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Bisexuality Has Always Challenged Norms—Even in the Queer World Bisexuality Has Always Challenged Norms—Even in the Queer World

Let’s use the 50th anniversary of Stonewall to embrace the full spectrum of our differences and desires.

Jun 29, 2019 / Robyn Ochs

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Stonewall Proved That Resistance Is Always Possible Stonewall Proved That Resistance Is Always Possible

With reactionary politics ascendant around the world, we should seek inspiration from those who fought oppression at the Stonewall Inn.

Jun 29, 2019 / Susan Stryker

Act Up

ACT UP Changed Everything ACT UP Changed Everything

The HIV/AIDS protest group was the first great leap for the queer movement after Stonewall.

Jun 29, 2019 / Jim Hubbard

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A Bipartisan Senate Majority Just Voted to Check and Balance Trump on War A Bipartisan Senate Majority Just Voted to Check and Balance Trump on War

Unfortunately, Mitch McConnell and the GOP’s “Trump is king“ caucus are still blocking a move to restrict the president’s ability to go to war with Iran.

Jun 28, 2019 / John Nichols

Marshae Jones, Alabama

Marshae Jones Is Proof Pro-Lifers Don’t Care About Life Marshae Jones Is Proof Pro-Lifers Don’t Care About Life

Under Alabama law, women are good for nothing except producing a child. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Katha Pollitt

Wayfair Walkout

Wayfair Workers Walk Out Wayfair Workers Walk Out

Their action showed how workers can wield their collective power to fight injustice outside of the workplace itself. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Natalie Shure

Bella Hadid and Lil Miquela

Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z

Meet Brud, the secretive tech start-up here to outfit corporations with fashionable social causes—through elaborate CGI fiction.

Jun 28, 2019 / Emmeline Clein

Indian Queer Pride

The Enduring Harm of the West’s Moral Crusades The Enduring Harm of the West’s Moral Crusades

On Stonewall’s 50th anniversary, the US should reconsider its global war against sex work.

Jun 28, 2019 / Siddharth Dube

Stonewall Inn

Stonewall Was the Moment Queerness Glitter-Bombed the World Stonewall Was the Moment Queerness Glitter-Bombed the World

Fifty years later, we commemorate the courage of our revolutionaries—and recommit to our fabulousness.

Jun 28, 2019 / Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World

The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World The Movement for LGBTQ Rights Is On the March Around the World

But so is the backlash, fueled in part by homophobia exported from the United States.

Jun 28, 2019 / Ian Lekus

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