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#trans-woman

Musician Kim Petras recently opened up about the challenges she faced as a trans woman trying to make it in the music industry.Petras's fame has skyrocketed as of late due to the song "Unholy," her hit with nonbinary singer Sam Smith.The hit single broke ground last October, becoming the first song by out trans and nonbinary artists to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

This morning, nominations for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards were announced and, as per usual, they're a doozy.With hundreds of nominees across 91 categories representing different genres and mediums, even the most serious of music fans are a little overwhelmed right now.And while we couldn't even begin to break down every detail, we  can  give you the highlights of the queer (and queer-adjacent) artists who earned key nominations and give us hope that the upcoming ceremony could be the gayest Grammys yet.

When The Matrix premiered in 1999, no one had seen anything like it before: kung-fu blended with philosophy blended with technology blended with epic romance.The revolutionary first film grossed over seven times its budget at the box office, paving the way for three live-action sequels and an animated prequel anthology.

A non-binary transgender southern Brooklyn resident who said they were assaulted in the bathroom of a Coney Island restaurant and bar in October of last year has spent months trying to address the issue, but they have been frustrated by the restaurant's response and the bureaucratic legal system - which has ultimately discouraged them from pressing the case further.

If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
There is a lot of early hype around Jonathan Escoffery's debut, already published in the US and out in the UK in early January, and with good reason.Perched between short story collection and novel, If I Survive You  centres around a Jamaican family who, like Escoffery's own family, relocate to Miami in the mid-1970s.

This profile is part of Queerty's 2022  Out For Good series, recognizing public figures who've had the courage to come out and make a difference in the past year, in celebration of National Coming Out Day.Bio: The Belgian-born writer and consummate New Yorker has written about her life and the places she's lived in stirring intellectual works since the '90s.

The attack was just one of the first steps of Republicans' fascist takeover, Ocasio-Cortez said.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez listens during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on December 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Republicans across the country are waging a movement to remove and censure Democratic lawmakers simply for speaking out against the GOP - a movement that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is saying is the next natural step after the GOP-backed attempted coup on January 6, 2021.

First Lady Jill Biden has once again inflamed anti-LGBTQ+ right wingnuts.This week, Dr. Biden, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, hosted the 17th annual International Women of Courage Awards.The State Department has handed out awards to over 180 women from more than 80 countries since 2007.