spotify playlist titled "Best of 2021" by OutWrite Newsmagazine
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Best of 2021: Our Picks for Queer Music

We asked our staff for their favorite queer music from 2021, and they answered! Listen to our full playlist or check out each song below.

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photo of Daffne Cruz, a latine nonbinary person
Community
Queer Next Up: Daffne Cruz
illustration of a pearl being washed over by the sea
Poetry
Nacre
photo of VATTICA, a white nonbinary person with no hair, tattoos, and a leather vest
Community
Queer Next Up: VATTICA
Politics & News
Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Bill Sets a Dangerous Precedent
illustration of Ellie and Riley from The Last Of Us
Video Games
Apocalyptic Queer Rage: “The Last of Us” Redefines Queerness in Video Games 
photo of Tania Torres, a queer Latinx artist with cropped blonde hair
Community
Queer Next Up: Tania Torres
Karla Avelar from El Salvador, Aldo Dávila from Guatemala, Vincenzo Bruno from Costa Rica, and Iván Chanis Barahona from Panama
Community
4 Queer Activists Fighting For Change in Central America
Cam and Andre kissing from Netflix's Freeridge
TV
Queer Identity and The Importance of Apologies in Netflix’s “Freeridge”
photo of annelle staal, a white nonbinary person with bleached short choppy hair under a bucket hat wearing an oversized periwinkle dress shirt and yellow pants
Community
Queer Next Up: Annelle Staal
illustration of a lesbian holding a perfect lesbian trophy on top of a podium
Poetry
Straight Women Rules: A Guide to Being the Perfect Lesbian®
Sim character wearing a binder in character creation mode
Politics & News
The Sims 4 Introduces Items For Trans Players
photo of two skeletons embracing amongst a sea of roses
Theater
Love At The End Of The World: A Review of “The Transient Bliss of Death by Fallout”
photo of Rio Romeo, a white butch nonbinary person, laughing in front of a coffee shop
Music
Love Songs of a Different Tune: A Valentine’s Day Revisit with Rio Romeo
illustration of the outside of a church at night
Opinion
The Right To Discriminate?: Religious Exemption from Title IX Compliance
photo of Michael Medrano, a white man with shoulder length brown hair, a mustache, and a patterned shirt open over a hairy chest
Music
Queer Next Up: Michael Medrano
pattern of pride flags and symbols including nonbinary, rainbow, aromantic, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, lesbian, and transgender
Community
Queer Labeling: Why It’s Important And Why It’s Not
photo of beauty queens Fabiola Valentin and Mariana Varela
Politics & News
Breaking Boundaries in Beauty: The Love Story of Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico
compilation of photos of Beyonce, Sam smith, Kim Petras, and Brandi Carlile from the 2023 grammys
Music
Red Cloaks and Breaking Records: How Queer Music Fared at the 2023 Grammys
illustration of three children surrounded by various pride flags and demons
Opinion
Pedophilia Hysteria: How Did We Get Here?
an illustration of the Public Universal Friend from the 18th century in a yellow monochrome color pallette
Community
The 250-Year-Old “Fad”: The Public Universal Friend and Gender Nonconformity Then and Now
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