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I entered Club Confessions through a pussy — or rather, an opening in a giant inflatable Mistr-branded pair of legs flanked by a greeting committee of lithe gay guys clad in skimpy bodysuits. If anyone else had been DJing Saturday night, the visual would be unforgivably gauche. But this is Madonna we’re talking about — a woman, whose impact on dance music, club culture, and gay life is so massive that even trying to encapsulate it within a single sentence would be a fool’s errand.

After longtime U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday night, reportedly from aortic dissection, the reaction from the LGBTQ+ community was immediate. The South Carolina Republican had served in the U.S. Senate since 2003, spending his final years as a loyalist to President Donald Trump despite having run against him in the 2016 Republican primary.

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, widely seen as a coded gay film, a bickering pair of urbanites try to keep a terrible secret during a tense dinner party. Slowly, a third party — in the form of an inquisitive Jimmy Stewart — begins to unravel them.

Did you know that today, July 13, is Lesbian Aunts Day? Did you even know that there’s an entire day devoted to the sapphic sisters of your parents? Well, there should be. Because lesbian aunts are the givers of the best birthday gifts and — I can only say this because I am one — the weirdos who make family hangouts interesting in the first place.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. As questions swirl around Washington about the health status of Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for weeks after emergency responders went to his house for a patient in cardiac arrest, the political world woke up Sunday morning to news of another high-profile lawmaker’s death. U.S. Sen.

In recent years, Love Island USA has distinguished itself from the sea of tropical, horny reality dating shows, to become something of a longform sociological study in heterosexual dating. Going deeper than the mere interpersonal drama that seems to consume most of its contemporaries, the Peacock hit series offers lots of fodder for public commentary about modern dating, and especially how it intersects with misogyny, race, colorism, and class.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. Kristi Noem plans to divorce her husband, Bryon Noem, after 34 years of marriage, her mother told the British tabloid The Daily Mail. The split follows revelations that Bryon Noem paid online fetish performers and shared photographs of himself presenting femininely. Corinne Arnold told the outlet that the former Homeland Security secretary informed relatives in late spring that she had retained a lawyer and intended to end the marriage.

Have you hopped on the Love Island USA bandwagon, even though it’s the straightest show in existence? You’re not alone. Rest assured, Love Island host Ariana Madix also wants to see some queer bombshells in the villa. (Also, hello, Zach and Bryce “bromance” truthers! Kidding, kidding.

In this excerpt from the forthcoming anthology Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection, contributor Jake Montano, a.k.a. the Bay Area drag queen Imelda Glucose, reflects on drag houses as a form of chosen family. I was nine years old the first time I applied makeup to my face. It was rouge that my older sister, who was barely a teen, had somehow gotten ahold of.

The official Instagram and Facebook pages for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a positive profile about fashion designer Pono Skousen on June 29, in the eleventh hour of Pride Month, that has since caused quite a stir online — because, as it turns out, Skousen is gay and some of his clothing parodies the faith’s anti-LGBTQ+ teachings.