Texas Gov. High Off His Own Supply of ‘Politically Motivated Misinformation’
Texas and Florida continue competing in their race to be named The Worst State in the U.S. It’s an absolutely exhausting display of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, [...]
LGBTQ+ Books Helped Me Come Out and Banning Them Won’t Stop Today’s Youth From Being Who They Are
Books by and for LGBTQ+ people, and in particular LGBTQ+ youth, are under attack across the country. In states such as Texas, a single parent need only complain [...]
Florida Rep Wants to 'Protect' LGBTQ+ Kids by Outing Them to Parents, Family
As I write this, my 12-year-old son is in Florida spending time with his grandparents over a school break. It’s good for him to see his grandparents and [...]
LGBTQ+ Content Bans Offer Shelter for Fragile Conservatives
Remember when Donald Trump won the 2016 election and his supporters called Hillary Clinton voters sore losers for their outrage and disgust? And then, when [...]
Revisiting ‘Shortbus’: How John Cameron Mitchell Used Unsimulated Sex to Make Striking Bush-Era Social Statements
“Let’s face it: monogamy’s for straight people,” says Jamie (PJ DeBoy) in one early moment in John Cameron Michell’s [...]
How Entertainment Weekly Changed My Life as a Gay Kid and Led Me to Become a Journalist
You wouldn’t be reading this right now if it weren’t for Entertainment Weekly. EW is why I became a journalist. This fact only makes it stranger, [...]
Florida Governor as U.S. Nears One Million Covid Deaths: They/Them Pronouns Are the Real Killer
As I write this, COVID-19 has killed over 900,000 people in the United States.It’s a hell of a number. 900,000 deaths in just a couple of years, and [...]
Let's All Read 'Maus' and Punch Nazis in the Figurative Face at the Literal Ballot Box
Great news, everyone! “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust, is a bestseller 30 years after it was first published! In [...]
The Ghost Of My Dad Possessed Joe Biden (and Matt Gaetz Is A Stupid S.O.B.)
A wise man once said, “What a stupid son of a bitch.” And that wise man was President Joe Biden, talking about Fox News White House correspondent [...]
Dutch Scientists Sound Alarm About Groundhog-Sexual Day
Something to chuckle over...Groundhog Day is once more here. It’s that time of the turncoat season when this rodentia relative of the woodchuck checks out [...]
Voting Rights Are LGBTQ+ Rights': Our Commitment to Equitable LGBTQ+ Rep
Dear reader:Without free and independent media, Pride Source (and its print publication, Between The Lines) wouldn’t exist, and a community would go [...]
I’m Not Mad … I’m Disappointed in Jussie Smollett: On the Cultural Ramifications of a Staged Hate Crime
I rarely watch television. My demanding job is equivalent to a reality television show, so most evening broadcasts hardly entertain me. But there was a time on [...]
