The Queering of the Baby Bells By Longreads Feature Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
Kissed a Girl By Longreads Feature Vickie Vértiz maneuvers her way around teenage love, friend envy, and being outed by her Mexican mother.
Why Karen Carpenter Matters By Longreads Feature For one brown, queer Filipino-American, Karen Carpenters’ music anchored her to her musical family’s past while helping chart her path in their adopted Southern California.
The Migrant in the Mirror By Morgan Jerkins Feature In recent novels, Ocean Vuong and Nicole Dennis-Benn tell stories in which young queer characters affected by migration and displacement are worthy of seeing themselves reflected in others.
Two Clocks, Running Down By Colin Dickey Feature In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.
The Family Is Political By Michelle Weber Highlight U.S. immigration law has a history of excluding “undesirables” from citizenship through policy. It’s doing it now with LGBTQ families, in spite of marriage equality.
The Queer Generation Gap By Soraya Roberts Feature How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.
To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List By Em Perper Reading List A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
How American Women’s Pro Baseball Kept Lesbians in the Closet By Krista Stevens Highlight “Play like a man, look like a lady.” At Narratively, Britni de la Cretaz looks at the history of lesbianism in early pro women’s baseball and at the beautiful love stories that the movie “A League of Their Own” chose to ignore.
The Rainbow Railroad to Canada for Gay Chechen Men By Krista Stevens Highlight Canada is taking in gay Chechen men subject to persecution, the risk to Canada-Russia relations be damned.
The Unforgettable Edie Windsor By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary It’s said about a lot of people, but true of only a few: There was something special about Edie.
The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics By Em Perper Highlight Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.
Finding Her True Self: Queer and Muslim By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A Muslim international student came to New York City, and soon embraced her sexuality and all the cultural challenges it would create.
Conservative Values, Meet Drag Values By Catherine Cusick Commentary RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Velour responds to a divisive political climate by celebrating beauty, brains, and belonging.
Dorothy Allison on How America Devalues Those Who are ‘Other’ By Krista Stevens Highlight Dorothy Allison on how American culture “inherently devalues the poor, the working class, the darks, the queer, the other.”
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
Social Networks Have Always Battled HIV/AIDS By Erin Blakemore Highlight When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.
