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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.

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.

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.

3 days ago | intomore.com | Arin Waller |Johnny Levanier |Sabrina Wigfall |Jude Cramer

2008 was an insane year, but if you were still a child during that time, you never fully grasped the implications. Sure, your parents might’ve sat you down and explained, “We’re going to have to make certain cutbacks,” or you could’ve overheard your folks arguing about the future and the state of the economy. For better or worse, it was a year that undoubtedly shaped how the post-9/11 generation views the world and current affairs.

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.