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Blackbeard’s Bitch
By Vidal D’Costa
After its first season, Our Flag Means Death has amassed a dedicated fan base, particularly among the LGBT community.
Manuel Muñoz on the Power of LGBTQ Characters
Focusing on the valley in which he grew up, Manuel Muñoz’s stories address issues he grew up observing intimately: immigration, poverty, farm labor, family ties and their unraveling, and where queer characters fit (or don’t) into that environment.
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Review of the Exhibit, Queer Maximalism
By Mike Dressel
Spread out over two full gallery floors like synthetic blossoms, the exhibit was comprised of over eighty creations built for performance; the costumes displays queered the notion of what theatrical design can be, blending found materials and foundational concepts with a spirit of radical reinvention.
From the Ashes We Rise: Exposing American Censorship of Queer Literature
By Arend Richard
At a time when censorship threatens all, we must uplift independent queer authors to bring much-needed LGBTQ+ representation in young adult literature.
Step in to The Lesbian Bar Project
By Christina Schlesinger
These bars are not just bars, they are living entities with a heartbeat.
Andrii Kravchuk Discusses LGBTQ Activism in Ukraine
Andrii Kravchuk is a Ukrainian LGBTQ activist, one of the founders of the Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Centre, Ukraine’s leading LGBTQ advocacy center.
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New York City’s Rainbow of Legislators
By Adam Kocurek
This collection presents its interviewees as a mosaic—a group of unique individuals who, when viewed together, represent the diversity of the New York community.
Not In Your Hand
By Richard Schneider
Seems it’s been a while since the religious Right went into full freakout mode over a logo or ad campaign, but they pretty much lost their minds over a change in those multi-colored and commercially personified candies known as M&M’s. …
As Long as I’m Famous, A Movie Review
By Allen Ellenzweig
As Long As I’m Famous wishes to be an exposé of Broadway and Hollywood in the period after World War II; the narrative action mostly takes place in 1948. It focuses on a half-dozen overlapping relationships, but mostly zeroes in on the young Montgomery Clift …
We Were There: Now in Chicago
By Ignacio Darnaude
CHICAGO’S WRIGHTWOOD 659, a private institution focused on socially engaged art, is currently showing a landmark exhibition: The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869–1930.
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