“I would love to represent because we know that there are tons of people who experience something like that and it’s not comical for them in their lives—what they are going through that we are representing.”

Johnny Weir finally comes out / wants the world to know that he’s a big queer/has a new book coming out, James Franco is totally cool with you thinking he’s gay, Lady Gaga performs “Someone to Watch Over Me” and the People’s Choice Awards were so gay last night.

The AFTAH is concerned about gay people and airport security, namely, that Ellen DeGeneres will be assigned to pat down female travelers. Also: the first transgender judge in the US was just elected, and the age for coming out in Britain is getting younger.

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that built the community we hold so dear.

Specialists in the ethical porn space discuss how they navigate bringing something new, inclusive, and beautifully queer to a contentious industry.

Kathryn Gallgher talks about starring in the new play All Nighter, written by her best friend, and co-starring Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Alyah Chanelle Scott.

This is the power of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Founded in the throes of the Gay Liberation Movement, the company runs on the freedom of self-expression and, of course, a love of ballet.

“As a trans woman, lesbian is about how I understand my gender as completely separate from men. I don’t ascribe my gender to perform for men. It gives me space to say that my attraction and my identity exists outside the bounds of what a man finds desirable.”

Check out the first chapter of On Her Terms, a sapphic rom-com with a fake relationship plot.

No matter the point of the movie, the training montage is a moment of unabashed euphoria: Here’s our “hero” (or “heroes”) doing what it takes to attempt to beat the odds.

It’s not just that these narratives are harmful. It’s that they’re boring.

I’m giving myself until the end of 2024 to watch all of Riverdale — and you’re going to watch it with me.

It’s an incredible time be a queer cinephile. A list of the best queer movies of 2023 is basically just a list of the best movies period.

“Does Elliot Page give me notes? Elliot has not given me any notes but I would be open to hearing them.”

“I was always bisexual. Even in college, I dated a man and a woman at the same time, and they knew about each other.”

When I was in fourth grade, I got in trouble for discussing how fast my body would decompose if I was stabbed.

“I could start a Youtube channel or a blog about disability rights and monetize it. FUCK. I don’t know how to turn it off.”

Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.

Plus updates on Station 19, All American, Fantasy Island, The Power, Saint X, Good Trouble, and NCIS: Hawai’i.

You have 48 hours to cast your ballot in the Opposites Attract Region. We’ll return next week with one final first round of voting in the Friends to Lovers region.