queer culture

A hug from her best friend at the age of 64 made Liz Hilliard realise that she was not – as she had always believed – straight.

Point of Pride's HRT Access Fund provides 12 months of free medical care for trans folks seeking gender-affirming hormone therapy (HRT).

Police and government workers clashed in Daegu, South Korea as the organisers of an annual Pride festival attempted to set up.

The Catholic Church and other faiths have celebrated many whom historians and scholars consider queer.

Here are 15 films featuring queer women who get their fairytale ending.

A new report from LGBTQ+ rights organisation GLAAD has found all major social media platforms are failing to protect queer users.

Sport as a social space is notoriously harsh and uninviting towards the queer community. Gender and heteronormativity, particularly in male-dominated sports, is the backbone upon which many of these cultures are built.

‘To be open, out, and proud is how we pave the way for a new generation of tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion,’ sport climber Campbell Harrison says.

Lauri Hussar, the newly elected president of Estonia, has suggested a change in law could be introduced within weeks.

I was one of the co-founders of r/BisexualMen on Reddit and I write a series called Sex Ed for Bi Guys. I don't think there's a point in creating a minuscule magazine for us, but it'd be nice to be able to follow each other on here!

Pride has always been a protest. But that doesn't mean it can't also be funny

From pop sensations to pensioners, models to movie stars, 17 LGBTQ+ pioneers, aged 19 to 90, share stories of style, self-discovery and expression in British Vogue’s July 2023 issue.

“There is – despite the chip, chip, chip of the news cycle, the screaming indignities of social media, the disturbing ineptitude in scores of our public officials – a great deal of joy still to be found in the world. I promise.”

Research has found women over the age of 65 are amongst the most sexually fluid groups in the UK, challenging long-held ideas about fluidity.

We all know LGBTQ+ history didn’t start with the gay liberation movement in the ’60s and ’70s. And while certain politicians would rather erase us from text books, queer folks have been around since the dawn of civilization.

Now, a new series aims to share “the gayest stories never told,” giving us all the tea on the super queer lessons we weren’t taught in schools.

When the feelgood movie made him an Oscar-nominated star, the strain of hiding who he was almost forced him to quit acting. He explains how opening up about being gay, then trans, saved his life

Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical and J. Harrison Ghee Best Lead Actor.
Newell’s and Ghee’s nominations alone made history for nonbinary performers. They chose to be nominated in the male category, but some other nonbinary actors have withdrawn from competition because of the gendered categories. & Juliet‘s Justin David Sullivan did so this season, and Asia Kate Dillon made the same decision after appearing in Macbeth last season.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — For years, Orden David was persecuted in his native Antigua and Barbuda — a frequent complaint by many LGBTQ people who fear for their safety across the conservative and mostly Christian Caribbean, where anti-gay hostility is widespread.

Garth Brooks’ new Nashville bar and honky-tonk Friends in Low Places is opening this summer — and the country star is sharing that everyone is welcome… except assholes.

“I want it to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said about his new business. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”

A national chain known for its food and aesthetic that drips in southern comfort is the next business facing backlash over its support of Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community. The Texas Family Project called on supporters to boycott Cracker Barrel on Thursday, June 8, stating "a once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob."

The biggest Pride parade in New England has returned to Boston for the first time since 2019. Organizers say this year's focus was less on corporate backing and more on social justice and inclusion. The hiatus was due only in part to COVID-19 restrictions. The organization that used to run the event dissolved in 2021 amid criticism that it excluded racial minorities and transgender people. Pride celebrations were also held Saturday at the White House, in Rome and in New Mexico, among other sites around the globe. More are planned in other places through the remainder of June.

Some people think this is an "innocent" "mistake" but I think it is a stroke of subversive artistic genius.

Well it’s Pride Month and you know what that means: people making television and cinema for the LGBTQ+ community! Honestly I had expected them to make more television and cinema for the LGBTQ+ community than they apparently intend to do this specific June, but that is fine and we will model through it. Okay, let’s get into what’s out there with lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans characters on your teevee sets.