Prepare Kids for Life
Scandinavian schools spend a lot less money per student on education than the USA, don’t focus on tests and have more kids of immigrants in their elementary schools than most other countries. Yet...
View ArticleWhen do we start “acting gay”?
A Minnesota school district is facing a Department of Justice investigation and a private lawsuit over its alleged failure to combat antigay bullying. One of the student-plaintiffs is a 14-year-old boy...
View ArticleCult of Boys
With her scrapbook Cult of Boys fashion photographer Toyin Ibidapo created a visiual memorial for the (slightly older) androgynous sons of the fading emo decade. You can’t always trust your gaydar....
View ArticleToo Queer to Read
Banned Book Week is wrapping up, and you can bet your bottom dollar that queer titles are tops among the small-minded bigots looking to control access to literature in American schools.. “Every year,...
View ArticleWhy Gay Marriage Matters
When she turned 38 last month, Brenda Frota Johnson got a sweet surprise: a formal “happy birthday” from her longtime partner’s mother. It wasn’t a gift or even a card, just a succinct text message,...
View ArticleThe Center of the World
When I was about 14 I carried a book with me everywhere for months because I just couldn’t let the protagonist go. It must have been the first time that I really fell in love with a book. Welcome to...
View ArticleDaddy’s new Friend
Simple things are easy to teach to kids. The question is… how do we teach ignorant adults? (To make this easier to understand: The German word “Freund” means both “friend” and “boyfriend”) Frank’s...
View ArticleShallow Tourist
The queer establishment disrupters over at the berlin-based publishing house Entartetes Leben are in the process of blessing the world with their newest baby Shallow Tourist, a sublime and sexy trip to...
View ArticleFoolish Fear of Fapping
The Middle Ages had the Black Death, 1918 had the influenza epidemic. But the scourge sweeping the land at the end of the 19th century? Masturbation. We’re not exaggerating. According to the medical...
View ArticleMarvel kicks its Queer Hero out
Did you know that The X-Men‘s Wolverine had a bisexual son named Daken? In addition to claws and a healing factor, he’s got special pheromones that can make anyone attracted to him. He basically sleeps...
View ArticleThe Kid Who Simply Knew
Nicole was born as Wyatt, a boy, who always liked girl’s clothes and films, while her twin brother Jonas played with traditional boy toys. Born identical twins, the siblings share the same DNA, but...
View ArticleRainy Day Recess
While scientists argue over the causes of sexual orientation, most gay kids know at an early age (or are quickly made aware) they’re gender non-conforming, and their attraction towards the same sex...
View ArticleAnnabel
"Boy or girl?" It’s the one question people feel safe asking a new mother, since it can hardly cause offence. But what if the answer isn’t straightforward? Even today, in our supposedly broad-minded...
View ArticleGrowing up in Dystopia
More and more U.S. schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising...
View ArticleDemystifying Bisexuality
Bisexual is simultaneously one of the most common, most recognized, and least understood sexual orientation labels. In the most basic sense, individuals who identify as bisexual recognize that they are...
View ArticleAbstinence Education empowers Bullies
A third of all kids in the United States don’t get educated about sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies or anything other than heterosexuality and archaic gender roles. Instead they are...
View ArticleSavage Grace
The Background Barbara Daly Baekeland was a wealthy socialite who was murdered by her son, Antony Baekeland. Baekeland had a complex and allegedly incestuous relationship with her gay son, Antony. She...
View ArticleOne Town’s War on Gay Teens
Michele Bachmann is one of the darlings of America’s far right and ran for vice presidency in the last general elections. In her home district, evangelical Christians have created an extreme anti-gay...
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