Since We Last Spoke: Digital Justice, the New Normal, and McAuliffe’s Moneyball
Updates to pastPacific Standard print stories.
Browsing Tag
Homosexuality
64 posts
Homophobia Takes Years Off of Your Life
That’s the conclusion of a new study that compares death rates with Americans’ attitudes toward gay rights.
Do You Have to Pee Standing Up to Be a Real Man?
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.
Looking Back at Fashion’s Queer History
Paul Hiebert talks with the Valerie Steele, co-curator of A Queer History of Fashion, about the new exhibit.
How Lou Reed Showed It’s OK to Be Gay
He may have been the world's first out bisexual rock star—but what really matters is that everyone thought he was.
Should We Be Allowed to Choose the Sexual Orientation of Our Children?
Imagine a prenatal test that, like the one for trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome), could show a predisposition to gayness.
How Being a Gay Boy Is Like Having a Physiological Problem With Milk
Both involve underlying biological states, but it's the cultural setting that determines whether suffering will occur.
