The First New York Pride March Was an Act of ‘Desperate Courage’
It wasn’t always feathers, floats and celebrities.
Jun 2019
Articles by Andrew Solomon: Marriage & Family
Dec 2018
New Family Values
Allowing people more latitude in deciding what makes a family runs parallel to allowing them to determine what makes a person. It enables the blossoming of respect for all ...
Oct 2018
The $2,000 Kente Cloth
Pink, green, yellow, and white, it fairly glittered on the counter... I knew that it and I had a future together, though I didn't yet know what it was.
Jul 2018
The immigration crisis is about the devaluation of love
The separation of immigrant families from their children is not merely a disgusting failure of sympathy by the American government, but also a surefire way to break thousands ...
Aug 2017
It’s Never Too Early to Travel with Your Kids
To be a responsible world citizen, you need to understand how wide and beautiful the world is, and how many kinds of both pain and great joy it contains.
Apr 2017
Families have evolved. Now language must too
We need new words for new kinds of relatedness, ones that don’t simply hark back to traditional roles
Feb 2017
Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
The daily roller coaster of rights tenuously sustained or completely undermined is dizzying.
Oct 2016
Gay Rights Happened Slowly; Trans Rights, All at Once
As one trans activist said to me, “Trans is who you are; sexuality is whom you bounce it off of,” and people can accept who someone is more readily than what someone ...
Jun 2016
‘My First Gay Bar’: 25 Coming-of-Age Stories
Jane Lynch, Alexander Wang, Rosie O'Donnell and others reflect on what gay bars mean to them, in the aftermath of the shooting in Orlando.
Jun 2016
LGBTQ Americans have won many victories. That can’t make us complacent.
The US is no longer quite as queer-phobic, but it remains a land where success has blinded many people, LGBTQ or otherwise, to the constant guerrilla warfare that we must ...
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