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EXCLUSIVE: Creator+, a next-generation content studio and distribution platform for digital-first storytellers and creators, has unveiled their inaugural class of emerging filmmakers for its 'Flip the Script' Short Film Fund. Creator+ is a studio and distribution platform, whose goal is to empower the next…

UPDATED, April 27: GLAAD, the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, today announced that it will honor award-winning actor, producer, and activist Wilson Cruz with the Vito Russo Award during the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Hilton Midtown in New…

GLAAD announced that Grammy Award-winning musician Kacey Musgraves will receive the Vanguard Award at the 33rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, April 2. Kacey Musgraves has used her platform to speak out in support of the LGBTQ community and advance conversations about LGBTQ…

GLAAD, the queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, announced that it will honor award-winning actress, singer and activist Michaela Jaé (Mj) Rodriguez with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 33rd annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set for Saturday, April 2 at the Beverly Hilton. The GLAAD…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures has assembled an all-star cast including Beanie Feldstein, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Kat Dennings, Jameela Jamil and Lolly Adefope for the anthology series package Girls Can't Shoot (& Other Lies), which is based on the international bestselling essay collection Feminists Don't Wear Pink…

Mj Rodriguez is the latest cast member of FX's groundbreaking series Pose to make Emmy history, earning the very first lead acting nomination for a trans woman. In conversation with Ryan Fleming she reflects on an achievement she never thought possible, and what she hopes it will mean. Growing up in Newark in the…

The category is: live, work, pose! FX groundbreaking series Pose has ended after three seasons, but its legacy lives on as proof that stories about underserved communities are not only universal but a powerful and necessary tool for representation. Creator and executive producer Steven Canals was turned out multiple…

After a Covid-induced break last year, the annual amFAR Gala Cannes supporting AIDS research returned to Cap d'Antibes on Friday night, and with it, host Sharon Stone who had been absent from the Cannes Film Festival-adjacent event for several years. The venue was new this year, with the Villa Eilenroc standing in for…

Mj Rodriguez made history on Tuesday, becoming the first transgender performer to be nominated in a major category for her portrayal of nurse Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista in FX’s highly lauded Pose. Through tears, Rodriguez talks of the impact of the accolade with Deadline. “I’m feeling so many emotions. I’m feeling…

Mj Rodriguez, a.k.a. the Mother Blanca, is finally getting her flowers at the Emmy Awards. The Pose actress, who has starred as the fierce and unapologetically ambitious and caring Blanca Evangelista, made Emmy Awards history becoming the first transgender nominee for the best actress category on Tuesday, opening the…

Joel Kim Booster is set as a lead opposite Maya Rudolph in Apple’s half-hour comedy series from Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. Mj Rodriguez also stars. Created and written by Yang and Hubbard, the series follows Molly (Rudolph), a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended after her husband leaves her…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Pose series finale.  Emotions continued to ride high for the House of Evangelista in a final chapter of devastation, celebration and a new generation. On the heels of Angel and Papi’s wedding, Pose resumes with the grim realities of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Pray Tell (Bil…