Pop Culture Fix: Meet the “Many Queer Characters” of the Gossip Girl Reboot
Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity; Black cartoon from our childhoods that were ahead of their time; Pose in the pandemic; bisexual Cheetah discourse; and more!
A Year of Intersex Victories
2020 wasn’t quite a victory for many people. But the intersex community has much to celebrate.
Scenes from a Gender 03: Trans Resilience Throughout 2020
In a year of incredible trials, the trans community has continued to build the connection and interdependence necessary to thrive and usher in a better world.
Pop Culture Fix: Javicia Leslie’s Mom Knew She Was Bisexual Before Javicia Did
How Wonder Woman failed Cheetah, ranking Peppa Pig’s biggest beefs, Tracker McDyke, same-gender dæmons in His Dark Materials, and more!
Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of What’s Actually Happening with the Stimulus Package
Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.
Also.Also.Also: Happy New Year! Have a Gay Old Time!
15 things that prove queer women won 2020, the fight to include HIV-positive people in COVID-19 vaccine trials, women undoubtedly ran rap music this year, and Christine Baranski knows you love her. It’s the last link roundup of the year so I made it MAXIMUM sized, let’s do this!
Pop Culture Fix: Here’s Hoping Steve Trevor Stays Dead in “Wonder Woman 3”
T’Nia Miller in The Guardian, Mackenzie Davis chats lesbianing in Happiest Season and San Junipero, Laverne Cox on Promising Young Woman, your weekly Batwoman check-in, and more!
10 Times Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Destroyed 2020
In a year of grief and turmoil, trans communities gave us a glimpse of a future we all deserve.
Pop Culture Fix: Megan Rapinoe, Layshia Clarendon, and Billie Jean King Have Had Enough Transphobic Trash
Jo Ellen Pellman covers GALMOUR UK, it’s been 20 years since Bianca came out on All My Children, the teaser for Queen Latifah’s Equalizer, Twenties Star Jojo T. Gibbs’ new project, and more!
Pop Culture Fix: Viola Davis Is Unapologetic About Portraying Ma Rainey’s Queer Sexuality
Also: Batwoman’s season two premiere photos, what even is television, Aubrey Plaza isn’t a “total psychopath,” The Laverne Cox Show, a lesbian couple in OWN’s First Christmas, and more!
The Elf On The Shelf Is A Cop: We Need ‘The Anti-Fascist On The Bookcase’
The Elf on the Shelf as we knew him is dead. We need the Anti-Fascist on the Bookcase.
Also.Also.Also: Congrats to Kate Freeman, Jeopardy’s First Openly Trans Winner, Hereby Crowned Queen of the Lesbian Nerds!
Congratulations to trans lesbian Kate Freeman, making book girls everywhere very proud. Also: an oral history of fashion’s response to the AIDS epidemic and 8 holiday horror movies to stream when you wish 2020 would just end already.
Pop Culture Fix: Shondaland’s “Bridgerton” Is Confirmed Queer (At Least Briefly)
Two days until Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom(!!), Jo Ellen Pellman knew her people were out there, nonbinary TV characters had a landmark year, what ODAAT’s final episodes would have been, Black Swan is a Hanukkah movie(?), and more.
Also.Also.Also: You Deserve a Break, Here’s Some Cute Queer Celebrities and Their Even Cuter Pets
It’s Nancy Meyers Week somewhere in the world! Also: James Baldwin’s magnificent friendships, throples making history, and will 2020 be the year we lost forever?
Pop Culture Fix: “Vida” Showrunner Tanya Saracho Wants “Like a Ton” of Sex in Her New Show, Thank You Very Much
Also! Dickinson’s season two trailer, Ilene Chaiken is finally getting her murder show, we’ll never be over the way ODAAT was treated, and more.
Extra! Extra!: Mourning Brandon Bernard and Casey Goodson Jr
In this week’s Extra! Extra! we discuss some of the recent abuses committed by the criminal justice system, revisit the topic of COVID-19 vaccine authorization (after a robust discussion on this in the comments last week) and look at a few situations unfolding around the world.
Also.Also.Also: The New “Batwoman” Trailer Drop Will Give You Goosebumps on Your Goosebumps
A love letter to queer fan fiction that you don’t want to miss. Also: the legendary Dionne Warwick, giving trans kids everything they want this Christmas, Ellen Degeneres has the Coronavirus, “Black Swan” is now a Hanukkah movie, and are pandemic cats keeping their own secrets?
Pop Culture Fix: Aisha Tyler and Charlize Theron Want to Play Lesbian Wives in a “Die Hard” Remake
Queen Latifah’s got a new thriller coming to Netflix, the Glee cast honors Naya Rivera with a holiday fundraiser, Jules’ Eurphoria special episode is on the way, and you absolutely should watch Viola Davis’ full 60 minutes interview.
Also.Also.Also: “One Day at a Time” Officially Cancelled, We’ll Be Crying Into Our Cafecitos Forever
Water is joining gold and oil in being traded on Wall Street, so that’s bad. Also: an all-Muslim girls’ basketball team is kicking ass and an ad hoc awards show for the weird internet culture of quarantine.
Pop Culture Fix: Clea DuVall Doesn’t Think You’d Leave Your Longterm Girlfriend Either, Even For Aubrey Plaza
A history of Black women in James Bond movies, Mandip Gill would also love to see a Yaz/Thirteen romance on Doctor Who, Hollywood is prepping to sacrifice movie theaters, Queen Latifah’s Equalizer will follow the Super Bowl, and more!