Featuring: Ben Jodway (The Buckeye Flame), Zackory Kirk (Three Plus One Media) and Diane Anderson-Minshall (GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics)

Christopher Satch isn’t just popular with plants—he has droves of lesbian fans.

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When Jerrod Carmichael arrived at the Emmys this year, he sported an absurdly large, open-chested fur coat. Historically at events, the comedian has worn variations of a black suit to be “a little less conspicuous.” But on this recent red carpet,…

It’s almost impossible to not be mesmerized by Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, when she’s at the podium. Fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole, Jean-Pierre is as swift with retorts as Rachel Maddow, but without the…

I was in my 30s when I went on my first cruise, an (almost) all-lesbian cruise with Olivia Travel, and it changed my life — in part because the women I met for whom the cruise served as an annual lifeline in their normally semi-closeted lives back…

When Sarah Carson launched Leota, a 10-year old inclusive fashion brand, the queer founder wondered if being open about “being an inclusive, LGBTQ-owned brand” was “worth the risk of potentially losing customers?” She’d been out personally since she…

Virgin reinvents cruising for Gen Xers and beyond. In 1982, I spent every afternoon playing video games — back when we had to stand at a giant console shoving quarter after quarter into a machine. Just like with the pool table, if you wanted to play,…

Imagine you’re a 27-year-old Korean-American gay man raised by a white evangelical family in Plainfield, Illinois, a town of then about 5,000 people, and you’ve hit New York’s famed (and pricey) Fire Island for the first time. One of the Northeast’s…

When Andaz Mayakoba Resort opened in Mexico’s Riviera Maya in late 2016, it immediately became a hot wedding destination for same-sex couples. The acclaimed, gated Caribbean beachfront eco-resort (just north of Playa del Carmen) is situated on 590…

In the rollicking memoir, Eli's Coming, a gay boy from Louisiana with Greek heritage that dates to ancient Sparta ends up in New York City’s underground in the 1970s. Later, there’s an ashram in India, a sociopathic boyfriend, a dead body, and a lot…

In my world, Christmas is for the nieces and nephews. February is when I get the gifts I really want — for myself. And though they shipped from Italy during the slow-down, the wait for my new prescription Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses was well worth…

There’s always a current in water, even in a placid pond. Bodies of water have movement, a kind of a pulse, even if it’s not visible on the surface. Water people know this. Think back to the first time you floated in a pool as a kid, leaning back and…

While America — and most of the world — was glued to Who Killed Sara? on Netflix earlier this year, actor Polo Morín was basking in the success of being the first of his generation to both come out, play a gay character, and become a household name…

It’s a rare memoir in which one can see themselves — a small-town farm slut turned big city queer journalist, for example — but also constantly pause at the unflinching and powerful way an author recounts their personal journey. Alexander Cheves has…

Photo by Wynne Neilly While a number of out transmasculine people have helped pave a path politically (from Lou Sullivan to Jamison Green) and on the TV screen (from Scott Turner Schofield to Chaz Bono), it’s not hyperbole to say that no actor has…

The character of Callie Torres from ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy has garnered legions of fans throughout the years for bringing much-needed bisexual representation to the TV landscape. Among them is the actor who gave life to her, Sara Ramirez. “Prior to…

Just say the word, I keep thinking. I have been waiting over a decade to hear Chloë Grace Moretz say the phrase, “I am queer.” I’m not trying to out her. And trust me, I’m not one of those pervs with their gross countdown clocks waiting to see when a…

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