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The Kidz Bop version of ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ is coming and we have questions

Plus the buzz on Demi Lovato’s alien show, Elliot Page at Paris Fashion Week and how Venom said “gay rights!”

Books

A conversation about African queerness and the writing life

Ghanaian writer Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Canadian-Nigerian novelist Francesca Ekwuyasi talk about sex, food and their literary influences

By Francesca Ekwuyasi, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 3, Episode 2 power ranking: Instructive fitness

A Peloton parody maxi-challenge had the queens mostly spinning their wheels

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Tribunal rules that respecting pronouns is a human right

A non-binary server in B.C. was fired after asking that their workplace use their pronouns

Blake Desjarlais is ready to make his mark on Parliament

Canada’s first openly Two-Spirit MP is headed to Ottawa after a historic election win

Queer View Mirror

Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ is the hit that keeps coming back

Reinterpretations by Bronski Beat, Underworld and Madonna reflect our changing world—and our unending love for dance music

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 3, Episode 2 recap: Peloton of fun

A confusing choreography challenge still manages to produce some highlights

By Kevin O’Keeffe

The drag makeover series ‘We’re Here’ returns, plus Derek Jarman and ‘Diana The Musical’

Here’s everything queer coming to streaming platforms in October

A moving love letter to queer Indigenous folks

Artist Jenny Irene Miller discusses her and filmmaker Alexis Anoruk Sallee’s project “Dear Kin,” exhibiting in Anchorage, Alaska

By Jenny Irene Miller

‘The Bravest Knight’ star T.R. Knight talks about toxic Hollywood culture and his multistaged coming out

Knight also shares his experience returning to “Grey’s Anatomy” a decade after he quit

By Max Gao

The Xtra Long Read

Just look at all the games queers have to play to express themselves on social media

Sex workers, artists, models and even casual users are cropping, blurring and emoji-ing to avoid being shadow banned—or worse

By Paul Gallant

‘The L Word: Generation Q’ Season 2, Episode 8: You are my sunshine

The ghost of Dana Fairbanks is back to haunt our beloved L.A. lesbians

By Chelle Turingan, Erica Lenti

Catholics are calling ‘Benedetta’ a ‘blasphemous lesbian movie’ and queers are delighted

Also, the buzz on the Tony Awards, Billy Eichner’s gay cast and Lil Nas X getting the ska treatment

That’s the Way It Is

Why does Rihanna insist on selling clothes, not making music?

Her “Savage X Fenty Show” overflowed with celebrities parading in their underwear

By Thomas Leblanc, Tranna Wintour

‘I’m not sure how to forgive myself for surviving’

A writer asks if it is acceptable—or even possible—to feel happiness when so many trans people are dying

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Finally! ‘Sort Of’ is a series with a queer, brown gender-fluid star

Co-creator Bilal Baig talks about their show’s ‘Jee Your Zindagi’ spirit

By Sanchari Sur

Music

Queering the concert hall

Conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser is on a mission to expand our understanding of what classical music is—and welcoming new audiences in the process

By Gordon Bowness

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 3, Episode 1 power ranking: ’Round my hometown, memories are fresh

A strong field of fresh queens means the slightest slip is a ticket to the bottom

By Kevin O’Keeffe

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