I travelled the world in search of LGBTQ couples of color. The experience changed my life, but I did it because I think their stories can change your life too. In honor of Black History Month, I'm proud to announce that my book, Queer Love in Color, is available for preorder.

Aaron Sorkin, if you’re out there, we need a reboot of THE NEWSROOM, “loosely based” on the drama at CBS News, ASAP!

I am so glad to have such a brilliant creative community. Two of my friends got wasted and absolutely read my creative process over the past four years for filth (constructively). I’d been trying to find “inspiration” for years, but all it took was two friends and some alcohol.

I know for a fact I live in a bohemian homosexual bubble because I attended an absolutely lovely straight wedding last month and when they announced the bride and groom as Mr & Mrs Groom's Last Name I was like "oh wow I didn't know people still did that."

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Oh my god, MAGA pastor Mark Burns agreed to do an interview with @IChotiner and it went exactly how you'd expect. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

A clip from the 1997 film DAKAN, one of the first West African films to center homosexuality. More than two decades later, DAKAN remains a landmark of queer cinema and a reminder of the legacy of Black queer storytelling across the diaspora. #Dakan #QueerCinema #AfricanCinema

"But before talent takes that leap, they need to ask themselves some difficult questions: Do they have the stomach to operate as a business owner and risk fading into irrelevance? And is there an audience for what they have to sell?" hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

One of the most chilling stories you’ll read. Exclusive: On Facebook, she was a beloved Damascus hairdresser with 7,000 followers. Inside prison, survivors knew her as the guard with the green pipe. Exemplary reporting by @PalomaDinechin in @newlinesmag: newlinesmag.com/reportage/in…

I’m proud to say my TikTok and Instagram coverage of Cardi B’s civil assault trial is up for “best use of social media by an independent journalist.” 🏆

I am allergic to cats, so, naturally, every cat I encounter loves me.

Instagram needs to get rid of that repost button! I just reposted a thirst trap on my professional account, they want me dead!

someone who actually went to work at the journal's office in midtown would probably not think nyc was emptying of people...

hello! i've been working on a thing (behind the scenes this time) that I'm very excited for you all to hear. Paper Trail - a new podcast showcasing @propublica's badass investigations. it's going to be really good. come along with us? propub.li/4d59Lcd

The WHO calling everyone on the hantavirus cruise.

In 1892, desperate for European culture, an American conservatory paid $$ for composer Antonin Dvorak, known for incorporating folk melodies into his work, to become director. He hears spirituals weekly and is struck by "Swing Low Sweet Chariot. " Then he tells a newspaper

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I made a super simple website where you can see everywhere you can get to in under an hour on the NYC subway. The generated map is both a heat-map (changes color) and a cartogram (warps space). castrio.me/nyc

You are not the only one who has felt this very peculiar and unspeakable thing. Someone has already written it down. Someone sat alone with the same unbearable weight you are carrying right now and they survived it long enough to find words for it. That is what the whole of human literature is. Millions of people saying: me too, me too, me too…in the dark, across centuries, reaching forward through time to find you. You are not alone in this, you never were. The writers were always writing specifically to you. They just didn’t know your name.

so apparently the concept of a teenager basically did not exist until post-WWII. a specific combination of historical forces produced a new class of young people who all had to go to high school, could not work on farms or in mills or factories anymore, and had access to money and cars. the entire rebellious teenager trope was created in this time period so it refers specifically to boomers rebelling against the silent generation, who grew up in a completely different world. the generation gap here was so stark this is also where the term "generation gap" even comes from, and i think the whole practice of naming distinct generations saturdayeveningpost.com/2018…

Yelled at two people because they were standing in the way at the top of the subway stairs, but then I had to yell, “Y’all are lovely” because I realized it was two gay black teenagers on a date. 🥺