This LGBTQ+ History Month, we're asking writers to reflect on a moment in queer pop culture history that has allowed them to experience queer liberation in their own lives. Check out our coverage here ...

1993 was a hard year to be queer. For one thing, almost anyone who used the word "queer" was probably about to kick your ass for being one. MTV was starting to talk about safe sex and condoms, which ...

1993 was a hard year to be queer. For one thing, almost anyone who used the word "queer" was probably about to kick your ass for being one. MTV was starting to talk about safe sex and condoms, which ...

Through storytelling and photography, Esther Godoy documents, celebrates and uplifts Butch identity. Through storytelling and photography, Esther Godoy intimately documents, celebrates and uplifts ...

Photographer Esther Godoy identifies as butch or masculine-of-center. She grew up in Australia and came to Portland more than a decade ago. She says she saw a distinct difference in how her masculine ...

A still from the 1968 film "The Killing of Sister George," included in Jenni Olson's documentary "Homo Promo." (Courtesy Jenni Olson) You might not think that a short vintage Jell-O commercial of gay ...

Beauty is gendered. More specifically, who gets to be seen as beautiful is defined by how we perceive their gender. At one end of the gender spectrum you have men, who get to be 'handsome'; at the ...