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A Living Legacy: Queer History in Germany from 98 BCE to 2025

The ruling mandates trans exclusion and reinforces patriarchal stereotypes that harm women and trans people, especially the…

And why are men in a liberal city still talking like that?

Reality vs. Revenge Fantasies

A conversation with a transgender biologist and zoologist on gender identity and transitioning in nature, part 1.

The cost of comfort when it comes at someone else’s dignity

Four profiles, over a 30-year span

The story is always the same: if you are a woman, you are under suspicion.

If feminism doesn’t include transgender persons, then it’s not liberation, it’s just another form of oppression.

We are still here

Elektropolis Coked to the Eyeballs: Berlin’s Modernist Identity Crisis

We are not yours to define — we are Queer History in the making.

They claim tolerance, but actions speak louder than words

My friendship with a conservative was not a “both sides” issue

How a potential superstar’s career was derailed by overhype, bad timing, and his honesty about being gay

In Ace Ventura and Silence of the Lambs, cis discomfort wore the costume and wrote the script.

In a world that misunderstands both, we exist still and whole

Being transgender and transitioning is a massive challenge for any person, regardless of what age you start.

A 70-year-old gay man’s decades journey to redefine and claim queer

The state of trans rights in Britain

A Genderbending Journey of Social Construction to Self-Construction

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 20 April 2025

Part 2 of a talk between a transgender psychologist and lawyer: career, new executive orders, US Supreme Court

Thoughts from the edge of a new world

Does anyone remember that guy?

A look at the satire’s mediocre trans representation

Still fighting for a country that still treats you as a second-class citizen.