Laverne Cox serves as executive producer in the Netflix documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. The documentary takes a look at transgender representation in film. According to Indiewire, the film’s creative team, cast, and crew were “almost exclusively transgender.” Cox, who is best known for playing transgender inmate Sophia Burset on the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New…
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HOW A STRAIGHT, MIDDLE-CLASS COUPLE BECAME THE BIGGEST DISTRIBUTORS OF GAY PORN
For more than 35 years, the Circus of Books bookstore was a place where Los Angeles LGBTQ people could socialize and celebrate themselves without judgment. Not just ‘a book store,’ the retail venue was a gay porn emporium run by a straight, mainstream Jewish couple – Barry and Karen Mason – whose three children attended…
HOW AN ANTI-GAY SMEAR HELPED END A BOY’S LIFE
If you have not seen the Netflix documentary The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, you’re missing a shocking, jaw-dropping story of physical and mental abuse and the unspeakable death of a beautiful, sweet, and caring young boy. How do you begin to describe the terror inflicted upon Gabriel by a severely mentally ill mother and her monster of…
NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY LOOKS @ DEATH OF 8-YEAR-OLD GABRIEL FERNANDEZ SUSPECTED OF BEING GAY
Streaming giant Netflix on Thursday released a trailer for its upcoming documentary on Gabriel Fernandez. Gabriel’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, were found guilty of torturing the 8-year-old boy to death. Fernandez, 34, was sentenced to life in prison, while Aguirre, 37, received the death penalty. Authorities in Southern California responding to…
APPLE RELEASED THE TRAILER FOR ITS FIRST LGBTQ SERIES, AND WE CANNOT WAIT
Apple’s five-part docuseries Visible: Out On Television arrives exclusively on Apple TV+ on February 14. The series explores the state of LGBTQ visibility on the small screen. The series investigates queer representation through archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with famous personalities like Ellen DeGeneres, Billy Porter, Rachel Maddow, Oprah Winfrey, Anderson Cooper, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Don Lemon, and Sara Ramirez. The…
FIRST LOOK: RuPaul STARS IN NETFLIX COMED ‘AJ AND THE QUEEN’
Streaming giant Netflix on Wednesday released its first trailer for its upcoming comedy AJ and the Queen starring RuPaul Charles, host of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. In the series, RuPaul plays Ruby Red, a hapless drag queen who lives in a rundown R/V with AJ, a recently orphaned 10-year-old. The pair are forced to travel from city to…
