The nonprofit Sundance Institute has shared the names of this year's cohort for the 2026 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Intensive, which takes place online from July 27th–29th: Stella Alfjaro, Autumn Boxley, Song Hà, Emory Chao Johnson, Justice Jamal Jones, and Kevin Xian Ming Yu. This is the fifth year of the intensive, which is designed... Continue Reading →
Queer youth take the mic for award-winning podcast I’m Feeling Queer Today!
A year after the federal crisis line for LGBTQ+ youth went dark, the co-founder of The Trevor Project is betting on another kind of lifeline where queer youth take the mic. Powered by the national nonprofit The Future Perfect Project, the I'm Feeling Queer Today! podcast—hosted and produced by LGBTQ+ young people aged 16-22—returns for... Continue Reading →
OutfestNEXT festival returns to LA August 23-26 – full feature film lineup
Outfest, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit that uplifts LGBTQ+ storytellers in the entertainment industry, will run the second edition of its four-day screening series OutfestNEXT at LA LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza from July 23rd–26th. The lineup includes 19 feature films, plus over 30 shorts, educational workshops, and conversations with filmmakers and the community.... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Heartstopper Forever ★★★★
Charlie: "Everyone thinks teenage relationships don't last." Nick: "I never really thought that about us." Heartwarming and healing, as well as heartwrenching at times, creator-writer Alice Oseman and director Wash Westmoreland deliver a pitch-perfect, tenderly-crafted finale to this beloved series that feels like a hug from your best friend when you need it most. Heartstopper.... Continue Reading →
Ginger Minj to make Broadway Sacramento debut as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray August 21st – 30th
Drag Race Hall of Famer Ginger Minj will make her Broadway Sacramento debut as Edna Turnblad in A Broadway At Music Circus production of Hairspray in a limited run, August 21st - 30th, at the UC Davis Health Pavilion. Tickets are on sale now at broadwaysacramento.com. “To finally play Edna Turnblad is truly a dream... Continue Reading →
Yabu Pushelberg’s “Don’t Stop. Stand Up!” exhibition with UNAIDS continues in NYC through July 18th
Open to the public now through July 18th, international creative design studio Yabu Pushelberg (founded by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg) and UNAIDS' Don’t Stop. Stand Up! exhibition pairs archival and contemporary works that examine queer history across generations, from the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s in New York to the AIDS... Continue Reading →
Book Preview: photographer Michael Joseph’s Wild West of the East – A Portrait of Provincetown
Today, Michael Joseph launches a Kickstarter campaign for his upcoming photography book Wild West of the East: A Portrait of Provincetown, available for pre-order now. Wild West of the East is an ongoing street portrait series by photographer Michael Joseph that celebrates the artistic, egalitarian, and subversive spirit of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Begun in 2018, the... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Suzie Toot’s Suzie with a Z cabaret tour (City Winery, New York) ★★★★
Toot or boot? It's a toot! RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 fan favoruite, crowned that season's LaLaPaRuza winner and the Queen of She Done Already Done Had Herses, Suzie Toot, debuted her latest cabaret show—Suzie with a Z—at New York's City Winery on Wednesday night ahead of a US tour. From the moment she appeared... Continue Reading →
For one night only Madonna’s Club Confessions was the hottest queer club in New York City
On Saturday night, Madonna's Club Confessions NY turned Queens' Knockdown Center into the hottest queer club in New York City. Following her surprise appearance alongside Confessions collaborator Stuart Price at Los Angeles' iconic gay bar The Abbey back in April, the Queen of Pop went on to bring Club Confessions to London and Paris, before... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Tom Aspaul on his dreamy Italo disco-inspired album Moustache part 1 “I didn’t have an agenda. I just wrote some fun, sexy songs & it grew from there”
This month sees moustached British synth-pop king Tom Aspaul follow up three critically acclaimed albums—Black Country Disco, Life in Plastic, and Cabin Fever—with his latest dreamy Italo disco-inspired album, Moustache (Part I). It marks the first chapter in the independent artist's planned trilogy, blending house, club-pop, and euphoric electropop to capture desire in all its... Continue Reading →
