LGBTQ

A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.

In Jane Schoenbrun’s new feature, two teens search for their true selves through their shared obsession with a horror TV series.

A new document that strives to reconsider matters of human dignity nevertheless echoes Church rhetoric from decades ago.

Two years after “Rothaniel,” the comedian has committed another moving—and deeply entertaining—act of self-exposure.

Noah Schamus and Brit Fryer’s short film offers a vision of how physicians and trans patients can meet one another on equal footing.

The director Ethan Coen, writing the script with his wife, Tricia Cooke, leans on comical violence and genre winks for this road movie of lesbians seeking love.

In an illustrated depiction of a young girl’s self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep.

With “Bark of Millions,” “Oh, Mary!,” and “Aristotle Thinks Again,” the fabulousness on New York’s stages seems to have reached a critical mass.

The author discusses her story “That Girl.”

On searching for faith, freedom, and the love of a father.

The author discusses his new novella, “Server.”

It was empty when I logged in. I’d been off it since Vic died, four years ago.

The director of “Shiva Baby” and “Bottoms” on indies, male validation, third-wave feminism, and whether you need to be a dick to be successful.

At the spot in Brooklyn where a dancer was stabbed to death, mourners gathered and struck poses as an act of resistance.

The first feature film by the director of “Passages” shows the perils that arise when gay lives must be lived in secrecy.

Robert Plunket’s novels made fans of Madonna, Gordon Lish, and Larry David. Yet, for years, he was a cult writer without much of a cult.

In Pepi Ginsberg’s short film, an innocent swim turns into a menacing encounter with homophobia.

The Spider-Man sequel might be the first superhero film to take full advantage of what comic-book art can achieve onscreen.

It was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.

A. G. Sulzberger on why—in this age of deep political divides—he went public in defense of traditional journalistic values. Plus, a conversation with the poet Paul Tran.