The first time I saw the ’90s cult classic, “Interview with the Vampire,” was the summer before middle school. In the wee hours during a slumber party, my best friend and I tiptoed to the living room, slid the R-rated tape out of its thin, cardboard case, and popped itContinue Reading
Carly Rae Jepsen is embracing a new chapter. On Thursday, the Grammy-nominated pop favorite released “After All,” the latest preview of her upcoming double album Day and Night. The shimmering new track explores love through a deeply personal lens, with Jepsen drawing inspiration from reflections on motherhood, identity and theContinue Reading
When Olivia Dean stepped onto the Crypto.com Arena stage for the first of two sold-out Los Angeles shows, it was clear she had arrived at a new chapter in her career. The British singer has quickly evolved from a rising talent into one of music’s most captivating new voices, andContinue Reading
Today on the site I”m pleased to welcome Norena Shopland, author of My Love All Love Excels, the biography of Katherine Philips: the seventeenth-century Welsh poet whose love for two women dominated her life. Before we get to the post, here’s a little more info on the book: Katherine Philips: theContinue Reading
The University of Kansas has sent a trans employee a legal notice for using the women’s restrooms on campus. Siobhán Kirchstein, who works as a janitor for the Kansas Geological Survey at the university, told the Lawrence Times on 13 July that she received an email from Katie Verner, theContinue Reading
As Idaho’s new criminal bathroom law begins taking effect, transgender residents are turning to one another for something many people rarely have to think about: where it’s safe to use the restroom. In response to House Bill 752, a new crowdsourced online map is helping transgender and gender-diverse Idahoans locateContinue Reading
Drag superstar Ginger Minj is stepping into one of musical theater’s most iconic roles. The RuPaul’s Drag Race champion will make her Broadway Sacramento debut as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray , with performances running August 21-30 at the UC Davis Health Pavilion. Produced by Broadway At Music Circus, the limitedContinue Reading
Caleb Shomo, lead singer of the rock band Beartooth, and his wife Fleur Shomo have jointly filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage. The New York Post’s Page Six broke news of the split Wednesday, though Fleur Shomo had alluded to her dissolution of her marriage in a MayContinue Reading
I couldn’t have been more than 19 years old when, as a happy-go-lucky UCLA student, I looked down at my penis and decided I was dying. Cancer, I thought, noticing small red bumps at the tip of my penis. Since I wasn’t having sex with anyone — not for lackContinue Reading
Frankie Grande says writing his memoir Supergay helped him make sense of something he had struggled to understand for years. Speaking with Tracy E. Gilchrist backstage at Titanique on Broadway, Grande explained that the memoir is structured around superheroes, with each chapter exploring a different “superpower” he discovered throughout hisContinue Reading
For one day during Provincetown‘s annual Bear Week, queer history and modern cruising culture came together on Commercial Street. On July 13, Sniffies partnered with the Tom of Finland Foundation for its first Provincetown activation, celebrating one of the country’s largest gatherings of bears with exclusive merchandise, community programming andContinue Reading
For Rosslyn Luke, sharing the screen with Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller in James Gray’s Paper Tiger could have easily been an intimidating experience. Instead, it became a reminder that success in Hollywood isn’t just measured by talent or accolades. It’s also about how you treat the peopleContinue Reading
Dry your eyes, because we have some very good news after BBC’s I Kissed A Girl has come to an end. While queer people around the country are mourning the loss of the show, which was axed in March, there is some happiness to come out of it. The lastContinue Reading