Brandon Tensley
Slate
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Brandon:
What Are Queer People Fighting About?
Right now, politics, authenticity, and pop music. → Read More
The Queer Legacies of Our Riotous Past
What have we learned from LGBTQ activists and authors? → Read More
Fifty Years After Stonewall, What's the Political Role of the American Gay Bar?
Under the Trump administration, some gay bars have found themselves wrestling anew with anti-queer prejudice. → Read More
Understanding Feminism Through Drag
Misogyny is all too common in gay male spaces. → Read More
Figuring Out Queer Sex in a Straight World
Bryan, Brandon, and Christina discuss how they found out about it and what they think everybody should learn. → Read More
Seeking and Finding the Queer Scene
Outward discusses “the scene” and what that means to different parts of the queer community. → Read More
The City Gay and the Country Gay
Outward discusses the variety of queer experience in town and country. → Read More
How the American Dream Went From Meaning Equality to Meaning Capitalism
Literary scholar Sarah Churchwell discusses "America first" and "the American dream"—two clichés whose shifting meanings illuminate how America can achieve a more just future. → Read More
The Future of Queer Media Is in Its History
Outward discusses the significance and origins of queer media. → Read More
The Thrill of Gay Vacations
Outward discusses queer travel experiences and the queer enclaves we seek out on vacation. → Read More
The Freedom and Magic of Queer Spirituality
Outward discusses how queer people embrace spirituality and the ways they navigate organized religion. → Read More
Queer Family Is What You Make It
Outward discusses how queer people bond and form new types of families. → Read More
The End of the World Map as We Know It?
Journalist Joshua Keating's new book takes a hard look at what it means to be a country today—and how notions of statehood may be on the brink of change. → Read More
Angela Merkel Is on the Way Out. So What Comes Next?
The rise of the Greens is as big a story as the far right. → Read More
We Owe Queer Radicals Everything
Outward’s new LGBTQ podcast discusses radicalism. → Read More
How Reconsidering Atticus Finch Makes Us Reconsider America
In his new book, historian Joseph Crespino offers lessons drawn from Harper Lee's ambivalent treatment of this iconic character. → Read More
Celebrating the Queer Black Radical Who Wrote A Raisin in the Sun
“Lorraine rejected the American project but not America.” → Read More
The Long, Defiant History of Activism Among Black Athletes
Journalist Howard Bryant's new book looks at how black athletes have historically ignored the mandate to "shut up and play." → Read More
The Prescient Warnings of the Kerner Commission
In his new book, historian Steven M. Gillon revisits the presidential commission created to investigate the riots of 1967. → Read More
'Love, Simon' and the Power of Telling Your Own Story
The glossy coming-of-age dramedy is about gay people writing their own lives—and it's empowering some people to come out. → Read More