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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Cynthia Erivo’s Queer, All Wicked News Is Queer News, PREPARE TO BE SICK OF ME

I’m here for you with a very queer, very personal deep dive analysis of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in the Wicked trailer. Plus: Jennifer Beals in a Super Bowl commercial, Abbott Elementary renewed for a fourth season, and more!

Valerie Anne February 12, 2024 8 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Cecilia Gentili Showed What It Means To Care About Sex Workers, Immigrants, and Trans People

She saw organizing and her work within her communities not as something she had to do but as something she needed and wanted to do.

Stef Rubino February 9, 2024 5 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Abbott Elementary Returns Tonight with a New Queer Actor!

Abbott Elementary adds a queer actor Kimia Behpoornia as a recurring character, Disney adds The Marvels to streaming and announces Moana 2, a renewal for The Traitors, Florence Pugh and Zendaya looking hot on the red carpet, and more!

Valerie Anne February 7, 2024 4 Comments
A young person at a vigil for Brianna Ghey holds a candle in one hand a sign that says Protect Trans Youth in the other
Politics + Activism

Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?

The truest form of justice is prevention.

Drew Burnett Gregory February 6, 2024 12 Comments
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 03: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Megan Thee Stallion attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons Honoring Jon Platt at The Beverly Hilton on February 03, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Pop Culture Fix: Megan Thee Stallion Is Topping (The Charts)

Megan Thee Stallion has her first #1 Billboard debut and secured all her masters. Also: a long-awaited for update on Sarah Paulson’s Ratched, Keke Palmer and Stephanie Hsu in a new animated series with Natasha Lyonne, and more!

Valerie Anne February 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: We Are Not Ready For Maya and Carina’s Final Season of “Station 19”

Trailers have dropped for all the ABC LGBT-inclusive shows (including Station 19’s final season), gay Grammy predictions, Noted Bisexual Evan Rachel Wood is headed to Broadway, Ayo Edebiri’s fantastic SNL promo video, our regularly scheduled check-in on Reneé Rapp and more pop culture news!

Valerie Anne January 31, 2024
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Politics + Activism

The Queer Feminist Case for Palestine

When I say queer, I mean hostile to the military industrial complex that generates profit by manufacturing weapons designed to kill people.

Bobuq Sayed January 30, 2024 27 Comments
megan fox in jennifer's body
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Diablo Cody Better Not Be Joking About a “Jennifer’s Body” Sequel!

Diablo Cody teases a Jennifer’s Body sequel, Ella Hunt cast in the upcoming SNL movie, the Nicki Minaj/Megan Thee Stallion feud, Reneé Rapp and the Lesbian Masterdoc, and more!

Valerie Anne January 29, 2024 2 Comments
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 15: Ali Krieger arrives on the Green Carpet ahead of The Best FIFA Football Awards 2023 at The Apollo Theatre on January 15, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Joe Maher - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
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Pop Culture Fix: Every Divorced Lesbian Needs Friends Like Ali Krieger’s Teammates

Ali Krieger talks to Self Magazine about her future and how her teammates supported her the day her divorce news broke, LIzzie McGuire could’ve been gayer, how France’s Oscar committee fumbled “Anatomy of a Fall” and more!

Riese January 24, 2024 2 Comments
Renee Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion perform in front of the lesbian flag colors, singing "Not My Fault" from Mean Girls on SNL
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Renée Rapp Identifies as a Lesbian Now!

Reneé Rapp made a lesbian bodyguard joke involving Cara Delevingne and Megan Thee Stallion, made a different lesbian joke on SNL, and continues her iconic behavior. Also: Kirsten Stewart will make you squirm, the 20-year anniversary of D.E.B.S. and more!

Valerie Anne January 22, 2024 20 Comments
A nighttime exterior photo of The Abbey
Community Politics + Activism

Los Angeles Gay Bar The Abbey Faces an Overdue Reckoning

In a detailed report from The 19th, over 70 people describe being drugged at The Abbey — including many queer women.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 20, 2024 12 Comments
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Politics + Activism

How Bluestockings Bookstore Is Fighting To Keep Serving Queer, Trans, and Houseless Communities

I wish this were just a piece on how a longstanding queer bookstore and refuge is finding ways to continue practicing care and love for their community. Unfortunately, this is also a story of gentrification and white supremacist capitalism not caring about what’s right and medically safe.

Gen January 18, 2024 8 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: 2024 GLAAD Award Noms Include “Bottoms,” “Nyad” and of Course, “The Ultimatum: Queer Love”

GLAAD announces the nominees for its 2024 Awards, Peacock drops the trailer for the second lesbian season of Vigil, Tammy Slaton is a lesbian now, Auli’i Cravalho talks about making Janis outwardly queer and other queer pop culture stories for your day!

Riese January 17, 2024 2 Comments
Reneé Rapp Mean Girls press tour: Bisexual Icon on a talk show stage smiling at Stephen Colbert as he puts his head in his hands in mock exasperation
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp Is Being Biconic on the Mean Girls Press Tour

Reneé Rapp has achieved bicon status, The Last of Us casting news, a trailer for Station 19’s final season, and more!

Valerie Anne January 15, 2024 3 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Here’s A Gay Rundown of the SAG Nominees

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Valerie Anne January 10, 2024 4 Comments
The Lynx bookstore
Society + Culture

A New Author-Owned Bookstore Centering Banned Books Is Coming to Central Florida

One bookstore isn’t going to change everything, but it’s a significant reminder there are people fighting for this place and especially for its arts and culture spaces.

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Billie Eilish, Ayo Edelbi, and Lily Gladstone accepting their golden globe awards
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Here’s All the 2024 Golden Globes Gay Goings-on

Here’s who all’s gay here at the Golden Globes (including Gillian Anderson’s vulva dress, you don’t want to miss it). Also: listen to Reneé Rapp’s “World Burn,” and updates on the new seasons of “Arcane” and “Stranger Things.”

Valerie Anne January 8, 2024
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp and Coco Jones New Year’s Performance Is Living in My Head Rent Free

In case you missed it, queer artists like Reneé Rapp, Janelle Monáe, and Cardi B really gayed up New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Also, Jodie Foster on True Detective, noted bisexual Kate Siegel on recasting Roderick in The Fall of the House of Usher and more!

Valerie Anne January 3, 2024 3 Comments
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Politics + Activism

This Bookstore Is Giving Banned Books Back to the Florida Community They Were Removed From

A school district in Florida expunged thousands of LGBTQ and BIPOC kids books. This radical anarchist bookstore is giving them back.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 2, 2024 4 Comments
Movie Features Politics + Activism

The Most Important Movie of the Year Is a Documentary From 1976

The Memory of Justice draws parallels between the Holocaust and the more recent horrors of the French occupation of Algeria and the American occupation of Vietnam.

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