Pride Month is here. Along with celebrating our authentic selves, I think of June as a time to celebrate how far we have come — and how far we still need to go. Because of the tireless work by LGBTQ+ ...

Kesha has always made music for the ones who don't quite fit — the glitter-covered misfits, the too-loud, the still-figuring-it-out. You know, the animals, as she calls them. So it feels like more ...

Tiny Jag does not seem particularly interested in becoming easier to package, which makes the rapper a perfect fit for Pride. For fans looking for queer art that feels fearless, deeply human and ...

Dave Wait has always been an activist at heart. In eighth grade, Wait organized a sit-in at school when the cafeteria refused to serve chocolate milk. The group of disgruntled students got hauled down ...

I’m writing this on June 1, 2026, the first day of Pride. Pride Month is a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ people and history and to ...

This article was originally published by Uncloseted Media. On his first day back in office, President Trump signed Executive Order 14168, which contains several provisions rolling back trans rights ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn't just a regular mom — she's a cool mom. She'll tell you herself. Or rather, her outfit will. She strides into the living room of her Lansing residence in all black, a ...

Grace Rother's quilt is very much in process: rich shades of green in the center, with small fabric houses framing the green, raw outside edges. She calls it HOMES. “It’s this feeling of having ...

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Why did you name your new album "Insomniac"? I've had problems sleeping since I was a kid because I was always hyperactive. But I made this album mostly at night, and I would come back home and I ...

Elyon Badger doesn't look anything like how one expects a candidate for office to look. Often clad in marijuana-themed attire or a honey badger fursuit, Badger — alias Samuel Smeltzer — is running for ...

Bynum and Thomas had to believe in themselves, though, to move across country to an unfamiliar and misunderstood city. Bynum, an artist, and Thomas, who has a PhD in physics from the University of ...