Queer Window Khadija could be a star spokeswoman for Muslims if they wanted to show off Islam’s teachings of peace and acceptance. She doesn’t see the teachings of Islam as “harsh,” nor do ...   More

Queer Window Ah, the Olympics. Some of my earliest childhood fumblings were spent obsessing over what Mark Spitz looked like wet and naked. To this day I still get hard picturing Bruce Jenner’s junk flopping ...   More

Queer Window Jake Reitan is a queer-boy mashup of Rosa Parks and the Fantastic Four’s “Human Torch.” For the past few years, between classes at Northwestern and Harvard, this angel-faced boy with ...   More

Queer Window Two guys walking up Southwest Salmon Street were staring at me. Well, they weren’t staring at me so much as at my bulge. “Did you see that?” said the greasy dude in a wife-beater. To ...   More

Queer Window As I captured private family moments with my camera, I realized my task felt familiar. It should. I’d played the role years before.Five summers ago, after the marriage of my partner Juan’s ...   More

Queer Window “Miss? Are you going to clean my room next? No? I need you to clean it now, por favor.” Leslie Jordan is talking to me on the phone at the same time he’s “talking” to a m ...   More

Queer Window How does one town get so gay? While it’s impossible to try to capture all the highlights from this year’s amazing Pride Week, I’m sharing some of the queerest “moments” f ...   More

Queer Window Just Out columnist (and ex-WW contributor) Stephen Marc Beaudoin recently wrote how we should avoid this Sunday’s Pride parade because it’s nothing more than a chance for corporations to j ...   More

Queer Window Ever since Sam Adams first ran for office, I’ve written I’d vote for him because this is identity politics, pure and simple. But for some of my gay brothers, it’s not that simple.Tak ...   More

Queer Window Two female, Euro-based pop stars “dropped” their latest albums on U.S. soil last Tuesday. The first, Hard Candy, is by a 49-year-old that goes by the name of Madonna. You may have heard of ...   More