The gay men of Haifa, Israel steam up the latest edition of Elska Magazine, an independent queer culture and lifestyle publication. This article contains images that may be considered not suitable for work. When Elska’s founder and editor Liam Campbell launched the bimonthly magazine in 2015, his aim was to present the queer community as one of deep diversity. Previous issues of the magazine have featured pictorials shot in Lisbon, Portugal; Mumbai, India; and Yokohama, Japan.

Over 25 years ago, in 1990, as an editor, reporter and columnist, I was vilified by many in the media, and in the LGBT community,for reporting on the sexual orientation of public figures when such truths were relevant to a larger story. This came to be dubbed by Time magazine as “outing”―a word I never accepted since I simply saw it as reporting. What made it relevant to report? Lots of things.

As an openly gay male artist in mainstream pop, Sam Smith is aware that he’s still very much an anomaly. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter appears to be having more fun exploring his sexuality through his music on his new album, “The Thrill of It All,” due out Friday. But in a new interview with the Herald Sun, Smith opened up about the challenges that come with “speaking for a community” and, as such, “constantly trying to say the right thing.

Just one day after Halloween, Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis will kick off the holiday season with the release of their hotly anticipated new movie,“A Bad Moms Christmas.” To promote the film, the two stars sat down for a candid PrideSource interview, in which they reveal that they separately waited for marriage equality to become the law of the land before tying the knot with their respective husbands.

Celebrities and others were swift and blistering in their condemnation of actorKevin Spacey’s Twitter apology to fellow actor Anthony Rapp early Monday. Spacey, 58,issued the statement after a BuzzFeed News reportalleged that the “House of Cards” star had sexually harassed Rapp when he was just 14. In his statement, Spacey did not deny the incident but said he could “not remember the encounter.

And then, we’ll look at how the closet and power corrupts, turning an individual’s self-loathing into a weapon against an entire community. In the case of Kevin Spacey, that now has the potential to do terrible damage. Defamation no.

With the prominent political journalist Mark Halperin now joining the ranks of men accused of sexual assault and harassment―in his case, five women anonymouslytold CNN on Thursday that they were harassed or assaulted, and others since have identified themselves―the remark that Donald Trump made on his infamous Access Hollywood tape seems to be the rationale for just about every other well-known man who’s been exposed in recent weeks: “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” Marina Fang noted here on HuffPost that...

In a bold, history-making move, the Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” will kick off its second season by revealing one of its principal characters to be gay. The coming-of-age series, which debuted in April, follows the adventures of Andi Mack (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and her pals, Buffy Driscoll (Sofia Wylie) and Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) as they navigate adolescence.

More than 100 students at a Maine high school rallied this week in support of a classmate who says he’s been subjected to intense bullying on campus because he’s gay. Garrett McCann, who attends York High School in York, Maine, told Bangor Daily Newshe “definitely” felt supported after he spotted the rally, which began at 6:30 a.m. Monday.

A free-speech debate has erupted at Cleveland State University after the school’s lukewarm response to the posting of a homophobic flier that encourages lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students to commit suicide. The flier was posted last week on a billboard in CSU’s main classroom building,according to Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper. It reportedly appeared the same day that the university’s first LGBTQ center opened its doors.