"Heteronormative" has become somewhat of a buzzword for queer people, and for good reason. It's a way to call out a culture that continually "others" us, assumes we don't exist, and erases our history ...

Expectations of prejudice and discrimination can lead LGBTQ+ patients to avoid seeking health care. Nadzeya Haroshka/iStock via Getty Images Even among medical providers who practice some form of ...

Here we are in the age of marriage equality, right? Or are there more things to consider? While I'm happy for the people who want to get married and couldn’t before June 27, 2015, we must keep asking ...

It’s easy to hear a word like “heteronormativity” and roll your eyes. It just sounds too complicated, too academic. To paraphrase The Simpsons, words like heteronormativity sound like “buzzwords that ...

Yesterday a video circulated on Twitter featuring Elly Barnes, a British lesbian who heads the charity “Educate and Celebrate.” Their mission is to transform schools into LGBT-friendly places. In ...

Alena Papayanis is a Professor of Arts and Humanities at Humber College in Toronto and a writer whose work focuses on queer issues, including coming out later in life. “What kind of birth control are ...

I sort of joke that I wrote myself into graduate school because halfway through working on my book, Raising LGBTQ Allies, I applied to grad school to become an LGBTQ-affirming therapist. At graduate ...

As the fall semester gets under way, we must acclimate ourselves to the most important ritual of graduate-student life: the proclamation of our “interests.” For those of you not in graduate school, ...