While representation of gay characters in TV series has come a long way in the last couple of decades, it has been a painfully slow process to get to this point. This year, GLAAD’s “Where We Are On TV” report found…
For its 13th season, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” updated its initial words of encouragement to the contestants. For years, RuPaul started each show by saying, “Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman win” (with “woman” emphasized with a…
Manfred Lewin, a Jewish gay couple who “resisted through love”, is being highlighted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1942, when Gad was 19 and Manfred 21, Lewin’s family were classified as Jewish by the Nazis, and were “deported” to “work camps”…
Neel Bate stumbled across his first copy of Bachelor magazine at a Hollywood Boulevard drugstore. It was March 1937, and Bate—a Seattle transplant in his early twenties who worked as an erotic artist—had just come into his sexuality. But…
During Black History Month, the National AIDS Memorial honors Black lives lost to AIDS with a specially curated selection of 56 blocks of the AIDS Memorial Quilt (the Quilt). The exhibition uses the beauty and power of the Quilt to bring…
Pete Buttigieg was approved by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday as transportation secretary with bipartisan support, marking the first time an openly gay person has been confirmed to a Cabinet-level position and a long overdue achievement for the LGBTQ community…
On Martin Luther King Jr Day, we revisit the legendary civil rights leader’s relationship with LGBT+ rights. Dr King’s legacy is towering and complex. He devoted his life to – and was ultimately murdered for – advancing the rights of Black Americans…
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