution’s Long Tail The American Revolution’s Long Tail

Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776.

Jun 22, 2026 / Feature / Richard Kreitner

People march past NYU Langone Health during a rally demanding that NYU Langone commit to providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in New York.

“We’re Living Through Hell”: What Trump’s Anti-Trans War Really Means “We’re Living Through Hell”: What Trump’s Anti-Trans War Really Means

When hospitals suddenly stop treatment for trans patients, real people are harmed: “I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription.”

Feb 21, 2025 / Elsie Carson-Holt

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