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Queer Actors in Queer Roles
By Adam Odsess-Rubin
With the recent success of openly queer actors like Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (formerly MJ Rodriguez), Elliot Page, Billy Porter, Kirsten Stewart, and Ariana DeBose, now is the time to evolve our standards for representation on stage and screen.
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By J. Ken Stuckey
This year’s Oscars were peppered with moments of diversity and inclusion. It’s too bad almost none of those moments will be remembered
MoreCharles Blow’s Sexuality Sidestepped in Met Opera
By Charles Green
BASED ON Charles M. Blow’s 2015 memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which is about growing up poor and Black in Louisiana, as well as being sexually abused, Terence Blanchard’s emotionally charged opera opened the Met’s 2021–22 season … making it the first opera by a Black composer to appear at the Met.
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Trapped in Paradise
By Kristina Ebanez
I’ve left my hometown in Hawai’i three times. The first time was when I was fifteen. The second move was when I was eighteen. The last and hopefully final time was when I was twenty-six years old. Each time I left, I got asked the same question: “Why did you leave?”
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By Wayne Hoffman
I haven’t missed a Bear Week since then. I go dancing every day, shirtless. One week every year. It recharges me when my self-confidence is running low.
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