Homosexuality

Good science can combat misinformation, but it won't resolve public debates over homosexuality.

The lingering stereotype of homosexuals as promiscuous.

A novel study suggests nature just wanted a little variety.

Over the past 40 years, journalists have been writing the same coming-out stories, because such stories are still rare.

Is it possible that, for white men, sex with other men can function as the ultimate re-affirmation of straightness and privilege?

A New Jersey jury just struck a blow against the dangerous way too many Americans think about homosexuality.

Women in different-sex and same-sex relationships do not differ in the amount of time they spend in child-focused activities. It's the heterosexual men who aren't making the time for their kids.

Will Ireland become the first country to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular vote? M.V. Lee Badgett explains why the Catholic nation may create a turning point in the global LGBT rights movement.

A new study finds Americans’ sexual attitudes keep getting more liberal, but Millennials have pulled back a bit in terms of their number of sexual partners.

And other conspiracy theories.

The practice has been dismissed as improper for more than two decades.

Three theories attempt to make sense of some provocative new data.

Gay men are still men and what woman wants to live near so many of them?

A new study explores how newspapers and social media framed a historic first.

The complicated pleasures of Nicholas Wrathall's hagiographic new documentary.

Researchers of fraternal birth order effect argue that sexual orientation correlates with an individual’s number of older brothers. Could this help to explain the homophobia of some traditional religious societies?

The misogynist portrait of modern American masculinity may be a historical accident. Here’s how to fix it.

Or, more specifically, what's wrong with taking a steroid, while you're pregnant, to try to increase the odds that your female fetus will someday grow up to be a straight woman who gives you grandchildren, and not a lesbian daughter more interested in puppies?

Of kinks, crimes, and kinds: A look behind the scenes at how the American Psychiatric Association's Paraphilias Sub-Work Group proposed revisions to the DSM for all manner of things relating to sexual arousal brought about by atypical objects, situations, or individuals.

Updates to pastPacific Standard print stories.

That’s the conclusion of a new study that compares death rates with Americans’ attitudes toward gay rights.

This simple idea, encouraged by medical texts of the past that taught deviation from the norm would lead to confused sexuality and gender identity issues, has put a surprising number of babies under the knife.

A homecoming in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

A brief look at Paragraph 175.