Homosexuality and Bisexuality

May 13, 2020

The Pandemic Work Diary of Netflix’s Queer Champion

Fran Tirado is producing queer content and only queer content. “I’m just so uninterested in making anything that is not for queer-trans audiences,” he said. At […]
April 8, 2020

For H.I.V. Survivors, a Feeling of Weary Déjà Vu

Three weeks ago, a spring breaker in Miami became a symbol of Gen Z denialism when he spoke to CBS News and said that coronavirus wasn’t […]
March 3, 2020

How to Respond to Microaggressions

For many of us, microaggressions are so commonplace that it seems impossible to tackle them one at a time. Psychologists often compare them to death by […]
January 30, 2020

7 Questions With Jazz Jennings of TLC’s ‘I Am Jazz’

Jazz Jennings has been in the spotlight since 2007, when she was 6 and appeared on the ABC News program “20/20.” Wearing a dress, she opened […]
January 17, 2020

Their Story Wrote Itself

Cynthia LaFave had a word of warning when she first met T Kira Madden in 2015. “She said, ‘If you hurt my daughter, I’ll kill you,’” […]
January 10, 2020

Two Open Marriages in One Small Room

“I want to see the body,” said my 12-year-old son, Miles. He and I were sitting in our minivan outside of the hospital. I texted my […]
January 25, 2018

Social Q’s: When Hollywood Ageism Hits Close to Home

Advertisement For years, a college friend (in her 50s) has forbidden me from telling anyone we went to school together. Since moving to Hollywood, she deducted […]
November 17, 2017

Cultural Studies: ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ and Me: A 35-Year Love Affair

On a Sunday morning in the fall of 1981, I was sitting in my fourth-floor walk-up studio apartment in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan, flipping through […]
November 15, 2017

Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet

Advertisement Liz Smith, the grande dame of New York’s gossip pages, played down the juiciest bit of information about herself when promoting her memoir, “Natural Blonde,” […]
November 10, 2017

Encounters: A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags

Encounters By MICHAEL SCHULMAN Hamed Sinno, the 29-year-old Lebanese rocker, showed up at Christopher Street in Manhattan looking agitated. He had gone to the wrong location […]