Queer Voices

Kokoy de Santos, the 23-year-old Filipino actor in Gameboys, is everything you could want in a heartthrob — debonair as he is handsome, with a smile that

The first romance novel I ever read was Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. I discovered it in high school after I borrowed it from my older sister and bec

More than half the population of the United States has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Case counts and virus-related deaths are dropping

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Series. There were several things I liked about Netflix̵

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