Visits: 48 “I’m really inspired by the younger generation to be more open,” said the famous drag king, who shared photos from his very busy Pride month. Murray Hill’s signature catchphrase is a percussive “Showbiz!” When he began performing as …
‘Padam Padam’: You Hear It and You Know It’s Pride
Visits: 37 Kylie Minogue’s latest single appears to be on the fast track to gay-classic status. We asked D.J.s booked for Pride events to weigh in on the track’s devoted cult following. When “Padam Padam,” the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue’s 77th …
Gay Pride? There’s a Candle for That.
Visits: 35 Scents of a tie-in trend include ginger, bergamot and “warm woods.” Every year, millions of people flock to Manhattan festooned in rainbows and feathers and leather to celebrate the annual Pride March. Many of them will traipse down …
In This Nigerian Market, Young Women Find a Place of Their Own
Visits: 26 At the bustling Yaba Market in Lagos, Nigeria, there is something for everyone. Chatter rises from the traders, whose stalls sprawl over miles of cracked gray concrete and packed earth. They might be selling baskets of fresh fruit, …
Ryan Murphy Is Having a Very Happy Halloween
Visits: 23 When he was 14, Ryan Murphy made a cigarette holder out of paper clips so he could pretend he was Norma Desmond and smoke “Sunset Boulevard” style. The television auteur is glad Norma killed her young screenwriter lover …
A Throuple’s Tricky Geometry
Visits: 24 In a couple, a straight line connects two points. With three people in a relationship, many more configurations emerge. A queen-size bed can sleep two adult men comfortably. It can fit three if you don’t mind cuddling — …
Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows
Visits: 18 After graduating from college, I pictured myself scrolling through Grindr, not living with my grandmother. When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, I dreamed of taking my Spanish major and spirit of adventure and …
The Lesbian Perez Hilton of TikTok
Visits: 23 When relationship dramas heated up this summer, she saw an opportunity. For a particular corner of the internet, the world ended this summer. Several internet-famous WLW couples — an abbreviation for “women-loving women” — had made online announcements …
For Queer Couples, Engagement Rings With Subversive Stones
Visits: 30 As one jeweler put it, many of her L.G.B.T.Q. clients want “the opposite of what a diamond is supposed to stand for.” Sapphires, opals and other nontraditional stones have in turn grown more coveted. Salt-and-pepper diamonds used to …
Please, God, Help Me Stop Missing Her
Visits: 20 As an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I tried to “pray my gay away.” It didn’t work. I was scrolling through psychotherapy memes on Instagram a few years ago when Hannah popped up in my friend requests. We each had new …