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The song is a glittery pop banger swirling with 80s-inspired synths and catchy hooks. Lyrically, it speaks of overcoming heartbreak and becoming the person you’re meant to be, with a message of hope for the future. “Look At Me Now is about coming out on top after ending a bad relationship, about wanting something better for yourself and the reaction of friends and lovers who don’t understand why you want that,” explain Futuretape. “It’s also about being proud and about how...

BibleGirl, self-described “internet reality trash” and pop culture-savvy meme queen, has paved her own way to notoriety without the help of RuPaul and her reality show behemoth. You’ll see her at DragCon alongside the A-list queens, and you’ll hear her name pop up in countless fandom discussions, but you’ll also see her poking fun at herself on social media – and probably stirring up drama there, too. “I would describe my drag as being an amalgamation of satire and...

Paras Griffin / Getty Images “There’s been plenty of speculation about this hot young r&b star’s sexuality, but most of it has been drowned out by the adoration by fans and famous alike,” wrote the gossip site Bossip in 2012. “After keeping folks guessing in 2011, this soul singer will answer any questions about which team he’s swinging for with his upcoming musical release.”This was a...

The iconic series, which heralded the new normal of high-budget streaming originals, has been going strong for six seasons now, largely thanks to its no-nonsense approach to important social issues like racism, transphobia and police brutality. So fans were rightly disappointed when Netflix confirmed that the just-released seventh season will be its last – but its legacy will live on, as expressed by a series of testimonials from fans in a new video released by Netflix. “Without the show I probably...

“And I’m kind of blown away by it,” he says of the Jonathan O’Boyle-directed production currently playing at the Soho Theatre. “I think it is equal to the New York production or even better.” The LA-born/NYC-based Vernon first put on the show – inspired by the 1973 arson attack on New Orleans gay bar The UpStairs Lounge in which 32 people died – as a 2013 concert. Four years later, it was fully-staged Off-Broadway and has been performed at numerous...

MTV’s dating show Are You The One? is back for its eighth season with a gloriously queer twist: every one of the cast members this year is sexually fluid. “Welcome to the most ambitious matchmaking experiment ever attempted,” said host Ryan Devlin. 16 sexy singletons from all across the US have flown to Hawaii for the summer in hopes to find their perfect match. And the best part is, there are no gender limitations. The aim of the game is...

By filling its world-renowned Hayward Gallery with more than 100 artworks by around 30 queer artists active in the last 50 years, and building a strand of LGBTQ summer programming around it, London’s Southbank Centre is cementing its queer ally status and making a political statement. According to Guest Curator Vincent Honoré, “Kiss My Genders is a wonderful celebration welcoming the brilliant differences and the rich spectra of genders within our society.” Here we speak to Honoré about the purpose and...

According to Guest Curator Vincent Honoré, “Kiss My Genders is a wonderful celebration welcoming the brilliant differences and the rich spectra of genders within our society.” Here we speak to Honoré about the purpose and potential of Kiss My Genders, before finding out what inspired Jenkin van Zyl, the exhibition’s youngest artist, to fly to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to make a “kaleidoscopic horror” film that’s gut-punchingly powerful. Southbank Centre Vincent Honoré. A few weeks into the exhibition’s three-month run, I call Honoré, who’s...

Remember last year when BenDeLaCreme eliminated herself on the third season of Drag Race All Stars and made herstory as the only contestant to do so on the main stage? Yeah, it was a gag, but… we’re not here to talk about that. This year, the terminally delightful two-time Snatch Game winner launched her fourth critically-acclaimed solo show, Ready to be Committed, which follows her character as she embraces her inner bridezilla (sorta) for her upcoming nuptials. “The fight for marriage...

The Pawtucket Red Sox are taking some heat on social media after inviting former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to toss the first pitch Friday night, the very evening the Rhode Island minor league team celebrated “Pride Night at the Ballpark.” Reports by the Associated Press and the Boston Globe noted Spicer is a Rhode Island native who joined a disabled veteran, Carlos Lopes, in throwing out the ceremonial pitch. Longreads sports columnist Britni de la Cretaz tweeted...

Being queer can be tough, and that’s often reflected on screen when our stories are told through the medium of film. That’s great, because it’s important to see realistic representation. But what if we want to see a message of hope instead? They may be hard to find, but there are some LGBTQ films out there with happy endings. We’ve rounded up 10 of our favourites below. Enjoy! Cast: The Way He Looks is an award-winning Brazilian coming-of-age teen rom-com that...

The coming-of-age tale – which charts the life of a disenfranchised African-American man in poverty-stricken Miami – received widespread acclaim upon release, especially for its inclusion of queer men of colour. Moonlight ultimately received eight nominations at the 89th Academy Awards and won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Best Adapted Screenplay. It became the first film with an all-black cast to win Best Picture. IndieWire recently published their top 100 movies of the decade and Moonlight received the...

Good news came from this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, where actress Tessa Thompson revealed that for the first time ever in the Marvel superhero movies there will be an explicitly LGBTQ character played by her. Tessa will reprise her role as Valkyrie in the new movie Thor: Love and Thunder which is expected to come out in November 2021. In the movie, Valkyrie will be in search of a queen...

Netflix have released the first trailer for Dear White People’s upcoming third season. After the explosive events of season two, which saw Samantha White (Logan Browning) lose her father and stumble across a massive conspiracy theory, the character proclaims in the trailer that she’s “done” with her radio show. So this time around, her bff Joelle Brooks (Ashley Blaine Feathers) is taking her spot in the radio booth. “The show is going to be a little different with your girl, we’re...