Dan Clarendon

Cop shows, cop shows, whatcha gonna do? After the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks—and amid the calls to defund police departments—the cop reality TV genre may have finally fallen out of favor.

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

Many Americans were surprised when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of LGBTQ employment protections on June 15 — especially because Neil Gorsuch, one of the more conservative Supreme Court justices, authored the majority opinion. That same day, self-described “conservative-libertarian journalist” Brad Polumbo tweeted that he ordered an “I’m Gay for Gorsuch!” T-shirt, which is currently available on Redbubble.

At first glance, NBC's upcoming 30 Rock reunion seems like a welcome distraction from the wreck that is 2020. But it's not just a reunion; it's an "Upfront special event" to advertise NBCUniversal's new programming. And it's a prime example of the corporate synergy 30 Rock mocked during its original run.

The late pulp author H.P. Lovecraft has countless fans across the world, many of are whom conflicted in their fandom. After all, Lovecraft is one of the biggest names in horror fiction, but the man espoused virulent racism. And the upcoming HBO drama Lovecraft Country — due to premiere in August — holds both those realities in its allegorical premise.

As if timed to save us from our quarantine boredom, three new major streaming services launched over the past three months, with NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining the fray just weeks ago. So far, though, showdowns with Amazon and Roku have meant that Peacock’s feathers are ruffled, and HBO Max isn’t running at max capacity. The good news for those streamers? They haven’t had Quibi’s bad luck…

A finite version of Alex Dimitrov’s poem “Love” appeared in the January/February issue of The American Poetry Review. But Dimitrov, a gay poet who also co-writes the popular Astro Poets Twitter account, wants to continue the poem for decades to come. “Once I started, I never wanted to finish,” he recently told PinkNews. “Of course, I had to because it was going to be published. And then one night I thought to myself, well, isn’t that why we have Twitter? The poem could continue indefinitely.”

Perhaps not everyone was sorry to see Friends leave Netflix in December. The blockbuster 1990s NBC sitcom—which starred Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry—has been a lightning rod of criticism in the past few years as new, woke generations call out the jokes they find offensive.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle surprised the British public — and multiple royal relatives, apparently — by announcing on Wednesday, January 9, that they intend to “step back” from their duties as senior members of the royal family.

After declaring the violence epidemic against transgender people a “myth,” journalist and self-described “gay conservative” Chad Felix Greene is now attacking the idea of the use of “they” as a singular pronoun and criticizing the APA for endorsing the usage.

This Internet was abuzz this week that the news that Kristen Stewart’s character in the new big-screen reboot of Charlie’s Angels is “definitely gay.” How will viewers know that secret agent Sabina prefers the company of women? Apparently, there’s a “little moment” in the film. Elizabeth Banks, writer, director, and star of the film, tells PrideSource: So much of the time, “little moments” of LGBTQ visibility are all fans get. Think of Josh Gad’s “exclusively gay” LeFou sharing a two-second da

Dancing With the Stars waltzed into controversy earlier this month when ABC announced former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer as one of the “stars” of the reality competition’s 28th season. But is Spicer’s casting in the ballroom battle that surprising? Our cursory review of the full slate of DWTS contestants reveals other big names in Republican politics.

For a show about cleanliness, Tidying Up is sure stirring up a messy debate: There's backlash to the Netflix series and now backlash to the backlash. And all this controversy is pointing out some pervasive social issues.

Color photography was developed, so to speak, with a definite bias toward lighter skin — a reality cinematographer Ava Berkofsky sought to overcome when she was hired to light season 2 of the HBO comedy Insecure.

Duck Dynasty‘s Phil Robertson is a bigot, and A&E is reprehensible for not taking his offenses more seriously and for kowtowing to its Phil-supporting viewership.