Innehållsförteckning för May/June 2023 från OUT

As the spring season unfolds, I am delighted to share some exciting happenings at equalpride. I am thrilled to announce our recent Out March/April Fashion issue cover launch, featuring the incomparable Billy Porter. His ability to present a unique perspective on the LGBTQ+ experience is truly a testament to the power of representation in media. We are also elated that The Advocate has won Outstanding Magazine for Overall Coverage at the 34th GLAAD Media Awards ceremony. This recognition is a testament to our team’s dedication to telling inclusive, accurate, and impactful stories about the LGBTQ+ community. Our mission at equalpride is to amplify diverse voices, and we’re proud to work alongside talented individuals who bring this vision to life. As we come together to celebrate Pride, let’s not forget the…

Can’t Cancel Pride — the annual benefit from Procter & Gamble and iHeartRadio that’s raised millions for LGBTQ+ organizations — began with a conversation about the Muppets. Brent Miller, the global LGBTQ equality leader for P&G and a gay man himself, was sitting in his New York City living room in 2020, having a virtual “water cooler” chat with colleagues. The conversation turned to LGBTQ+ people and how especially vulnerable they were in the pandemic. Nonprofits were losing funding. Young people were sheltering in place, separated from in-person queer networks, and oftentimes trapped with unsupportive family members. With events canceled across the world, the future of Pride itself — the annual celebration that brings LGBTQ+ people together in a dazzling month of visibility — seemed uncertain. How to move forward?…

Kane C. Andrade uses art to effect change. The San Francisco-based photographer and creative producer is also a military veteran and transgender man, and his work centers and uplifts other members of his community. “I like to shoot what I know,” Andrade attests. “As a Latino trans man, I wanted to share an idea of my experience and my journey vicariously through the casting of this shoot. It’s important to me to highlight my community and in turn specifically to highlight trans men of color.” In this project for Out, Andrade took portraits of fellow Bay Area residents Gray Anderson, Jaime Serra dos Santos, and Xavier-Dominic Williams on an iPhone 14 Pro Max as a celebration of intersectional lives. And he shares advice with others on how to create art…

photographer DEVIN KASPARIAN @devinkasparian hair IGGY ROSALES @hairbyiggy makeup GILBERT SOLIZ @gilbert_soliz At this year’s Grammy Awards, the world was watching as Kim Petras became the first out transgender performer to triumph in a televised category — for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, alongside Sam Smith for their ubiquitous hit “Unholy.” (Previously, Wendy Carlos won three Grammys in 1970 for her electronic classical album Switched-On Bach, nine years before she came out as a trans woman.) In her historic acceptance speech, Petras thanked her mother for believing her when, as a youth, she first declared she was a girl. It was an impromptu moment. The “Heart to Break” singer had written up a more traditional speech full of names and acknowledgements, but she scrapped it minutes before her category was announced.…

In our cover story with Kim Petras (page 46), the trans singer unpacks her historic speech at the Grammys earlier this year. When she took the stage for winning in the category of Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, alongside Sam Smith for their hit “Unholy,” she thanked her mother who “believed me, that I was a girl.” The remark was unplanned. But in that moment, it was important for Petras to acknowledge that a supportive parent, that her mom’s belief in her, was “responsible for me being alive.” Across the world and throughout history, LGBTQ+ people have struggled to be believed about who they are and who they love. Make no mistake — it is a fight for survival. Studies show that anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is linked to a rise in suicide…

LET’S HAVE A BABY TOGETHER. It’ll only set you back $250,000. To become a gay dad with a biological child, you’ll first need some eggs (human ones). You can buy some from an egg bank or try to find a donor who will cycle just for you. If doing the latter, it’s good to have contracts, so you’ll need a lawyer too. Then you need to get your eggs to a fertility clinic. If you have a donor, you’ll be paying for their travel and appointments. If you’ve got the eggs, a freezer truck transportation service will do. Embryologists at the clinic do their thing with the eggs and your sperm, and voilà — you have embryos on ice. If embryologists sound expensive, it’s because they are. We’re done with…

Not just a parade and a party, Sydney Mardi Gras evolved from Australia’s own version of Stonewall in 1978, when police violently broke up the city’s small public Pride celebration. Those who took part in that march and suffered at the hands of police are revered as “78ers” and hold a place of honor in the Australian LGBTQ+ community. When Sydney WorldPride convened this year under the banner “Gather, Dream, Amplify,” organizers wanted to extend that celebration of history to center Indigenous First Nations as well. After all, Australia’s Aboriginal people have lived here for at least 65,000 years, making theirs the oldest continuing culture in the world. So it was fitting that the spectacular two-week WorldPride, coinciding with Sydney Mardi Gras, gathered and amplified that culture and history even…

In Berlin, I do not know which friends identify as queer and which do not. I love not knowing. Straight men dabble, show up at techno parties in jockstraps, harnesses, and rubber — and go for women. My grip on my own sexual identity has dissolved. This started long before moving here; my first book was, among other things, about how I never settled on a label. But Berlin has cemented this: I am label-less. In the city’s party scene, the boundaries between queer and straight collapse. Superstar DJ Diplo has never come out as gay or queer, but he made headlines in March for saying he likes blowjobs from men and is “not not gay.” On cue, articles featuring shirtless Diplo pics appeared on the internet buzzing over his…

In her 2022 Netflix special, Good Fortune, Fortune Feimster recounts the story of a homophobe who sent her a vile message on social media. In the message, “Gary” asked, “How long have you and your wife been mentally ill taco-licking lesbians who should be put in Alcatraz?” In response, the stand-up comic and actor declared, “Gary just recognized my marriage. He said, ‘your wife,’ and that is called progress.” True to her gentle style of modeling queer visibility by being her authentic self, Feimster doesn’t tear down the homophobe. She turns his hate on its head to highlight that his acknowledgment of her nuptials to a woman is something that wouldn’t have occurred at the start of her career. Hence, “progress.” But the reality of any backlash to Feimster’s union…

Makeup on men has been a touchy subject for centuries. Yet in the past, noblemen and other aristocrats not only wore makeup; they layered on brightly colored blush and heavy powder. That’s not even mentioning their shoes, which were stacked as high as their hair — both with ribbons and bows. We’re talking straight, burly men with swords, mind you. So what’s the deal? In the last decade, makeup has come a long way in design, intention, and engineering. This means the industry can reach a wide variety of male consumers that use makeup — however they choose to apply it. For a late-night drag performance, a celebrity-filled red carpet, a nightclub rendezvous, or the set of broadcast news? Sure. Others only present their full-on “Sasha Fierce” or “Studly Steven”…