A playlist for na praia state of mind.

LGBTQ languages of love and struggle are universal, even when they require translation.

It's June. Forgive me for having too many mixed feelings.

Here are some timely lessons in activism from the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

What a gal from America's landlocked prairie thinks about in a Portuguese ocean town.

Trans people, the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy, the documents that preceded it, and what it means when a government stops hiding what it’s doing.

YouTube video by Nebraska Public Media

A ‘festival de street food’ soundtrack inspires these riffs on American pop in Portugal.

We've entered a season of departure-related anniversaries. Here are just a few of the feelings.

Our giant leap leads to tentative first steps.

Is it too late?

An old familiar ritual welcomes us to our new town.

Before we arrive, we make some guesses about life in our new country.

Here are a few things we know for sure.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reflect on the disastrous storm that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed.

Or, what we did on our summer vacation.

This queer heaven is one place in America I'll miss.

Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

Forty years ago, John Mellencamp's hit made everyone euphoric — even though we knew we couldn't really be ourselves in small towns.

YouTube video by So True with Caleb Hearon

For this Midwestern gay-rights pioneer, home is where the adventure is.

After four months of near-total siege by Israel, people in Gaza are starving. According to the United Nations, at least 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating. Death from hunger is risin...

Kansas' first transgender legislator: 'I didn't flee the country — I moved.'

When you start telling people you’re leaving the country, some say they want to leave too but can’t imagine getting rid of all their stuff.

I know how it feels to be from a place Americans call the heartland when your heart leans a different direction. I’ve witnessed some history. I'm learning how it feels to leave.

Let America be America again.

YouTube video by Pitchfork

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