Biden Off to Running Start
Plus John Waters on “Finding Your Roots,” Dr. Martens x Keith Haring footwear, David Hockney’s drawings, James Baldwin’s play list on Spotify, and lots of gay photography... >> Read More >>
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“Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or whom they love.” —Joe Biden (2021)
Noteworthy
- John Waters learns his history on Finding Your Roots · Biography · and shares his wisdom in Mr. Know-It-All · Essays
- Dr. Martens x Keith Haring Oxfords are fab, but scarce · Style
- David Hockney: Drawing from Life on view at the Morgan · Art
- Eclectic queer collection edited by Wolbergs & Klos · Photography
- Karsten Thormaehlen moves with sensitive portraits of gay seniors · Photography
- James Baldwin’s fab record collection now on Spotify · Music
- Remember Will Self’s gender-bending Cock & Bull? · Fiction
- Tom of Finland erotic art contest winners named (NSFW) · Art
- Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous to be a movie · Fiction
- Stagy colorful queer portraits by Magnus Hastings · Photography
- RuPaul talks Drag Race 13 with Stephen Colbert · Pop Culture
- John D’Emilio chronicles Chicago’s Queer Legacies · History
- “Le Cockachief” is a bandanna, in case you wondered · Style
- David Bowie’s “Lazarus” is pandemically prescient · Music
- “Straight males of Reddit, what’s the gayest thing you’ve ever done?” (NSFW) · Pop Culture
- The Prophet is a love story about two enslaved gay men in the antebellum South · Fiction
- New Cary Grant bio rehashes Randolph Scott “friendship” · Biography
- Keith Haring’s life retold in WGBH documentary · Film
- The Pink Line offers a global take on LGBTQ issues · History
- Eric Rhein’s Lifelines documents AIDS in photos & sculpture · Art
- It’s a Sin: New drama about the AIDS years in London · Interview
- James Beard retold in The Man Who Ate Too Much · Biography
- New Orleans’ Up Stairs Lounge fire remembered · History
- Canandian queer life documented in Out North · History
- Was Dennis Cooper a modern Genet or Rimbaud? · Biography
- Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness is “incandescent” · Fiction
- Bert & Ernie—“friends” or “roommates”? · Pop Culture
- William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll · Biography
- Princess Margaret: Is she a gay icon? · Pop Culture
- Andy Warhol drew male beauty like none other · Art
- Loving shows vintage images of men in love · Photography
- Bryan Washington’s Memorial hits the shelves · Fiction
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News & Politics
- Biden orders federal agencies to enforce Bostock v. Clayton · Read
- Biden ends ban on transgender military service · Read
- U.S. embassies again permitted to fly rainbow flag · Read
- Randy Rainbow presents “Seasons of Trump” · Watch
- Cicellene to serve as House impeachement manager · Read
- Magician Siegfried dead at 81; Roy died last year · Read
- Ghanaian vigilantes hunt gays with machetes · Read
- Malaysia wants stiffer penalties for LGBTQ “crimes” · Read
- Hungary orders “disclaimers for books with gay themes” · Read
- LGBTQ rights groups back Trump impeachment · Read
- Freemuse documents How LGBTI Freedom of Artistic Expression Is Denied worldwide · Read
- Gay literature and censorship in Russia · Read
- “When Dakar was the ‘gay capital’ of West Africa” · Listen
- Gay partygoers sidestep COVID restrictions in Mexico; party boat sinks · Read
- Pierre Cardin dead at 98 · Read
- Record 334 LGBTQ candidates elected to office in 2020 · Read
- SCOTUS says Indiana must list both same-sex parents on birth certificates · Read
- Archbishop Tutu and 400+ religious leaders sign letter in favor of LGBTQ equality · Read
- Gay teen suspended for wearing nail polish to school · Read
- 39 U.S. states still allow “gay panic” defense · Read
- Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes surged under Trump · Read
- SCOTUS could expand religious right to discriminate · Read
- EU unveils new plan to combat homophobia & transphobia · Read
- 61% of U.S. Catholics support same-sex marriage · Read
- 69% of U.S. LGBTQ students experience harrassment · Read
- Thomas & Alito invite challenges to marriage equality ruling · Read
- Pope says God loves gay children “as they are” · Read