The drag queen, Pattie Gonia, has been an environmental and political activist for several years and has amassed an impressive following of over 2 million people across their social channels. They have raised millions of dollars for environmental and social justice non-profits, co-founded the environmental equity organization Outdoorist Oath, and was featured as one of TIME’s most […]
David Hockney Radically Illuminated Queer Desire
Multi-media British queer artist David Hockney recently died at 88 years of age. His art collaged together an ordinary and beautiful gay existence at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the United Kingdom, making his work quite transgressive. He avoided the usual cultural narratives that depicted gay men as tragic, deviant, and secretive, […]
Pride – The Musical!
Pride, a new musical at London’s National Theatre, tells the true story of a London-based activist group, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) who helped financially support the members of the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley colliery community during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The musical is based on the 2014 film, Pride, which tells […]
Montreal Sex Workers Strike During Grand Prix Weekend
During Montreal’s F1 weekend, the city’s sex workers working in clubs went on strike to protest working conditions and practices. The timing of the strike was significant as the F1 weekend is one of the busiest times of the year for the city’s clubs. The striking workers are pushing back against their status as independent […]
Pornhub Sapphic Launches
On May 26, 2026, Pornhub launched Pornhub Sapphic, a new platform created especially for women. Pornhub Sapphic will be “built for the female gaze,” according to a press release shared with Mashable, and designed for WLW (women loving women) audiences. The ads that appear on the site will be targeted toward women instead of the […]
Animals Just Looking for Tail
It’s a story about dating and falling in love but set in the animal world. The creators of Big Mouth have a new raunchy animated series about animals looking for “tail.” Mating Season begins with a bear named Josh realizing that he has hibernated for too long and his mate has left him for an […]
Tarps Off, Mates!
A viral trend has been spreading across Major League Baseball stadiums, where groups of fans remove their shirts and swing them over their heads in coordinated celebration. The behavior, amplified by social media, has turned into a kind of informal stadium ritual. It has created a mix of spectacle and controversy, with some fans embracing […]
Canadian Fiddler Sues Over AI Claiming He was a Sex Offender
We reported earlier this year on Canadian fiddle-player and songwriter Ashley MacIsaac, who suffered concert cancellations after Google’s AI Overview published claims that he was guilty of sexually assaulting a woman and of luring a child with sexual intent. He has now filed a $1.5 million defamation suit against Google, alleging both material damages and […]
Sex Work Exhibition Opens at German Museum
The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn opens a special exhibition on the cultural history of sex work, based on a collaboration with sex worker researchers, based on the principle “Nothing About Us Without Us.” From the museum’s online announcement: “The exhibition highlights the creative and artistic role that sex workers also play. To tell a cultural history […]
How to Own Your Narrative
Nillin Lore’s recently published Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage (Thornapple Press, March 20, 2026) is a self-help book of sorts for Queer and Trans people. The chapters span topics from self-advocacy to finding community and dealing with queer/transphobia. Gender and sexuality are both front and centre in contemporary moral panics around […]