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Jack Haven Is Making Their Own Kind of Trans Art

“There’s a movie that I really want to do that’s a girl part and then I’m done. I’m excited to give myself the gift of being an out trans person.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 3, 2024

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Maddie Rowan in the documentary Girls State

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‘Girls State’ Documentary Reveals Limitations of a Mock Government

Maddie Rowan, a queer teen from the documentary, speaks to Autostraddle about growing up queer in Missouri and what it was like to be at the camp when the Roe…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 17, 2024

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After Decades of Queer Filmmaking, Patricia Rozema Is Still Full of Ideas

“I’m mesmerized by how we need stories like we need air. When humans have time off, when they don’t have to feed themselves or their children, and they have a…

Marya E. Gates —

Apr 5, 2024

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Bodybuilding Icon Bev Francis Reveals Real World Behind ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

“It’s pretty simple. I wanted to win. That’s pretty much it, I wanted to be Ms. Olympia.”

Stef Rubino —

Apr 4, 2024

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The Polyamorous Devils of “Couple to Throuple” Are Ready to Blow Up Gender Norms

Peacock’s polyamorous dating show Couple to Throuple got two things right: Ash and Maximo.

Gabe Dunn —

Mar 7, 2024

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Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir

“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”

Gen —

Feb 6, 2024

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Venita Blackburn and the novel Dead in Long Beach, California

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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It

“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”

Daven McQueen —

Jan 24, 2024

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Alyson Stoner on the Power of Movement and Queer Joy

“One of the most beautiful things, especially in the queer experience, is joy.”

Motti —

Dec 25, 2023

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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky

“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting…

Gen —

Dec 11, 2023

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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure

“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”

Gen —

Nov 27, 2023

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Todd Haynes on “May December,” Queer Community, and Making Art in a Vile World

“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Nov 17, 2023

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E.R. Fightmaster on Loving Femmes, James Bond, and Their New EP “Violence”

“I think the thing that’s hot about transmasc people is there’s no encouragement to be transmasc. In order to have our identity, we have to be as in touch with…

Motti —

Nov 6, 2023