Despite an increasingly hostile political climate, vital organizations are carving out space for trans joy

REVIEW: The U.K.-born singer-songwriter is breaking new ground in a stellar career at a time when trans rights are increasingly under threat

REVIEW: Does Season 2 offer too much of a good thing? Almost

With anti-drag protests intensifying and spilling across borders, drag artists worldwide are losing gigs and fearing violence

Attention: We’ve arrived at peak party season

Georgia Oakley’s feature debut evokes a world where living openly carried great risks

In the wake of drag icon Paul O’Grady’s death, it’s time to excavate Britain’s radical drag history

“Delusion is the key to confidence,” says the trans drag alien probing North Americans, er, North America this summer

This week’s gay enticements to engage in queer culture

U.K. transphobia is so severe that the country is known as “TERF Island.” In response, queer and trans fighters are teaching their communities to protect themselves and each other

5 queer and trans news stories we’re following: April 5

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Bite-size queer and trans news for the week of March 20

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OPINION: Their language is clear, conservatives want to literally exterminate trans people

ANALYSIS: A viral petition calls on Canada to accept those escaping anti-trans policies, but Canada has work to do as well

OPINION: The U.K.’s normalization of anti-trans hate has real-world consequences—the trans teen murdered this week should be alive

The clinic is supposed to be replaced by regional service centres, to help reduce waiting times—but the centres don’t yet exist

United Kingdom

If you want to help trans youth in the U.K., here are the groups to support

Anohni is back with the Johnsons for her most important album yet

Charlie, Nick and the rest of the heartwarming ‘Heartstopper’ crew are back for another season of the sweetest, loveliest show for young people

Drag artists are workers, and protests are putting them in danger

Mexico City, New York, Toronto, Madrid… at which Pride in which city are you celebrating?

‘Blue Jean’ director inspired by the psychic costs of the closet

British drag has always been radical

Intergalactic beauty Juno Birch’s advice for mere mortals

Music by Lynnee Breedlove and Juba Kalamka, a Charlie Jane Anders trilogy, queer Brit hobby groups and Kit Yan, Melissa Li and Michael R. Jackson in NYC

In the U.K., queer and trans self-defence classes are growing in popularity

Hari Nef is Barbie (!), record number of LGBTQ2S+ officials in U.S., more U.K. transphobia, Catholic nuns stand up for trans people and Spider-verse says trans rights

Madonna queers Nashville, ‘Gen Q’ cancelled (sort of), Scotland’s new first minister, Grindr users targeted by police and queer curling in Halifax

Hockey got gay, New York’s AG hosts Drag Story Hour, anti-trans Scottish candidates, Billie Eilish plays queer and Tinder’s new relationship types

Black queer history, sporting sisterhood, Spanish rights, New York Times protest and beauty queen euphoria

The conservative agenda against trans people’s ultimate goal? Eliminating us

Is Canada actually a viable safe harbour for trans people fleeing the U.S. and U.K.?

Brianna Ghey deserved better than the U.K.’s transphobia

Nothing in place for U.K.’s trans youth as the country’s only children’s gender care clinic closes