LGBTQ
Pride and Billy Elliot: same strike, contrasting portrayals
July 5, 2024Both Billy Elliot and Pride are set during the pivotal 1984-5 Miners’ Union strike in northern England, where miners struggled for over a year against the implacable Thatcher government to win better working conditions.
Read moreNew book: Winning LGBTQ inclusion is also a fight for popular culture
June 28, 2024Author Susan Burgess makes the argument in her newest title.
Read morePride archives: Love and solidarity on tap for Pulse workers in Orlando
June 12, 2024Remembering the Pulse nightclub massacre, seven years later.
Read more‘Pender Denton—Outlaw’: An affecting, understated Old West gay love story
April 18, 2024The love that dared not speak its name has been shouting from the rooftops for well over half-a-century now. And in Martin David’s new book, it’s making an appearance at an even earlier time.
Read moreRepublican book bans aim to erase LGBTQ people, again
April 8, 2024Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer continues its troubled run as the country’s most “controversial” book.
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