These are bracing reminders not only of how insidious homophobia was at the time, making any sense of loyalty or community amongst certain gay people a liability, but also of the lengths those with any amount of power or privilege would go to protect the status quo.
Justin Torres writes about people on the margins, people like him: queer, bi-racial, outsiders searching for their place in culture, society, and family. The youngest son of a white mother and a father of Puerto Rican descent, his 2011 debut novel, We the Animals, drew heavily on his experience growing up in Upstate New York. Similarly, his new novel, Blackouts, centers on a young gay man searching for a better understanding of both his queer and Puerto Rican heritage.
Award-winning journalist Katie Barnes takes on science, policy, and empathy in "Fair Play."
Debate about Section 28 provides the backdrop for the film, as well as its tether to the present moment, when legislation is advancing across the U.S. to ban discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in schools and ban books by LGBTQ+ authors and about LGBTQ+ characters and issues. On one level, Blue Jean, which functions effectively as both a social problem film and a compelling character study, makes a distressing case for the idea that history does, in fact, repeat itself.
Most TV, film, and books show us idealized moments of reckoning; deathbed confessions, heartfelt goodbyes, in which characters know exactly what to say and how to say it. My sense is that that kind of thing is rare, if not mostly fictional. Succession opted instead for something messier, scarier, and appropriately unsatisfying.
Pedro Pascal may be the official “hot dad” of the moment, but he wasn’t always the grizzled, taciturn guy fans of The Last of Us are currently thirsting after. Long, long ago at the turn of the last century, he was a fresh-faced young actor who went by the alias “Pedro Balmaceda” and briefly had a role playing a very opinionated and sassy gay dude in the first season of MTV’s sexy, soapy anthology series Undressed.
So far this week, I’ve seen at least a couple of headlines and social media posts cheering the fact that a film about LGBTQ+ characters topped the weekend box office. But is this particular “queer narrative”—as one post characterized it—really the one we want America to embrace?
While a certain segment of America (and the gays who live in it) have been losing their minds over 30 Rock joke-turned-actual TV series MILF Manor, something else has been quietly brewing in a canal-side McMansion in Florida: OutTV’s For the Love of DILFs, a gay reality dating competition series hosted by the one-and-only Stormy Daniels.
Bill and Frank’s story could have been anyone’s. There was a time, not so long ago (anyone remember NBC’s Rise?), when some network exec might have said, “Couldn’t we just make these gays a straight couple and achieve the same thing?” But The Last of Us didn’t do that. Instead, the series conveyed its hopeful, humanist message via an elder gay couple. It showed that there is a place for us in the future, whatever that future looks like.
Protect Issa Rae from these high-end gays!
For Kenyon Farrow and Jeremiah Johnson of PrEP4All—and the hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the HIV prevention pill—last week’s ruling by a federal judge in Texas that employers are not required to provide health insurance plans that cover preventive services like PrEP was dismaying—although not entirely surprising.
Some customers of Bobbi Brown’s makeup brand are receiving $1 for every 100 views of their TikTok videos about the products.
“I was rattled. I wasn’t expecting it,” Galloway tells ‘Fast Company,’ committing to change his behavior.
JLo is an actor who understands that “good” and “enjoyable” aren’t always the same thing.
Two new Netflix offerings aim to entertain, but how much do they educate?
The breakout star of ‘Gossip Girl’ on HBO Max, Jordan Alexander is proving she’s so much more than a pretty face.
In 1984, MTV decided to throw itself a party, solidifying its place in music and pop culture. Now, 40 years after the network launched, the annual Video Music Awards are the last remaining vestige of the MTV’s original ethos.
Dove Cameron spent the summer in Apple TV+’s over-the-top musical parody, 'Schmigadoon!' What’s next?
The musician is forced to promote her new memoir, Resistance, from home, but she’s got some help from other artists—and Richard Dawkins.
“If you’re about to do a scene and you get hit by a car, you’re gonna play it in a totally different way,” Robert Pattinson says between sips of coffee and discreet puffs on an electronic cigarette.
