Lisbon's Queer Lisboa Turns 29 This Month — Here's What's Screening
Portugal's only LGBTQ+ film festival returns to Cinema São Jorge from September 19 to 27, opening with Carmen Emmi's erotic thriller Plainclothes. Tickets go on sale today.
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Thailand's First Pageant for Toms and Trans Men Wants to Redefine Who Gets the Crown
Tom Thailand 2026 gives masculine-presenting lesbians and trans men a national stage that pageant culture has never made room for — judged on character and conduct, not just appearance.
Kosovo's Only Queer Culture Festival Returns This Weekend — With a Portuguese Accent
The Prishtina Queer Festival opens September 6 for its second edition, pairing Kosovar queer film, music, and book launches with a curated slate of Portuguese short films — a small but pointed act of cross-border solidarity.
Jason Collins, the NBA's First Openly Gay Player, Dies at 47
Collins came out in a 2013 Sports Illustrated essay and kept playing — a quiet, deliberate act of courage that changed what was possible for gay athletes in men's pro sports. He died this week after an eight-month fight with brain cancer.
Dolly Parton, Who Told Us We Belonged Long Before It Was Easy, Has Died at 80
The Queen of Country Music died Tuesday in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. For decades, she used her platform to tell LGBTQ+ people they belonged — and meant it.
Cyprus's Only LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Returns to Nicosia for Its Seventh Year
Queer Wave 2026 runs September 18-27 at NiMAC, bringing ten days of queer cinema, performance and community events to a country still building out its LGBTQ+ rights framework.
Sam Smith Is Engaged to Fashion Designer Christian Cowan
The Grammy-winning singer confirmed the engagement to The New York Times, three years into a relationship that's already inspired a Met Gala look and an entire album.
The New Women's Pro Baseball League Debuts This Summer — and It's Wonderfully Queer
For the first time in 52 years, women are playing professional baseball in the US. Nearly a third of the inaugural roster is openly LGBTQ+, and that's not a footnote — it's the culture of the sport.
LGBTQ+ Characters in Hollywood Films Hit a Three-Year Low — and There Wasn't a Single Trans Character
GLAAD's newly rebranded 'Where We Are in Film' study finds queer representation in major studio releases falling for the third straight year, dropping to 20.4% of films. The trans erasure is total.
'Heartstopper Forever' Lands July 17 — and With It, the End of a Quietly Radical Love Story
Netflix wraps its gentle queer teen phenomenon with a feature-length finale this Friday, arriving days after Alice Oseman published the sixth and final graphic novel. Here's why the low-drama ending is the point.
Madonna Opened Pride Month Dangling Over Times Square, Because Of Course She Did
At a surprise Grindr-hosted Pride concert in Times Square, Madonna previewed her upcoming album Confessions II — and gave fans a collective heart attack by swinging a leg over the stage barrier.
Apple TV's 'Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed' Premieres Today — Murray Bartlett and Brandon Flynn Anchor a Cam-Boy Thriller With Real Queer Bones
The Tatiana Maslany–led dark comedy from David J. Rosen drops its first two episodes on Apple TV today, May 20. Two openly queer leading men — Murray Bartlett and Brandon Flynn — are doing some of the most interesting work in their careers, and the show is treating sex work like a job rather than a punchline.
Bulgaria Just Won Eurovision. Now Sofia Hosts in 2027 — and That's Complicated for Queer Fans
Dara's 'Bangaranga' gave Bulgaria its first-ever Eurovision win on Saturday in Vienna. The 2027 contest will head to Sofia — a city in a country ranked 40th of 49 on Europe's Rainbow Map and where an anti-LGBT 'propaganda' law is still on the books.
Eurovision 2026: Finland Wins in Vienna as the Flag Policy Gets Its First Real Test
Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen took the trophy with Liekinheitin. The EBU's controversial flag rule — performers limited to the national flag, audiences allowed Pride and Palestinian flags — survived the night, but the optics tell a more complicated story.
Cannes 2026 Has More Queer Films Than Any Festival in Its History
Twenty-one feature films are competing for the 16th Queer Palm, and seven of the 22 films in the Official Competition feature LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Almodóvar, Lukas Dhont, Ira Sachs, and Jane Schoenbrun all bring new work to the Croisette.
Eurovision 2026 in Vienna: Performers Still Can't Bring a Pride Flag On Stage
The European Broadcasting Union's contested 2025 ban on Pride flags for performers and delegations carries into Vienna's Eurovision week. Spectators get a more permissive list — and a fire-safety asterisk. Here's what to expect when the contest opens May 12.
10 Queer Books to Read This Spring That Aren't Just Romance Novels
From a trans neo-noir to a fat queer story collection to a lesbian gothic set in a 1928 boarding school — spring 2026 is stacked with queer literature that defies easy categorization.
The Best LGBTQ+ Film and TV of 2025 — and What's Coming in 2026
From a queer Marine drama to an Apple TV+ queer comedy with a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 2025 delivered remarkable queer storytelling. Here's our roundup, plus the GLAAD Award winners and what's ahead in 2026.