Joe Biden (Frederick M. Brown/Getty) The biggest transgender activist group in the United States has said Joe Biden is “the advocate and president we need” in a powerful endorsement. Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Action Fund threw her organisation’s support behind Biden in a wide-ranging statement released today (May 5).
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The thing with models is, they’ll mess you up. It doesn’t matter if they’re backstage at Prada or behind you at a New York Pilates class—stare for one second, and the symmetry of their bodies might just stop your brain. The universe expands and contracts all at once in their faces, distilled in a perfect
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A Florida appeals court has ditched vital LGBT+ discrimination protections in the middle of a global pandemic. Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals struck down the law, which protected LGBT+ people’s right to public accommodation, employment and housing, in a ruling last Friday (May 1). Plaintiffs in the case argued that the LGBT+ protections, which
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The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday via YouTube livestream by Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy. Normally held at Columbia University in New York City, the delayed announcement was made online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s fiction prize went to Colson Whitehead for The Nickel Boys, a harrowing exploration of abuse at a reform school
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US actress Natalie Wood, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1981 (Silver Screen Collection/Getty) Natalie Wood would have been at the forefront of the battle for LGBT+ rights if she were alive today, her daughter has said. The late Hollywood star, known for her iconic film roles such as Maria in West Side Story and
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Dylan McDermott (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan/Getty) and Leslie Jordan (Harmony Gerber/Getty) Ryan Murphy has revealed that he is working on a new project which will star Leslie Jordan and Dylan McDermott – but there’s a catch. The popular gay television writer has apparently got the two actors on board for the project, even though he hasn’t
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Experimental artist Holly Herndon and collaborator Mat Dryhurst have launched a new podcast together. It’s called “Interdependence,” and you can access and support the project through Patreon. “We will publish conversations with good people at the forefront of music, technology and policy from our studio in Berlin,” Herndon and Dryhurst wrote on their Pateron page.
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Though it wasn’t the way producers and the network had planned, NCIS concluded Season 17 in mid-April just shy of 400 episodes. Halted production because of COVID-19 caused NCIS to stop earlier than expected, of course, although the episode that ended up becoming the finale was a strong and stirring way to finish. So now,
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Franklin Graham has claimed the media and “liberal politicians” are using the coronavirus pandemic to “destroy” Donald Trump. Graham, the notorious anti-LGBT+ evangelist, made the comments in a Facebook post shortly after he was told to close a New York tent hospital set up by his charity Samaritan’s Purse. The Central Park tent hospital was
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