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Remembering Tim Curry: The Man Who Made Fishnets Fabulous

He gave us the sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania. He gave us a clown that still haunts our dreams. He gave us the Wicked...
Dolly Parton

Remembering Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton — the queen of country music, a philanthropist of staggering generosity, and one of the LGBTQ community’s most steadfast allies — died...
Holly Woodlawn in May 2007

This Day in Gay: October 26

Thirty years since intersex activists picketed the pediatricians with the greatest protest sign of all time, plus birthdays of Holly Woodlawn, Karin Boye and Keith Strickland — and one spectacularly clueless 1885 court ruling.
Admiral Rachel L. Levine, U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

This Day in Gay: October 19

Some days on the gay calendar are gentle. October 19 is not one of them. This is the date a gay Prussian's ragtag army...

The Colman Domingo Era Is Not Slowing Down, and the Academy...

From Craigslist missed connections to Taylor Swift singing in his honor: Colman Domingo collects another trophy Saturday at the Academy Museum Gala, and honestly, the Academy is late.
Troye Sivan performing live at Primavera Sound 2025

Gay Gay Gay: Troye’s New Album, Orville’s Playgirl Era, and the...

Another week, another avalanche of queer excellence that hetero-pop would kill for. This week Troye Sivan dropped a whole album and immediately declared it...

Fairyland, Sheer Genius, and the Reign of the Dandy: The Week...

Tim Walker's 250-portrait ode to queer Britain, a sheer SKIMS capsule, Willy Chavarria's workwear liturgy, and Colman Domingo convening fashion week.

This Day in Gay: October 12

Matthew Shepard's death, the Finnish church exodus of 2010, the Tepláreň attack, and a suspicious cluster of gay heartthrob birthdays: everything queer that happened on October 12.

Bowen Yang Survived Conversion Therapy Just to Play Mary Todd Lincoln...

Let's get one thing straight (pun absolutely intended): Bowen Yang has had a year that would make most people's heads spin, and he did...

The Birds, the Bees, and the Bias-Cut: Queer Fashion This Week

The queer fashion machine didn't take the week off, and frankly, it never does. While the straight fashion world is still deciding whether "gender-neutral"...
Thomas Roberts at a Phillies vs Orioles game, June 2015.

This Day in Gay: October 5

A bisexual activist, the oldest known lesbian in America, the newspaper that refused to die, and the first openly gay network news anchor — all connected by one October date.

Troye Sivan’s Madonna-Sampling, Kidman-Casting, McKellen-Narrating Fourth Album Is the Gayest October...

Troye Sivan is having the kind of year that would make even the most seasoned pop star break a sweat. And he's doing it...