In Defence of John Money
How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?
Alex Byrne
· 12 min read
LGBT
A collection of 17 posts
Is G Flip A Woman?
If we siphon off all female diversity into categories like 'non-binary' we narrow the idea of what it means to be a woman.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Too Gay for the Christian Church, Too Problematic for the Woke Church: Quillette Cetera Episode 17
An interview with "anti-woke" artist Melody Rachel.
Zoe Sankey
· 2 min read
The Sad Spectacle of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’
No, the female impersonators reading stories to children aren’t ‘groomers.’ They’re just needy gay men desperate for validation from straight society.
Sky Gilbert
· 11 min read
Gay Not Queer
Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.
Peter Gajdics
· 11 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
Leor Sapir
· 8 min read
Disney’s Institutional Capture
The declarations from Disney’s executive leadership have been agonizing and predictable, remarkable only for their robotic conformity. On March 11th, Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek released a statement which began like this: To my fellow colleagues, but especially our LGBTQ+ community, Thank you to all who have reached out
Ethan L. Clay
· 12 min read
The Implosion of Boston’s Pride Parade Is a Sign of Things to Come
Pride 4 The People and its allies were scathing, accusing board members of preferring to shut down the organization rather than include black and trans people.
Maxwell Meyer
· 12 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
For Gay Men Who Came of Age in the 1980s, a Grim Sense of Déja Vu
Surrounding all of these movements has been the metaphorical connection of disease with not only illness, but also impurity more generally—concepts that have obvious and horrifying linkages to racist political movements.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
#Red-Carded: How I Got Pushed Out of an LGBT Soccer League for Gender WrongThink
This sense of longing and regret helps explain why, a half-decade later, as a fresh college graduate living in Washington, D.C., I signed up with the local LGBT soccer club.
Brad Polumbo
· 6 min read
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
April Halley
· 15 min read
Quillette Podcast 36 – Gay Icon Sky Gilbert on Being Excommunicated by the LGBT Theater Company he Founded
Listen onSpotify Jonathan Kay talks to Sky Gilbert, gay playwright and drag queen, about the history of Canada’s gay community and being excommunicated by the LGBT theater company he founded. Sky Gilbert wrote about this ordeal recently in Quillette.
Quillette, Sky Gilbert
· 1 min read
The Narcissistic Fracturing of LGBT Literature
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
Nick Comilla
· 10 min read
The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative
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.
Brad Polumbo
· 6 min read