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newsMiss North Carolina USA Lost Her Crown as Miss USA Condemned 'Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia'
Miss USA's chief executive named three categories of conduct and never specified what she had done. Two days later, Brittany Boltinhouse said she believes she lost the title over her politics and her faith.
entertainmentRyan Murphy's 'The Shards' Is Explicitly Gay, and Critics Are Divided on It
A closeted 17-year-old narrator, a serial killer and 1981 Los Angeles. Here is what is actually in it, and an honest account of a reception that runs from rave to write-off.
travelThe Best US Cities for Gay Men Over 40
Forget the circuit-party rankings. Here's where gay life over 40 actually works — measured by community you can join, housing you can afford, and bars where you won't be the oldest guy in the room.
cultureWhy Do Gay Men Have a "Gay Voice"? It's Not the High Pitch — It's the S
Linguists have been measuring this since the 1960s. The high-voice half of the stereotype keeps failing to show up in the data. The S is a different story.
newsNew York Has a Bill to Fully Legalize Gay Bathhouses. Simone: 'It's 2026, not 1986.'
Two out lawmakers want to undo a 1985 emergency rule that became permanent policy. The lawyer who has long represented these spaces says the city building code — not the health code — is the real obstacle.
newsFlorida Can Bar Children From Drag Shows — and the Fight Goes Back to Orlando
An 8-5 en banc ruling vacated the injunction and sent the case back down. The majority found the law neither vague nor overbroad; a dissent says it wields a “Titanic-sized iceberg of chilling power.”
entertainmentAlexander Skarsgård Played a Gay Biker Dom in February. In October He's a Wicker Husband.
The first Wicker trailer is out and the tagline is “a hard man is good to find.” It is not a gay film — but Pillion, which had gay leather clubs at its premieres, very much was.
entertainmentGregg Araki's First Film in 12 Years Asks Gen Z: 'Why Don't You Have Sex?'
A statistic about Gen Z's sex lives became the movie's major theme. It's in theaters now, 89% of the counted reviews are positive — and the audience score is a long way behind.
cultureTwo Bars Are Called America's Oldest Surviving Gay Bar. Both Date to 1933.
Cafe Lafitte in Exile and the White Horse Inn both opened the year Prohibition ended. The sources on each side quietly refuse to break the tie.
newsAlaska Never Had a Dream Role — Until 'Oh, Mary!' Made Her Mary Todd Lincoln
The Drag Race All Stars champion opens the first national tour of Cole Escola's Tony-winning comedy in September. Then J. Harrison Ghee becomes the first performer in the production to play both Mary and Mary's Husband.
newsOne Husband Uses the Word Queer. The Other Won't. They've Been Married for Decades.
A 2023 interview series asked LGBT people over 55 — the generation the word was thrown at — what it means to them now. They didn't agree with each other, and in one case not with their own spouse.
newsMatthew Vines Says He Has 'No Issue' With the Word — For Anyone but Himself.
A New York Times essay on June 30 set off replies across LGBTQ+ media. On July 28 Vines separated the word into three meanings and objected to exactly one. All of it is opinion writing; what each writer actually argued is the reported part.
news'Heated Rivalry' Sparked a Publishing House at a 55-Year-Old Gay Porn Studio
Falcon | NakedSword has launched a publishing house, FalconInk, with three imprints and two novellas out now — and its CEO says that for the first time, the company is making something for women.
newsAriana Grande Says 45 of Her Songs Were Stolen in a Single Year. Now She's Suing.
The filing reaches back to 2011 and runs to a hundred unnamed defendants. Her lawyers say the stolen files were trafficked for money on the dark web, and also ended up on TikTok, X and YouTube.
tv'Heated Rivalry' Star Hudson Williams Lands a TIFF World Premiere With 'Yaga'
The Crave thriller world-premieres at Toronto in September, with Out reporting an October arrival on AMC+. Fair warning for anyone expecting Shane and Ilya: it isn't built on a same-sex romance, and season two is targeting April 2027.
cultureBEAR Magazine Is Coming Back to Print in September — Personal Ads and All
The photocopied San Francisco zine folded after a tax seizure, came back, went online, then went dark. Its new owner is putting it on paper again — as a quarterly, with the classifieds restored.
newsAnne Hathaway Went Viral Eight Years Later: "Gayness Orbits Around Straightness"
The speech is from her 2018 Human Rights Campaign award — and the sentence goes on: "transgender orbits around cisgender," and "all races orbit around whiteness." Elon Musk's verdict, delivered this week: "She's just a marionette."
newsAqua Key West Is Closed. Its Owner Is Now Facing an Eviction Suit in Tampa.
Pride Holdings Group has been buying gay venues across Florida. Aqua's Duval Street room closed after an eviction on July 6, two more venues announced final shows, and a Tampa landlord is suing. The company says the Tampa rent is now paid.
dragSalina EsTitties Made Big Brother History — Then a Castmate's Anti-Drag Remarks Went Viral
MMA fighter Kamu Kirk's comments about 'women's clothes' set the internet on fire — and Frankie Grande had thoughts.
newsThe Public Told the FCC No on Warning Labels for Gay TV Shows — 9 to 1
GLAAD crunched the public comments. The public said no. The Trump FCC may not care.
nightlifeMag's 940, the Marigny's Late-Night Drag Haunt, Has Gone Dark Without a Word
The Elysian Fields gay bar shut abruptly this week — no announcement, no explanation, just a bare facade and a boarded door.
dragRaven and LaLa Ri Lead a Global Cast in 'Drag Race Down Under vs. the World'
The franchise's first Down-Under-hosted international all-stars season drops July 24 — here's who to watch and how to catch it stateside.
newsO'Shae Sibley's Killer Gets 20 Years — and a Community Finally Exhales
Dmitriy Popov sentenced to two decades for the hate crime stabbing that shook Brooklyn and broke a community's heart.
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