Grammy, Brit, Golden Globe, Oscar, and GLAAD Media Award winning musician Sam Smith has graced us all with a brand-new cover of the iconic self-love ballad “Beautiful.” The song was originally written by Linda Perry and made famous by GLAAD Media Award winner Christina Aguilera.  Aguilera was recently named GLAAD's 2023 Advocate for Change Award recipient. Watch her moving speech here: “I’ve been such a massive fan of Christina’s for as long as I can remember and will never forget the first time I heard ‘Beautiful’ and how personally it spoke to me,” said Smith. “The song is a true acc ..read more

Photo Credit: WarnerMedia Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) The trailer for upcoming Hulu horror film Jagged Mind dropped this week! The film follows Billie, who is plagued by blackouts, as she discovers she’s caught in a series of time loops that may somehow be related to her new girlfriend Alex. Billie is played by out queer actress Maisie Richardson-Sellers, and Alex is played by queer actress Shannon Woodward. Don’t miss Jagged Mind when it drops on ..read more

Photo Credit: Netflix Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) Warner Bros. transports us into Barbie Land in their main Barbie movie trailer! To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Barbie follows Margot Robbie as the eponymous doll as she leaves her plastic lifestyle behind to find true happiness in the human world. The film features a plethora of queer actors, in ..read more

Pisces Photography By: Contributing Writer James Drake, Program Coordinator for The Normal Anomaly Initiative Held on May 3-7, 2023, the Black Queer Advancement Festival (BQAF) was a weekend to remember in Houston, Texas. The 2nd Annual Black Queer Advancement Festival yet again announced to not only the city, but the country at large, that we are here and we are "Blacker and Queerer than ever!" The festival used arts, culture and awareness to reach thousands of people locally and throughout the Southern region of the United States.   This year was our year to expand. In addi ..read more

GLAAD This week GLAAD's Spanish-Language & Latine Media team has some exciting updates on films premiering at LALIFF, new music from Caribbean and Latino artists, as well as updates on some highly anticipated drag news happening in Mexico. LALIFF film festival includes queer stories As summer approaches, so does film festival season in Los Angeles! The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) has announced its full schedule for this year’s festival. This year, LALIFF celebrates its 22nd festival with a sensational number of Latinx talent including filmmakers, musicia ..read more

Photo Credit: Netflix Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) Stay Awake, a drama film about the struggles of the opioid epidemic, is out today. The film follows two brothers as they navigate the cycle of finding their mother passed out on drugs, bringing her to the hospital, and begging her to go to rehab. One of the two brothers, Derek, is played by gay genderqueer actor Fin Argus. Check out Stay Awake, in select theaters! 2.) A trailer for the upcomi ..read more

For Nashville-based singer-songwriter Cody Belew, his newest single “Charlene” is not just a song to him. “Charlene” represents a real-life person while “speaking to the dichotomy of being a gay Christian man in the South” as he interrogates religion and how it is weaponized – specifically against the queer community. “Charlene” was inspired by an encounter that Belew had several years ago with a God-fearing Christian woman who collected his rent check for his business. She was kind but refused to accept his sexuality. He said that she would constantly “pray for him”. “I was trying to sort ..read more

May 15, 2023 Contact: press@glaad.org JONATHAN VAN NESS ACCEPTS GLAAD’S VITO RUSSO AWARD AS FIRST NONBINARY RECIPIENT OF THE HONOR: “We need to proudly say we are pro queer pro trans pro black pro-abortion rights, pro-immigration, we are PRO-HUMAN!” [VIDEO HERE] MAREN MORRIS ACCEPTS GLAAD’S EXCELLENCE IN MEDIA AWARD AS FIRST COUNTRY ARTIST TO RECEIVE THE HONOR: “I want my fellow country music artists to understand that inclusivity is not only the right thing, but it’s also good for business.” [VIDEO HERE] IDINA MENZEL DAZZLES WITH GLOBAL DEBUT OF NEW HIT “MOVE” 34TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS ..read more

Photo Credit: Netflix Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) Monica, a drama starring trans actress Trace Lysette, is out in theaters today! The film follows Lysette as the titular Monica, a trans woman who must return home to her midwestern town to take care of her estranged mother, Eugenia. The pair must work through their issues, the biggest being Eugenia’s rejection of Monica’s identity, before it’s too late. Don’t miss Monica, in theaters now! 2.)  ..read more

Photo Credit: Lionsgate Every week, The GLAAD Wrap brings you LGBTQ-related entertainment news highlights, fresh stuff to watch out for, and fun diversions to help you kick off the weekend. 1.) The odds are in Euphoria star Hunter Schafer’s favor in the first official trailer for the highly-anticipated prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Songbirds & Snakes. Sixty-four years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem, the film follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) as the mentor of Lucy ..read more