The Power Of Print
For marketers who are struggling to advertise their content online, it might be time to consider the new potential of an old medium—and that medium is print, reports Media Update. PRINT HAS STAYING...
View ArticleManaging Holiday Stress
Focus on the fact that after we get through these potentially volatile exchanges with family, we get to return to our amazing queer lives. BY BRENT HEINZE During the holiday season we often share...
View ArticleHave You Lived Before?
Carol Bowman, past life therapist: “Reincarnation is not an abstract religious concept or a philosophy. It’s a natural phenomenon.” BY VICTOR MELAMED The Orlando vigil for victims of the mass...
View ArticleGet Tested!
In Los Angeles County, an estimated 60,000 people are living with HIV, of which an estimated 1 in 7 people are unaware of their status. World AIDS Day is held on the 1st of December each year and is...
View ArticleDouble Digits
There will be at least ten LGBT members of Congress next year. BY VICTOR MELAMED After Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who is openly bisexual, was officially declared the next Democratic senator of Arizona last...
View ArticleDancing With Britney
Alex Van Der Hoek on his musical journey, growing up in the South and how Britney Spears changed everything. BY MARK ARIEL | PHOTO BY MATT LYNN To be perfectly honest (if that’s even remotely...
View ArticleBroadway Rings (and Sings!) In The Holidays
Broadway’s Carols For a Cure is full of spirited holiday favorites sung by stars from musicals including Mean Girls, Dear Evan Hansen, AND Hamilton. BY SKIP SHEFFIELD For twenty years, Broadway...
View ArticleMagick Man
Author Jason Louv on discovering your own unique reason for existing in the world and your reason for being born in this place and time. BY MARK ARIEL | PHOTO BY DEVI BRULE Los Angeles based...
View ArticleTHE KILLING FIELDS
New report documents horrific anti-LGBTQ crimes against humanity in the Russian republic of Chechnya. BY ORLY LYONNE The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) responded last month to a new report released by...
View ArticleTHE FATHERS PROJECT: 2
Leo Herrera’s docuseries imagines sex without consequence. Viral filmmaker Leo Herrera has released Episode 2 in his a sci-fi docuseries Fathers Project to bring awareness and a ray of optimism to...
View ArticleSTRIKING A POSE
RuPaul’s Drag Race Naomi Smalls releases her new single Pose. BY VICTOR MELAMED | PHOTO BY ADAM OUAHMANE Naomi Smalls, currently competing on the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars,...
View ArticleMAPPLETHORPE: THE MOVIE
A nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft. BY VICTOR MELAMED The story of legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe will be the subject of the upcoming biopic Mapplethorpe,...
View ArticleHOW VERY DARE YOU!
Conservatives in a tizzy over kiss between a gay sailor and his husband. BY VICTOR MELAMED A kiss between a gay sailor and his husband had some conservatives’ blood boiling, reports LGBTQ Nation....
View ArticleFight For LOVE
Courtney Act’s new dance-pop single competes to be Australia’s entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. BY VICTOR MELAMED RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist and 2018 UK Celebrity Big Brother champion...
View ArticleA LIFE WORTH LIVING
Setting intentions for a new year. Be careful about allowing insecurity, fear, or apprehension to discourage you from working towards your aspirations. BY BRENT HEINZE At this time of year, many of us...
View ArticleBIG TECH’S WAR ON SEX
The deplatforming of sexuality and how to resist it. BY STEPHEN MOLLDREM On December 17th, Tumblr—a social network notorious and celebrated for the many varieties of niche pornography and kinky...
View ArticleSustaining Your Relationship
Healthy relationships help us experience ourselves more fully, integrating all the various parts of who we are. BY JAMES GUAY, LMFT Relationships are potent forces that bring out our best and worst...
View ArticleSHAMEFUL
Not A single LGBT Chechen has received asylum in the United States amidst deadly anti-gay purge. BY VICTOR MELAMED A violent crackdown on LGBT people in the Russian region of Chechnya has resulted in...
View ArticleRemembering Nacho Nava
“Nacho was an inspiration to many, and his spirit will live on in our hearts and memories forever.” BY VICTOR MELAMED Nacho Nava, founder of the weekly queer party Mustache Mondays—which ran for more...
View ArticleLove Makes A Family
From L-R: Randy, Connor, Scott, and Chase. Randal and Scott Martin-Black, a gay couple with two adopted kids, on finding the right agency, entering a lifelong duty and answering silly questions some...
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