Podcast #296: How LGB Became Estranged from T
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.
LGBT Rights
A collection of 11 posts
No, There’s No ‘Epidemic’ of Anti-Transgender Violence
Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest trans Americans suffer a homicide risk that’s actually less than the U.S. average.
Brad Polumbo
· 8 min read
The Postcolonial Left's Blindness to Islamic Homophobia
For Western LGBT rights activists to support Hamas's continued rule over Gaza is hypocritical in the extreme.
Alexander von Sternberg
· 8 min read
Queers for Palestine: Identity Politics at Its Most Absurd
In Palestine, they’d be killed.
Armin Navabi
· 7 min read
Corporate Rainbow Marketing: Too Much of a Good Thing
A recent dust-up involving NHL goalie James Reimer demonstrates the folly of pitting Pride PR against the conscience of individual actors.
Allan Stratton
· 7 min read
If You Care About Trans Rights, Don’t Let Predators Pick Their Pronouns
Some men are re-identifying as men immediately upon release from women’s prisons.
Allan Stratton
· 13 min read
How Florida’s Newly Enacted ‘Parental Rights in Education’ Law Actually Protects Gay Students
The White House has denounced a new Florida law as “cruel” and “harmful.” In an interview with CNN, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay cabinet member in American history, agreed that the law is “dangerous.” His husband Chasten, a best-selling author, was even more emphatic, declaring that
Leor Sapir
· 8 min read
PODCAST 107: Trans Pioneer Buck Angel on the Afterlife of a Porn Actor, his Campaign for LGBT Rights, and the Reality of Biological Sex
Trans porn star Buck Angel talks to Jonathan Kay about transitioning at age 28, his life in in adult film, and the infighting within the trans community.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Outing of 'Lady G': Humiliating a Closeted Gay Republican in the Name of LGBT Rights
Progressive LGBT activists who abandon their values so they can go all in on a digital hatefest are no better than the bigots they purport to oppose.
Brad Polumbo
· 6 min read
It's Time for 'LGB' and 'T' to Go Their Separate Ways
Gay rights activists simply want society to accept their different ways of living and loving—since gay men and lesbians pursue romantic interests and build families in ways that are at odds with conventional heterosexual expectations.
Brad Polumbo
· 10 min read
Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement
Gender dysphoria gradually has replaced homosexuality as a subject of fascination by clinicians and activists.
Sky Gilbert
· 14 min read