Sublime

characters into television series—Will and Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black—has been an activist-supported strategy to give viewers contact with gay people through “parasocial contact,” the indirect experience of friendship with a gay television character.

She was no longer freakish, no longer stunted. Blooming into herself, at last.

One might assume “girl” identity as a way to show naysayers just how clever girls actually are, or to show men how unserious those things to which they ascribe such importance may be. Claiming that something that is supposed to be “for boys” — say, baseball, the Grateful Dead, Karl Ove Knausgaard — is really “for girls,” is like a pinprick into a b

she was the damaged goods and it was only a matter of time until David realized it.

Growing up gay and disabled, I was taught not to want much, to feel grateful for whatever came my way. A live-in boyfriend was above and beyond what I should’ve dared dream for myself. Meanwhile, all around me, straight white guys were taking giant chunks out of life and leaving no leftovers for the rest of us. They see what they want, they get it,

Vice President Joe Biden made history on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to openly endorse equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian citizens. In explaining his thinking, Biden credited Will & Grace — NBC’s hit situation comedy about a gay man and his straight, female best friend that ran on the net