Magazine | Reclaiming “queer discourse” for liberalism
From the US to the UK to Russia, banning LGBT literature is always the first step in a wider assault on free expression.
Fahrenheit 2025 — Queer Majority
From the US to the UK to Russia, banning LGBT literature is always the first step in a wider assault on free expression.
BDSM and feminism have long been both friend and foe, with goals and values that are both compatible and in tension.
Feminism and Inclusivity in The BDSM Communities of Western Literature — Queer Majority
BDSM and feminism have long been both friend and foe, with goals and values that are both compatible and in tension.
Charlie Sheen may never have sexually explored “the other side of the menu” sober, but he doesn’t regret it.
The Liberation of Charlie Sheen — Queer Majority
Charlie Sheen may never have sexually explored “the other side of the menu” sober, but he doesn’t regret it.
Heated Rivalry, turmoil in Iran, Ukraine’s Chechnya lesson, the economic case for polyamory, and the degenerate populists and the trad elites.
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Monogamy? In This Economy?!
Plus: Degenerate Populists & Trad Elites
A black poet invokes the champions of equality in a heartfelt plea for inclusion.
Too Black To Be Queer — Queer Majority
A black poet invokes the champions of equality in a heartfelt plea for inclusion.
Zohran Mamdani smiling next to an anti-LGBT Ugandan politician is nothing new. Leftists have a long history of siding with tyrants.
Leftists Love Oppressors, as Long as They’re Anti-West — Queer Majority
Zohran Mamdani smiling next to an anti-LGBT Ugandan politician is nothing new. Leftists have a long history of siding with tyrants.
A lawyer and a computer programmer left their home in London to explore Asia for a year. A decade later, their jet-setting lifestyle has turned into a full-time career.
Stefan & Sebastien's Story — Queer Majority
A lawyer and a computer programmer left their home in London to explore Asia for a year. A decade later, their jet-setting lifestyle has turned into a full-time career.
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise. |
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How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
Homophobia is widespread in Islamic communities throughout the world. It’s hard to combat the problem when even most LGBT activists are unwilling to call it out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/592117853482774 — Queer Majority
Homophobia is widespread in Islamic communities throughout the world. It’s hard to combat the problem when even most LGBT activists are unwilling to call it out.
LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism. |
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The Liberalism We Live and Breathe — Queer Majority
LGBT rights today rest on laws, yes — but far more so on a vast, invisible architecture of memory and persuasion also known as liberalism.
His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer. |
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Don’t Flush: An Interview with Dakarai Larriett — Queer Majority
His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer.
Despite the vicarious trauma, an introverted sexuality educator helps others reconnect with selves lost, frozen, and disowned.
Leonore Tjia — Queer Majority
Despite the vicarious trauma, an introverted sexuality educator helps others reconnect with selves lost, frozen, and disowned.
The First Amendment allowed LGBT people to gain equal rights — will it also usher in a new age of conversion therapy?
Conversion Therapy’s Pedantic Renaissance — Queer Majority
The First Amendment allowed LGBT people to gain equal rights — will it also usher in a new age of conversion therapy?
How does horniness cloud our decision-making? A sex researcher’s burning questions help throw water on stigma and misinformation.
Shayna Skakoon-Sparling — Queer Majority
How does horniness cloud our decision-making? A sex researcher’s burning questions help throw water on stigma and misinformation.
Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.
The Drag King Has No Clothes: The Rise and Fall of Female Masculinity — Queer Majority
Queer theory promised butch lesbians liberation from oppressive norms, but it only handed masculine power back to men.
Notorious attention getters, is there more to sexy photos than meets the horny eye?
The Art of the Thirst Trap — Queer Majority
Notorious attention getters, is there more to sexy photos than meets the horny eye?
South Africa made history as the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage. A new bill has reinvigorated its loudest critics.
South Africa's New Marriage Bill Dredges Up Old Hate — Queer Majority
South Africa made history as the first African country to legalize same-sex marriage. A new bill has reinvigorated its loudest critics.
People ask how we manage our polyamorous family. The real question is, how can anyone afford to be monogamous?
Monogamy? In This Economy?! — Queer Majority
People ask how we manage our polyamorous family. The real question is, how can anyone afford to be monogamous?
Khalid’s underground magazine created a platform for queer youth to find community across the Middle East.
Khalid's Story — Queer Majority
Khalid’s underground magazine created a platform for queer youth to find community across the Middle East.
Most people have never heard of autogynephilia, or regard it as an anti-trans cudgel. But new research shows it’s far more common — and human — than culture warriors think.
One in Three Bisexual Men May Be Autogynephilic. Understanding Their Experience Matters. — Queer Majority
Most people have never heard of autogynephilia, or regard it as an anti-trans cudgel. But new research shows it’s far more common — and human — than culture warriors think.
In roving, sacredly quiet verse, a poet of the third gender weaves meaning from daily rituals and the variousness of love.
Soy la Muxe Juchiteca — Queer Majority
In roving, sacredly quiet verse, a poet of the third gender weaves meaning from daily rituals and the variousness of love.
Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be. |
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Can 80% of Society Really Be Irredeemable Transphobes? — Queer Majority
Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.
Seeing herself with another lens, an insecure lover discovers the nuance, and beauty, of letting it all hang out.
My Body and Other Adventures: The Woman in the Picture — Queer Majority
Seeing herself with another lens, an insecure lover discovers the nuance, and beauty, of letting it all hang out.
A left-wing newspaper claimed the Iranian support for Prince Reza Pahlavi was a hoax created by Israeli war hawks. Then Iranians themselves spoke up.
Disinformation Wars and the Real Voices of Iran — Queer Majority
A left-wing newspaper claimed the Iranian support for Prince Reza Pahlavi was a hoax created by Israeli war hawks. Then Iranians themselves spoke up.
For the founder of Pineapple Support, fruits of labor lie in sex workers’ mental health.
Leya Tanit — Queer Majority
For the founder of Pineapple Support, fruits of labor lie in sex workers’ mental health.
The populist right talks a big game about cultural conservatism, but their lifestyles don’t reflect it.
The Degenerate Populists and the Trad Elites — Queer Majority
The populist right talks a big game about cultural conservatism, but their lifestyles don’t reflect it.
Just as trans activism and visibility were taking off, an intra-community clash helped set the movement down a doomed path.
The Transsexuals Versus the Transtrenders — Queer Majority
Just as trans activism and visibility were taking off, an intra-community clash helped set the movement down a doomed path.
Bisexual, athlete and poet, sacred and mundane: an NFL player’s ethereal verse embodies the dualities of love.
Tributes — Queer Majority
Bisexual, athlete and poet, sacred and mundane: an NFL player’s ethereal verse embodies the dualities of love.
In Rainbow Nation, drag began where diversity was said to end.
Drag in South Africa: The Art of Expression — Queer Majority
In Rainbow Nation, drag began where diversity was said to end.
Some media outlets and advocacy groups claim there’s an “epidemic” of trans murders. The data tells a different story.
TDOR: Trans Death and Trans Life — Queer Majority
Some media outlets and advocacy groups claim there’s an “epidemic” of trans murders. The data tells a different story.
A globetrotting dominatrix sees “wonderful strides” for whores who walk the walk.
Domina Claudia Typhoon — Queer Majority
A globetrotting dominatrix sees “wonderful strides” for whores who walk the walk.
Russia’s brutal oppression of Chechnya shows what will happen in Ukraine if “peace” happens on Moscow’s terms.
Ukraine, Chechnya, and the Cost of “Peace” — Queer Majority
Russia’s brutal oppression of Chechnya shows what will happen in Ukraine if “peace” happens on Moscow’s terms.
In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat. |
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Amazon’s ‘Cinderella’: Too Big for the Right, Too Small for the Left — Queer Majority
In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat.
They told her there were very few queer cartoonists of color. She proved them wrong and built a database full of them to share with the world.
MariNaomi’s Story — Queer Majority
They told her there were very few queer cartoonists of color. She proved them wrong and built a database full of them to share with the world.
Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news? |
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Misunderstanding Peter Tatchell — Queer Majority
Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news?
A lifelong poet and football player learns to punt the exhausting double life for a play right up the middle.
The In-Between: The Poet and the Athlete — Queer Majority
A lifelong poet and football player learns to punt the exhausting double life for a play right up the middle.
This President of an alt-lifestyle group is caught between keeping up appearances in her role while keeping it off her resume.
Sara Blaze — Queer Majority
This President of an alt-lifestyle group is caught between keeping up appearances in her role while keeping it off her resume.
The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating. |
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“OK Groomer” and the Dangers of Crying Wolf — Queer Majority
The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating.
The Pussy Prayers author built it, and they came.
Black Girl Bliss — Queer Majority
The Pussy Prayers author built it, and they came.
Make book banning fringe again.
Recentering the Overton Window — Queer Majority
Make book banning fringe again.
A straight writer reckons with the ethicality of his long career penning queer erotica.
About the Author — Queer Majority
A straight writer reckons with the ethicality of his long career penning queer erotica.
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Bi autogynephilia, male role models, heretics in the pews, groomer hypocrisy, in defense of old maids, lesbians betrayed, the bi revolution, the trials of Zeudi, and how to fix what ails trans activism.
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QM’s Top 10 Articles of 2025!
Dispatches from the culture wars.
#EndOfTheYearCountdown
Our #1 most-read article of 2025 was by
@jamie-paul.bsky.social!
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority
Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.
#5! What an honor!
End Of The Year Count Down
Our #5 most-read article of 2025 was by
@joanprice.bsky.social!
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
In Defense of Old Maids — Queer Majority
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
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The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture. |
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The Painful Relevance of Heated Rivalry — Queer Majority
The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.
#EndOfTheYearCountdown
Our #2 most-read article of 2025 was by Maria Beatriz!
The mistreatment of a bi woman on Italy’s Grande Fratello shocked international audiences, but it reflects the country’s regressive social attitudes.
Zeudi Lost the Battle, but She’ll Win the Culture War — Queer Majority
The mistreatment of a bi woman on Italy’s Grande Fratello shocked international audiences, but it reflects the country’s regressive social attitudes.
#EndOfTheYearCountdown
Our #3 most-read article of 2025 was by Sara Ness & Spencer Greenberg!
New research suggests that more people aren’t just coming out as bi, they are becoming more bi.
The Data Behind the Bisexual Revolution — Queer Majority
New research suggests that more people aren’t just coming out as bi, they are becoming more bi.
#EndOfTheYearCountDown
Our #4 most-read article of 2025 was by Reid Newton!
The political right welcomed LGBT moderates with open arms. Once they took power, the mask came off.
Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. — Queer Majority
The political right welcomed LGBT moderates with open arms. Once they took power, the mask came off.
With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next? |
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Overturning Roe and the GOP's Continued Descent Into Extremism — Queer Majority
With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next?
End Of The Year Count Down
Our #5 most-read article of 2025 was by
@joanprice.bsky.social!
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
In Defense of Old Maids — Queer Majority
Women have feared spinsterhood for centuries, but the stigma has always been grounded in a lie.
The Islamic Republic does not fear tanks, armies, or foreign pressure the way it fears young Iranians who refuse to be intimidated. |
@atheistrepublic.bsky.social
The Unkillable Symbol of Bita Shafiei — Queer Majority
The Islamic Republic does not fear tanks, armies, or foreign pressure the way it fears young Iranians who refuse to be intimidated.
