Tag: lgbt

A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.

It’s said about a lot of people, but true of only a few: There was something special about Edie.

Eight stories and two bonus reads for Pride month.

Daniel Spielberger wonders whether turning Melania Trump into a laughable, campy caricature is more than just mockery, but a way to feel a sense of control in a disempowering political climate.

Princess Anastasia was homeless, and lived and died in the Castro. Two different families piece together a life.

Orlando has long had a towering, and very much deserved, reputation in the LGBT community; it was published the same year Radclyffe Hall’s controversial The Well of Loneliness, depicting lesbianism as a tragic curse, became a bestseller. Woolf’s creation of a figure who effortlessly changes sex casually upends any notion that biological sex is related […]

Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps. One reason I admire longform journalism is its ability to tell stories. Some of these stories gain national attention. Some are perfected in an MFA workshop. Some are written on the backs of receipts, after […]

Julie Kliegman is a senior studying journalism and Spanish at Northwestern University. Come July, she’s headed to St. Petersburg to work for PolitiFact. She loves to travel, and has lived abroad for short stints in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. “This week I enjoyed reading ‘Owning the Middle,’ an ESPN story about WNBA star Brittney Griner. […]