German character actor Udo Kier is on camera holding old prints of press photos from his previous films over his face like a Halloween mask. He jokes that if a journalist dare ask a terrible [...]
What did the first run of “The L Word” get wrong? It’s a question that was posed to veteran stars Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig on Zoom one recent afternoon. “Haircuts!” Hailey, [...]
It takes a preternaturally confident kid to read a homophobic slur about themselves and think, “Oh my god, people are talking about me.” Especially while standing at a urinal in a Catholic elementary school. But [...]
Davon Fleming is a vocal force to be reckoned with. Since becoming a semi-finalist on season 13 of "The Voice," Fleming has been touring as a backing vocalist with his "Voice" coach, Jennifer Hudson. He has [...]
Between sips of White Claw or while sweeping cicadas off of your patio, you’ll want to turn up your speakers to some of our favorite rising LGBTQ+ musicians — and a few allies — that [...]
For those of us who love live music — and for those employed by the concert industry — the wait for in-person shows has been very, very long. Here are some much-anticipated live shows featuring [...]
You won’t find musician John Grant’s new autobiography on the bookstore shelves or via ebook platforms. It’s not that kind of autobiography. Instead, Grant’s memoir, “Boy From Michigan,” is a purely audio experience. A melodic, [...]
Phil Graziadei, the openly gay screenwriter behind Netflix’s new queer-inclusive film trilogy based on spook master R.L. Stine’s classic “Fear Street” series, remembers those teen horror-fiction books well. And he definitely remembers them not being [...]
Everyone thinks they know Siena Liggins. Originally from Saginaw but currently living in Atlanta — the 27-year-old artist has lived all over, really, including North Carolina — Liggins gets a lot of this in her [...]
Todrick Hall is serving bitch but making it, as he says on his latest record, fashòn. The album’s title, “Femuline,'' is exactly as it seems: the blending of feminine and masculine attributes to create a [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After years of collaborating on shorts films around the East coast, filmmakers André Phillips and Charles Vuolo shared a gut feeling: they were both ready to make a feature-length production. But they weren’t sure what [...]
A farmer’s wife, the grieving Abigail, and her neighbor, the free-spirited Tallie, can’t quit each other in the queer 19-century romance “The World to Come.” The women, both unhappily married to men, form an intimate [...]
Talk about trans inclusion. A film festival darling, “Lupe,” centers the story of a Cuban immigrant and boxer named Rafael (San Francisco-based Puerto Rican actor Rafael Albarrán) struggling with their transgender identity while searching for [...]
Three years after the Pale Waves’ breakout album “My Mind Makes Noises,” the band is back bolder and gayer than ever with “Who Am I?” On tracks like “She’s My Religion,” “Easy,” and “You Don’t [...]
Latrice Royale is not your typical drag queen. Standing at 6-foot-4–inches tall (seven feet in heels and hair), this “large and in charge, chunky yet funky” diva is the big girl with the even bigger [...]
It’d be easy to assume that Jesi Taylor Cruz's lifelong dream was to be a part of the fashion industry. After all, they’ve modeled for Vogue and been featured in Allure and Glamour. But the [...]
“Where should I be looking? There? Or there?” His face smothering the camera as he wonders where his eyes should be, Leslie Jordan is settling into our video interview like it could be a comic [...]
It's all in the name. "Weirdo Night" is a variety show comprising stand-up, music, performance art and the straight-up bizarre that the Los Angeles community has been returning to night after night since it started [...]
Stanley Tucci has survived the icy death stare of Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly and told Cher to her face that she looks like a drag queen. Aside from starring as the queer second-in-command next to [...]
American films about queerness, Islam and Arab identity are relatively rare. Rarer still are ones that don’t treat these two identities’ overlap as a social or personal problem to be solved: an implicit tension fraught [...]
When Michigan native Lauren Lyon sat down at a Colorado drag queen bingo event just over two years ago, she was eager to get to know the local LGBTQ community a little better. She started [...]
Virtual screenings and collaborative showings with partner organizations across the country allowed home audiences to enjoy Sundance Film Festival’s elevated and celebrated independent films – for $15 a pop streaming via Sundance’s online portal - [...]
While everyone's upbringing is different, we can all think back to our most formative moments. More likely than not, those memories come from our adolescence, when we experienced a heightened version of reality — like [...]
Sundance’s slate of queer films has grown steadily over the years, as has the scale of the increasingly star-studded festival itself. At its founding in 1985, it wasn’t the first festival to heavily feature queer-focused [...]
