Asking Gay Men to Be Careful Isn’t Homophobia
Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.
Latest
New York Historical Society / The Atlantic Gay Men Need a Specific Warning About Monkeypox
Tiptoeing around the issue carries its own risks.
Cynthia S. Goldsmith / Russell Regner / CDC / AP This Pandemic Isn’t Over
The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.
SOPA Images / Getty The Epidemics America Got Wrong
Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.
Rick Maiman / AP Images Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore
Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
Kay Tobin / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library
