The March 2024 Oscar ceremony is just a couple of days away. LGBTQ representation among this year’s nominations ranks among the highest ever.

Check out these interviews with Monika Estrella Negra, and Alex Smith, who contributed to "Black Punk Now."

When Marvel Studios first brought out 2010’s Iron Man, it heralded a new age where superheroes would dominate the cultural zeitgeist on a level not seen since the coming of Star Wars. While superheroes had had some cinematic success before with characters like Batman, Spider-Man and the X-Men, Iron Man and the Marvel movies that followed would blow the lid off box office, earning hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars.

Here in South Florida where I live, Pride begins early (in Hollywood in January), despite the Red State’s rulers’ intentions to erase us, and continues through October (in Miami Shores). While other places aren’t as fortunate, that doesn’t mean they can’t prepare well in advance of their Pride observances by listening to all the wonderful LGBTQ music available to us.

Geneva Karr got to experience every aspect of the “RuPaul's Drag Race” experience during her run, and whether she was soaking up a win or battling it out in a lip sync on the main stage, Karr was doing it all with gusto.

In her best-selling memoir, “Lips Unsealed,” Belinda Carlisle touches on a number of queer topics, from making out with her friend Alice at the bus stop as a young punk rocker in Hollywood, to hitting the clubs with her gay friends in London.