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...

Cyd Zeigler of Outsports provides an in-depth interview of Mason Darrow, an offensive lineman at Princeton who shares his story of being an openly gay Division 1 collegiate athlete. “I felt trapped,” Darrow told OutSports about the difficult decision to come out to his teammates. “I wasn’t happy. I

Back in 2019, reports surfaced that anti-LGBTQ activist (and then Liberty University president) Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife, Becki, were engaged in a seven-year illicit affair with their twentysomething pool boy, Giancarlo Granda. Now, Granda is telling his side of the story in an explosive, juic...

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...

Josh Cavallo is a professional soccer / football player in Australia. He's chosen to come out publicly ahead of his next season with Adelaide United. Adelaide United Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men u...

Marriage Proposal at Bulls-Spurs. Sports, for all the machismo involved, really do have the power to unite. Perhaps at no point was that more obvious than last night’s Chicago Bulls game, when a gay couple got engaged after an in-game proposal. Jake Conrad worked with the Bulls to set up a proposal

Ellia came out as a transgender man in his opening address to the Bingham Cup International Summit on ending transphobia and homophobia in sport on August 16, 2022 in Ottawa. The Bingham Cup is the ‘world cup’ of gay and inclusive rugby, held biennially. Ellia represented Australia playing women’s

spectacular romp around the world with 192 of NYC’s sexiest dancers and two wild and worldly standing-room-only audiences led to a sensational evening of record-breaking modern-day burlesque at Broadway Bares: Take Off. Produced by and benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Bares: