Robin Kish

Since we launched, Women We Love, which includes cisgender and transgender women across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, has featured nearly 2,000 women, each of whom has worked in her own way to make her community, her state, her country, or the larger global environment a better and more inclusive place for us all.

It all comes back to that little girl, belting out Cher in front of the mirror in the home of her Armenian family.

“There is power in our votes.”

“I always knew I had a calling on my life.”

A completely retooled NYC Pride returns with a full roster of in-person events committed to inclusivity, diversity, and activism. NYC Pride 2022 Is “Unapologetically Us.”

GO Magazine is proud to present 100 Women We Love, a celebration of out, proud, and amazing women who continue to make our world a better place.

What would Lea DeLaria be like as president? “Impeachable,” the comedy legend says, without missing a beat.  I can’t see her asking a favor of the president of Ukraine or […]

Forget the bows and the blonde ponytail – JoJo Siwa has a swaggy new look. Siwa, who came out as part of the queer community last year, posted a video […]

One leader of the country’s far-right Mi Hazánk party shredded the book in a public display, calling it “homosexual propaganda.”

“I think that, when you layer gender and sexuality, and race on storytelling, it gets harder and harder and harder to tell your story sometimes, and the amount of space or permission you have to do that can really become smaller, and smaller and smaller.”

“I do not want to live under someone’s pressure, under someone’s negative attitude.”

“It’s indicative that doors are opening,” DeBose shared with reporters following her win.

From celesbian weddings to political nominations, Black history month closes out with some truly historic moments.

“I don’t care if it’s a tiny movie where I’m making no money or a giant show. Because the reason I do what I do, and love what I do, is about storytelling, and expressing those moments of human interaction that are both beautiful and agonizing.”

Georgia has a long and sordid history of violating LGBTQ+ rights. It took an attack on the press for us to finally pay attention.

There’s no sadness that a gay bar can’t cure.

Set in the mid aughts, “Girls on Jane,” explores the characters’ personal crises and sexual escapades as they navigate life and the lesbian dating scene. It’s a world away from Covid, a throwback to the time when meeting people required more than simply swiping right. 

“It’s like a message from the 80s direct to today.”

“When I’m watching television, especially something that’s very queer-centered, I try to turn that part of my brain off. But — spoiler alert — you can’t. It’s always there.”

Rather than feel that I had fallen into some lesbian version of Candyland, my attraction to the women around me reminded me that my sexuality likely marked me as an outsider. 

When it comes to investigations involving marginalized individuals, “there isn’t the same level of attention to detail that you get when someone from the majority population goes missing, or is murdered,” Pongo says.

“Regardless of how society has changed in the last 17 years,” Kate Moenning, who plays Shane, tells GO, “what hasn’t changed is the primal desire to be seen and to love and be loved.” 

Dave’s Lesbian Bar could be coming to Astoria, with your help.

As important as they are, bars tell only part of the story.

Every June, GO Magazine compiles a select list of talented tastemakers, influencers, and all-around inspirational women who are making their mark on the LGBTQ+ community and on the world at large.

“Show up to the bars,” Street says. It’s not enough to lament the loss of the lesbian bars of old; we have to support those that are still here, “to show up to the brick and mortar. It’s a form of activism.” 

HAPPY PRIDE!

Equal Ground is Sri Lanka’s oldest non profit LGBTQ+ advocacy group, raising awareness of rights and visibility in a country that officially offers no protections for queer and gender non-conforming people.

Updated at 3:45 p.m. E.T. Jurors have reached a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. The New York Times reports it will be read between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. C.S.T. […]

Although the future will likely come with social distancing restrictions, it’s good to know that the pandemic hasn’t completely robbed us of these beloved spaces. 

Here’s to women fighting the good fight!

“I will say that this is the very first role on television that I played a queer person and I have been doing this for almost 20 years. The fact that this is the first time, that is so telling to me — and the funny thing is, I don’t know what it’s telling me, but it’s telling me something that I don’t really like.”

“I want them to learn that redemption is possible. I’ve evolved emotionally and psychologically, and I’m proud of how far I have come.”

“The most important thing is to hold on and resist.”

We may have left 2020 behind us, but the year left many of us devastated.

Let’s be honest: NO ONE is going to miss 2020.