The Culture Wars Come For Sex Research — Queer Majority Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey has been dead for generations, but he still lives rent-free in Republicans’ minds.

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey has been dead for generations, but he still lives rent-free in Republicans’ minds. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

The Banality of Transcendence The most consequential insights can be the easiest to overlook

I wrote about depression, meditation, and the decade I spent chasing after something that was already always there.
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The Myth of the "Heritage American" Replacing institutions, the rule of law, and liberal principles with the whims of an in-group is as un-American as it gets.

Great piece by John-Paul Hyde about MAGA's vision of a patrimonial government working on behalf of "heritage Americans."
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Did de Blasio back out?

Stop Subsidizing Rural America It’s time for Democrats to move on from trying to save “real America” from itself.

Happy to publish this: Stop Subsidizing Rural America
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Stop Subsidizing Rural America It’s time for Democrats to move on from trying to save “real America” from itself.

Happy to publish this: Stop Subsidizing Rural America
americandreaming.substack.com/p/stop-subsi...

How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Don’t Flush: An Interview with Dakarai Larriett — Queer Majority His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer.

His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Can 80% of Society Really Be Irredeemable Transphobes? — Queer Majority Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.

Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Republicans Are No Friends of the Jews Recent data shows just how mainstream anti-Semitism has gone on the right

A growing number of American Jews, repulsed by what they’ve seen on the left post-10/7, are coming to see the Republicans as better allies. Left-wing anti-Semitism is real, but make no mistake, the evidence shows that the GOP are no friends of the Jews.
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Amazon’s ‘Cinderella’: Too Big for the Right, Too Small for the Left — Queer Majority In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat.

In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Misunderstanding Peter Tatchell — Queer Majority Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news?

Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social @petertatchell.bsky.social

“OK Groomer” and the Dangers of Crying Wolf — Queer Majority The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating.

The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

2025: My Year in Books Two dozen very brief reviews

2025: My Year in Books
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The Painful Relevance of Heated Rivalry — Queer Majority The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.

The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

#EndOfTheYearCountdown

Our #1 most-read article of 2025 was by @jamie-paul.bsky.social!

Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

The Painful Relevance of Heated Rivalry — Queer Majority The steamy gay hockey show has set pop culture ablaze, but the context that makes it relevant is an indictment of hockey culture.

I reviewed Heated Rivalry and discussed some of the long-standing problems in hockey culture. In @queermajority.bsky.social:
www.queermajority.com/essays-all/t...

Overturning Roe and the GOP's Continued Descent Into Extremism — Queer Majority With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next?

With Roe v. Wade struck down, is marriage equality next? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Let the Cops March At Pride — Queer Majority As the LGBT community becomes mainstream, why steal defeat from the jaws of victory?

As the LGBT community becomes mainstream, why steal defeat from the jaws of victory? | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

You'll never think about turkeys the same way again. My latest at @bidotorg.bsky.social:

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Can 80% of Society Really Be Irredeemable Transphobes? — Queer Majority Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.

Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

Darkness on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream The year The Boss made his stand

I'm not a big music person, but I couldn't put this piece about Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" down, and neither will you.
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Darkness on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream The year The Boss made his stand

I'm not a big music person, but I couldn't put this piece about Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" down, and neither will you.
americandreaming.substack.com/p/darkness-o...

A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism How to truly win hearts and minds.

This is sensible and humane. A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism www.persuasion.community/p/a-manifest...

A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism How to truly win hearts and minds.

"We see a ... divide today within the movement for trans equality, between activists fighting for the right of trans people to join mainstream society and activists who want to remake mainstream society in the image of trans people."

What a good piece.

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A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism How to truly win hearts and minds.

by @jamie-paul.bsky.social
“How did the left-wing trans movement squander a society’s worth of open-minded goodwill? Perhaps the biggest blunder was their refusal to compromise, especially over the most contentious policy areas, such as trans women in female-only spaces or youth gender medicine"

Writers and content creators set out to capture an audience. In so doing, the audience captures them. | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

I wrote about gay bears (not the Provincetown kind, the shits-in-the-woods kind).

Lots of fascinating facts in my latest @bidotorg.bsky.social piece. #BiScience

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From Why Not Both: Could Bisexuality Be the Norm? by Jamie Paul | @jamie-paul.bsky.social

How to Fix What Ails Trans Activism — Queer Majority Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

www.queermajority.com/essays-all/h...