As Je’Jae (they/them pronouns), a 23-year-old gender-nonconforming Mizrahi Jew, explores an affirming expression of their gender and sexuality, they struggle against their mom’s rigid expectations for their life, many of which are shaped by the predominantly White, middle-class Orthodox Jewish commu

On a stage decorated with a model of the Eiffel Tower and the American and French flags, Cleveland officially closed the 2014 Gay Games on Saturday and handed its flag over to Paris, France, which will host the event in 2018. A delegation from Paris' Gay Games committee accepted the flag from Clevel...

In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid) as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his lon...

Bailar, who was the first transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team, has shared his transition journey on TV shows like 60 Minutes and The Ellen Show. .During Pride Month 2017, the International Olympic Committee Bailar profiled Schuyler in a series entitled IDENTI

Real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old fri...

“I was driving when I heard ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace,’” Joan Baez told The Atlantic, “and I had to pull over to make sure I heard whose song it was because I knew I had to sing it.” The 77-year-old folk legend included the song in her final album, Whistle Down The Wind, released in early Ma

Directed by Jesse Moss (“Boys State,” “The Overnighters”), Mayor Pete will take viewers inside Buttigieg’s headline-generating campaign to be the youngest U.S. President, providing an unprecedented intimacy with the candidate, his husband Chasten, and their team. The Amazon Studios documentary, whic

Italians are making the most of their isolation by singing together and playing music for their neighbours from their balconies during the lockdown. Italy's death toll has crossed 1,400, the highest in the world outside China.

Sony’s RCA Records and Legacy Recording has released a never-before-heard solo version of Aretha Franklin’s collaboration with Mary J. Blige about faith and race. The song, called “Never Gonna Break My Faith” has arrived on Juneteenth to commemorate the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people were fr

In this fourteenth installment of our "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature classical training and dancing by three principal solo dancers: Steve McRae, principal ballet dancer, London Royal Opera Ballet; Kimin Kim, Marinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg; and, Ivan Vasilev, former Bolshoi Princ