Homosexuality and Bisexuality

April 29, 2023

Stud Country, a Queer Line Dancing and Two-Step Class, Makes a Return to New York

On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the […]
April 4, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Several Failed First Dates’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Winter Reminiscence Miles into our icy hike, Daniel removed his gloves to warm […]
April 1, 2023

Lesbian Bars in Los Angeles Change With the Times

LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of […]
April 1, 2023

Why Is Finland the Happiest Country on Earth? The Answer Is Complicated.

The Bright Side is a series about how optimism works in our minds and affects the world around us. On March 20, the United Nations Sustainable […]
January 27, 2023

Don’t Call Me by My Real Name

As a sex worker, I had to set boundaries with clients that I sometimes couldn’t abide by myself. Clients love to ask sex workers, “What’s your […]
January 19, 2023

A Doll That Wears Sunglasses With Attitude? Oh, ‘M3gan’ Is a Gay Movie.

The title robot — reminiscent of the loyal but messy straight women that gay men are protective of — is progress for a genre with a […]
November 8, 2022

Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream

The photographer moved effortlessly between scenes: No Wave music, performance, queer subcultures, downtown nightlife, the Pictures Generation and mail art. A list of things Jimmy DeSana […]
October 28, 2022

A Throuple’s Tricky Geometry

In a couple, a straight line connects two points. With three people in a relationship, many more configurations emerge. A queen-size bed can sleep two adult […]
October 21, 2022

Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows

After graduating from college, I pictured myself scrolling through Grindr, not living with my grandmother. When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, […]
September 29, 2022

The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok

When relationship dramas heated up this summer, she saw an opportunity. For a particular corner of the internet, the world ended this summer. Several internet-famous WLW […]