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, …
Reinventing the Humble Tank Top
Visits: 23 The first look at Matthieu Blazy’s much-anticipated debut for Bottega Veneta was none other than a plain ribbed cotton tank top. At Prada, a slim-fitting undershirt-style white tank, this one featuring a small triangular logo at the scooped …
In ‘Apocalyptic Times,’ Marching Forward Together
Visits: 26 Melody Sage, who is queer, and Rosco Kickingstone, a transgender man, wed before the Trans March during San Francisco Pride, on the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned. While dancing around a bonfire to the rhythms of …
Not Your Average Pride Event
Visits: 25 Dyke Day LA takes a homespun approach to a month typically packed with corporate-sponsored parties, parades and concerts. Last weekend, droves of people descended on a 15-acre park in northeast Los Angeles for an afternoon of picnicking, mingling, …
L.G.B.T.Q. TV Representation Falls for First Time in 5 Years, Glaad Finds
Visits: 34 For the first time in five years, L.G.B.T.Q. representation on television decreased, an annual report by the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization Glaad has found. The percentage of regular characters scheduled to appear on prime-time scripted broadcast television who identified …
Ray Davies on 50 Years of ‘Lola’
Visits: 33 In 1970, homosexual acts were still outlawed in parts of the United Kingdom and would remain so for more than a decade. Yet two years before the nation even had its first official Gay Pride rally, the quintessentially …
Harassment Against Gay and Trans People on TikTok
Visits: 33 ImageChris (at left) in a duet responding to James Charles on TikTok.Credit…via @notdonelij Chris smiles widely as a video of Miso Chan, a transgender creator presenting as a young woman with pink hair, plays next to him. A …
Will They See Me as a Son, a Daughter or a Stranger?
Visits: 35 Unlike my mother’s usual emails (with the entire message crammed into the subject line), this one had no text, only an attached photo. I clicked on the file and reeled at the picture of her, emaciated, with a …
J.K. Rowling’s Fans Imagine Harry Potter World Without Her
Visits: 53 ImageFan at the opening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in 2010 in Harrisonburg, Va.Credit…Traci White/Daily News-Record, via Associated Press When J.K. Rowling was accused of transphobia about two years ago for “liking” a tweet that referred …