“Yentl” is Barbra Streisand’s criminally underrated 1983 directorial film debut set in turn-of-the-20th-century Poland. After her father (or “Papa”) dies, Yentl, the titular character played by Babs, decides to disguise herself as a man to study Talmudic law at a Jewish school called a Yeshiva. At school, she meets the ambitious Avigdor, who is in love with Hadass, a local girl. During the film, the three enter a love triangle complicated by Yentl’s gender secret.
We need to turn toward our own personal satisfaction with our gender expression, instead of lashing out at others for theirs. If you feel secure in your masculinity, don’t let anyone ever make you doubt it. Conversely, if another person is secure in their masculinity, you don’t get to question them about it.
LGBTQ individuals experience higher rates of violence and death than their heterosexual peers, and this reality can take a toll.
To celebrate trans resilience and address topics such as transphobia...
“American Horror Story"'s Sarah Paulson stars in “Ratched,” a Netflix Original that despite its visual successes, falters as a follow-up to the classic 1970s film.
Society often resorts to pasting labels onto different kinds of people in an attempt to simplify human behavior and make uncomplicated explanations for things that are often difficult to understand.
Regarding the controversy surrounding homosexuals marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade: In a way, weren't we here a couple thousand years ago? The ancient and primitive Greeks and Romans crassly...
Many people have a hard time wrapping their head around the concept of bisexuality. I don’t understand why it’s so astonishing and impossible that people could like and be sexually attracted to more...
Carla Hale was a physical education teacher at Bishop Watterson High School, a Catholic school in Ohio, for 19 years. She stayed in the closet about her sexuality and kept her lesbian partner a secret...
Author Charles Rowan Beye was worried his newest memoir, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey, would be pigeonholed along with other gay novels, he said.
“The title of the book bothers me...
