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Madonna released her latest music video to her song God Control yesterday and, as usual, it has everyone talking. The eight minute video was directed by frequent Madonna collaborator Jonas Åkerlund and includes a cameo by Monét X Change. It makes strong statement about gun violence in America by depicting a horrific massacre inside a nightclub, where a white male gunman enters and slaughters everyone in sight. The reference, of course, is the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Later, the video incorporates real-life footage of protesters...

A trailer for Orange is the New Black’s seventh (and final!) season has been released, and it’s sure to be an emotional farewell. Throughout its run, the women’s prison-based series has tackled important issues like transphobia, racism, and police corruption and brutality. “What do we do when we reach the place where we don’t know what to do?” Taystee (Danielle Brooks) asks in the new trailer. It’s a question for the inmates at Litchfield prison as much as it is for many of...

Michael Marchese (image via YouTube screenshot)If you’re looking for some serious family drama, just check out what’s happening with a family from Bravo’s reality series Real Housewives of New Jersey. Fans of the show might recognize James Marchese as husband of Amber. Together they’re raising four kids: two biological kids and two stepchildren from James’ ex-wife, including a gay stepson named Michael. In a recently launched GoFundMe page, Michael claims that James kicked him out of his house in 2018...

Among the 2,222 ill-fated passengers and crew on board the Titanic were folks of varied backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and professions. (Fun fact — the survivors of the Titanic were first housed in New York City’s Jane Street Hotel, which served as the original Off-Broadway home of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch 86 years later. Coincidence? Yes absolutely.) And historians have just made an incredible discovery about the “Unsinkable Ship” — according to recently unearthed footage, one passenger was...

Socrates marks Brazilian-American Alex Moratto’s debut as a feature director. The story follows the titular Brazilian teen (played by Christian Malheiros in his debut) following the death of his mother. Stricken with grief, he scrambles to come up with enough money to live on his own and avoid the reach of his abusive father. He also wrestles with his budding feelings for Maicon (newcomer Tales Ordakji), a handsome friend with a secret. Socrates plays Frameline, the San Francisco-based queer media arts foundation,...

Willow SmithIn the most recent episode of the Facebook web series Red Table Talk, 18-year-old Willow Smith, the daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, came out as bisexual. Her mother also admitted that she and her husband are in a non-sexual throuple with another woman. In the series, members of the Smith family and guests discuss “controversial topics.” The latest episode was entitled “Unconventional Relationships: Can Multiple Partners Work?” While discussing the topic, Willow told her mother Jada...

 CR: Macall Polay/FXPose continues its reign as the most fabulous show on television. Now in its second season, the Ryan Murphy-produced drama about the New York drag ball scene in 1980s and 90s New York has attracted a loyal fanbase and wide critical acclaim for a diverse cast and examination of queer history. The new clip shares some candid moments with the cast as they returned to film the new season, as well as insight to the ways in which...

Just in time to wrap up Pride Month, the popular web series I’m Fine comes back for one last bow. Beginning in 2016, I’m Fine chronicled the life of Nate (Perry Powell), a 20-something Los Angeles guy trying to recover after a nasty break-up, with his zany group of friends trying to lend a hand. Or do they just make things worse? I’m Fine won praise for its depiction of loneliness, the perils of dating in the smartphone age, and for its astute...

The face of Spanish-language soaps has changed courtesy of Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca, the new Mexican telenovela–the first ever to focus on a gay couple Juntos el Corazón Nunca se Equivoca (translated as “Together the Heart is Never Wrong”) follows the love affair between Aris (played by Emilio Osorio) and Temo (played by Joaquín Bondoni), two 16 year old boys in love. Their affair began on the popular soap Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia, which became the most watched show...

In an announcement that sent the Twitterverse into convulsions, Spider-Man: Far From Home star Tom Holland has revealed that Jake Gyllenhaal made it so he couldn’t walk. The two have been working out together while on a press tour for Far From Home which sees Holland reprise his role as Spider-Man and Gyllenhaal take on the role of the villain Mysterio. Holland told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that he finally had to decline a workout with Gyllenhaal because Holland was so...

Netflix recently released the 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, a dramatic post-apocalyptic series in which young people control large bio-mechanical suits to fight off giant destructive monsters. And while fans were initially excited to have the entire series at their fingertips, they quickly realized that Netflix’s new “English-language translation and voice track dials back famous homoerotic subtext,” according to Vox.com. Vox writes: In one particular scene, a boy named Kaworu declares his love for Shinji…. or at least he used...

Plans for a filmed version of the Tony Award-nominated musical The Prom have moved forward, with the announcement of the casting of several key roles. The Prom earned positive notice on Broadway for its musical adaptation of a true story about a lesbian teen who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom in rural Indiana. The school’s reaction kicks off a media circus over the right of queer teens to take whom they choose to school events. Earlier this...

Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench has stepped up to defend Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey’s work. Both men have been accused of sexual misconduct. The legend of stage and screen, noted for roles in Shakespeare in Love and as M in the James Bond films, has a long history working under Weinstein at Miramax Films, and with Spacey who held the position of Artistic Director at the Old Vic theatre in London. During that time Dench developed friendships with both men,...

Jerry Mitchell with his Tony AwardSirens sound as I pick up the phone. “Sorry, I’m on the New York street.” Jerry Mitchell apologizes for the noise. The out-gay Tony Award-winning director and choreographer of shows like Hairspray, Legally Blonde and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels sounds a bit out of breath. We don’t need to ask why. In addition to having just wrapped the annual benefit Broadway Bares, a burlesque review that raises money for HIV/AIDS research, just the week before, Mitchell is unveiling his cinematic production...