Henry Giardina

Los Angeles

Writer at Freelance

Editor In Chief at INTO

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Articles

The Musk-Trump breakup memes are coming in hot, fast, and hilarious

20 hours ago | intomore.com | Henry Giardina

Yesterday, the inevitable happened: Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s bad bromance finally blew up in their faces, and it was glorious to see. There was name-calling, insult-throwing, and tantrums were pitched on both sides. The TL;DR: Elon outed Trump as being in the Epstein files, Trump responded by essentially calling him Epstein in Space. But the only thing better than the breakup itself were the gay memes celebrating it.
Was Amelia Earhart trans?

1 day ago | queerty.com | Henry Giardina

I have a theory, and it’s a big one. Bear with me here. Last week, we discussed the theory that the legendary actor Katharine Hepburn might have identified as trans or nonbinary if those labels were more widely available when Kate was alive. This week, we’re diving into a deeper theory concerning Amelia Earhart and their mysterious disappearance in the 1930s. We begin our story with—who else?—Gore Vidal.
Was Amelia Earhart trans?

1 day ago | intomore.com | Henry Giardina |Jude Cramer |Mira Lazine |Hailey Bosek

I have a theory, and it’s a big one. Bear with me here. Last week, we discussed the theory that the legendary actor Katharine Hepburn might have identified as trans or nonbinary if those labels were more widely available when Kate was alive. This week, we’re diving into a deeper theory concerning Amelia Earhart and their mysterious disappearance in the 1930s. We begin our story with—who else?—Gore Vidal.
Pride Picks: Checked Out by Katie Fricas

1 day ago | intomore.com | Henry Giardina

We might be living in a horrible time for queer rights in general, but never let it be said that we’re not experiencing a Golden Age of queer graphic novels. This year, in addition to a new autofiction book by Alison Bechdel, Andrew Wheeler’s Hey Mary and Lindsay Ishihiro’s Motherlover, we got Checked Out by Katie Fricas, a rollicking tale of libraries, love, and WWI pigeons. Fricas’s debut is wonderfully illustrated and buoyant with hope—something sorely needed in this ridiculous times.
Federal judge protects trans inmates' right to medical care

2 days ago | intomore.com | Mira Lazine |Jude Cramer |Henry Giardina |Hailey Bosek

On Tuesday, a District Judge placed a temporary blockage on Trump’s executive order denying lifesaving gender affirming care to trans people in federal prisons. The lawsuit, led by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Transgender Law Center, culminated in Senior District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issuing a preliminary injunction against Trump’s January executive order.
Pete Hegseth is trying to erase Harvey Milk's legacy

2 days ago | intomore.com | Mira Lazine |Jude Cramer |Henry Giardina |Hailey Bosek

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, formerly a Fox News host, recently announced that he is stripping the name Harvey Milk from the USNS Harvey Milk, an announcement specifically revealed in a jab at the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month, Military.com reports. This ship, the first to be named after a gay rights icon, was launched in 2021 when former President Joe Biden revealed its name. The ship is a replenishment oiler, providing fuel to other warships at sea.
A teen was banned from giving their graduation speech because of their trans identity

2 days ago | intomore.com | Henry Giardina

If you’ve been reading these pages, you know how bad it’s getting for trans people right now. On top of statewide bans on gender-affirming care for teens and adults, coupled with the threat of Tr*mp’s “big beautiful bill” forcing thousands of trans folks on Medicaid to go completely without care, teens who are simply trying to express their identity are being told that who they are is “too political” for school.
Pride Picks: David B. Feinberg's Eighty-Sixed

2 days ago | intomore.com | Henry Giardina |Latonya Pennington |Costa B. Pappas |Jude Cramer

Welcome to Pride Picks, where we’ll be recommending a piece of art every weekday through June. To kick off, here’s a forgotten, out-of-print novel of gay life that’s equally grim and hilarious. I didn’t know what I was in for when I picked up David B. Feinberg’s Eighty-Sixed from the wonderful Bookends used bookstore in Florence, MA. But the cover intrigued me—along with the admittedly cursed blurb about Feinberg being a gay W**** A****. I’m about 100 pages in now, and I must admit I’m loving it.
Marissa Bode shares her very gay Wicked theories: “Galinda is a lesbian”

2 days ago | intomore.com | Jude Cramer |Arin Waller |Henry Giardina |Hailey Bosek

Amid the excitement fans are feeling over tonight’s impending trailer drop for Wicked: For Good, one of the series’ stars chimed in with, debatably, an even more pressing announcement: every main character in Wicked is queer. So said Marissa Bode, who plays Nessarose. In a recent interview for INTO’s own 25 Under 25 series, Bode shared her opinion on the queer makeup of Wicked’s cast of characters. “The straights are gonna get mad at me for saying this,” Bode said.
Trump admin announces total rejection of American Bar Association for judicial appointments

3 days ago | intomore.com | Mira Lazine |Henry Giardina |Jude Cramer |Johnny Levanier

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump appointee and mainstay of his administration, wrote a letter last Thursday to the American Bar Association announcing that she will be significantly reducing the role they play in evaluating Trump’s judicial picks, citing a “bias” in its rating processes. The ABA “will no longer direct nominees to provide waivers allowing the ABA access to nonpublic information, including bar records,” she wrote.