essays

At the beginning of the pandemic, many were quick to point out that Shakespeare wrote something or another during a…

In January 2017, The Establishment offered readers a deal. For $125, anyone could “sponsor” an essay on the…

While white dicks have been growing in abundance on film and television, clearly having a moment, you may have…

For the first few years after I was born, my parents drove a ‘78 Monte Carlo, and my earliest childhood memory is of…

I remember the first time I voted: Jeb was up for re-election as Florida’s gubernatorial candidate and I thought,…

It’s not a good reason, either!

I will start by explaining: I drank too much last Wednesday.

I’m a city cat.

Rebecca Solnit, the essayist best known for Men Explain Things to Me—a book whose lens on gender and violence…

"A guy told me I was beautiful at the grocery store today."

Conflation of gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia seems hard to imagine to those who are very well aware of both of…

Although the former Secretary of State, presidential candidate, senator, and First Lady of the United States has…

Being from Texas, I feel for others who are in states or regions constantly being used to score cheap laughs in the…

Do you think that the idea of the "male lesbian" was either a joke or the creation of the producers of The L Word? Ap…

Anne of Green Gables may not be the the first work on your list of “classic queer literature,” but maybe it should…

If some people are born neither male nor female, what does that say about our traditional views of sex and gender,…

Recently the term "transgender culture" has became more and more common a term in discourse about LGBT topics.…

In the lead up to the announcement of Time's 100 Most Influential People, it looked as though Laverne Cox really had…

I grew up Roman Catholic. Yet, two years ago, I left communion with Rome after Pope Benedict XVI called same-sex…

Today is the LGBT Day of Silence in the United States and many other parts of the world. It's supposed to be…