Dumbass Harry Potter and the 3,600-word Essay of Transphobia Part of me doesn’t even want to write this article. It’s not that I’m tired of writing about trans rights (I will always be thirsty for some Respect Trans People Juice), but because I’m not sure we should even be giving JK Rowling this much screen By Prem • Jun 11, 2020 10:33 am
Equality Issues Harry Potter Says Trans Rights Remember in the final Harry Potter movie, when Harry and Voldemort are fighting and they’re shooting orange and green things out of their respective wands? That’s basically what went down yesterday IRL. In response to JK Rowling’s transphobic tweets, Daniel Radcliffe penned a statement in defense of By Prem • Jun 09, 2020 02:09 pm
Equality Issues The Black History of Stonewall (This is the latest installment of our Long Reads series. For more entries, please click here.) TRIGGER WARNING: The following article has detailed descriptions of police violence and abuse, particularly towards LGBTQ+ and Black communities. Picture this. It’s a breezy Friday night in New York City’s Greenwich Village. By Prem • Jun 05, 2020 10:50 am
Equality Issues THR’s Pride Issue The Hollywood Reporter debuted its Pride issue yesterday morning with a cover story, “The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood”. THR Cover: The 50 Most Powerful LGBTQ Players in Hollywood https://t.co/FXkONuuuXl — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 4, 2020 Now THIS is a Pride cover. For one, By Prem • Jun 04, 2020 09:36 am
Ellen Degeneres Ellen Isn’t Getting It Over the weekend, Ellen DeGeneres weighed in on the protests going on across North America in support of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the long list of victims of anti-Black crime. In a now deleted tweet she said: “Like so many of you, I By Prem • Jun 02, 2020 10:27 am
TV Updates New Trailer for Love, Victor It’s been over two years since Love, Simon came out (get it?), a time when adult gay men all cried in the theatre because our collective mom, Jennifer Garner, told us all that we could all exhale. Let’s just re-watch this clip because I think we could all By Prem • May 28, 2020 10:25 am
Hair Dwyane and Zaya’s Red Hair I’ve considered dyeing my hair in quarantine. I’ve always wanted to, but now if it looks terrible, I don’t have to see anyone, and there won’t be any evidence of it. Dwyane Wade apparently has the opposite idea since he’s been documenting his hairformation on By Prem • May 26, 2020 01:18 pm
TV Updates All Stars 5: That’s the Twist? With Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race wrapping up (and only the virtual reunion and finale left), we’re of course ready to jump back in on June 5th with All Stars 5 right? RIGHT? Last week, I wrote about the potential for All Stars to be the best By Prem • May 22, 2020 02:57 pm
Music Dedicated: Side B(etter) It’s a surprise album from Carly Rae Jepsen! Sort of. As Carly admitted in her tweet, she’s bad at keeping secrets. Which is why the (what do you call CRJ fans? Jepsens? Emotions? Call me babies? Hold on, I’m going to look this up….) jepsies have known By Prem • May 22, 2020 01:06 pm
Music Lorde’s Letter Saves 2020 Yesterday, Lorde was trending #1 on Twitter, and it’s because she announced that she’s working on a new album. On June 16th, it’ll be three years since she released Melodrama, the genius album that we’ve all cried to. Since then, Lorde has been pretty quiet, and By Prem • May 20, 2020 10:27 am
Music Harry is Hot (and Consensual) in “Watermelon Sugar” WARNING: If you have been touch-starved for two months because of social distancing and self-isolation, Harry Styles’s new video may cause you to feel exceedingly hot and bothered and there may be some flooding in your basement (iykwim). Yesterday, Harry Styles released the video for his song “Watermelon Sugar” By Prem • May 19, 2020 11:12 am
Equality Issues Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Cover June is Pride month. And while many of the parades and celebrations have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (and corporations can breathe a sigh of relief because they can stop pretending like they care), Entertainment Weekly’s June issue is dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists that have played a central role By Prem • May 14, 2020 12:58 pm
Drag Race Canada’s Drag Race is Finally Here, and It Looks GOOD Even though we learned about the Canadian version of Drag Race almost a year ago, it has felt like some sort of dream or conceptual project because we’ve heard nothing about it. Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at the show, as well as an interview with By Prem • May 12, 2020 02:57 pm
TV Updates 4 Things That Could Make All Stars 5 the Best Season Yet On Friday, RuPaul’s Drag Race announced the cast and premiere date for All Stars 5. Meet your #AllStars5 Queens! 👑👇 Premieres FRI 6/5 at 8/7c on @VH1! 🏁💋 pic.twitter.com/Q2iWOCZPz3 — RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) May 8, 2020 If you’ve read my previous Drag Race By Prem • May 11, 2020 11:02 am
Harry Potter Daniel Readcliffe I think we can all agree that so far, 2020 has sucked. But it’s at times like these that people turn to nostalgia and comforts to help them get through it. Which is great because now it feels like I’m reliving my childhood/adolescence. There are High School By Prem • May 06, 2020 11:57 am
TV Updates All Eyes on Mindy’s Never Have I Ever It’s been over a year since we first learned about Mindy Kaling’s new project, a TV show loosely based on her life as a rebellious teenager, and even before it aired, it was already subverting expectations left and right. Just making a coming of age show about a By Prem • May 04, 2020 10:55 am
