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Netflix How the Memory of Stonewall Lives On in a Meme
The question “Who threw the first brick?” has become a way to celebrate gay icons and to inject joy into a sobering historical moment.
Lucy Jones The Knotty Nostalgia of the Hardy Boys Series
Why one writer still reads the wildly popular books with a mixture of love and disappointment, 60 years after they were revised to remove racist content
Bianchetti / Corbis / David Pollack / Getty / Penguin Random House / Steve Liss / The LIFE Images Collection / The Atlantic Whitney Houston and the Persistent Perils of the Mainstream
Two films about the late music icon shine a light on the risks of expecting black artists to embody a palatable pop persona.
Ethan Miller / Reuters Finding Love on the Dance Floor in Call Me by Your Name
How a memorable club scene in Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age film captures the essence of a budding romance between two young men
Sony Pictures Classics The Lost Boys’ Subtly Radical Vision of Family
The 1987 vampire horror-comedy debuted at a time when America was preoccupied with the evolution of traditional kinship bonds.
Warner Bros. Beautiful Thing Is a Masterpiece of Gay Storytelling
The 1996 British film portrayed its working-class LGBT characters with remarkable sensitivity and nuance.
Sony Pictures Classics What's Keeping Black Students From Studying Abroad?
Only 5 percent of those in the U.S. who travel internationally for college are African American—and that's a problem for everyone.
