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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner “Growing up in the early 2000s, I rarely saw queer people in the media and long wanted to change that,” recalls Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner. And she has. […]

Linda Lewis In 2008, Linda Lewis provided entertainment to one local Pride celebration. Eleven years later, she facilitated most of the entertainment for WorldPride NYC. Now, Lewis’s Left of Center […]

Kimberleigh Joy Smith For Kimberleigh Joy Smith, Senior Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at New York’s Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, observing the effects of the AIDS crisis was pivotal […]

Jodie Dawson & Kristine-Ellis Petrik A clinical psychologist and an award-winning journalist walk into a coffee shop: what sounds like the setup for a joke is a dream fully realized […]

Megan Rapinoe Olympic gold medalist, two-time World Cup Champion and New York Times-bestselling author: Megan Rapinoe is a legend, no question. But for the out soccer star and fan favorite […]

Hua Boonyapisomparn “Like other families, my parents have always been worried about me being a trans woman, because they heard and saw other trans people being discriminated against and experiencing […]

Gabriela Santiago-Romero “Growing up, I only saw old, white men in [political] office, and I thought that was a requirement,” Gabriela Santiago-Romero tells GO. “If it wasn’t for leaders like […]

Sam Kirk “As a public artist, I have this amazing opportunity to make a statement that thousands of people will see,” Sam Kirk tells GO. When Kirk was young, her […]

Alex Hanna “After I came out as a trans woman in graduate school, I started wondering about the connection of queer people and data,” Dr. Alex Hanna tells GO. “Queer […]

Wednesday Martin “Our world is so richly weird,” says Wednesday Martin. The cultural critic and author of books like Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity […]

Tabitha Jackson “While I could never have presumed to dream that one day this queer little mixed-race girl from rural England would be responsible for the Sundance Film Festival, I […]

Jen Tullock “Growing up gay in conservative Kentucky meant growing up with an obscured mirror,” actor Jen Tullock reflects. “I didn’t know what other versions of myself looked like.” Tullock, […]

Amanda Chidester In 2019, softball player Amanda “Chiddy” Chidester (l) was cut from Team USA. Though many would have thrown in the towel, Chidester took a different approach. “In that […]

From Miami to Atlanta to Northwestern New Mexico, power couple Veronica Paige and Bridgette Young pull off the perfect wedding.

Suzanne Feldman “I clearly remember standing on a chair in preschool, telling my schoolmates the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff,” Suzanne Feldman tells GO. “Possibly it was their […]

Kaela S. Singleton On Twitter, Dr. Kaela S. Singleton calls herself the “Beyoncé of Neuroscience.” The Black, Samoan, and queer neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow at Emory University School of Medicine […]

From groundbreaking memoirs to rereleased favorites to joyful romances, these titles have something for everyone—and they’re all very, very gay.

LezVolley attracts thousands each year to watch the games and experience an entertainment-packed (and gay AF) beach day like no other. 

Three queer women, one Honda SUV and perhaps the longest bar crawl ever. 

The 33rd annual NewFest LGBTQ+ Film and Media Festival kicks off in theaters and at home on October 15.

What can you expect from this magic weekend? Lesbians. As far as the eye can see.

From memoirs to young adult fiction to classic retellings, for you to dive into as you sip a lemonade or prosecco in your coolest swimsuit with a cutie by your side.

“Taylor Swift Made Me a U-Haul Dyke.”

You’ve heard of goat yoga…but what about a lesbian llama wedding?

The book is about other girls like me and it is also about a time when I discovered that other girls liked me.

Queer representation in horror films is a tradition as old as trick-or-treat.

“If I had seen someone who looked like me onstage taking up space as an openly queer artist, it would have really helped me understand my identity and feel like I belonged.”

Thanks to “Folklore,” I now see myself in Taylor’s music.

With “PANTS”, all of our “L Word” reunion dreams come true every week.

Cute snuggling partner(s) not included.

Much like my own sexuality, the strawberry dress both took me by surprise and seemed…inevitable.

Bonus: no one dies in a swimming pool.

“Race and sexuality are inextricably linked.”

I’m still thinking about *the* threesome…

Why not serve your Zoom colleagues a lewk they’ll never forget?

If you wonder what Sophie was reading at her grandma’s bedside on “Gen Q,” we have the answer.