Celebrating Pride Month

From The New Yorker’s archive: a selection of pieces about the progress of the L.G.B.T.Q.-rights movement. View in browser | Update your preferences Celebrating Pride Month All across the country, people are celebrating L.G.B.T.Q. Pride this month. For decades, The New Yorker has chronicled the remarkable challenges and changes that have defined the battle for gay rights. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about the progress of this extraordinary movement. In “The Perfect Wife,” Ariel Levy profiles Edith Windsor, who fell in love with her partner and won a landmark Supreme Court case for same-sex marriage. In “Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance,” Michael Specter examines the life of the playwright and activist and considers how his barbed, audacious advocacy helped transform the national conversation around AIDS. In “Love on the March,” from 2012, Alex Ross reflects on the momentous efforts to advance gay rights in America. In “Netherland,” Rachel Aviv reports on the lives of homeless L.G.B.T.Q. young people in New York. Finally, in “Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall,” Masha Gessen contemplates the sweeping changes that have occurred since the history-making uprising, in 1969. Taken together, these pieces reflect the struggle, the accomplishments, and the many opportunities that still lie ahead. —David Remnick From The New Yorker’s Archive A Critic at Large Love on the March Reflections on the gay community’s political progress—and its future. By Alex Ross | November 12, 2012 Profiles The Perfect Wife How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage. By Ariel Levy | September 30, 2013 Profiles Larry Kramer, Public Nuisance The man who warned America about AIDS can’t stop fighting hard—and loudly. By Michael Specter | May 13, 2002 Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Crossword-Puzzle Newsletter Never miss another New Yorker crossword again. Our Columnists Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall The world is not what I imagined: I thought we would have retired the concept of sexual orientation and made a bigger dent in gender. Still, it’s better than the one I came out in—for now. By Masha Gessen | June 28, 2019 A Reporter at Large Netherland Homeless in New York, a young gay woman learns to survive. By Rachel Aviv | December 10, 2012 You’re receiving this e-mail because you signed up for the New Yorker Classics newsletter. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up. Unsubscribe | Manage your e-mail preferences | Send newsletter feedback | View our Privacy Policy Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.