Results for: representation
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ACT UP NY Calls on GLAAD To Oppose Genocide, Drop the ADL
On May 11, GLAAD hosted its annual awards ceremony, celebrating queer and trans media and celebrities. But outside the doors of the venue was where the real queer activism took place, an action organized by ACT UP NY taking shape.
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Susan Sarandon, Melissa Barrera, and the Troubling Pattern of Punishment for Advocating for Palestine
More news surfaces about the timeline of Melissa Barrera’s removal from Scream, and Susan Sarandon has issued an apology for her wording. Both continue to stand with Palestine.
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Pop Culture Fix: Make This “Warehouse 13” Reboot Gay or Don’t Make It at All
Chelsea Gray is your 2022 WNBA Finals MVP, The Owl House will be back for spooky season, and more She-Hulk bisexuality is on the way.
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The Essay I Wrote About Santana Lopez When I Was 19 and Closeted, Annotated by My Present Self
Read the 700-word essay I wrote for a zine in college about queer representation on Glee even though at the time I identified as STRAIGHT.
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Star Trek N00b, Episode 8: What Are Little Girls Made Of? (It’s Android Parts.)
“Kirk uses android therapy session. It is super effective.”
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Trans People Deserve Better Than “Unicorns” and “National Anthem”
There is no shortage of cis people who want to own a piece of us — our bodies, our stories, their idea of our stories.
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Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers” Ruins Edith Wharton and Fails History
A trans girl lesbian in an Edith Wharton adaptation is like something out of my wildest dreams. Too bad this show is such a mediocre nightmare.
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Also.Also.Also: Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel To Play Pop Star/Designer Girlfriends in New A24 Film “Mother Mary”
The way this movie is about to be my entire personality. Also: Black queer history is American History (always), the influencer economy of Parade panties, and get ready for the #TransRightsReadathon.
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Celebrating Asexuality’s Glorious Queerness This Ace Week
Even while it is a great time to be ace, anti-ace rhetoric continues to circulate in queer communities.
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Barbie Is Right: Heterosexuality Is Goofy
Straightness in Barbieland is cringe.
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“Anyone but You” Was a Hetero Hit — Why Does It Take Place at a Lesbian Wedding?
The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience.
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Our Hottest Takes About 2022 LGBTQ+ TV and Film
Today you’re getting our entire team’s spiciest takes about 2022 LGBTQ+ TV and film, something I was only able to convince people to participate in because Nico said we could keep them safely tucked within A+.
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I Didn’t Know Existential Therapists Were a Thing Until I Got One
“I’m an easy host, a rake, a card, I’m bejeweled, I have a gay face. I want to love and be loved. If reaching is a kind of being, it’s a reaching toward.”
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Boobs on Your Tube: Say Hello to Your Lesbian Granny Friend on “Fantasy Island”
Plus! An update on Criminal Minds, and saying goodbye to New Amsterdam.
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Apparently, Shame Tastes Like My Cunt
“The other partners I had throughout much of my time in sex work were uncomfortable at best and shaming at worst. They were jealous and confused. ‘How can you interact with men like this?'”
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The Best Queer Movies of 2024
Queer cinema can be about the challenges we face, the oppression we experience, the microaggressions and aggression aggressions and all the rest, and still be fun and sexy. In fact, fun and sexy are two of our greatest tools.
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Looking Back on 1970s Lesbian Feminist Film and Sci-Fi To Reimagine the Future
“I mean props to those who are three years old and are like, ‘I’m gay.’ But some of us have to meet some gay people, and sometimes those people are people you encounter in books and archives, they’re not your friends, and they’re not even here on this planet anymore physically, but their ideas are, and that’s really powerful.”
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The Subtle Aroace Gaze of “Heartstopper” Season Two
Throughout the show, we see Isaac’s journey as someone who is aroace.
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Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp Wants To Be “Bisexual Justin Bieber”
Tig Notaro looking cute as a butch button on The Morning Show, Aubrey Plaza getting weird on SNL, and more!
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What To Expect When Your Friends Are Expecting (as a Childfree Queer)
As my community transforms, I’ve developed a curiosity on how to transmute isolation into connection.