Ellen DeGeneres won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Comedian last night, because she’s Ellen DeGeneres and who doesn’t love her? But her speech was particularly good – in it, she encouraged teenagers to just be who they are: “I wanna say also it feels good to be chosen but there was a time in […]
Conservative shock jock Glenn Beck is very angry about a lot of things. One in particular? Politicians who opposed marriage equality before they supported it — not because Beck himself actually cares about marriage equality, mind you — he just thinks these politicians are hypocrites. And the biggest hypocrite of them all is Hillary Clinton, […]
I’ve been asked by people on different ends of the fat lover spectrum about advice being a good ally. From the “My lover doesn’t see how beautiful she is and won’t have sex with the lights on” to the “My lover uses the term ‘fat’ to describe themselves but I’ve always thought of that as […]
It’s the oldest political trick in the world: Accuse someone of something so unspeakable that they’ll be forced to publicly respond it, thus ensuring they will be forever associated with whatever heinous act you’re alleging. It doesn’t have be factual, as long as it sticks. As goes a widely told (and likely embellished) story from […]
In a world where being queer is increasingly accepted, but still often fraught with feelings of fear, shame, and confusion, coming out can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. These coming out stories from LGBTQ people absolutely reflect that, since their stories are often a mixture of funny, sad, brave, and […]
You know that thing where people pretend that bisexuality is a myth, especially for men because how could anyone possibly be attracted to more than one gender, especially men for some reason? Yeah, well, according to a Pink News, a new study from Deakin University says not only do male bisexuals exist (obviously), they’re actually better partners and […]
Jamie Raines, the trans man whose timelapse video of selfies taken over the course of three years throughout his gender transition went viral last week, made a video for People addressing five questions you probably should just opt not to ask the trans people in your life and why not. They are: “Do you have female […]
In private, my husband, Paul*, has started referring to his sexual orientation as “Results-Oriented.” As in, he doesn’t care what gender his sexual partners are if they can get the job done, so to speak. He’s being glib when he says that — no, he wouldn’t go to bed with just anyone — but there’s […]
We already knew that John Boyega thinks that Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Poe and Finn might just be gay after all, and J.J. Abrams said recently that it would seem “insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character” in the Star Wars universe. But twist: Mark Hamill thinks it […]
