Historically a genre lacking representation of LGBTQ community members, horror has a unique relationship with its queer viewers. There are many competing theories as to why that is, whether it’s empathy with the demonized monster and/or with the victimized slasher…
Category: Movies
Translated by: Marcela Ramirez A medida que el Mes de la Herencia Hispana continúa y nos adentramos en el Mes de la Historia LGBTQ, hay una película que se destaca ya que traspasa ambos mundos y acorta la compleja brecha…
As Hispanic Heritage Month continues and we start gearing up for LGBTQ History Month, one film comes to mind that straddles both worlds and bridges the complex gap many LatinX LGBTQ community members face. Through powerful dialogue, “El Canto del…
The Trevor Project is the only accredited national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ people under the age of 25. Trevor offers a suite of crisis intervention and suicide prevention programs, including TrevorLifeline, TrevorText and TrevorChat, as well as a…
GLSEN (pronounced “glisten”) was founded in 1990 by a small, but dedicated group of teachers in Massachusetts who came together to improve an education system that they believed too frequently allowed its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students…
While all LGBTQ organizations are important to advancing equality, the methods deployed for securing that advancement vary. Victory Fund is the only national LGBTQ organization with a mission to elect more LGBTQ leaders at every level of government. They work…
The Washington Blade was founded in 1969 as a black and white, one-sheet community newsletter distributed in D.C.-area bars and has grown to become the newspaper of record for the LGBTQ community. The Blade will soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary…
It’s difficult to imagine a flamboyantly gay Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn deeply entrenched in the heavy-metal scene today, let alone 40 years ago. Even more unbelievable is that same boy going on to shape and reinvent the world’s…
The increasing mainstream popularity of drag may be a fairly recent pop culture phenomenon. But make no mistake, the art form that is drag has been around for quite some time. The first recorded use of the term is credited…
By R. Kurt Osenlund, Managing Editor, Out Magazine Seeing our experiences reflected through popular art, particularly cinema, is something queer people have vigorously sought, long before “Moonlight“ broke multiple barriers and clinched a Best Picture Oscar in front of a global audience.…