Dan Clarendon

The streaming company has churned out original films for a decade now, though it has typically sent its films to select movie theaters for award-show eligibility. Earlier this year, however, Netflix celebrated its first time topping the U.S. box office with a singalong version of KPop Demon Hunters, which, yes, is one of our picks for the best Netflix films yet.

If the researchers of Million Dollar Money Drop were thinking about Post-it notes, perhaps they could have used a Post-it reminder to double-check their work. For it was a trivia question about the adhesive stationery that caused a stink for the Fox game show 15 years ago now.

Every November 13 to November 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a time to educate the public about trans identities and the fight for trans equality and safety, all of which leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20. As GLAAD explains, trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith created Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999 in memory of Rita Hester, a trans woman murdered the previous year.

When Lost didn’t have us scratching our heads, it had us dabbing our eyes. For as much as the ABC castaway drama constructed a mysterious and metaphysical mythology that we’re still trying to wrap our minds around, it also moved us with human drama anyone can understand. This is a show that yanked at our heart strings, often while we heard a swell of strings. (Damn that Michael Giacchino and his emotional orchestrations!)

Reis’ success on the court has coincided with his coming out. Late last year, he went Instagram official with his boyfriend, Brazilian actor Guilherme Ricardo. Reis posted a brief birthday message and declaration of love. “Feliz aniversário,” he wrote. “Feliz vida. Te amo muito.” (Translation: “Happy birthday. Happy life. I love you very much.”) Those seven words made Reis the first player to ever publicly come out on the men’s ATP Tour.

Many TV shows just show a simple title card or, worse, rely on AI-generated graphics in a not-so-Secret Invasion of nonhuman artistry. But the best opening title sequences set the tone of the show, complement the narrative, or just serve as an entertaining diversion from the drama at hand. Here’s our pantheon of TV’s best opening title sequences of all time.

If you caught Bad Bunny performing “PERFuMITO NUEVO” in the Saturday Night Live Season 50 finale, you also witnessed him trading verses with RaiNao, three years after the King of Latin Trap jumpstarted her career with a social-media endorsement of her track “LUV” and an invitation to his Un Verano Sin Ti tour stage weeks later. And now, the San Juan-raised RaiNao seems destined to follow her countryman to reggaetón superstardom, and she’s repping queer femmes all the while.

While some people pined over Gladiator II actors, a Reddit user gazed upon the sculpted visages of real-life Roman Empire figures. And in a recent post on the r/askgaybros forum, we have the results: a chart showing dozens of Roman emperors, ranked by the OP’s appraisal of their hotness.

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the story of his brain has continued for years now, all because of one man who took the gray matter into his own hands and kept it for decades, even crossing state lines with the brain. What happened to Einstein’s brain? Believe it or not, it was the pathologist who conducted Einstein’s autopsy who just took the brain without permission, as detailed in last year’s documentary film The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain.

Hang out on Reddit long enough, and you’ll eventually see transphobic attitudes show up—explicitly and implicitly—in queer communities on the platform. And social media is, of course, a microcosm of a society which some think LGB equality is an acceptable substitute for LGBT equality. One Reddit user recently shed light on transphobia in the gay male population, saying that although he loves being gay and trans, his interactions with cis gay men “[have], by and large, been less than ideal.”

Paria Hassouri and her husband were thousands of miles from home, on vacation in Thailand, when they got a call from their daughter’s school. A teacher told them that Ava, then 13, was questioning her gender identity. During Ava’s coming-out experience, Hassouri educated herself about how best to support her daughter. Other parents are trying to do the same, as children and teens are opening up — sometimes even earlier in their lives — about their placement in a galaxy of queer existence.

Fans’ love for Hogwarts’ witches and wizards need not snuffed by the ramblings of a 50-something cisgender white lady. They have used Vanishing Spells on the woman whose words hurt trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people around the world. Call it the Fandom That Lived.

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.

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.

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.