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Heated Rivalry Season 2: Four New Faces Join Queer Hockey’s Biggest...

If Season 1 of Heated Rivalry gave us Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov — the most committed secret relationship in professional hockey — Season...
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Heated Rivalry Takes Over Boston

By the time you read this, Boston may have already surrendered. Not to the Mariners — to Heated Rivalry, the gay hockey romance phenomenon...

This Day in Gay: August 24, When Queer History Refused to...

August 24 is doing a lot. It gives us Marsha P. Johnson’s birthday, marks the death of Bayard Rustin, and celebrates the arrival of...

Bambie Thug Has Been Casting Spells on Pop Music

Some pop stars arrive with a microphone. Bambie Thug arrived with a spellbook, a blood-red stare, and the firm conviction that Eurovision did not...
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Queer Music This Week: Cowboys, Crying, and Being Permanently Obsessed

Something strange is happening in queer music this week, and we mean that in the best possible way. The artists making the most interesting...
Young Miko, Puerto Rican rapper and singer known for gender-fluid style

Queer Fashion This Week: Tailoring, Sheer Nerve, and the Death of...

This week in queer fashion: electric tailoring, sheer clubwear, soft glamour, and gender-fluid style refusing to stay in its lane.

Revry Is Quietly Building the Queer Media Empire We Need

There’s a streaming network that’s been quietly building a queer media empire for a decade, and if you haven’t been paying attention, now would...

This Day in Gay History: August 17 Was Booked and Busy

August 17 is apparently the day queer people decided “no, actually, we will be having rights” — in courtrooms, on tennis courts, on television,...

August Ponthier Is Everywhere — and Exactly Where Queer Pop Needs...

There is a particular kind of queer artist who can make a song feel like a diary entry, a road trip, and a mildly...

Wild Honey, Glitter and Emotional Damage: This Week in Queer Music

There is no shortage of music this week, which is lucky because the alternative is listening to the same four Pride anthems until Labor...