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Costumed figures walk down Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana, early 1950s.
Posted inReading List

‘We Are Everywhere’: A Reading List for the Queer South

by Spencer George May 31, 2022October 19, 2022

It is time now to listen. We are not going anywhere.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Did I Want Tony Stark—or Want to Be Him?

by Peter Rubin October 5, 2021October 19, 2022

“When I think about the time before I ever uttered the words ‘I am a lesbian,’ I don’t think about a closet. I think about a costume trunk.”

Elsa with blue flag behind her
Posted inStory

Deconstructing Disney: The Princess Problem of ‘Frozen II’

by Jeanna Kadlec January 2, 2020December 30, 2022

Audiences wanted Disney to give Elsa a girlfriend. But the Frozen franchise is at the center of the corporation’s latest princess project, whose nationalist concerns are decidedly here for the gay agenda.

Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Caught Between Borders

by Annie Hylton June 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Closed borders and closed minds are trapping African LGBTI asylum seekers in hostile countries.

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