ANALYSIS: Here’s what you should and shouldn’t freak out about when it comes to Project 2025’s plans for digital communications

Opinion: Queer communities deserve platforms that won’t cast us off once they realize that queerness isn’t just rainbow pins and marketable slogans

Providing books for queer kids and teens is at the core of the Nonbinarian Book Bike’s mission

The graphic novel memoir topped the American Library Association’s annual list for the third consecutive year

ANALYSIS: Far-right campaigners are leveraging censorship to promote their own anti-trans agenda

ANALYSIS: The case of an Iowa school district employing ChatGPT to enforce a statewide book ban has garnered significant attention—what concerns does it raise around AI-aided censorship?

The online bookstore co-founded by the ‘Drag Race’ icon defended its choice to carry the controversial books

With new elections on the horizon, more LGBTQ+ Russians than ever before are being pushed to leave the country

Why a 30-year-old film talks circles around its modern cousins

OPINION: In his false, bifurcated view of reality, queer and trans people are treated as villains

OPINION: Police were called into a Massachusetts middle school library after someone complained about a queer book. The incident brought back memories of my time growing up in the district

“This is how homophobia works. It’s just plain and simple,” says Danny Ramadan, author of one of the targeted books

Indie news outlets are caught in the middle of a fight between giant corporations, legacy media and the Canadian government

Queer and trans librarians, activists and everyday people are keeping access to LGBTQ2S+ literature alive

S. Bear Bergman curates a beautiful Pride Month of culture with a starring role for you

5 queer and trans stories we’re watching: May 10

Tennessee bill takes book bans to a new level by coming for publishers

5 queer and trans stories we’re following: April 14

Censorship

Etsy crafts new puritanical policy

The queer book bike serving Brooklyn

Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer’ tops American banned book list … again

Why is RuPaul’s online store Allstora filled with homophobic books?

As war brings new oppression, queer Russians decide whether to stay or flee

Radical, tender and unapologetically queer: ‘Tongues Untied’ still speaks volumes

Poilievre’s concern over press freedom is just dystopian world-building

America’s latest LGBTQ2S+ book hysteria hits too close to home

A Catholic school board in Ontario is accused of shadow banning LGBTQ2S+ books

Queer libraries are on the front lines of the fight against book bans

‘Dykes to Watch Out For’ audio play, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s new literary magazine, Torrey McDowell’s country croonin’, Leah Johnson’s tween respect, a joy break from Eurovision’s Netta and a plea for anti-censorship action

George Santos arrested, David Miranda death, Texas shooter ‘inspired’ by Libs of TikTok, Louisiana ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and Washington state protects trans kids

First, it was book bans. Now, Republicans are coming for publishers

Billy Porter as James Baldwin, Florida travel advisory, book bans booming, Missouri trans nightmare and TIME’s notable queers