Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily.
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 30 SONGS FROM THE EARLY 2000S THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND WOKE STRAIGHTS WILL REMEMBER
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
It won the 2019 Digal Publishg Award for bt digal lumn that this is the 100th edn of this lumn and that we're nearg the fal days of my first full wrg about all thgs gay on the regular, I figured why not go all out and unt down the queer pop culture moments that fed an absolutely extraordary for LGBTQ excellence? Andrew Stt on FleabagBeyond beg more or ls the greatt achievement serial storytellg 2010s, the send season of Fleabag also let gay actor Andrew Stt bee the most lted after man the world for a hot mute thanks to his perfectly sexy (and jt perfect general) portrayal of "Hot Prit. Scht's CreekArguably the most popular Canadian televisn export sce The Kids and the Hall (if not ever), CBC's very own Scht's Creek gave both everyone's favoure pansexual sweater enthiast David Rose (seri -creator Dan Levy) and the fictnal utopia we all serve: a world where homophobia don't seem to exist and David's sexualy is simply accepted by all the show's characters whout qutn.
Followg an agg novelist as he travels the world on a lerary tour (though really he's avoidg the weddg of an ex-boyiend), Ls is very much about what means to get old as a gay 's also hilar and romantic, landg wh a perfect endg that still mak me tear up when I thk about .
30 SONGS FROM THE EARLY 2000S THAT ONLY GAY PEOPLE AND WOKE STRAIGHTS WILL REMEMBER
Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and GloryAnother masterfully realized reflectn on gay agg is currently still cemas: Pedro Almodóvar's Pa and Glory, a semi-tobgraphil look at a filmmaker whose hope and health is fadg, portrayed by longtime Almodóvar me Anton Banras sentially playg Almodóvar a reer-bt performance (give him an Osr nomatn, please). And while pretty much everythg he did sce qualifi as queer excellence, peak Perfume was probably the gleamg, epic 2014 sgle "Queen, " which he has scribed as a song spired by "gay panic" and " the power one n rive om knowg their mere beg is makg everyone around them extremely unfortable.
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
Please Like Me Inially — and rctively — pegged as "an Atralian Girls if Hannah were a gay du, " Please Like Me centred on 20-somethg Josh (played by and suggtively based on creator Josh Thomas) as he navigated his relatnships wh his lovers, fay and iends (cludg Hannah Gadsby). Billy Porter's red rpet fashnNo one refed what celebry male fashn uld look like this more than actor Billy Porter, whose tuxedo gown was lerally the bt thg about this year's Osrs and who wore this while beg the first openly gay Black man to w an Emmy for bt drama actor. Kate McKnon and Bowen Yang on Saturday Night LiveTwo of the few unniably great thgs about a very uneven for Lorne Michaels's 45-season-and-untg Saturday Night Live were the addns of two tremendoly talented gay edians: Kate McKnon (who joed 2012 and has been the bt thg about SNL ever sce) and Bowen Yang (who me on as a wrer 2018 and st member 2019).