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Cynthia Nixon is leaning into queer joy, art, and family between protests

The Gilded Age and And Just Like That... star graces the cover of our annual Pride issue and opens up about balancing career, family, and fighting for equality.

Why Are Lesbian Bars Special?

For LGBTQ+ History Month, the author of Moby Dyke discusses why lesbian bars are so sacred — and why it's so hard to find info on them online.

Viola Davis To Play Queer Blues Legend Ma Rainey for the Big Screen

Davis won a Tony and an Oscar for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom playwright August Wilson's Fences. 

Famed NYC Lesbian Bar Seeks Community Help After Feds Deny Aid

Henrietta Hudson has been a West Village fixture since 1991.

NYC Lesbians Hit Philly for Obama

A group of New York City lesbians took to the streets of Philadelphia to turn out the vote for Barack Obama. The Illinois U.S. senator holds a comfortable lead there, but John McCain has fixated on Pennsylvania as the only sizable blue state he hopes to turn red.

Viola Davis Shines as Queer Blues Legend Ma Rainey in New Trailer

The Netflix biopic costars the late Chadwick Boseman as a charismatic horn player. 

17 Essential Black Queer Films

Celebrate Black history and culture with these tales of the Black LGBTQ+ experience.

Two New D.C. Lesbian Clubs Seek to Reverse Trend of the "Dying" Bar

Amid the shuttering of bars for women around the country, D.C.'s XX+ and A League of Her Own have done booming business since opening this summer. 

Oxwood Inn Closes, Leaving Los Angeles Without a Single Lesbian Bar

The closing of this 45-year-old San Fernando Valley watering hole is another blow to women's spaces. 

Viola Davis To Play Queer Blues Legend Ma Rainey on the Big Screen

Davis won a Tony and an Oscar for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom playwright August Wilson's Fences. 

'Overlooked' No More: N.Y. Times Honors Marsha P. Johnson

In "Overlooked," the Times offers obituaries of notable women who didn't receive attention at the time of their passing.

My Mom Flipped When I Tried To Ask For Dating Advice

Memoirist Daisy Hernandez learned the ropes of dating men from her mother and aunts, but couldn't quite do the same when she started dating women.