If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Covid-19 may have cancelled parades and parties in 2020, but Pride Month, as a summer-long celebration of diversity, acceptance and love, will continue on this year—though not without …
Read More »HHS Reverses Trump-Era Policy, Restores Transgender Health Care Protections
The United States is restoring a policy that grants transgender individuals protection from discrimination in the health care system, the Biden administration announced Monday. This move will reverse a Trump-era policy that stated “sex” refers to a person’s gender assigned at birth, an attempt to allow discrimination in health care …
Read More »What It's Like to Be Queer in Trump's America
Cathy Renna, the communications director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, has worked in queer rights for nearly 30 years, through three administrations and countless setbacks. But nothing was quite like the transfer of power to the Trump administration. “It’s like having really great parents for most of your life,” …
Read More »'The Fosters' Cast to Reunite for One-Night-Only Benefit Event
The cast of Freeform’sThe Fosters will reunite for a special one-night-only event to benefit the Actors Fund on Thursday, July 16th at 8:00 p.m. ET. The reunion livestream will feature the show’s original cast members, including Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Hayden Byerly, David Lambert, Maia Mitchell, Cierra Ramirez, Danny Nucci …
Read More »Bright Light Bright Light Debuts Empowering 'This Was My House' Video
This wasn’t supposed to be how it went down. For the past four years, Rod Thomas, who performs under the alias Bright Light Bright Light, has DJ’d an afternoon dance party called “Romy & Michele’s Saturday Afternoon Tea Dance” in New York City at Manhattan’s Club Cumming and Brooklyn’s C’Mon …
Read More »Why 'The Queen' Documentary Is an Essential Queer Time Capsule
With the spotlight on the Stonewall uprising’s 50th anniversary this month, several treasured landmark LGBTQ documentaries have been restored and are being re-released for a limited time in theaters, including Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning and the era-defining Before Stonewall. But among the gifts to be cherished from this renewed …
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