This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a series of protests led by members of the LGBT activist community in response to police raiding the Greenwich Village, New York, gay bar the Stonewall Inn. In the intervening years, “Stonewall” has become shorthand for a turning point in …
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Rob Waltman tried to tell his partner, Peter Dovak, he looked fine. He didn’t need to look any different. He especially didn’t need to inject himself with silicone to look bigger. “Peter had the worst body dysmorphia out of anyone I ever knew,” Waltman tells Rolling Stone. “For years it …
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Janelle Monáe is crying in her spacesuit. It’s early April in Atlanta, and she’s in one of the basement studios of her Wondaland Records headquarters, surrounded by computer monitors and TV screens, one of them running a screensaver that displays images of her heroes: Prince, Martin Luther King Jr., Pam …
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On a sunny Saturday morning at his home training rink just outside Los Angeles, Adam Rippon laces up his skates for the first time since the Olympics in South Korea and lands a simple jump to applause from the parents waiting for their kids’ hockey scrimmage. A teenage girl stops …
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A wrenching love story, set in Paris in the early 1990s, told against the background of HIV/AIDS activists battling against government and pharmaceutical indifference as they fight for their lives. The group is ACT UP-Paris and the movie is BPM (Beats Per Minute), an impassioned and incendiary cry from the …
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