Homosexuality

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

• By Michael White

The lingering stereotype of homosexuals as promiscuous.

• By Tom Jacobs

A novel study suggests nature just wanted a little variety.

• By Nathan Collins

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

• By Francie Diep

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

• By Peter C. Baker

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

• By Jared Keller

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.

• By Kate C. Prickett & Alexa Martin-Storey

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.

• By M.V. Lee Badgett

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.

• By Tom Jacobs

And other conspiracy theories.

• By Nicholas Jackson

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

• By Tom Jacobs

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

• By Lisa Wade

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

• By Lisa Wade

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

• By Sam Riches

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

• By Ted Scheinman

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?

• By Alice Dreger

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

• By Jared Keller

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?

• By Alice Dreger

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.

• By Alice Dreger

Updates to pastPacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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

• By Tom Jacobs

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.

• By Alice Dreger

A homecoming in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

• By Vince Beiser

A brief look at Paragraph 175.

• By Lisa Wade