The P is for Pop Culture

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The Crown | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

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How It Feels To Conquer Your Shame

For too long, I thought being gay would condemn me to a life filled with nothing but guilt and violence.

“When people discover I once attended “ex-gay” therapy, they often ask how long I was there. When I tell them two weeks, they ask if this was enough to really mess me up. I have learned to start giving them another answer. I tell them I’ve been in “ex-gay” therapy my whole life, that I’m still there today. It doesn’t take a place like Love in Action to teach you to hate yourself. It doesn’t take growing up gay in the South. It doesn’t take having a Missionary Baptist preacher for a father to ingest the kind of shame I ingested on a daily basis. It doesn’t take being abused or being shamed by that abuse or having boyfriends that have been abused or shamed by that abuse. It doesn’t take being an overt victim in any way. All it takes is living in our culture. I tell these people that parents do much worse than send their kids into conversion therapy, that parents kick their kids out of their homes at an alarming rate. Forty percent of all youth homeless identify as LGBTQ.”

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High Maintenance Trailer (HBO)

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life - Date Announcement - Netflix

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Power Rangers Character Posters

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Gay Bachelor Series Hosted By Lance Bass Gets Logo Series Order

Logo is jumping into the dating-show arena with Finding Prince Charming, a gay-themed Bachelor-esque series hosted by Lance Bass. The program — set to debut this fall — “will include 13 charm…

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Beauty and the Beast debuts new teaser poster

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‘Please Like Me’ Renewed For Season 4 On Pivot

EXCLUSIVE: Pivot has given a Season 4 greenlight to Please Like Me, Josh Thomas’ coming-of-age comedy from Australia. Production gets under way this week in Melbourne on the six-episode new s…

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THE BIRTH OF A NATION: Official HD Trailer

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‘American Crime’: Regina King Set To Return, Details About Season 3 Revealed

Regina King, who won an Emmy for the first season of ABC’s American Crime and is back in Emmy contention for Season 2, is the fist cast member to sign on for the upcoming third installment of…

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Westworld: Teaser Trailer (HBO)

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Looking: The Movie - Trailer (HBO)

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‘Wicked’ Movie Gets 2019 Release Date

The long-awaited “Wicked” movie adaptation will be released on Dec. 20, 2019. Stephen Daldry is directing the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical for Universal. More to co…

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Closet Monster Official Trailer

A fresh take on the coming-of-age story, this surreal tale follows the artistically driven Oscar (AMERICAN CRIME’s Connor Jessup) hovering on the brink of adulthood. Struggling to find his place in the world after a rough childhood and haunted by images of a tragic incident, Oscar dreams of escaping his small town. After he meets a mysterious and attractive new co-worker, Oscar follows the guidance of his pet hamster Buffy (voiced by Isabella Rossellini) and faces his demons to find the life he wants.

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How to talk to a queer person who is afraid of dying

Ask them how they’re doing. Tell them you love them. Tell them your love doesn’t come with caveats.

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Colton Haynes gets honest about life after 'Arrow'

If you don’t know Colton Haynes by name – and he’d be the first person to bashfully tell you, you probably don’t – you at least know the 27-year...

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Power Rangers: See Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa in upcoming reboot