• Virtual Pride 2020: A guide to concerts, dance parties, drag shows and more

    Virtual Pride 2020: A guide to concerts, dance parties, drag shows and more

    Gay pride will spread by way of a virtual rainbow this weekend. With the coronavirus pandemic sidelining many in-person LGBTQ celebrations this year, NYC Pride will host a two-hour broadcast extravaganza, featuring “Pose” star Billy Porter, singer Janelle Monáe and more — in lieu of a parade —starting at noon Sunday on several ABC network …
  • Virtual Pride 2020: NYC marches on with Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter and Dan Levy

    Virtual Pride 2020: NYC marches on with Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter and Dan Levy

    The march will go on. A big LGBTQ Pride parade wasn’t part of NYC’s coronavirus Phase 2 reopening this week. But this Sunday two organizations will still recognize — one virtually, the other with an in-person gathering — the first Christopher Street Liberation Day March on June 28, 1970. In lieu of a march through …
  • Cardi B dresses daughter Kulture in rainbow dress for Pride month

    Cardi B dresses daughter Kulture in rainbow dress for Pride month

    Read More: Offset gifts Cardi B two Hermès bags for Mother’s Day Cardi B celebrates Kulture’s birthday with hundreds of thousands in diamonds Offset gifts 2-year-old daughter Kulture a Birkin bag, Cardi B reacts Dwyane Wade designs special Pride sneakers for daughter Zaya
  • 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 …
  • 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: …
  • Feds indict execs from chicken companies Pilgrim’s Pride, JBS USA for price-fixing

    Feds indict execs from chicken companies Pilgrim’s Pride, JBS USA for price-fixing

    The chief executive of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, a major US poultry company, was indicted along with three other current and former industry executives on charges of seeking to fix the price of chickens, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Pilgrim’s Pride shares fell more than 10 percent, to $18.70, during afternoon trading. A grand jury …
  • Dan Levy, Janelle Monáe set for NYC’s virtual gay pride celebration

    Dan Levy, Janelle Monáe set for NYC’s virtual gay pride celebration

    The coronavirus pandemic can’t take away New York City’s gay pride. Heritage of Pride announced Friday morning that “Schitt’s Creek” creator and star Dan Levy will be among four grand marshals for a virtual pride celebration on Sunday, June 28. The city’s annual pride march and other in-person summer events were canceled last month for …