Popular hockey shows are imagining a more inclusive sport. But recent controversies show how difficult it is to change hockey culture.
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Maybe you live with your parents. Maybe you’re unsure. Here’s what to keep in mind if sharing your sexuality in a census question feels tricky.
This powerful custody drama questions how society judges queer mothers.
Are you straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual or another sexual orientation? The census wants to know. Here’s why.
The Queer Bookshelf, a personal journey and quest to document queer writing, is smart and generous – but has some surprising omissions.
Maitland was an educated, intellectual and self-determining woman and who found (and, sadly, lost) her big love.
There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.
The Netflix show is missing a richer and more accurate history of queer and trans life during that period in history.
Although sexual content is an important aspect of the book, queer expression goes far beyond this.
Dennis Altman’s Righting my World tells the story of his long history in activism, over 50 years, beginning with the gay liberation movement of the 1960s.
‘Heated Rivalry’ could signal crucial queer representation during a politically dangerous time.
‘Heated Rivalry’ has people talking about the intersection of culture, sports and Canadian identity.
Queer joy in ‘Heated Rivalry’ unsettles hockey’s hypermasculine order and makes new ways of relating seem possible.
Are lavender marriages making a comeback? The answer is complicated.
Saying ‘yes, I’m queer’ or ‘yes, I’m fat’ isn’t just resistance, it can be the start of a political identity.
Research shows how the Dalai Lama is emerging an an unlikely inspiration for individuals who share trans and Buddhist identities.
Media help us imagine parallel lives and even reconstruct our past. Late-bloomers may feel queer anemoia as they grapple with questions of what could have been.
Do companies need to embrace a more diesel-fueled, meat-eating mentality? Many already do – and the results aren’t pretty, according to business research.
The Vivienne rose to international fame by winning the first series of reality television competition RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019.
The VMAs are always an important date in the queer cultural calendar. And the 2024 event, which took place on September 11, was no exception.
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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