A school board in Watertown, Wisconsin has voted 7-1 to remove "A Mother of a Revolution!," an instrumental piece dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson, from the school's upcoming spring concert, according to local NBC affiliate WTMJ. The decision led to protest from students, family and community members. Following the Tuesday vote, the Watertown Wind Symphony will not be allowed to perform the song, which has no lyrics, despite having spent months preparing it for the upcoming show.
Caitlyn Jenner, known for Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the docuseries I Am Cait, ran as a candidate in California's 2021 gubernatorial recall election. She publicly campaigned as a Republican, drawing extensive LGBTQ+ media attention and debate. The recall ended with Governor Gavin Newsom remaining in office.
“I think Eddie lives in such naivety, and he's oblivious to so much that that's kind of the texture of the character,” he said. “I think if he knew what that looked like or played into that, it wouldn't read as well, to be honest. So him having that spat with Buck, not knowing that he looks like the exact married couple that you see on TV, amplifies that scene.”
I feel like my number one thing I want to do is represent our community and also show facets of our community that certain people in other areas wouldn't get to see. I feel like, right now, with progress there comes the pushback, and when we've had this progress, we're losing our community a little bit.
"Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide."
Folks are starved for male intimacy in a way that feels honest and genuine. The idea that the two actors were all over each other, hugging and kissing whenever they could, made us go, 'Oh, there's a new way to-' Many men are starved for representation that allows them to be emotionally vulnerable and physically affectionate with each other.
"Three out of four of our kids are queer, and without making it a thing and without making an issue, I think it's really nice to have a character that, that's just a facet of their personality as opposed to the entire story," Katsky said.
Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, Judy Hopps' neighbors, are a gay couple confirmed by voice actor Jared Bush, who stated, 'They are a gay married couple. But they don't yell at each other because they're gay, they yell because they're real.'
I was so excited, this journey has been amazing. I'm living my biggest dream, so I'm in a playground experiencing things I've never experienced before. So many things happened to me through this journey. I got to tell the world that I'm a transgender woman. I got to be featured in Vogue twice. It just made everything more beautiful.
I didn't fight like hell to become the first woman to graduate from The Citadel just for some man in a miniskirt to take away that achievement. Protecting women's accomplishments isn't a political talking point for me - it's personal.
The series centres a community whose visibility has too often been shaped by external gaze rather than self-definition. A 'dyke' is not a singular thing. The community isn't narrow, unified, or clean. It is not only cis lesbians for example. It includes trans masc men, trans femme women, nonbinary people, and bisexuals.
No offence to the actor but the way he played that part was a cartoon. He was two-dimensional. And the thing that bothered me most... we were so afraid to create a gay character on a kid's television show.
Queerbaiting, which was added to dictionary.com in 2023, is a term that was originally used to describe works of entertainment, like books, films or TV shows, that hint at LGBTQ+ identities or relationships between characters without ever making the characters canonically queer. It is seen as a way to gain the support of LGBTQ+ audiences without estranging anti-LGBTQ+ bigots.
Two deeply incapable siblings who are in over their heads when a misguided theft for their dying grandmother accidentally pulls them into the world of organized crime. Blackmailed into increasingly dangerous assignments, they clumsily fail upwards, sinking deeper into chaos they're ill-equipped to handle.
Released amid the cast-iron censorship of the Hays Code, the second big screen version of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel had to heavily rely on subtext. In fact, it's likely many of the Academy's more conservative or sheltered members responsible for its nominations in Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, & Best Supporting Actor were entirely oblivious to its queerness.
In Tangled, Mother Gothel is the selfish, villainous antagonist who has managed to retain her youth by hoarding the healing powers of the magic golden flower. When Rapunzel was born, the powers transferred to the young child's hair, enabling it to grow to an unnatural length. In her attempts to control the power, Mother Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and keeps her imprisoned in a tower, all while putting up a facade as her overprotective mother.
Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/biphobic/misogynist/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful 'love.' We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. if you can't accept that gtfoh.
Prior to our show, gay characters were seen either as clowns or eunuchs on shows, and they were very non-sexual, non-threatening, and either the goofy buddy or some tragic kind of figure. I think our show was able to dispel all that, and it was able to show them as three-dimensional human beings.
Since she graduated in the late 1980s, amid the Aids crisis, Opie has made portraits of her community, friends and family, adopting unflinching realism, saturated colours, and dramatic tonal contrasts from the 16th-century portrait painters. Many of Opie's most famous portraits included in her new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery use these devices deliberately, a declaration that these people deserve, as the title of the show underlines, to be seen.
The entire Levi's commercial is distasteful. Levi's goes as far as ending the ad with featured Grammy-winning rapper Doechii bending over with her rear end highlighted while dancing. While she stays in this position, she turns to the camera, allowing viewers to catch a glimpse of the first and only person's face during the thirty-second ad.
I love that movie. It's the most important film I've ever been a part of. So grateful that I got to play that role and be that mom. And I hear from people, especially on flights, flight attendants will pass me a note, you know: 'Love, Simon - I saw with my parents. It really helped us have a conversation.'
Rather than chasing diminishing returns through additional advertising, the agency advocated for an entertainment product: a film that could function as a vehicle for repositioning perception while operating as a single investment with long-tail value, capable of shaping how audiences feel about a place over time and across markets.
It is frustrating to constantly be reduced to my sexuality, because there's so much more to me than my sexuality. In fact, me being bisexual is probably the most boring thing about me. It is completely my entire storyline and so many assumptions have been made in my portrayal.
