Recognition of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century challenges normative
assumptions of intimacy that privilege heterosexual monogamy and the biological family …

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Here, Bob Pease argues that
privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical …

The largely binary nature of biological sex and its conflation with the socially constructed
concept of gender has created much strife in the last few years. The notion of gender identity …

With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who
have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the …

Examining the emergence of new sexual and gender identities in the context of an ever-
changing digital landscape, Emergent Identities considers how traditional, binary …

This study examined HIV testing and use, familiarity, and attitudes toward pre-exposure
prophylaxis (PrEP) among HIV-negative gay and bisexual men in the United States. A …

The 21st century has seen shifts in social and scientific understandings of gender and
sexuality in the United States. From the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the …

Recognizing that social forces shape sexual behavior and sexual identities, we examined
whether the recent liberalization in attitudes toward same-sex relationships has been …

This paper uses the 2013–2015 NSFG, a representative US-based dataset of individuals 15–
44, to explore predictors of straight identification among all women and men and among …

Little sociological research has examined how cis people might be accepting or not of trans
people on an intimate level. To begin to fill this gap, the author analyzes over 200 online …