Well, it’s officially Pride month. I would love to run around with my rainbow cape and be blissfully happy, but all I can think about is how awful it has been lately for LGBTQ people–especially those of us who identify as transgender or non-binary. Last year, we saw several anti-LGBTQ laws sweep the nation, but …

The ‘Staircase’ Filmmakers Feel ‘Betrayed’ by HBO Max’s Adaptation
What separates Jean-Xavier de Lestrade’s The Staircase from other crime documentaries is its astonishing access. While chronicling the defense strategy of Michael Peterson, the novelist who was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen, in 2001, de Lestrade’s cameras recorded strategy meetings inside Peterson’s Durham, North Carolina, home—the same home where Kathleen was found dead at …