Books & arts
24 October 2024
Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by 1957’s Wolfenden report
Books & arts
4 September 2024
Campaigners have repudiated “maternal citizenship” in favour of a continuing quest for “sexual citizenship”
Books & arts
20 June 2024
Monte Punshon, the Japanophile once dubbed “the world’s oldest lesbian,” embraced the limelight in old age
Books & arts
20 May 2024
The extraordinary life — and death — of Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish patriot
International
11 July 2023
Despite an encouraging decision on voting laws, the US Supreme Court has continued attacking Americans’ rights
Books & arts
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Essays & reportage
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & arts
13 October 2022
Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
Books & arts
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Essays & reportage
6 October 2020
The seventies were a decade of extraordinary social upheaval, writes the presenter of this year’s Ernest Scott Lecture
Books & arts
25 September 2019
Books | A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
Essays & reportage
16 March 2019
Craig Laundy has announced he won’t be seeking another term in federal parliament. Inside Story caught up with him in September 2015
Books & arts
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Essays & reportage
18 February 2019
Is “gender ideology” really a danger to feminism?
National affairs
16 October 2018
This time in 2017, Australians were voting on marriage equality. What happened next?
Books & arts
8 October 2018
Television | Awkward questions are raised by A Very English Scandal and The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & arts
14 September 2018
Books | Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
Essays & reportage
12 February 2018
Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences?
Books & arts
25 November 2017
A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in
National affairs
19 November 2017
Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals
National affairs
15 November 2017
Both votes are a test for the government, but the second has suddenly become less predictable
National affairs
27 September 2017
Despite differences over how many voters have already returned their surveys, the latest polls tell a near-identical story
National affairs
12 September 2017
The Yes campaign needs to be wary of over-enthusiastic supporters
National affairs
8 September 2017
A leading constitutional lawyer looks at why the High Court decided to agree with the government about the same-sex marriage survey
National affairs
24 August 2017
Enrolment figures, poll results and pre-survey nerves have encouraged wrong-headed punditry about marriage equality
National affairs
10 August 2017
Could one divisive figure decide the result?
National affairs
13 September 2016
Among the real risks of the marriage equality vote is the possibility it might fail, says Peter Brent
National affairs
13 August 2015
His leadership again under threat, the prime minister is locked in a potentially terminal embrace with his party’s right, writes Peter Brent
Correspondents
16 June 2015
Now in its sixth year, the Kashish Queer Film Festival reflects an India that is changing regardless of lawmakers or the courts, reports Dennis Altman