How Michael Urie and Lux Pascal prepared for a very queer 'Richard II'
Richard II stars Michael Urie and Lux Pascal and director Craig Baldwin discuss queering the Shakespeare play for its new iteration off-Broadway.
November 12, 2025
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Why Chosen Family Is Even More Important During the Holidays
The holidays can be difficult for those who might be estranged from their families. It's around this time that chosen families can be a real salve.
December 23, 2022
Getty Images, GLAAD Announce Grants for 'Chosen Family' Images
Grants will go to photographers and videographers who create images of chosen families, increasing visibility of the LGBTQ+ community while challenging stereotypes.
October 21, 2022
Spring Awakening's Jonathan Groff & Lea Michele on Their Chosen Family
The best friends chat with The Advocate about the smash musical's anniversary concert and documentary, and how its themes are still critical 15 years later.
May 11, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Hi Fashion Celebrates Chosen Families
The LGBT electro-pop duo premieres 'Mother Sister Father Brother' exclusively with The Advocate.
August 18, 2015
Harvey Guillén on Guillermo Saying 'I'm Gay,' Protecting Chosen Family
The star of FX's What We Do in the Shadows on the show's queer pedigree and getting to the core of TV's favorite familiar.
August 17, 2022
Good Trouble's Maia Mitchell on Leaving Her 'Fosters' Chosen Family
The star and executive producer of the important LGBTQ-inclusive series bid a teary goodbye on and offscreen to the cast and crew who've become her family.
March 17, 2022
Housekeeping for Beginners' queer chosen family has rocky start in exclusive clip
Gay director Goran Stolevski's moving dramedy Housekeeping for Beginners depicts a breadth of love among queer chosen family. We have an exclusive clip.
April 4, 2024
P!nk on 'All I Know So Far' as an Ode to Chosen Family & Queer Fans
The performer, mom, wife, and businesswoman shows how she does it all in the new documentary that also celebrates outsiders.
May 21, 2021
How this trans woman founded a new nation free of hate
Marie-Adélina de la Ferrière tells us why she created a micronation for her and her chosen family.
March 31, 2023
Lesbian Proposal on 'Ellen' After Parents' Rejection Is a Tearjerker
Kate Austin and her fiancee, Sarah, recommitted to their love on Ellen DeGeneres's show before their "chosen" family and the entire viewing audience.
November 20, 2019
Walking the tightrope: Being a queer therapist in a system built to erase us
Opinion: When therapy honors chosen family, queer joy, and resilience, it does more than heal—it resists, argues Whitney Coulson.
October 6, 2025
In the Galleries: Queers In Exile
"Queers In Exile, the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth" focuses on "chosen family," redefining house and home, organizing and political actions, and resistance.
July 18, 2013
Molly Bernard on Playing a Messy Character Buoyed by Queer Family
In the indie Milkwater, the out Younger star plays a flailing straight character held up by her queer chosen family.
June 28, 2021
A Date Takes a Different, Sexy Turn in Web Series 'Only Children'
From gay writer-director Danny Wascou comes an LGBTQ-inclusive dramedy about creating a chosen family. In this clip, a waiter gets a big tip.
September 17, 2018
How Brandi Carlile's New Album Channels Her Muses — and Queer Fans
The Grammy winner chats with The Advocate about how Elton John, Joni Mitchell, the Indigo Girls, and her chosen family figure into her art.
October 1, 2021
Jodie Foster & Annette Bening's 1st 'Nyad' Clip Shows Power of Queer Women's Friendship
In the first clip from the biopic about Diana Nyad's epic Cuba-to-Florida swim, Annette Bening as Nyad and Jodie Foster as her best friend and coach, Bonnie Stoll, depict the value of chosen family.
August 31, 2023
Pantene Ad Centers Trans People Going Home for the Holidays
Members of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles share what "home" means to them.
December 9, 2019
Trans Activist Karina Samala: Sex Work 'Should Be Legalized'
"Mother" Karina Samala talks about her 25+ years of fighting and advocating for trans people in Los Angeles.
March 8, 2019
Jasika Nicole on Unconventional Families in 'Punky Brewster' Reboot
Nicole plays Lauren, Cherie Johnson's girlfriend and an "unofficial auntie" to Punky's kids.
February 23, 2021