On the heels of a hugely successful promo and event sponsorship tour this spring across the U.S. and Europe, Dominic Ford of JustFor.fans (JFF) reports an 18% surge in fan subscriptions – as well as a 15% jump in creator signups – since April 1st.
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More youth of color experience hunger than their white peers
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds 20% of LGBT high school students—an estimated 371,000 youth—experienced hunger last month because there was not enough food …
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Large majorities of U.S. adults oppose denying medical care, employment, and business services to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs, according to a new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and NORC at the University of Chicago…
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In 1992 Disney’s Aladdin captured the imagination of an entire generation. The 2019 Live Action film introduced a new generation of families. Since 2011 Aladdin has been a stage musical, which finally explodes from the lamp in Calgary until July 23rd a…
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By Les K. Wright
One evening, a guy asked me if I wanted to go to the Central Arms. He explained it was a gay bar, and “with your good looks you’ll be popular.”
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By Gregory Walters
While the attraction to live in gay neighborhoods—West Hollywood, the Castro, Boystown, Chelsea—is less than it used to be, LGBTQ people still gravitate to urban areas and states where we can live more and fight less.
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By John Burbidge
While Of An Age doesn’t quite compare to Holding The Man and other Australian LGBTQ+ movies, it does have moments that draw you in and help you remember, “I’ve been there” or “I wish I‘d been there.”
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By Aila Boyd
The Blue Ridge Lambda Press was one of several LGBTQ+ newsletters produced in the area between the 1970s and early 2010s. The press grew out of the Blue Ridge Lambda Alliance, which formed around 1980 in Lynchburg—the home base of televang…
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By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
As a writer, my characters’ queerness is always as central to their stories as their Blackness, their gender, or their size. For me, this is what it means to create full characters: they have multiple facets, live in multiple …
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By Suzaan Boettger
But here is my difference: I have a library within a library, and it replicates my subject’s. Reading books that were in Smithson’s collection revealed characteristics he had kept under cover.
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It seems incredibly appropriate that our interview with Darcy Michael and Jeremy Baer, the Vancouver area couple whose comedic videos have exploded on TikTok and other social media is from their bed in a hotel room in Minneapolis, where they appeared a…
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Pride Month celebrates and honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan each June. The Stonewall Uprising was monumental for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. Pride Month celebrates everyone who champions LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bise…
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By Mike Maimone
Music has always been cathartic for me, but in this one area, I felt blocked from releasing anxieties via artistic expression. Although I was out, I felt stuck in a different closet. All that changed when I met Howard.
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50 States, 50 Grants, 5000 Voices program, supported by American Eagle and Aerie, will fund efforts to uplift and empower LGBTQ+ students at 71 schools across the U.S. and Canada
It Gets Better, the world’s largest storytelling effort to uplift LGBTQ+…
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By Frank Perez
Today, despite a major paradigm shift in public attitudes toward homosexuality and the criminalization of Exodus-type ministries in many states, conversion therapy stubbornly persists.
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