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A Kenyan LGBTQ rights organization has adopted a virtual legal aid platform that allows its lawyers to offer free services to queer people remotely.

Madonna’s lesbian ex-girlfriend and Ricky Martin’s skimpy outfits took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things you may have missed. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it…BREAKING HER SILENCE: Melania revealed she’s finally (finally!) ready to address her nude girl-on-girl photo scandal… nine years after the fact.

Detective Comics #27.You see, later comic-book adventures of Batman and sidekick Robin suggested the two characters weren’t just partners but partners—as you’ll see below—and it wasn’t long before people came to the understandable conclusion that Bruce Wayne is a hero in the streets and a queero in the sheets.In the 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a book frequently criticized for homophobia, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham called out “a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature ‘Batman’ and his friend ‘Robin’” and warned that the “Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.”Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Wertham even quotes a “young homosexual” who saw that homoeroticism and imagined a gay future for himself. “I found my liking, my sexual desires, in comic books,” that young man said.

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re revisiting the 1993 Spanish-language buddy comedy Strawberry & Chocolate. September is Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States, which celebrates the histories, cultures, and contributions of people in America that come from Latin America, the Caribbean, and other Hispanic regions.

Parker Gray and David Coffee in Theatre Arlington’s ‘Visiting Mr. Green.’ (Courtesy photo)