• Jay Pharoah to Gayle King: Black people are ‘guilty until proven innocent’ in America

    Jay Pharoah to Gayle King: Black people are ‘guilty until proven innocent’ in America

    Read More: Gayle King: It feels like ‘open season’ on black men after racial incidents ‘SNL’ alum Jay Pharoah says LAPD cop kneeled on his neck, shares video Go figure: ‘My Little Pony’ is popular with Nazis ‘SNL’ star Colin Jost reveals his mom’s 9/11 nightmare story 
  • HBO launches virtual LGBTQ pride celebration featuring Janelle Monáe

    HBO launches virtual LGBTQ pride celebration featuring Janelle Monáe

    HBO has announced the launch of a digital pride celebration on its Human By Orientation platform, which will host daily virtual events honoring the LGBTQIA+ community from June 18 to June 28. All of the events on the platform are free, including musical performances from Janelle Monáe, Todrick Hall and Kim Petras. Jackie Gagne, vice …
  • Nickelodeon Pride tweet hints Spongebob Squarepants is gay

    Nickelodeon Pride tweet hints Spongebob Squarepants is gay

    Absorbent and yellow and porous is he… and gay? A Pride Month tweet from the official Nickelodeon Twitter account has the internet believing Spongebob Squarepants is not just a happy guy. “Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the kids network tweeted out Saturday afternoon, along with rainbow-embossed …
  • 10 powerful songs that embody black empowerment in music

    10 powerful songs that embody black empowerment in music

    In the wake of George Floyd’s death — and the Black Lives Matter movement that has intensified because of it — protest music is providing the soundtrack of the times once again. Jay-Z has released the “Songs for Survival Playlist 2” available exclusively on his Tidal streaming service to provide a sonic tonic to those …
  • Gayle King on being the mother of a black man in America right now

    Gayle King on being the mother of a black man in America right now

    Gayle King is afraid for her son. “My son is 33 years old, and I’m worried about him,” she said on Thursday’s episode of “The Talk @Home.” King, 65, explained that she begs William Bumpus Jr. not to take his dog for long walks in the Santa Monica, Calif., area amid ongoing protests in response …
  • New ‘Queer Eye’ song singer Vincint has made over straight pals, too

    New ‘Queer Eye’ song singer Vincint has made over straight pals, too

    Pumping fans up in the trailer for the new season of “Queer Eye,” premiering Friday on Netflix, has been “Be Me,” a song performed by LGBTQ artist Vincint. Fittingly, the 29-year-old singer, whose real name is Vincent Cannady, is from Philadelphia, where this season takes place. Now based in Los Angeles, Vincint — who released …
  • Bowen Yang dishes on coming-out and making ‘SNL’ history

    Bowen Yang dishes on coming-out and making ‘SNL’ history

    Bowen Yang misses everything about the “live” aspect of “Saturday Night Live.” “For the first ‘at home’ show, everyone in the cast was texting each other, and I sent pictures of the Saratoga Springs bottles that the pages have at their desks,” the 29-year-old comedian recalled recently over (what else?) Zoom from (where else?) his …
  • Da Brat on coming out: ‘Why didn’t I do this s–t years ago?’

    Da Brat on coming out: ‘Why didn’t I do this s–t years ago?’

    On the third floor of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., one photograph in particular stands out amid the generally august and serious portraits. While the image looks like it could have been taken at a hip-hop slumber party, the four women laughing in the photo are pioneers: …
  • Oprah says longtime partner Stedman Graham was racially profiled

    Oprah says longtime partner Stedman Graham was racially profiled

    Oprah Winfrey says that her longtime partner Stedman Graham is one of millions of black Americans who has been racially profiled. During a Facebook conversation with best friend and CBS reporter Gayle King on Sunday, Winfrey, 66, said, “A lot of white people don’t understand what they’re seeing … but when you feel invisible and …
  • Investor group allowed to buy Grindr from Chinese firm for $620M

    Investor group allowed to buy Grindr from Chinese firm for $620M

    Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech said on Friday that a US national security panel approved the $620 million sale of popular gay dating app Grindr to an investor group called San Vicente Acquisition. The panel, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), ordered Kunlun last year to divest Grindr amid concerns …