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The Advocate has been in print since 1967. Out magazine has been in print since 1992. And in 2026, we’re proud to share that the trans-led staff of Them are now contributing to each and every Out/Advocate double issue, bringing you our blend of alternately irreverent and earnest reporting. The Out100 issue, out on newsstands today, features several contributions from the Them team, including a profile on the minds behind the transcendent Spanish period piece La Bola Negra and an interview with Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman about filming their love scenes on season two of The Hunting Wives. Click the link in Them’s bio, and on our stories, to secure a limited-time offer for an entire year of Out and The Advocate, where you’ll find more original Them reporting and exclusives. 03 Nov 2026

OK, Falcor definitely does use they/them pronouns. That’s just one of the completely correct puppet-based opinions held by Them’s inaugural Person of the Year James Ortiz. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ortiz — the voice and hands behind Project Hail Mary’s Rocky — grew up entranced with puppets, like those made by famed creature designers Ray Harryhausen and Stan Winston. As a young adult, taking up puppetry professionally helped Ortiz circumvent obstacles to acting as a queer performer. “Puppetry became the safe haven for me to play characters that I wasn’t going to be cast as, and to tell stories on a maybe smaller scale,” he tells Them. At the link in bio, read our full profile of Ortiz — and find out why he’s our Person of the Year. #projecthailmary #jamesortiz #puppets #puppeteer #puppetry 22 Oct 2026

“My own queerness being present in what I did with Rocky was not something that I necessarily was actively trying to insert,” says James Ortiz. “It’s just who I am.” Them’s Person of the Year, awarded in conjunction with @outmagazine’s annual Out100 list, honors a cultural figure with a distinctly queer influence — not just an LGBTQ+ person who made a big impact, but one whose work crossed genres, mediums, or boundaries in an extraordinary way. Our inaugural Person of the Year is @jortface, the queer puppeteer, actor, and voice behind Project Hail Mary’s Rocky. Rocky may have helped save the universe — but Project Hail Mary helped save Hollywood, resuscitating a struggling box office, and resonating with countless LGBTQ+ fans who saw themselves in the five-limbed genderless problem-solver. On our website at the link in bio, read more about Ortiz’s journey from being a “little theater queen” in Richardson, Texas to puppeteering and acting opposite Ryan Gosling in one of the biggest movies of the year. Photographer: @quillemons Photo Assistants: @actual_sam_doleactual_sam_dole @thaliaramosthaliaramos Creative Director: @djmikeypop Videographer: @sox_andthecity Video Assistant: @grace.gallettigrace.galletti Location: @jackstudiosjackstudios Stylist: @dolly.lanvin Writer: @neebess 22 Oct 2026

Proof that supporting trans people is always the right move, no matter how red the state. Democrat Scott Colom will win the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, according to multiple projections made Wednesday evening. With approximately 99% of ballots counted, Colom led Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over 4,600 votes, according to the Associated Press. As The Advocate noted, Colom will be the first Black U.S. Senator to represent Mississippi since the Reconstruction era and the first Democratic Senator elected from the state in four decades. The shocking win comes three years after Hyde-Smith scuttled Colom’s nomination to be a federal judge over his support for trans rights in the state. Read more on our website at the link in bio. 11 Nov 2026

The science has proven, yet again, that “transition regret” is more of a boogeyman invented by the right than reality. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics found that the vast majority most transgender youth feel no regret over starting hormones. More so, researchers say this is proof that supporting the current standards of care for trans youth and rejecting wide-sweeping gender-affirming care bans is crucial. Read more about the data at the link in bio. 11 Nov 2026

Whose side are YOU on? We asked @niecynash1 which parent she would choose in the divorce on the @allsfaironhulu red carpet. #niecynashbetts #allsfair 11 Nov 2026

Some pretty gay interspecies behavior has been spotted in the Ethiopian Highlands. The pairing? A male donkey, Patroclo, and a bull, Achille, who are named after the ancient Greek heroes, Patroclus and Achilles, known for their affectionate relationship in Homer’s Iliad. As CNN reported, citing a new article in the journal Current Biology, the duo encountered one another over the course of four days in March, with 51 recorded, um, trysts during that time. This despite the fact both had access to partners of the same species and opposite gender. Read more about the star-crossed lovers on our website at the link in bio. 11 Nov 2026

Can you really have your cake and eat it on the set of the show J.K. executive produces? In a new interview with Vanity Fair published on Tuesday, Harry Potter series star Paapa Essiedu made his support for transgender people very clear, but avoided directly addressing author and executive producer J.K. Rowling’s outspoken anti-trans views. Asked about the author, Essiedu, who will play Professor Severus Snape in the television reboot of the fantasy franchise, deflected, saying, “I don’t want to talk about Jo at all.” Read more on our website at the link in bio. 11 Nov 2026

In a review that sent shockwaves through the corner of social media in which the 2027 Oscars race feels like it has existential consequences, New Yorker critic Justin Chang wrote last week that La Bola Negra filmmakers Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo “mean to erect a cinematic monument for the ages,” but instead have produced “a film that insists, arrogantly and aggressively on its own monumentality.” “La Bola Negra is not trying and failing to be a ‘monument,’” writes our editor-in-chief in response, “it is taking a core feeling and dragging it through history like a sponge through a spill until it is saturated… [I]t is a queer epic in the sense that it interrogates what qualifies as ‘epic’ in the first place.” Read the full essay on our website at the link in bio. 11 Nov 2026

In a new interview with the Substack Beauty Papers, nonbinary actor Emma D’Arcy divulged some of their own personal views about gender while donning a variety of clothes and accessories from Acne Studios’ Fall/Winter 2026 campaign. D’Arcy, who tends to present in a more masculine-leaning way outside of their acting career, told the publication that “the freedom afforded by different personas is the drug at the heart of [their] work.” They also opened up about the pressure they felt to “confirm” their nonbinary identity through their clothing choices. Read more on our website at the link in bio. 10 Nov 2026

Lesbian magazine @curvemag has named Puerto Rican rapper, singer, and songwriter Young Miko the Sexiest Lesbian Alive for its November 2026 issue in celebration of 35 years of sapphic media. The contest, which is Curve’s own cheeky interpretation of People Magazine’s annual Sexiest Man Alive award, had 24 different nominees, and over 3,000 people weighed in with a vote. Read more on our website at the link in bio. 10 Nov 2026

Quick, let’s do a pronoun circle… Larry the Cucumber— you go first. “Let’s be clear: If you believe the eternal God, creator of the universe, is a male (or female) of a gendered species, you have departed from Christian orthodoxy,” Phil Vischer wrote on X earlier this week. The statement was a response to the freakout over James Talarico’s years-old remarks about God not adhering to current conceptions of binary gender, which has continued even after the Democrat defeated Ken Paxton in last week’s election. Read more on our website at the link in bio. 10 Nov 2026

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