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celebrities (vapid fluff)

Scream! Because Hayden Panettiere Is Bisexual!

“Now that I know that this book is coming out, and that I’ve chosen to share it with the world,…

Riese

2 Hours

Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You, All Us Saints, and The Lesbian Bar Chronicles

BOOK FEATURES

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Great sci-fi and hybrid nonfiction are coming your way this month. Plus a whole lot…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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4 Hours

THEATER

Finding Truth, Power, and Humor in the Intergalactic Bathhouse of ‘Syrian Soap’

Taking the audience on a dynamic, interactive journey through time and space, this performance invites…

Noor Aldayeh

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May 5, 2026

MOVIE FEATURES

‘Tropical Park’ Paints a Real Portrait of Queer Miami

The film dives into familiar terrain to anyone queer with a Latin family, from capitalism…

Juan Barquin

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May 4, 2026

book features

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Great sci-fi and hybrid nonfiction are coming your way this month. Plus a whole lot more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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4 Hours

theater

Finding Truth, Power, and Humor in the Intergalactic Bathhouse of ‘Syrian Soap’

Taking the audience on a dynamic, interactive journey through time and space, this performance invites its viewers to reflect on the complexities of the human experience, what it means to…

Noor Aldayeh

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May 5, 2026

movie features

‘Tropical Park’ Paints a Real Portrait of Queer Miami

The film dives into familiar terrain to anyone queer with a Latin family, from capitalism and public transit to familial obligation and gender/sexuality.

Juan Barquin

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May 4, 2026

The Latest

Scream! Because Hayden Panettiere Is Bisexual!

Celebrities (vapid Fluff)

2 Hours

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Literature

4 Hours

No Filter: Tommy Dorfman Sat Next To a Transphobe on a Plane and Eviscerated Him

Celebrities (vapid Fluff)

5 Hours

Finding Truth, Power, and Humor in the Intergalactic Bathhouse of ‘Syrian Soap’

Theater

May 5, 2026

Lola Tung To Star in Kelley O’Hara’s Sapphic Soccer Film

News

May 4, 2026

Public health nurse Dora Rust-D'Eye teaches special prenatal class for single mothers. One in every 11 babies born to single mom.

af+

The Best Laid Birth Plans

Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it — and if there’s anything I can say about our little Prenatal Birth & Labor class, it is…

Riese

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Feb 5, 2025

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: I Think We Can All Agree the Grammys Belonged to Doechii

Also: The way I instantly clocked Chappell Roan’s journal as a Leuchtturm1917…

Christina Tucker

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Feb 5, 2025

In the Summers: Lío Mehiel and Sasha Calle lean against a wall as the sun sets.

movie reviews

‘In the Summers’ Is a Different Kind of Queer Coming-of-Age Story

In the Summers is a queer coming-of-age movie that understands childhood and adolescence are just the beginning.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 5, 2025

Hands hold up signs at the NYU Langone trans healthcare protest that read Trans Healthcare is human healthcare and shame on you NYU

politics + activism

Hundreds Protest NYU Langone’s Early Compliance With Trump’s Dangerous Anti-Trans Executive Order

“This decision is not only a moral and medical failure — it’s a betrayal of our patients and our profession,” said Dr. Michael Zingman, a second year child psychiatry fellow…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 4, 2025

"How do I experiment and find what makes my partner feel good if even a light make out session makes him overwhelmed with anxiety about his inexperience?"

relationships

‘How Can I Be a Good Girlfriend When My Partner Is Extremely Anxious About Sex’

“I feel like we intuitively understand each other and our needs in a lot of matters and are willing to figure it out when intuition isn’t enough. One area that…

Summer Tao

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Feb 4, 2025

emilia perez, zoe saldana looking at Karla Sofía Gascón

pop culture fix

Emilia Pérez Star Karla Sofía Gascón’s Unhinged Racist Tweets Have Killed Her Oscar Campaign

Why people are wondering if Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón will pull out of the Oscars, a possible BUFFY REBOOT???, M3GAN is a Chappell Roan fan confirmed, and more…

Valerie Anne

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Feb 4, 2025

Candis Cayne in Drop Dead Diva season two episode eight, she takes the stand in a court room wearing a black jacket and a purple button down shirt

tv feature

Very Special Gay Episode: 15 Years Ago ‘Drop Dead Diva’ Cast Candis Cayne as a Trans Lesbian

Drop Dead Diva gave me more than I had ever dared to imagine from a pre-Obergefell comedy… not only were there dykes, one of them was trans.

Sunny Laprade

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Feb 4, 2025

politics + activism

Fascist 404s: The Government Is Deleting Vital LGBTQ Health Resources and Data

More than 8,000 web pages with vital information across a dozen government websites have been removed from the internet. These deletions are far-reaching, targeting diversity initiatives and pretty much anything…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Feb 3, 2025