With Season Five of “Orange Is The New Black” released earlier this month, Laverne Cox has a lot to say about her groundbreaking role in the Netflix hit, which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2014.

“I think if she met little Parker and Bennett and actually came into our home, she would understand why her words were so hurtful to so many people,” Vahaly, a former men’s tennis Top 100 player, told Outsports about the twin boys he and his husband, Bill Jones, are raising. Parker and Bennett Jones Vahaly turn 1 on Wednesday.

Scott Schoettes, Counsel and HIV Project Director at the pioneering LGBTQ legal groupLambda Legal, resigned late last week from thePresidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), along with five other council members, in protest of Donald Trump’s polices ― or lack of polices ― to combat the HIV epidemic.

The Capital Pride Parade was interrupted Saturday evening in Washington by a group of activists demanding organizers address issuesof social justice, police brutality and the increasingly corporate nature and sponsorship of the annual event. A wave of protestors from the group No Justice No Pride attempted to shut down the parade three times, the first near 15th and P streets at about 5:30 p.m., The Washington Post reported.

What inspired the homoerotic cover of “G.I. Joe” #7? It was “G.I. Joe” writer Aubrey Sitterson. He has a unique, fun take on the familiar “G.I. Joe” team with this new book. He’s really interested in pushing the boundaries of the concept, honoring long-term fans but also engaging people that are primarily interested in more quirky indie comics.

Donald Trump acknowledged the Pulse Massacre on Twitter Monday and users weren’t having any of it. The president’s tweet ― which he sent at 11:58 a.m.to mark one year after a gunman entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and murdered 49 people, most of them queer people of color ― read “We will NEVER FORGET the victims who lost their lives one year ago today in the horrific PulseNightClub shooting. OrlandoUnitedDay.

“I have to keep fighting for her memory ― that she’s not forgotten, that her death isn’t in vain,” Alvear told HuffPost. “There is so much love out there. I want the legacy of these kids to be that. To show the world that [being LGBTQ] is more than a label – these are people that were loved, they were caring, they were human and these hate crimes are just totally uncalled for. Unnecessary.

Just two years ago, few of us would have imagined the frightening America we live in today. Instability, impulse and mad rantings rule the day. Many fear brutality, deportation, separation from their families. No one’s rights can be taken for granted, and for LGBTQ people, whose rights, like so many others, have always been fragile, it’s a harsh reality.

Recent hits like “Fun Home” and “Kinky Boots” have tackled queer issues to great acclaim on Broadway, of course. In comparison, “Falsettos” would remind audiences who’d witnessed the passing of same-sex marriage and other strides toward equality in recent years “what it was like for gay men and women at a certain time to find love and create a family,” Uranowitz said. A little more than two weeks after “Falsettos” opened Oct.

Now playing at New York’s June Havoc Theater, “The Boy Who Danced on Air” tells the story of two young men who find love in a hopeless place. But star Troy Iwatasays he’s surprised when people define the new Off-Broadway musical as being patently “gay” or “queer.” “We never use the word ‘gay’ at any point.