Spencer Macnaughton

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Monogamy Doesn’t Make Sense, According to Science. So Why Aren’t We More Polyamorous?

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In the United States, nearly one in five people have explored consensual non-monogamy, the practice of openly seeing multiple partners with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Despite this, those venturing into non-monogamous relationships often find themselves with more questions than answers, navigating a cultural landscape that still privileges monogamy and stigmatizes other relationship structures. So when five clients approached Jessica Fern in the same week a few years ago, each expressing a desire to open their relationship, she knew something deeper was happening. Fern, a psychotherapist and the author of Polysecure and Polywise, has since become a guiding voice in […]

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‘I Look Like an Expert’: The Sexologist Testifying Against Trans Youth Care

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James Cantor is a Canadian psychologist and sexologist who has been hiredby Alliance Defending Freedom—a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group—and by Republican states to serve as an expert witness in defense of laws that ban or restrict gender-affirming health care. Last year, Uncloseted Media interviewed Cantor for a larger investigation into expert medical witnesses paid to defend restrictions on trans kids’ access to health care. Since then, attacks on gender-affirming care have escalated—121 anti-trans bills have been passed in state legislatures this year and a recent Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of bans on gender-affirming health care for minors nationwide. Cantor, who has never […]

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Religious trauma still haunts millions of LGBTQ Americans

Experts say LGBTQ people experience religious trauma at disproportionate rates and in unique ways. Justin J. Wee and Evan Jenkins for NBC News Kellen Swift-Godzisz, 35, said he doesn’t go on dates, struggles with erectile dysfunction and is hesitant to trust people. For more than 20 years, he’s experienced intense bouts of anxiety and depression that have had a “major hold on his life.” “Imagine being told by everyone you trusted that you’re going to hell because you like men,” Swift-Godzisz, a marketing project manager living in Chicago, told NBC News. At just 11 years old, Swift-Godzisz recalled, he would sit […]

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