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To fans of Betty Who, the queer Australian pop star is one of the music industry’s best-kept secrets — a whirlwind of Eighties pop and synth influences that can captivate festivals and intimate venues alike. Those closer to the singer and artist, who uses she/they pronouns, might be more familiar …

A Florida Republican wants to expand the some of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” gender identity restrictions into the Sunshine State’s workplaces. On Tuesday, Florida state Rep. Ryan Chamberlin introduced HB 599, a bill that would ban government employees from being required to use the preferred pronouns of their colleagues, …

The Trevor Project — the nonprofit suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth — is shuttering its X account, the group announced on Thursday, citing “increased hate and vitriol on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community.” In particular, the organization called out X’s (formerly Twitter‘s) lax content moderation as the key …

There’s a fine line for what the Recording Academy considers eligible for Best Contemporary Christian Album at the Grammys. In the case of drag queen Christian singer Flamy Grant, that line was drawn over several curse words. Grant, whose offstage name is Matthew Blake and uses they/them pronouns when not …

Destiny Rogers is celebrating her identity as a queer Latina by reimagining a Selena Quintanilla classic. On Wednesday, to celebrate National Coming Out Day, a year after revealing her bisexual identity in an interview with Rolling Stone, Rogers released a snippet of a queer-coded version of Quintanilla’s “I Could Fall …

P atricio Manuel sits silently backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. He’s in the back corner of the white-tarpaulined gazebo as he waits to be called to the ring of the 3,000-seater events center here in Indio, California. Inside the thin tent walls, he can hear the hubbub of …

In the larger-than-life world of lucha libre, there are “technicos” (good guys who fight for truth, justice, and the rule-abiding way) and there are “rudos” (villains who lie, cheat, and steal victories). There’s also a third category that’s neither hero nor heel, however, and that’s the “exotico.” A relatively late …

Chappell Roan was getting ready to perform in London this summer when one of the drag queens she’d picked to open her show told her: “You’re a drag queen. You know that, right?” Those words led to an immediate epiphany for the singer. She realized her stage name, the costumes, …

The rainbow colors of the LGBTQ pride flag have flooded the stage every night during RBD’s Soy Rebelde Tour, which kicked off on Aug. 25. Christian Chávez, a charismatic member of the 5-person band, uses this moment to launch into a special solo performance of RBD songs.He often wears sparkly …

When rising pop singer Yadam went to Madrid’s Pride celebration in June, he chose an outfit that he knew would strike up a conversation back home in Venezuela. “They tell us it’s okay to be queer as long as we’re not effeminate,” he captioned a post about that day. “Today, …