Nina St. Pierre

In the introduction to French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s whimsical classic The Little Prince, a Turkish astronomer discovers a new planet, but the scientific community doesn’t believe him because he’s dressed poorly.

"The here and now is a prison house," wrote the late scholar and theorist José Muñoz. “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potential.”

For Sarah Daly, joining an online community of artists was an appealing escape from the drudgery of her day job.

This spring, on the eve of the equinox at a loft party in Brooklyn, I hinted to a woman I'd been crushing on that we might have a vibe.

As the summer of the ALS ice-bucket challenge draws to a close, a much quieter campaign has begun for another rare disease.