Here at Queer Majority, we focus on crafting nuanced arguments that address important and sometimes controversial topics. Typically, the subjects we engage are part of long, ongoing conversations, but occasionally, we are confronted by current events that demand our immediate attention. This series is dedicated to such occasions, where writers apply the same thoughtful QM approach to pressing contemporary issues.
South Africa made history as the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage. A new bill has reinvigorated its loudest critics.
Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.
The First Amendment allowed LGBT people to gain equal rights — will it also usher in a new age of conversion therapy?
LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism.
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
Zohran Mamdani smiling next to an anti-LGBT Ugandan politician is nothing new. Leftists have a long history of siding with tyrants.
Charlie Sheen may never have sexually explored “the other side of the menu” sober, but he doesn’t regret it.
From the US to the UK to Russia, banning LGBT literature is always the first step in a wider assault on free expression.
I’m bisexual, polyamorous, and an atheist. But my family goes to church every week.
The war on DEI has exposed the LGBT movement’s overreliance on the state.
The untruths of trans activism caused a backlash, but the LGBT movement has been on shaky factual ground for decades.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t the monster his critics have painted nor the authoritarian his supporters have become.
You don’t need to be a celebrity to be a bi role model. You just need to be visible.
Michael Shane Hale has accomplished more behind bars over the past 30 years than most people do in a lifetime.
Activist platitudes kept me in the dark about my shifting bisexual attractions. I had to wait for ChatGPT to get real answers.
In their frenzied crusade to “embrace tradition”, right-wing populists haven’t defended Western civilization — they’ve become Moscow’s unwitting pawns.
South Africa and Lesotho have passed important LGBT protections, but without changing attitudes, these laws are paper-thin.
Lesbian culture is disappearing beneath our noses, erased as part of a homophobic feedback loop — one I became painfully ensnared in.
AI matchmaking and dating advice promises better connections — but at what cost?
In the years since the Russian invasion, the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine have seen a dramatic backslide in LGBT rights and tolerance.
Nearly a third of teen boys look up to Andrew Tate, but you don’t need to be a sleazeball to be a man.
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
Deconstructing and debunking the latest libel against Israel.
Derek Huffman moved his family to Russia to escape “LGBT propaganda.” Now he’s been sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
The Second Pan-African Conference on Family Values was nothing if not a monument to the homophobia raging across the continent.
The Trump administration tried to erase bisexuality from government websites, but they only awakened a sleeping giant.
Behind the sitcom shenanigans, Two and a Half Men captured the ethos of pre-Trump America — glamorizing excess, deception, and a performative masculinity that set the stage for the cultural chaos to come.
How the confluence of GamerGate, Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Hulk Hogan changed politics.
Left-wing LGBT activism has not only fallen flat with the public — it’s driving away LGBT moderates.
Until liberals rediscover the fundamental truths of their own tradition, right-wing populists will continue to eat their lunch.
