James Kirchick’s “Secret City” focuses not on the public work of activists, but on the presence of gay men and lesbians within government—many of them conservatives.

These conspiracy theories were once fringe. Now they’re being fueled by Republicans and driving far-right anti-LGBTQ violence.

Liberals can’t count on the courts to protect against Republican ambitions to roll back civil rights.

On the right, “grooming” is being teed up as the next CRT.

Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.

The Roberts court is taking up cases with phantasmal litigants and speculative complaints. But how it resolves them could have a massive impact on American life.

By taking a flier on a plaintiff whose First Amendment rights have only been hypothetically violated, the high court may avoid having to consider the rights of those who might face anti-gay discrimination.

The same people keep pushing bill after bill, developing their strategy as they go.

The Equality Act is languishing in Congress. It’s a familiar story.

Don’t be fooled by the burst of moderation from the justices this term.

It’s the fifty-second anniversary of the event that started the LGBTQ movement. But it’s what happened after the uprising that really matters.

An opaque court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case has advocates asking if this administration will “bargain down” the rights of students to reach an uneasy peace with Republicans.

Conservatives’ moral panic over Drag Queen Story Hour set the stage for the anti-trans bills flooding Republican legislatures today—and the same hate groups are behind it all.

The power to control people’s lives through institutionalized bias, stigma, and violence is key to the Republican project. That’s why they hate the Equality Act.

A string of Trump-associated Republicans have recently faced charges related to the sexual exploitation of minors. It won’t matter to Q’s true believers.

Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.

The Supreme Court nominee would have us believe she’s just a vessel for the law, but her rise to conservative power tells the real story.

A Supreme Court case and a series of workplace uprisings raise the question: Whose jobs are really protected in this country?

The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.

The right's fixation on trans youth has found its new target: criminalizing doctors who provide puberty blockers and hormones.