Category Archive: LGBTQ history

The Fighter and the Fight Outside the Ring: Anti-Blackness and Transphobia

The naming of Michelle Obama as a “man” did political ideological work that wove together very dangerous and toxic American politics at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality

Australia: A Place Where People Mainly Throw Things at Each Other

Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus shows us the horror of being young and gay in an evil small town with extravagant flair.

(Im)Possible White Failure and Its Draw: Donald Trump, MAGA, and Eventual Death

Donald Trump is a failure. Donald Trump fails at almost everything. He fails at everything. But this failure is powerful. This failure is successful.

Fast Car Rewind: Taking a Look Back at Tracy Chapman and the Women’s Music Movement

The recent controversy over country singer Luke Combs’s surprise hit cover obscures the deeper history of Chapman and her cultural movement in powerful ways.

Daenerys Targaryen: Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Queen of the Andals, and Keeper of the Lesbian Void

I look for the slightest bit of sapphic tension in every piece of media I interact with. Last […]

Between Queens: The Renaissance of Sapphic Divahood in ‘Six’

From Boleyn to Bey, history-making women power a new form of queer diva on the contemporary stage.

“Live Long and Prosper”: Spock as an Icon for Queer Hope

For generations of queer people, Spock has represented a much-needed world of possibilities.