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The Nation, July 2022 Issue-How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime

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How Gayness Changed During My Lifetime
When I came out, I steeled myself to join a minority—only to find that my identity had become a marketing niche.
BENJAMIN MOSER
FROM THIS ISSUE
The Fierce Hope of Ana María Archila
The Brooklyn-based organizer is running for New York lieutenant governor, but is the left ready to compete statewide?
LIZA FEATHERSTONE
The Brutal Verisimilitude of The Northman
Robert Eggers’s latest work, a Viking epic, pushes his obsessive and detail-oriented filmmaking to its limit.
ERIN SCHWARTZ
The Real Reason to Be Nervous About AI
Declarations of sentience are wildly premature. But the dangers AI poses to labor are very real.
DWAYNE MONROE
It Should Become Standard for Women to Freeze Their Eggs
Along with IVF, it’s a revolutionary procedure that allows women to control their own destiny. No wonder the right hates it.
ALEXIS GRENELL
POST-ROE NATION
The Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court decimated reproductive health care in the United States on Friday. With their Dobbs decision, they overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent and sent the issue back to the states. By doing so, they left exceptions for survivors of incest or rape up to the states, and left the exception for the health of the pregnant person unclear. “If that sounds like a dystopian hellscape, that’s because it is,” wrote Elie Mystal after the decision came down. Joan Walsh noted that she wished she “felt more optimistic that this will propel the country’s silenced majority to vote in November.”

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