Maternal grief has been a powerful weapon in the fight to show the world that black lives matter. But the toll it takes on the individuals involved can be severe

Why are we so often attracted to people who aren’t good for us – those motorcycling bad boys, or conservatives with eyes like the summer sky?

Forcing trans people to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth adds to the discrimination that makes some suicidal

Society has progressed, but many members of our community hold onto self-hate and shame from an earlier era, with sometimes fatal consequences

We all get into senseless feuds over small, silly things. It’s time that we examine the reasons behind that

If a trial shows that the most famous dad in the world drugs women to have sex with them, maybe other victims of sexual violence aren’t lying

A new report shows that a dangerous complacency has sapped energy out of the LGBT movement

If you say you have a racial preference on your dating profile, you’re very likely to also hold racist beliefs in other areas

Studies show gay and bisexual men are not more likely to have HIV – so why restrict our ability to donate blood?

Using PrEp doesn’t make me want to sleep with every man walking by, but it does make me part of the solution to a persisting public health scourge

No matter how I identify or how I feel, it’s my skin color that determines how I’ll be treated

I changed my profile to female to research a story on how straight men swipe, and I ended up banned. Many transgender users report similar experiences

Centuries of war, pillaging and violence show that manhood is never in crisis, as alarmists like to claim, but it is often at the heart of these phenomena

All respectability does is make you ignore that target placed on your back until the day they pull the trigger and shoot

Research shows that focusing on the attainment of happiness is actually self-defeating

Wrongly identifying transgender women doesn’t just skew statistics on trans murders or affect national awareness. It also affects the victims’ loved ones

White men have more room to push sexual boundaries without being immediately being treated like they have a pathological problem

When law enforcement is treated as good guys against bad guys, we do officers a disservice — and threaten black Americans’ lives

Laws that criminalize non-disclosure encourage people not to get tested and misinform the public about how HIV/Aids spreads

I’m starting to think that internal racism could be part of the higher rates of interracial coupling in our community