Queer Voices

This Pride month, which marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots — when transgender people, gay people, and drag queens protested police brutali

At 7:45 on a Thursday night, I light a candle and settle in for my Zoom meeting with Krysta Venora, aka “Pink Opal Magic” (who uses they/them pronouns)

LGBTQ+ people are not strangers to fighting for the right for equal treatment, both under the law and in the culture. So it feels particularly meaningful t

Adulthood has shown me that some feelings are near-universal — so too is the sense that you’re the only one experiencing them. This is especially

“The first Pride was a riot.”  This June, the LGBTQ+ community has routinely shared those six words across social media. Activists and demonstrato

Kyle and I patrolled the Quantico woods, our faces smeared with camouflage grease paint, uniforms soaked with mud. It was 2013, day three of a week-long tr

I was born on the heels of Hurricane Hugo. My mami told me she was worried I would be born early, in the midst of a disaster, with no medical care availabl

Today, to celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility, TomboyX, the gender-inclusive, size-inclusive underwear brand, launched its Trans Pride co

Diversity is still not great in the film industry, especially for LGBTQ+ movie characters, but Disney is continuing its efforts to change that. Recently, t

In 2017, five years after I came out as gay, I stopped wearing dresses. It was for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I was finally in a comfortable rela

Beauty is gendered — more specifically, who gets to be seen as beautiful is defined by how we perceive their gender. At one end of the gender spectrum, y

Following the revelation that Jonathan Van Ness is HIV-positive, numerous celebrities are speaking out in support of the Queer Eye star — and it’s no s

The recent legal progress made for LGBTQ rights makes it easy to lose sight of just how far we still have to go when it comes to true equality. The idea of

“People were queer in your day and before your day, and they'll be queer after your day,” says Raven Baker, Unbothered's associate social med

When Pansy St. Battie discovered burlesque, it opened up a new world of glitter, glam, and freedom.

A lot went down on last night's finale episode of Euphoria. Spoiler Alert: Fez's fate is up in the air, Maddie saw the tape, Nate had a meltdown,

Long before Pabllo Vittar's rendition of Whitney Houston's “I Have Nothing” went viral, catapulting her to international fame, makeup

Anyone who's watched Queer Eye knows that the Fab Five has a knack for getting people to open up. And that fact truly frightened season 4 hero Brandon