Mary Wings Just Wanted An Orgasm When She Created The First Lesbian Comic Book
Mary Wings knew she desired women way before she knew the word lesbian. When she finally learned the term at 21 years old, her first thought was how funny it…
Aidan Key On How He Creates Space For Kids To Explore Their Gender
Over 20 years ago, Aidan Key began his own exploration of his transgender identity. Today, he acts a crucial and lifesaving resource for families and children engaged in their own…
Stonewall Inn Owners: ‘This Is The Gay Church. This Is Where It All Began.’
Just over 10 years ago, it looked like The Stonewall Inn was going out of business. “It had nothing really to do about the gay community anymore by that time,”…
Model Munroe Bergdorf Is Beating The Odds As A Transgender Woman Of Color
Welcome to Yahoo Lifestyle, Pride Edition, commemorating Pride Month —June — with a collection of stories celebrating the resilience of LGBTQ people, from celebs, including Adam Rippon and Karamo Brown,…
Transgender Celeb Laverne Cox Talks About Her Greatest Challenge: ‘Getting Out Of My Own Way’
When Laverne Cox first burst onto the pop culture scene through her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black” — becoming the first trans…
Puberty At 33: A Trans Woman’s Mid-Life Coming Of Age
Note: This article contains images of nudity. The first photograph in Jennifer Loeber’s series “Gyrle” was taken in 1987 at a “hippie camp,” as she describes it, wedged inside Massachusetts’…
How LGBTQ People Have Fought To Reform Gun Laws In The Wake Of Pulse Massacre
On June 12, 2016, about 300 people gathered in a meeting room at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. They were spilling into the hallways because the center didn’t have…
Surviving The Pulse Massacre Propelled This Gay Man Into Gun Reform Activism
Brandon Wolf is one of a group of survivors who made it out of Pulse nightclub alive in the early hours of July 12, 2016. His best friend, Christopher Leinonen,…
Gay Self-Loathing Hasn’t Gone Away. It Just Looks Nothing Like ‘Boys In The Band.’
“Show me a happy homosexual, and I’ll show you a gay corpse,” a swanning Catholic with maxed-out credit cards and a snazzy Manhattan apartment sneers in “The Boys in the…
Big Freedia: My Voice Is All I Need To Break Barriers
Big Freedia did not come to play with you hoes, as she’d say. She came to break barriers and make noise and live out loud. Really loud. You may have…