Hacks, Somebody Somewhere lead LGBTQ critics’ Dorian TV Awards nominations
The Society of LGBTQ Critics just announced the nominees for the 14th Dorian Awards, honoring the best of television in the past year.
‘Is he … you know?’: Literature’s best queer-coded characters
Literature is full of queer-coded characters like Jo March in Little Women, reminding us that LGBTQ+ representation has come far but still has a long way to go.
Heartstopper trailer shows Netflix’s next big romantic series
The Heartstopper graphic novel is coming to Netflix as a series. It’s an LGBT coming-of-age tale about two teenage boys who may be falling for each other.
Carl Nassib: First NFL player to come out as gay does so on Instagram
Carl Nassib came out as gay in an Instagram post, making NFL history as the first openly LGBTQ active player. The 28-year-old Las Vegas Raiders defensive end came out in…
How to improve LGBTQ mental health care post-pandemic
The pandemic — with its requisite physical distancing, economic strain, and continued racial trauma — only exacerbated the many mental health challenges already facing LGBTQ community, and particularly LGBTQ youth.…
The ‘queer aesthetic’ is deeper than rainbow merch
Mashable is celebrating Pride Month by exploring the modern LGBTQ world, from the people who make up the community to the spaces where they congregate, both online and off. As…
The pandemic offered a unique chance for many people to come out as queer
Alyssa McGill came of age in the mid-1990s, when former President Clinton established homophobic doctrines like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act. Both of those have…
The ‘super straight’ campaign taking over TikTok is actually just ugly transphobic trolling
News flash: The “super straight” trend on social media, where users claim a “new sexuality” which demands the same respect as those with marginalized sexual identities, is actually just blatant…
‘It’s a Sin’ star Omari Douglas explains the 1980s AIDS epidemic in the UK
It’s a Sin, the hit miniseries from Channel 4 (and now streaming on HBO Max) follows the lives of young people directly affected by the AIDS crisis in 1980s UK.…
TikTok’s algorithms knew I was bi before I did. I’m not the only one.
When we spend so much of our time online, we’re bound to learn something while clicking and scrolling. Discover something new with Mashable’s series I learned it on the internet.…