How Stonewall Veteran Jay Toole’s Life Has Changed Since the Riots—and How It Hasn’t

Toole sees Stonewall as a turning point for the LGBTQ movement, but not for everyone in it.

Naomi Gordon-Loebl

It’s Time to Reembrace a Politics of Radical, Queer, Outsider Activism

Fierce, direct action has always been our most urgent strategy—and messy, massive protest anchors every gain.

Urvashi Vaid

Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back

“It’s a humanitarian issue. We will not allow an atrocity to occur in our community.”

Sasha Abramsky

How Do You Create Community Out of a Rainbow of Difference?

One answer lies in the Stonewall, when, in the heat of collective oppression, a motley band of outcasts chose to fight side by side.

Justice Ameer Gaines and Chrysanthemum Tran

Elizabeth Warren Has Made Her Story America’s Story

The presidential contender is using her biography to set up her ambitious policy agenda—and it’s working.

Joan Walsh

The Undelivered Promise of the Gay Liberation Struggle

What happened to the radical vision of the post-Stonewall activists who insisted on sweeping social transformation?

Martin Duberman

In 1969, I Had No Idea a Social Justice Movement Could Center a Kid Like Me

Then, miles away from my small Illinois town, Stonewall happened.

Sue Hyde

The LGBTQ Struggle Has Always Been Intertwined With the Fight for Voting Rights

Now, as the right wing intensifies its attacks on voting rights, LGBTQ allies are needed more than ever.

Rashad Robinson

The Gentrification of Queerness

Christopher Street was once a haven for queer people of color. Its transformation into an outpost of white, upper-middle class respectability tells a larger story of exclusion.

Darnell L. Moore

Reclaiming Stonewall: Welcome to the Celebration—and the Struggle

As we reckon with the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, it is essential that we ask, “What still needs to be done?”

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II?

The new Covering Climate Now project will help media “tell the story so people get it.”

Bill Moyers

After All

Anna V.Q. Ross

felo-de-se—Melissa

TC Tolbert

Namwali Serpell’s Postcolonial Epic

The Old Drift tells the multigenerational story of Zambi...

Nawal Arjini

The Long and Grim Road to ‘Plessy v. Ferguson’

Steven Luxenberg’s new book offers a vivid account of the events that led to the ruling.

David Cole

The Use and Abuse of International Law in the Occupied Territories

Noura Erakat’s new book examines the legal arguments used to justify Israel's occupation—and the legal arguments that might have been used to counter it.

Raja Shehadeh