“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became…
“I think it’s cool that people now know a little bit more about me and know that the person who is playing these characters is also living this lifestyle.”
We’ve got new seasons of Heartstopper, Lincoln Lawyer, Tracker, and Lioness; two power lesbians in the Real Housewives of New York, a docuseries about the lesbian Grey’s Anatomy writer who…
“Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a single mother. I had no money or resources outside of my deeply evangelical family, the…
189 TV shows with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans women characters only got one season to shine before getting cancelled — including another three just this week. Here are just…
The backlash against trans people in recent years has no doubt left many of us feeling as if there will never be relief from the constant antagonism and legislative damnation.…
Growing up in rural Guilford County, North Carolina, poet and essayist Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers dreamed of escaping, of one day leaving behind the “cow-dotted” fields of her hometown and arriving…
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