A collection of 13 posts
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with writer Ben Appel about his new memoir, ‘Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic.’
The hyper-sexualized nature of many gay subcultures threatens to undo the important human-rights progress we’ve made over the course of my lifetime.
In a new book, Ben Appel describes his journey from closeted Christian cult child, to recovering addict, to social-justice warrior, to self-confessed ‘gender heretic.’
Gay activist-turned-journalist Adam Zivo tells Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay how radicalised forms of trans and queer advocacy became a liability to the once-united LGBT movement.
No, the female impersonators reading stories to children aren’t ‘groomers.’ They’re just needy gay men desperate for validation from straight society.
I spent years campaigning for a law that would protect gay youth from the ‘corrective’ abuse that I’d once endured. Then the trans-rights lobby got involved.
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
When it comes to matters around sexuality a set of presumptions have been adopted which are proving quite as dogmatic as the notions they replaced.
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values.
Kauffman defended himself from charges of homophobia by saying that he wasn’t against the ‘gay influence’ in theatre, only its insidiousness.
While the achievements of the gay rights movement are commendable, we should be wary of queer separatist activism.
Wait a minute. Only four gay men were murdered in all of 2016? And then 20 the next year?