Art, fitness… God? Get a taste of all the above when you cap off Pride Month with these events. After all, some introspection, mimosas and a good workout — yes, we’ve got you covered — [...]
“Love, Victor,” now in its second season, refuses to navigate coming out as simply a one-note experience. The gay teen-romance, a series spinoff of the groundbreaking “Love, Simon” feature film, launched its debut season last [...]
Jonathan Skurnik: The Director Back in the 1970s, as a gender-fluid kid who painted his toenails and played with dolls, Jonathan Skurnik was bullied in school. Still, Skurnik’s parents never discouraged his behavior, and he [...]
Seven years before Greyson Chance came out in 2017 in an open-hearted and emotional Instagram post, he became a viral sensation thanks to Ellen DeGeneres. The year was 2010 when Chance’s profile rocketed after appearing [...]
Finding LGBTQ+ books used to be a challenge. You couldn’t just Google “lesbian romance novels” or “books with trans characters.” But now, luckily, that’s no longer the case. Especially with Pride season in full swing. [...]
Jamal Jordan traveled all over the world while making “Queer Love In Color,” a book of photos and essays. But one place was particularly notable: Detroit. “All the couples in Detroit were very cool for [...]
It’s hard enough finding a role model and road map for life as a marginalized individual. Chella Man already knows this, of course. The artist, actor, model and activist is deaf, genderqueer, Jewish, half-Chinese and [...]
FERNDALE — What do you get when you combine The Ringwald — a theater with a mission to give voice to LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people — Theatre NOVA — a theater dedicated to showcasing [...]
Leyna Bloom made a splash this year for being the first Black and Asian openly trans woman to be featured in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, out in July. But even before reaching that [...]
Courtney Craven was napping in the bedroom when their partner Susan Banks — in the living room playing a video game — suffered a massive stroke and died. The couple had recently launched “Can I Play [...]
The Detroit Experience Factory is presenting a virtual tour tonight called LGBTQ+ Detroit: Past & Present. “The LGBTQ community in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs has been ever present and strong,” reads the introduction on [...]
Singer and actor Demi Lovato, who in March announced they were pansexual, has now come out as nonbinary in a post to Instagram. Lovato will now use the pronouns they and them. “I am proud [...]
Social media maven Chrissy Teigen is “mortified and sad” at who she used to be, according to multiple tweets she sent after being called out by Courtney Stodden for comments she made when the model [...]
Across 1 Sound like a spinning top 5 Taye, the "Black Clark Gable" 10 Obscene four-letter word 14 Frequent online claim 15 ___ Gay 16 Field of study 17 Starting from 18 Cutter of leaves [...]
This interview contains some spoilers for Season 2 of Netflix‘s "Special." A gay man with cerebral palsy. You won’t find that kind of important representation just any time you flick on the TV, which [...]
Lesbian icon and all-around funny lady Ellen DeGeneres has announced she is walking away from her popular daily talk show, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," next year. Over the past 18 seasons, Ellen has done well [...]
Listen, queers, we know you’ve been thirsty for a Hot Gay Summer™ since the one that didn’t happen in 2020. While I can’t promise you that you’ll be able to safely flaunt those quarantine cakes [...]
A new exhibition titled "Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity" has opened at the Flint Institute of Arts. The exhibition, which features photos from the Jack B. Pierson Print Collection, was originally scheduled for [...]
The pandemic has either delayed or entirely canceled most events across the state, but right now you can still take in an art exhibit or two. You could go on an interactive mystery adventure with [...]
Lev Raphael has done it again. Known as a literary voice who often weaves his Jewish heritage and his LGBTQ+ identity into bestsellers, Raphael has written 27 books to date, ranging in genre from literary [...]
Across 1 One of the Three Bears 5 Puts it to 9 Peters out 13 “East of Eden” brother 14 Warm to a come-on 15 Kind of stimulation 16 Go on and on 17 Georgia [...]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when that picture comes from a carefully crafted photo shoot, you can bet the result is a combination of at least a thousand ideas, [...]
Are Alaska Thunderfuck’s filthy jokes about Jeffrey Epstein, “genderfluids,” labia and poop too much for our world on fire? Alaska, even though she has a song called “Anus,” thought maybe they were. She wasn’t sure [...]
Listen, you don’t need some pretentious glob about spring being intrinsically linked to change and growth from me. Still, staring at my vaccine card and counting the days in between shots one and two, this [...]
She may have been born in Georgia, but Sutton Foster, star of the TV Land and Paramount+ original series “Younger,” is a Michigan girl at heart. “I owe a lot to Michigan,” she said recently [...]
Yes, the fabulously, flamboyantly gay Lil Nas X is atop the pop charts with his single "MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)" in Saudi Arabia, a country where homosexuality or “cross-dressing” is punishable by fines, [...]
Across 1 Poet Gidlow 5 "Sodomy" musical 9 Heroic tales 14 Anderson Cooper's area 15 “All ___ “ (1984 Tomlin film) 16 Almost ready for the tooth fairy 17 Hopeless cases for Dr. Torres 18 [...]
When “Younger” debuts its seventh and final season on April 15 on Paramount +, Nico Tortorella’s Josh will have left his mark on masculinity, says the queer nonbinary actor and activist. “Josh is a straight [...]
After a couple years of rumbling maybes, there’s a new “Queer as Folk” on the way, with an eight-episode, straight-to-series order from NBC’s streaming service Peacock. The “reimagining” is from “Little America” creator Stephen Dunn, [...]
For six seasons, queer nonbinary actor, activist and author Nico Tortorella has starred as Josh, the delightfully brooding (straight) tattoo artist, on super-queer TV Land dramedy “Younger.” Created, executive produced and written by openly gay [...]
Last summer, Justice Smith wasn’t coming out but, instead, making a statement in solidarity with the Black trans and queer community. On Instagram, the 25-year-old actor posted a video while attending a protest against white [...]
It’s the early 1970s in the U.S. There is an energy crisis with long lines at gas pumps, fuel rationing and station owners posting signs declaring that they’re “bone dry.” All this at a time [...]
To know dodie is to really know her. Since 2011, the British singer-songwriter’s diary-wide-open authenticity has drawn millions of fans to her YouTube channel doddleoddle and its sister channel, doddlevloggle. Those faithful fans — she [...]
Across 1 Six feet under 5 Beginning of “Wicked” 9 Foster 14 Art Deco name 15 “Brothers & Sisters” matriarch 16 Ketchup catcher 17 Palindromic time 18 Like a muscle Mary's waist 19 George of [...]
Across 1 Irene who played Coco in “Fame” 5 S&M reminders 10 XXX, in Greek porn? 14 Give ___ to (approve) 15 Easily screwed 16 Trent of Mississippi 17 Circumcision, for one 18 Take steps [...]
Fortune Feimster’s mouth has been going and going and going. “I talk a lot right now,” says the Southern comedian who hails from North Carolina, coughing and clearing her throat as we – that’s right [...]
Queer books by women have saved my life. They’ve given me language with which to articulate a self, enabled me both to understand history in a way that makes sense to me, and to find [...]
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is going online March 23-28 for its 59th edition showcasing experimental works. But 2021 also marks the 20th anniversary of its LGBTQ-focused program “Out Night," coming to you virtually on [...]
Model and actress Dominique Jackson can’t say a thing about the third and final season of one of the most groundbreaking LGBTQ+ series ever made. It’s mid February when we connect, just weeks before it [...]
Were you hoping that one day Billy Eichner would get the big-screen debut he deserves? That it would be super gay? And that a major studio would distribute it? Hope no more! Eichner is starring [...]
Across 1 What's in the stallion's mouth 5 Chiwetel Ejiofor's “Kinky ___” 10 IML winner's accessory 14 “M. Butterfly” star John 15 Dana of “MacGyver” 16 Heterogeneous mixture 17 With 37-Across, Layshia Clarendon's comment on [...]
On Friday, March 5, Jad Abumrad, the host and creator of “Dolly Parton’s America” and “Radiolab,” a public radio program broadcast on nearly 600 stations across the nation and downloaded more than 12 million times [...]
For Angelica Ross, her short time on “Pose” wasn’t an end — it was a beginning. After famously portraying Candy Ferocity on the FX series, which depicts New York City ball culture, Ross starred in [...]
Whether it's about beauty, relationships, or one of Detroit's up-and-coming entrepreneurs, Miss Mouthy is her name and on her podcast, she'll talk about it all. But as existing fans know, "Miss Mouthy" goes deeper than [...]
On Jan. 6 when the United States Capitol was being attacked by terrorists, Crys Matthews, who calls D.C. home, was in the recording studio in Bethesda, Maryland. Close, but a safe distance from the violence. [...]
Generally, the broad cultural and communicational divides that exist between elders and younger generations are seen as inevitable. And while that may be true to an extent, there are lived experiences that link all people [...]
