Kristen Stewart Uncensored: ‘I Want to Do the Gayest Thing You’ve Ever Seen in Your Life’
She’s modeling radical self-acceptance on the world’s largest stage, giving the audience a space to revisit their own joy or pain, once dismissed or forgotten.
TIME's Person of the Year 2023
It’s not just a culmination for Roan, but a mainstream moment for a concept mostly known to queer theorists and Tumblr addicts up to this point. Compulsory heterosexuality, coined in 1980 by Adrienne Rich, is a term describing the societal imposition of heterosexuality on women. Online sapphics of a certain age might know the concept because a Goog... See more
Not Just ‘Luck’: Why Queer Pop Star Chappell Roan Broke Through to the Hot 100, And Why It Matters
We’re breaking out of the gender binary. We’re no longer defining ourselves simply by what we appear to be—it’s becoming increasingly more acceptable to discover who you identify as being rather than just accepting who you seem to be on the outside.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
The prevailing acceptance of nontraditional sexual identities.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
But maybe I shouldn’t think of it as “being gay,” maybe I should think of it just as doing something.
Jackie Ess • Darryl
We are now entering the Hannah Montana Generation of pop stars: young artists who are not just evoking the frilly and bold aesthetic and unapologetically sugary sweet music of the show but also the type of larger-than-life persona Montana had in comparison to “real-life” Stewart. Carpenter is the prime example of leaning into the Hannah Montana-ifi... See more