The Lens

Chip In to Stay Out: Crowdfunding Rescues Gay Bars

Safe spaces require fortification. Just picture that sexy, burly bouncer who tends the door at your favorite watering hole. He (or she) checks your ID courteously with a wink and...

From Russia with Love-Is-Love

Oppression is a sickness. It erodes every glimmer of hope, it leaches away the human spirit, and it shrouds every interaction with fear and contempt. LGBTQ+ rights have been under...

This Holiday Makeover Gives Us Major Wood

Not to be a total Grinch, but most Christmas movies are way lame. The predictable plots, the treacly sentiment, the incessant Candace Cameron. Bah humbug, we say! But A Christmas...

Happy New Queer! Billy Porter Will Make 2021 Gay AF

New Year’s Eve is all about dropping balls, glittery decorations, and kicking the past to the curb. In other words: it may just be the gayest holiday of them all, y’all. But...

The Crafty Lumberjacks Wish You a Hairy Holiday

Christmas is a cacophony of contradictions. It is a time of giving and receiving, of bounty and need, of green and red – what breeder chose that color scheme, bee-tee-double-u...

Forever Proud: Luke Evans

Fans may recognize Luke Evans as the mighty Apollo from Clash of the Titans or the virile Zeus from Immortals. Given this mythical cinematic lineage, the openly gay actor’s...

Nailed It! Texas Teen Stands Up for Gay Rights

Every generation carves a place for itself in history. From bellbottoms to parachute pants to skinny jeans, the fashion world has always had a leg up on innovation, and the queer...

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 Ru-veals New Cast, Airing January 1st, 2021

VH1 today ru-vealed the cast for the 13th season of the global phenomenon “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” premiering Friday, January 1, at 8PM ET/PT. After winning six Emmy® Awards...

Mario Lopez Makes Us Gay for Chicken

You can’t spell #Lifetime without LGBTQ+ (ifetime). Earlier this year, the network announced the production of their first predominantly queer Christmas movie, casting real-life...

Miz Cracker: Putting the “Ha” in Hanukkah

It’s the holidays and music is in the air.  Let’s be honest, all we want for Christmas is new holiday music that we actually like.  Sorry, Mariah.  Cue the music!  Drag...

The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer – Get Nude(s) for the Holidays

Need some gift ideas for that hard-to-please special someone on your list? Skin is in, and the flesh is flying off the shelves at Nick Mesh’s studio. View this post on Instagram...

This Queer Crossover Is Gonna Make You Sweat

You can’t spell #SafeSpace without #Ace, as in the fabulously flirty Ace Hotel. This LGBTQ+ haven was founded by gay entrepreneurs, quickly becoming a boutique party enclave...