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Comedian Kevin Hart says he learned “necessary” lesson from backlash over homophobic jokes
“Sometimes it’s okay to take a step back and to be educated.”
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LGBTQ+ actors Jodie Foster, Colman Domingo, Lily Gladstone just got Oscar nominations
Films with LGBTQ+ themes also scored Oscar nods.
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Trans director makes Oscars history with a little lift from Elliot Page
The short film, “An Avocado Pit”, has been shortlisted for the prestigious awards.
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Brendan Fraser says that his character’s sexuality is “immaterial” in The Whale. He’s wrong.
The Oscar-winner’s comments point to one of the reasons why some LGBTQ+ people argue that straight actors should not play LGBTQ+ roles.
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Oscars 2023: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ won almost everything
Jamie Lee Curtis addressed gender-neutral categories while director Daniel Scheinert blasted anti-drag laws.
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‘Oscar Wars’ author Michael Schulman on Hollywood’s fraught LGBTQ+ history
The Oscars—and Hollywood in general—have always had a complicated relationship with queer people and LGBTQ+ representation onscreen.
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He streaked at the Oscars & ran for President. The wild story of a 70s gay radical
Robert Opel’s odyssey through 1970s sex, art, and politics included brushes with Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk
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Oscars 2023: The Academy still loves nominating straight actors for gay roles
Stephanie Hsu became the first queer actor to be nominated for playing a queer role since 1999.
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Chris Rock made a whole documentary about Black women’s hair & still insulted Jada Pinkett Smith
But Will Smith’s violence – as well as the assumption that Jada Pinkett Smith couldn’t defend herself – is part and parcel of heteropatriarchy.
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Ariana DeBose becomes first out person of color to win an Oscar in historic moment
“You see a queer, openly queer woman of color and Afro-Latina who found her strength in life through art.”