A gay friend and colleague on Elizabeth Taylor's AIDS work and how she created a safe space to be out
Tim Mendelson, who is helping to carry on Taylor's activism, remembers her on National Coming Out Day.
October 11, 2025
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What LGBTQ+ audiences should see at the TCM Classic Film Festival
Musicals, divas, a bathhouse comedy, drag queens, and more!
April 24, 2025
10 films showcasing the greatness of bi Hollywood icon Montgomery Clift
The bisexual actor was one of the best and most beautiful of mid-20th-century Hollywood.
February 5, 2024
Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove
These photos from the Cherry Grove Archives Collection show queer joy at one of the oldest LGBTQ+ havens in the country.
June 2, 2021
Justin Vivian Bond Takes On Tennessee Williams
The queer icon drifts back to the stage with a new show inspired by The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
March 5, 2014
Scarlett Johansson Headlines Tennessee Williams Revival
Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker are set to play iconic characters Maggie and Brick in the latest Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams's classic drama about mendacity.
September 20, 2012
TCM Film Festival: A Starry Treat for LGBT Fans
This year's edition of the classic movie event offers Shirley MacLaine discussing The Children's Hour, a rarely seen Tennessee Williams project, big splashy musicals, and much more.
March 26, 2015
Seat Filler January 2011
The Advocate's man on the New York theater scene sought warmth onstage throughout a snowy January with drag divas, lesbian campers, and tragic Tennessee Williams heroines.
February 1, 2011
Seat Filler February 2011
The Advocate's man on the New York theater scene found time this February to reminisce with Oscar Wilde's lover, get an enema from Varla Jean Merman, and strap one on for Tennessee Williams.
March 1, 2011
Tennessee far-right pastor fears 'gay beam' airport scanner will make him queer
Just when we thought we'd seen it all from the far right.
April 10, 2025
Anti-DEI laws are forcing universities to grapple with a mass exodus of LGBTQ+ professors: study
New Williams Institute study finds an alarming number of professors in higher education considering leaving their states or the profession because of Republican laws.
May 6, 2024
Tennessee's Controversial Sex Worker Law Discriminates Against Those With HIV: DOJ
The law is the subject of a separate lawsuit from sex workers living with HIV.
December 4, 2023
Justin Vivian Bond Celebrates a 'Happy Tranniversary!'
The queer icon commemorates 20 years in NYC with an 'extreme' and 'shocking' performance.
May 18, 2014
