Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.
Aubrey Plaza will play cartoon Satan’s mom, Laverne Cox will anchor E!’s red carpet, Mare of Easttown’s bad hair rule, Freeform’s queer summer shows have premiere dates, and more!
Plus: The story behind Stacey Abrams fiction career, the WNBA’s 25 firsts on their 25th anniversary, Tumblr is trying to win back queers after driving them away, what does “cancel culture” even mean anymore, and more!
SNL parodies Mare of Easttown, Azie Tesfai in her Guardian suit, MJ Rodriguez and Maya Rudolph are teaming up, Apex Legend’s Valkyrie is queer, and more!
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
Queer elders on coming out as non-binary, the oral history of Madonna’s Truth or Dare, burn all the leggings, and no matter what the internet tells you — Liz Cheney is not your friend.
Boys are coming to The Wilds (BORING!), Hannah John-Kamen will play Joey Soloway’s Red Sonja, Tig Notaro’s next comedy special will be fully animated, and more!
Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Issue is a stunning masterclass of QTPOC being our fly ass selves, Alison Bechdel on turning her life into art, the 1996 Olympic Women’s Basketball Team finally getting their due, and getting to know the girl in red.
Ginny & Georgia’s Humberly Gonzalez is queer, will Supergirl spin-off?, Janet Mock’s Pose premiere speech, Days of Our Lives has a gay week ahead, and more!
Radical moms who love their lesbian daughters, during our great national drought a new lesbian bar is opening in DC (!!!), Elliot Page on growing up trans, and seriously — stop spending time on the things you hate.
An illustrated breakdown of the over 100 bills in state legislatures restricting trans youth’s access to healthcare and sports.
Endless conversations on dialectical materialism, class wars, and late-stage capitalism do little to address the current realities that plague visibly non-white people, trans people, and sex workers. The violent realities of capitalism have real, tangible consequences for people most affected by white supremacist violence and the constant refrain of “do the reading” does nothing to address them.
This bonkers trailer for Legends of Tomorrow, everything you need to know about The Handmaid’s Tale season four, why Pose is ending, and more!
Why burnout is hitting us now, the dark side of the houseplant boom, queer beer festivals for everyone and happy 5th anniversary to Beyonce’s Lemonade!
Master of None’s third season will focus on Lena Waithe’s Denise, celebrating lesbian athletes for Lesbian Visibility Day, Whoopi Goldberg is writing a superhero movie about an older Black woman, why Jasika Nicole won’t do cop shows anymore, and more.
A former sex worker explains why new anti-porn legislation won’t stop images of child sexual abuse from proliferating on the internet.
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the latest criminal justice news in the wake of more police brutality and the Chauvin ruling, more perspectives on capitalist exploitations after the failed Bessemer union vote, LGBTQ+ news and, of course, the pandemic.
Kehlani really is a lesbian, just to be EXTRA CLEAR, queer Asians making their own community spaces for to love and protection, and meet the Instagram account dedicated to queer Arab history and pop culture.
Margaret Cho on Good Trouble’s season finale, Ginny & Georgia is a go for season two, lesbos on this Spanish teen soap, Pose begins its victory lap, and more!
Don’t let Derek Chauvin be the “one bad apple” in the bunch. The entire system is corrupt. It’s broken. One ruling doesn’t change that. The smallest, tiniest slice of justice doesn’t change that.