Is This the Ultimate Coming-Out Scene? A Look Back at Edge Of Seventeen and Its Lasting Legacy

Honoring National Coming Out Day Through Queer Cinema National Coming Out Day recognizes the profound courage required to live openly as LGBTQ+. To celebrate, we revisit a landmark film that helped define how coming-out stories are told: the 1999 queer classic Edge Of Seventeen. While today’s media landscape includes a wide range of […]
🌈 The Bold and the Beautiful’s First Gay Couple Is Already Stuck in a Scandalous Love Triangle

Soap Opera History With a Side of Chaos After 37 seasons and a legacy of high-stakes drama, The Bold and the Beautiful finally gave fans what they’ve been asking for: a real gay romance. Enter: Their romance brought cheers from LGBTQ+ fans eager for meaningful representation on daytime TV. […]
⭐ The Queer Artists Who Outsmarted Nazis with Art & Love: The Untold Story of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

Queer Love Meets Fierce Resistance Some heroes fight with guns. Others fight with courage, creativity, and a pocket full of revolution. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, two queer and gender-nonconforming artists from France, rewrote the rules of what resistance can look like. Long before the world openly spoke about LGBTQ identity, they lived their […]
Gays & Theys Agree: The PrEP Clinic Is the New Place to Cruise

We’ve all heard the myths: the park at midnight, the bar bathroom, the dark room behind the DJ booth. But apparently, the new place for queer flirting (and maybe something more) is far more fluorescent: the PrEP clinic. Yes, you read that right. Forget the dim lighting of the club. The new cruising frontier […]
You Fked Around and Found Out”: MAGA Protester Faceplants After Shouting Anti-Gay Slurs at Denver’s “No Kings” Rally

RawCocktails Exclusive Viral Moment from Denver Sparks Outrage and Laughter Across Social Media A viral video from Denver, Colorado, has captured a heated and instantly humbling moment when a MAGA counterprotester shouting anti-gay slurs at “No Kings” protestors faceplanted twice, leaving his face bloodied and his pride shattered. The dramatic fall, now circulating across social […]
How Stranger Things Fame Made Noah Schnapp Confront His Identity

From “Stranger Things” to Self-Discovery: Noah Schnapp’s Honest Reflection Noah Schnapp, best known as Will Byers in Netflix’s Stranger Things, has grown up before our eyes — from a nervous child actor in a sci-fi hit to a confident young man ready to define himself on his own terms. In his new TIME […]
How Paul Cassidy and Viggo Bring Authentic Emotion to the Screen

Paul Cassidy’s Natural Artistry Paul Cassidy has steadily become one of the most captivating performers of his generation. His strength lies not only in his charisma but also in his ability to connect authentically with his co-stars. Every glance, movement, and gesture adds depth to his characters , transforming simple moments into scenes of real […]
For 40 Years Anderson Cooper Suppressed Grief Only Now He Feels Joy

Cis Man Compares Gender Affirming Care to Lobotomies in a Wild Display of Ignorance

In a recent opinion piece for The Hill, conservative writer Merrill Matthews managed to twist logic into knots by comparing gender affirming care for trans youth to the lobotomy craze of the mid-20th century. It’s a spectacular feat of mental gymnastics and, frankly, one of the laziest arguments to ever hit print. Because here’s […]
LGBTQ+ Refugees Escaped Violence Abroad Now They’re Fighting for Safety in Trump’s America

From Persecution to a Cold Chicago Night It was a freezing December evening when Javi (not his real name) stepped off a plane at O’Hare International Airport. The 30-year-old from El Salvador had fled his home country after receiving death threats not from strangers, but from his own uncle, a police officer who vowed […]