Queer Culture

There’s plenty to love about Star Trek: Prodigy, which is already living up to its name after just ten episodes. Between the return of our favorite Star Trek: Voyager characters, the introduction of an irresistible new cast, and a rich exploration of some of the themes and core concepts that are universal to all Trek shows, Prodigy has really hit the ground running. One example is the introduction of the concept of M-Class Planets in “Dreamcatcher,” and another is the exami

Before there was a queer comics shelf, there was P. Craig Russell, drawing Mahler and Wilde like it was the most natural thing in the world. Now, at 75, he's reviving Night Music, the anthology he launched at Eclipse Comics in 1979. Wayne Alan Harold, Russell's longtime art agent and publishing partner, is running the campaign, billing the book as an all-new hardcover graphic album. Russell is adapting Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and His Soul, the last and longest story in th

Context and analysis for fan speculation about Spider-Gwen being trans. After years of anticipation, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been released in theaters. The sequel to 2018’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has captured the hearts and social media accounts of audiences in theaters everywhere. With several universes worth of Easter eggs and a cacophony of cliffhangers, the animated sequel offers plenty of conversation fodder. But in the days since

Katherine Locke and Nikolas Ilic's Godzilla Stomp! is out now from Penguin Young Readers, dropping Godzilla into a fairy-tale village.

We almost got Hooty backstory, though series creator Dana Terrace is skeptical about how the storyline might have been received. The Owl House series creator Dana Terrace says the original plan for the show's third season included an additional story for the character Hooty. However, she isn't sure whether or not the storyline would have been "good for the show" had it come to fruition. Terrace discussed this discarded Owl House storyline during a panel at last year's New Yor

Bill Nighy and Rosemarie DeWitt are officially guest stars in season two of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Paramount+ and CBS Studios revealed Saturday at New York Comic Con.

Star Trek star Robert Picardo has brought his version of the charismatic hologram, the Doctor, to two different centuries of television, and he's got a clear-eyed take on what's changed. Speaking with The Beat at the New York premiere of The Sixty Year Mission: How Star Trek Changed Television and the World on October 8, 2026, the Star Trek: Voyager and Starfleet Academy actor was asked how filming the franchise today compares to thirty years ago. Picardo, who originated the

Just like trans people IRL, the trans characters of Marvel have been here (and aren’t going anywhere) Recently, rumors have circulated that Gwen Stacy, AKA Spider-Gwen, is depicted as trans in the recent summer sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. As previously discussed, it is unlikely that Gwen was intended to be textually trans. Nevertheless, a trans superhero in the Marvel multiverse can indeed be considered a more-than-probable proposition. In fact, there already

Jade Armstrong is back with a new graphic novel — and this time, they're burning the whole magical girl genre down to its glittery, exhausted core. The Montréal-based, non-binary cartoonist announced their next YA graphic novel, titled Magical Girl Burnout, on Instagram, sharing the finished cover art alongside a blurb from Gale Galligan, the New York Times bestselling cartoonist behind some of The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel adaptations, who called it "a nonstop delight.

Mental illnesses are often misunderstood, misinterpreted, and misrepresented in mainstream media, and eating disorders are no exception. In 2024, however, one show broke the mold: Heartstopper, which, after hinting at a main character’s mental health struggles since Season 1, carefully dealt with how Charlie Spring’s disordered eating was impacting him, both medically and emotionally, and how it was impacting his loved ones, who did not know how to help. Netflix’s Heartstoppe

A two-day LA fundraiser will cap the nonprofit's first year of supporting trans youth, with Chappell Roan herself headlining. Chappell Roan is throwing a party with a purpose. The Super Graphic Spectacular, a two-day, Los Angeles–based charity fundraiser, will mark one full year of impact since The Midwest Princess Project's inception — the nonprofit Roan founded to support transgender youth. Taking place October 21-22 at The Shrine in Los Angeles, the event promises live ent

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Tilly Bridges, the trans screenwriter and Matrix historian behind Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix, is teasing something new, and this time she's got some extra exciting backup.

Texas has added a new wave of comics and graphic novels to its state-level book-restriction apparatus, and the titles caught in the net this time include a middle-grade graphic novel about a non-binary kid and a squad of magical dog superheroes.

Oni Press is heading back into an alternate-universe Land of Ooo, and this time Princess Bubblegum is a vampire hunter with a very inconvenient crush. Earlier today, Oni and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products announced Adventure Time: Bonnie the Vampire Hunter Special #1, a 56-page one-shot from Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Caroline Cash (PeePee PooPoo, Nancy) and rising artist Tia Roxae (Face Fatigue, The Glass Chamber), hitting shops November 18, 2026. The p

Manga Mavericks Books has tapped Yuri scholar and longtime critic Erica Friedman as its new Managing Editor, a hire that signals the North American publisher is gearing up for a serious expansion. The Culver City-based imprint announced the move today, framing it as the next step after a breakout debut year. Since launching in 2025, Manga Mavericks Books has built its catalog around indie titles like Horon of the Closed Country by Sen and FISHGOD by Chlona, and CEO Varun Gupt

AMERICAN* FUJO*, an anthology on fandom’s intersection with gender and sexuality that’s edited by Alexis Rippen and tshirt3000, is opening a second pre-order window for its print edition in August 2026.