James Kirchick

The Long War Against a Gay ‘Cure’

With one of the three traditional condemnations of homosexuality—sickness—obviated by the medical establishment in 1973, the destructive effort to make gay people straight was then smuggled in under the rubric of another: sin.

Jeremy Thorpe’s Career in the Closet

Jeremy Thorpe ought to have been found guilty of conspiring to murder Norman Scott. But with the weight of the British political, media, and judicial establishment arrayed against him, Scott didn’t have a chance.

A Thing for Men in Uniforms

If fascism has had an allure for some gay men, it is anti-egalitarianism that provides the connective tissue—the belief that homosexuality belongs to an elite caste, an exclusive fraternity existing above the heterosexual masses and destined for greatness.

Ron Paul's Paranoid Style

Ron Paul’s paleolibertarianism is, in many ways, a forerunner of today’s alt-right, and Paul himself has proven to be something of a gateway drug to even more extreme political movements.