Next week, we celebrate one year of full marriage equality in our country, which we celebrated with the triumphant "Love Wins!" But has the community? We look back at a tough year and consider whether the gay rights movement has gone a little off-track.

Next week, we celebrate one year of full marriage equality in our country, which we celebrated with the triumphant "Love Wins!" But has the community? We look back at a tough year and consider whether the gay rights movement has gone a little off-track.

Next week, we celebrate one year of full marriage equality in our country, which we celebrated with the triumphant "Love Wins!" But has the community? We look back at a tough year and consider whether the gay rights movement has gone a little off-track.

Next week, we celebrate one year of full marriage equality in our country, which we celebrated with the triumphant "Love Wins!" But has the community? We look back at a tough year and consider whether the gay rights movement has gone a little off-track.

As we reflect on a horrific (and historic) mass shooting in an Orlando gay club, we choose to celebrate the importance of gay bars as safe and formative spaces in our lives and the necessity of protecting each other in the LGBT community.

As we reflect on a horrific (and historic) mass shooting in an Orlando gay club, we choose to celebrate the importance of gay bars as safe and formative spaces in our lives and the necessity of protecting each other in the LGBT community.

As we reflect on a horrific (and historic) mass shooting in an Orlando gay club, we choose to celebrate the importance of gay bars as safe and formative spaces in our lives and the necessity of protecting each other in the LGBT community.

As we reflect on a horrific (and historic) mass shooting in an Orlando gay club, we choose to celebrate the importance of gay bars as safe and formative spaces in our lives and the necessity of protecting each other in the LGBT community.

As we reflect on a horrific (and historic) mass shooting in an Orlando gay club, we choose to celebrate the importance of gay bars as safe and formative spaces in our lives and the necessity of protecting each other in the LGBT community.

The secret coded languages of gay cultures globally form the foundation of a larger conversation about language as a tool for community construction, the difficult questions of appropriation and exchange via language, and the thorny questions of language at the intersection of race and culture.