Protecting one secret led to a darker one I’ve kept hidden for years.

A place we’ve been before and will be again… and likely again.

A place we’ve been before and will be again… and likely again.

Men like Jake Andrich and Timothy Champagne prove that our obsession with straight validation keeps rewarding people who don’t respect us.

Davis Mallory: From AOL chatrooms to a borrowed face, here’s a love story that blurred the line between faith and fiction.

The biggest nothing-burger I’ve come across in some time.

Read writing from The Apollo Review | Jonathan Apollo on Medium. Speaking on everything and nothing for 15+ years. NYC. Mid-40s. Neurodivergent. I know way too much about millennial pop. He/him/his. ...

As life goes on, I try to secure the experiences and people who made me who I am.

On grief, nostalgia, mortality, and the fear of forgetting the people who made us who we are.

An early morning reflection on life, mortality, and the science of words.

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ALT: You Know Who's Gay? Us!

It’s 6 months to the day that I woke up from surgery. To the hour, as I type this, should be around when they finally took the tube out of…

How the singer’s unapologetic sexuality and fight for creative agency inspired me to find my own way out of society’s box.

How learning about Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) finally helped me understand a friendship, grief, and myself.

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The popular actor of the hit queer TV series isn’t the victim that his die-hard fans make him out to be.

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Revisiting the grim reality of one of the early 2000s most infamous music competitions.

She had a hit show and a major entertainment company backing her play. How did Raven-Symoné’s music career never take off?

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ALT: Jagyasini Singh: Fortune Teller with Crystal Ball

Protecting one of my secrets led to a darker one I’ve kept hidden for years. I’m ready to let it go now.

Protecting one of my secrets led to a darker one I’ve kept hidden for years. I’m ready to let it go now.

How respectability, celebrity culture, and selective grief now shapes who is worthy of memorializing.

As we continue to face erasure in the face of conservatism and ignorance, I revisit an old post, now with full honesty.