Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance — his first since a man attacked him last August — on Thursday night at the PEN America gala in Manhattan, where he accepted the organization’s Centenary Courage Award. […]
The Far Right Wants This LGBTQ TikToker Dead. They Say That’s Only Making Them Stronger
You don’t have to tell Jeffrey Marsh they make a certain portion of the internet upset. They’re well aware— they just won’t let it stop them from helping people. Long before trans star Dylan Mulvaney‘s […]
‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ Is a Perfect Video Game
When it arrived in 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild changed everything. Abandoning comfortable formulas the series had leaned on for almost 30 years, it instead focused on one very simple premise, […]
Inside the Fight to Keep a Florida College Queer
With fewer than 700 undergraduates, New College of Florida’s student body is small enough that most of it fits on one reply-all email thread. On Jan. 6, the day news broke that Gov. Ron DeSantis […]
LA Pride Pulls Out of Dodgers’ Pride Night After Team Rescinded Charity Drag Group Invite
LA Pride will not be participating in this year’s Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night following the baseball team’s decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a nonprofit charity made up of drag nuns, from […]
Music Groups Call Supreme Court Ruling in Warhol Case a ‘Massive Victory’ For The Business
In a case with potential implications on a wide range of creative industries, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, May 18, that Andy Warhol infringed on a photographer’s copyrights for his portraits of Prince. The […]
From Playwright to Pandemic Queen: How D’Arcy Drollinger Became the First Drag Laureate
D’Arcy Drollinger didn’t always plan on being a drag queen. San Francisco’s new drag laureate lived in New York for years trying to make it as a playwright. After assisting in Broadway numbers and later […]
DeSantis Officially Enters the ‘Find Out’ Phase of His War With Disney
If there’s one rule that all Floridians live by, one credo that everyone in the Sunshine State must follow, it is this: Don’t fuck with the Mouse. (Also, something about alligators. But mostly, don’t fuck […]
Conservatives Bully L.A. Dodgers Into Dropping Charity Drag Group From Pride Night
Bowing to pressure from conservatives including Sen. Marco Rubio, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced on Wednesday that they had uninvited an LGBTQ charity and drag performance group from participation in their annual Pride Night. The […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Cab Driver Downplays Car Chase
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s “near catastrophic” car chase with paparazzi Tuesday night may not be as dramatic as their spokesperson made it sound, several people say. “On Tuesday evening, May 16, the NYPD assisted […]
R.F. Kuang Is Not Your ‘Cultural Tour Guide.’ She’s a Storyteller
THERE ARE A FEW obvious reasons for author R.F. Kuang to be drinking before 5 p.m. on a Friday. She’s just turned in the last paper of the semester for her Ph.D. She’s on Day […]
Liz Holmes Loses Latest Appeal to Stay Out of Prison, Ordered to Pay Victims
Running Out the Clock The disgraced CEO of Theranos may actually begin serving her 11-year sentence sometime soon, as her options to delay reporting to prison dwindle Ex-CEO of Theranos and Poster woman of girl-bossing […]