As the federal occupation continues, community members are committing themselves to standing up to the feds while supporting the state’s immigrant communities in any way possible.
The first out queer woman Olympic figure skater, the first openly trans athlete competing in the Winter games, a real-life Heated Rivalry hockey couple and more.
The argument that trans-exclusion keeps athletics “honest and fair” is just another boogeyman thrown up to make trans erasure from public life easier and quicker.
New seasons of ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer,’ a Japanese film about a trans icon, a new Keke Palmer sitcom wherein lesbian Paula Pell plays a lesbian,…
Fanfiction, erotica, and romance allow fans and creators to escape reality and enter into fantasy, to hope for a version of a better world. Perhaps Heated Rivalry generates so much…
“Fucktoys came out of wanting to write myself a job where a brown girl could be an ingénue, could be an object of desire, could be slutty, could be liberated.”
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