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Congratulations to Lena Waithe for making the 2017 OUT100 list! In September, Waithe made history by becoming the first African-American and LGBTQ woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She shared the honour with the show’s star, Aziz Ansari for the “Thanksgiving” episode. For this historic win, Waithe has been chosen as Artist of the […]
The YA genre, abbreviated YA to mean Young Adult, is one filled with many interesting and riveting stories. No sub-genre is more interesting than that of supernatural and dystopian YA. With various stories on oppressive government regimes, angels, vampires, werewolves, fairies, and other magical creatures and faraway lands, there is no shortage on immersive tales to get lost in. There’s […]
Matt Ryan’s rendition of the character John Constantine has garnered quite the following since his debut in the short-lived Constantine show on NBC. He even reprised the role on an episode of Arrow and voiced the character in the Justice League Dark animated film. Just yesterday we reported the possibility of Ryan making a comeback in Legends of Tomorrow and today it’s been confirmed! […]
Star Trek Discovery premieres this Sunday its third episode, an episode that will make history as it would mark the appearance of the first openly gay character in the franchise –although Sulu had a subtly scene where we saw him leaving with his husband and daughter at the Yorktown base- Lt. Stamets, interpreted by Anthony Rapp (Rent). In here you […]
Diversity in the Star Wars saga appears to keep increasing, as in the upcoming Star Wars novel Leia: Princess of Alderaan, Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo, who will appear in The Last Jedi and is played by Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), appears to hint of having an attraction to more than just “human males”. ‘A pair of pretty dark eyes.’ Then Amilyn thought […]
Just less than a month before the fourth season of Jill Soloway’s Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series Transparent, The Hollywood Reporter announces that the show has already been renewed for a fifth season. Transparent is a series that stars Jeffrey Tambor “as the patriarch of the Pfefferman family, who comes out as transgender and begins to live life as Maura”. Judith Light plays […]
On March 24th, we were reintroduced to five misfits who would become the Earth’s greatest warriors, The Power Rangers! With poor box office results, we were all “Ay ay aying” to thought that there wouldn’t be a sequel. But thank Zordon for merchandise sales! Director Dean Israelite has stated before that Lionsgate & Saban, the man who brought us the […]
As the second week of Pride begins, Marvel Comics has released ICEMAN #1, their first ongoing solo series with a gay male lead. The series follows Bobby Drake, one of the original X-Men. In this inception, Drake is younger, and more “put together,” according to the issue’s description. He’s also more comfortable with himself, and his sexuality, and is even […]
While the title of “2017’s First Gay Superhero” has already been awarded to Yellow Power Ranger Trini, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 writer and director James Gunn hinted at the possibility that one of his own characters might soon be making an announcement of their own. When questioned by the Press Association about whether or not he’d feature a gay protagonist, his […]
Earlier this week the character list for Marvel’s New Warriors series was revealed. The most notable name was most likely Squirrel Girl, but Deborah Fields, aka Debrii was also named on that list. This is significant as she is the first openly gay character in the MCU. According to Marvel’s character bio, Debrii is a trickster with low-televel telekinesis. Her […]
