Here's how Trump's 2025 presidency can affect — and erase — LGBTQ+ content
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, things might get even tougher for queer and trans creators in Hollywood.
November 8, 2024
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12 LGBTQ+ Hollywood power players
In our latest print issue, we celebrate just some of the amazing LGBTQ+ talents who are taking over the entertainment industry.
April 5, 2024
Gaby Dunn: Hollywood Ignores Queer Women
The YouTuber and best-selling author discusses the industry's lack of enthusiasm for queer female content.
July 6, 2018
Don't Forget Roxane Gay (and Queer Superheroes), Hollywood!
The bisexual writer of World of Wakanda reflects on queer erasure, representation, and the media reaction to her lack of invitation to the Black Panther premiere.
February 15, 2018
Twenties's Jonica 'Jojo' Gibbs on Black Queer Visibility in Hollywood
The out lead of Lena Waithe's hilarious series about working in Hollywood appears on Inside With the Advocate.
June 19, 2020
Actress Jasika Nicole Talks Being Biracial and Queer in Hollywood
Jasika Nicole talks on this week's LGBTQ&A podcast about how being biracial and queer has affected her acting career.
April 10, 2019
Film Festival Prepares Queer Filmmakers to Take Over Hollywood
This year's CCH Film Festival is heavily angled toward LGBTQ filmmakers, and for good reason.
November 9, 2018
Queer Filmmakers Talk Change in Hollywood Post-Harvey Weinstein
We talked to queer filmmakers and activists at the 2017 OutFest Legacy Awards about what comes next for the entertainment industry.
October 25, 2017
Hey, Hollywood: Queer Films Can Be Big Box Office
Hollywood's reluctance to feature LGBT characters and themes ignores these top 15 queer box office hits.
August 20, 2015
Twenties' Black Queer Lead Hattie Navigates Hollywood in New Clip
Watch an exclusive clip from the Lena Waithe comedy starring Jonica T. Gibbs.
December 1, 2021
Old Hollywood Is Ultra-Queer in Trailer for Ryan Murphy's New Series
Tinsel Town never looked prettier (or gayer) than in the trailer for the new series that reimagines Hollywood's history.
April 17, 2020
Kenneth Anger, Influential Queer Filmmaker and 'Hollywood Babylon' Author, Dead at 96
Anger's trippy films often featured homoerotic imagery, incorporated found footage, and used popular music. But he was best known for his salacious tales of Hollywood.
May 26, 2023
Sexual Abusers Spur Return of 'Morality Clauses' That Could Be Bad for LGBT Actors
Studios are trying to prevent losses in the wake of #MeToo, but Hollywood "morality clauses" have always been bad news for queer performers.
February 8, 2018
Kit Harington: When Will a Marvel Superhero Be Played by a Gay Actor?
There's a "big problem" in Hollywood around queer acceptance, said the star of Xavier Dolan's The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.
September 11, 2018
How This Queer Woman Became One of the Best Stunt Drivers in the Industry
Zandara Kennedy is one of the few women and queer stunt performers in Hollywood. Now she’s helping to open doors for other marginalized people in the industry.
March 27, 2023
The Good Fight’s Charmaine Bingwa on Being Out and Authentic
The new star of the button-pushing drama chats with The Advocate about how hiding one's queerness in Hollywood is just not who she is.
November 8, 2021
Schmigadoon's Cecily Strong, Dove Cameron & Cast on Reframing Musicals
The Apple TV+ series rewrites the Hollywood musical so queer people aren't coded, women have agency, and nonwhite characters are central to the story.
July 20, 2021
Colton Haynes Shares the Trauma of Being Forced Back Into the Closet
The out actor opened up in an op-ed about arriving in Hollywood as an out and proud queer kid -- but also the hypocritical system that exploited then nearly broke him.
December 6, 2021
Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Cast on Queerness, Gender, Race in Babylon
Babylon's Robbie, Smart, Diego Calva, Li Jun Li, and Jovan Adepo chat with The Advocate about how the film addresses old Hollywood's treatment of race and queer people.
December 23, 2022
Sport Clubs Bring LGBTQ+ People Together After Lockdown
As the pandemic winds down, athletic groups are helping queer people reconnect.
June 8, 2023
Trans icon Candy Darling's story is coming to the big screen
Fifty years after her death, the legendary actress and Andy Warhol museis having a moment — and we’re so here for it.
October 30, 2024