“When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free.” —Barack Obama
Noteworthy
- NYC queer film NewFest runs through October 27 · Watch
- 400+ Duncan Grant homoerotic drawings rediscovered · Read
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells RuPaul about his ancestors · Watch
- Christopher Makos on making dirty art in a pandemic · Read
- Hunter Kelly country music show debuts on Proud Radio · Listen
- James Beard’s delicious gay life, by John Birdsall · Read
- Chalamet Dune release postponed until October 2021 · Read
- George Takei and gays reclaim #ProudBoys hashtag · Read
- Keith Haring’s art collection sells for $4.6 million · Read
- James Baldwin talks about voting rights in Alabama in 1963 · Read
- Josh Nadeau reflects on Russia’s first queer biennale · Read
- New Boys in the Band cast interviewed by Radio Times · Read
- Will Rimbaud and Verlaine’s bodies go to Pantheon? · Read
- Why are so many English conservatives gay? · Read
- “Y.M.C.A.” not about gay sex, says Victor Willis · Read
- Schitt’s Creek sweeps Emmys amid movie rumors · Watch · Read
- Country Queers podcast features rural LGBTQ stories · Listen
- Gene Kelly wasn’t gay—seriously?!? · Watch
- Gardner Museum offers virtual tours of Boston’s Apollo · View
- Timothée Chalamet stars in new Dune trailer · Watch
- RuPaul’s crazy rules · Watch
- Bram Stoker’s “love letter” to Walt Whitman · Read
- George Michael piano tribute: Faith by Scott Bradlee · Watch
- Gore Vidal “never forgave the man who called him queer” · Read
- John Cheever’s gay longings—and his god · Read
- Quentin Crisp is inimitable in Homo Heights · Watch
- Speedos are “back in.” Were they ever out, though? · Read
- Cher soloes West Side Story in
12 min 45 sec · Watch - Edmund White shares his pandemic reading list · Read
- John Waters says gay people can’t whistle—for real? · Read
- The Village People still sing “gay ecstasy” for Jack King · Read
- Bette Midler’s 1971 concert at the Continental Baths · Watch
- Andy Warhol’s affair with John Giorno, as told by Giorno · Read
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News & Politics
- Get up-to-date voting info at IWillVote.com
- Amy Coney Barrett lies, stumbles on “sexual preference” · Read
- More than 500 LGBTQ candidates on ballots this election · Read
- State Dept. loses third case re gay couples’ children · Read
- Limited-edition rainbow Oreos released; hate groups fume · Read
- Thomas & Alito invite challenges to marriage equality ruling · Read
- First presidential debate doesn’t address gay rights at all · Read
- Trump’s SCOTUS pick a real “threat to LGBTQ rights” · Read
- Chicago’s Boystown renames itself Northalsted · Read
- “U.S. joins...dictatorships seeking to sabotage human rights” · Read
- TikTok apologizes but won’t stop censoring LGBTQ content · Read
- Biden & EU president condemn Polish LGBT-free zones · Read
- Pope says God loves gay children “as they are” · Read
- Feds should end ban on organ donation by gay men · Read
- Jennifer Finney Boylan on why it’s important for LGBTQ folks to register—and vote · Read
- Pompeo pushes anti-LGBTQ agenda at United Nations · Read
- Putin orders teachers to report queer students to gov’t · Read
- Republican convention fails to mention LGBTQ rights · Read
- Chasten Buttigieg talks about coming out · Watch
- Federal courts pause new anti-LGBTQ health care rules · Read
- What another 4 years of Trump could mean for LGBTQs · Read
- Biden chooses LGBTQ ally Kamala Harris as running mate · Read
- Thousands march as queers flee Poland · Read 1 · Read 2
- Democrats promise action on LGBTQ and race equality · Read
- Black Lives Matter is about queer lives too · Read
- Joe Biden has supported gay marriage since 2012 · Read