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Back in the day, if you were deep in the closet, and someone found out you were gay, you were extraordinarily hostile to that person, or you ignored them altogether. Case in point, when I worked on Capitol Hill, a staffer who worked across the hall from our office saw me come out of a gay bar late at night. He was ostensibly with his girlfriend. I was freaked out, mainly because he was an absolute jerk ..read more

The world’s longest-surviving conjoined twins, George and Lori Schappell, have died at age 62. Both were assigned female at birth, but George came out as a transgender man in 2007 ..read more

“The relationship for me was always between the three of them,” Challengers’ star Josh O’Connor says. He’s talking about the three-way love affair between his character Patrick, his best friend Art, played by Mike Faist, and the woman they both love, Tashi, played by Zendaya in Luca Guadagnino’s new queer film set in flashbacks and a current riveting tennis match ..read more

Kristi Noem, the famously anti-LGBTQ+ governor of South Dakota and Republican rising star, has written about killing a dog and a goat in her new book, No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward ..read more

There’s a scene in Patricia Rozema’s 2018 film Mouthpiece where the main character, Cassandra, is flooded with a memory of her mother, who’s just died. The camera pans the room, lingering on Cassandra’s mother’s books and music. In the frame there appear works by Joni Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and the groundbreaking lesbian author, actor, and activist Ann-Marie McDonald, who appeared in Rozema’s first feature, 1987's I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing. Through Cassandra’s memories of her mother, Rozema pays tribute to Canada’s great women storytellers, and considering the filmmaker ..read more

While previous seasons of hit HBO reality series We’re Here certainly didn’t shy away from exposing our country’s politically polarized state, the show’s current season begins with palpable tension as new hosts Sasha Velour, Jaida Essence Hall, and Priyanka walk through a small town in Tennesee. (Latrice Royale joins on as a fourth host in a later episode.) What this series so accurately and dramatically depicts is the conflict that so many LGBTQ+ folks in non-metropolitan areas face today: Is living out and proud as one’s true self worth losing personal freedoms, societal acceptance, and poss ..read more

Elliot Page recently revealed Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman's reaction to when he came out as transgender — and it's heartwarming ..read more

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