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A Year After a Gay Bar Was Protested for Racism, Activists Say It Hasn't Changed
Preston Mitchum, who organized protests after a student was reportedly assaulted by a bouncer at Nellie's, said the D.C. bar still needs to repair its relationship with Black LGBTQ people.
Lesbian Women Tell Us How Straight Men Just Can’t Let Them Be
“On my birthday, he gifted me a card that had his thesis on lesbian women – how they must be ‘fixed,’ how they can destabilise the human population, how being lesbian was a disrespect to the nature of a womb.”
Lil Nas X's BET Awards Snub Is a Blow to Black Queer Artists
The BET Awards are helping to exacerbate LGBTQ erasure by upholding many of the same structural blindspots as other award shows.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a New Intern: Far-Right Shitposter Milo Yiannopoulos
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s waging a war on LGBTQ rights, has hired Milo Yiannopoulos, an “ex-gay,” far-right blogger.
‘Fire Island’ Is the Rare Movie Where Effeminate Gay Men Are In On the Joke
In Joel Kim Booster’s new comedy, there’s no such thing as being “too” gay.
What Is Shigella? The STI That Some Don't Even Know They Have
The symptoms caused by this bacteria are all too easy to mistake for something else.
Jussie Smollett’s Defense’s Closing Arguments Were Certainly a Choice
The entirety of Jussie Smollett’s trial for allegedly faking his own attack was punctuated by weirdness. Closing arguments were no different.
Jussie Smollett Testified He Did Drugs and Masturbated With His Attacker
Jussie Smollett’s defense has tried to paint the brothers he’s accused of hiring to attack him as untrustworthy and having a personal vendetta.
Jussie Smollett’s Trial Is Not Going Great
Jussie Smollett is on trial for allegedly faking his own hate crime, and things are not looking good.
Black, Queer, and Looking to Travel? An Expert Shares Her Top Tips on Seeing the World
Khanyisa Mnyaka, author of 'Traveling While Black and Lesbian,' on the best (and worst) places to visit, traveling solo, and why a big city bender is a right of queer passage.
India’s Public Parks Have Played Home to Generations of Queer People. Including Me.
These “queer parks” are iconic for the role they’ve played in the country’s gay liberation movement.