A young transgender girl and her father share a tender embrace in “The Real Thing,” filmmaker Brandon Kelley’s heartwarming short that hit the internet Monday in honor of both Veterans Day and Trans Awareness Week. The seven-minute film follows Allie (Sophie Giannamore), who has transitioned while

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Get ready for a fantastical celebration of community, inclusion, and diversity at the Pines Party Toon Island! Just like your favorite cartoons, Pines Party weekend in Fire Island, NY was a magical and positive space for all our friends, queer and otherwise – everyone was welcomed to the overnight p

“Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus s

A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend fro...

A same-sex gentoo penguin couple has welcomed the birth of their first baby, er, chick, together, Australia’s Sea Life Sydney Aquarium announced On October 25, 2018. Dads Sphen and Magic, a couple known as “Sphengic,” were given an egg that they incubated and protected for nearly five weeks in their

et upon a picture-perfect sky on the Fire Island Pines’ glistening Great South Bay, the 25th anniversary edition of Fire Island Dance Festival brought together a diverse, captivating program of world premieres, dance legends and stirring storytelling. The festival on July 19-21 raised a record-shatt

Although we are lucky to be in our lovely environment in the Pines, we are aware of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for social justice by African Americans in the United States. Certainly, many of us can remember the hard-won battles that we fought in the LGBTQ community for safety and...

Yoav, a successful architect, has everything he’s ever wanted: Dan, his lover of 15 years - a younger lawyer who adores him, and his best friend, Alma – a successful artist, who is like a mother and a sister to him. However, when Alma announces she’s pregnant, it ignites Dan’s desire to become a fat

The Respect for Marriage Act is a landmark United States federal law passed by the 117th United States Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, require the U.S. federal government to recognize the validity of same-sex and interracial marriages in the United States, and to protect religious li...