In its four-season run, Netflix’s teen comedy Sex Education has delved into a breadth of issues affecting every manner of teenager: asexuality, abortion, premature ejaculation, consent, assault, and the wide and wonderful world of vulvas. As a show, the Asa Butterfield, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, and Gillian Anderson-led series became …
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The Canadian government issued a new advisory to its LGBTQ+ citizens traveling to the United States Tuesday, warning them of “laws and policies” certain states have enacted against the drag and transgender communities. On the Canadian government’s official “United Statestravel advice” page, an advisory to Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ — two-spirit, lesbian, …
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Hours before a ban on gender-affirming care was set to take effect in Kentucky, a federal judge stepped in and placed a temporary injunction on the bill. On Wednesday, Judge David J. Hale sided with seven trangender minors, and their families, who sued the state in response to SB 150, …
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The Eldorado, the swinging, anything-goes nightspot that gives the new Netflix documentary Eldorado its name, was an LGBTQ haven during Germany’s Weimar Republic, popular among Berlin’s trans population and anyone else who liked to let their hair down in public. It was also, as the film’s subtitle puts it, Everything …
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Still crying over your cans of Bud Light? Well, that’s too bad, because TikTok star and trans actress Dylan Mulvaney wants the right-wing media —and Bud Light — to know that no amount of backlash will stop her from fighting for her community. Best known for her viral TikTok series …
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Egyptt, Lady P, Ceyenne, Cashmere: they’re all on intimate terms with The Stroll, a strip of 14th Street in the Meatpacking District once popular with Black trans sex workers in pre-yuppified Manhattan. It was a dangerous life; the streetwalkers often didn’t know if they’d be beaten up by the johns …
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Louisiana lawmakers advanced a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state, the New York Times reported. The legislation wouldban hormone treatments and puberty blockers for young people, as well as gender-affirming surgeries. Backed by three Democratic senators, the legislation was approved with a wide-enough margin to …
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Elliot Page‘s coming-of-age experience was already complicated enough — then his career compounded his struggles. In a recent interview with ABC News, the actor discussed the layering impact his gender dysphoria had on him as he began encountering more terminology that accurately described his experience. “The experiences I had in …
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The first half of the Hulu documentary Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl is a passable overview of the turn-of-the-21st-century heiress-celebrity scene, plus some of the bloggers who made their names as barnacles on the gilded ship. You probably know most of the boldfaced names: Paris and Nicky Hilton, …
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Friday, March 31, marks the Transgender Day of Visibility, an international celebration of transgender people and a day of awareness of the harassment and danger trans individuals can face. In honor of the day, the LGBTQ+ non-profit The Trevor Project will release its first episode of Sharing Space, a series …
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