90s Japanese cartoon Sailor Moon broke new ground with its sympathetic portrayal of GLBTQ characters. VICE follows the stories of queer Moonies who were closeted in the 90s but found inspiration from the series to embrace their identities and create communities based on their love of Sailor Moon, and examines the significance of the series' re-release in English.
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Pakistan is the last battleground in the fight to eradicate polio: since the late 80s, new cases of the wild disease have dropped from hundreds of thousands per year to just hundreds. But in Pakist...
Broadly teams up with Academy Award-winning director, Lucy Walker in search of healing in Haiti. We travel to the heart of Port-au-Prince, Haiti to join Priestess Manbo Katy as she summons the spir...
Toronto is in the middle of a grey market, marijuana dispensary boom. Since Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, weed entrepreneurs have been illegally opening up shop all ov...
South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the developed world. In Suicide Watch we follow Hyung-Geun Suh who is the Captain of the Yeoudio Water Rescue Unit. His unit is responsible for rescuing ...
Since the hostage crisis in 1979, Iran and the United States have been bitter enemies. But last year, the US and major world powers reached an unprecedented agreement with Iran, lifting economic sa...
VICE UK Correspondent Gavin Haynes has come to the United States to determine what masculinity means to the American man. Though stereotypically masculine acts like fraternity hazings, monster truc...
The United Arab Emirates, and Dubai in particular, are often described as paradise in the Middle East. But the 5 million migrant workers who live there, making up more than half the population, hav...
As rival militias and armies battle for control of mineral-rich territories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the rape of local women has become a routine military tactic.
The teams arrive in Seattle for some bizarre head-to-head action at the Marginal Way park. The scavenger hunt books are handed out and they start on the oddball challenges.
In honor of 420, Action Bronson combines two of his favorite things: Marijuana and the hit television series Ancient Aliens. Join Action and his friends as they reach the highest of highs while wat...
The season ends with two sold out shows in Paris, between which Action and company visit a cultural heritage site, fly in a wind tunnel, and eat the best veggie burger in the world.
Bukom is a town too small for a map. But somehow, this tiny, slum village on the coast of Ghana has produced more world champion boxers per capita than anywhere else in the world.
Zach Goldbaum heads to Chicago's South Side to meet Chief Keef, Common, and talk about how drill music grew out of violence and segregation in the city.
Eddie Huang heads home to spend Chinese New Year with his family and reflect on how the bizarre culture in Orlando, Florida has influenced his life and career.
In Pakistan, Karachi Fashion Week provides a kind of sanctuary, but outside its bubble Hailey finds the forces working to eradicate the progressive culture it represents.
Bernard Noble is serving 13 and a third years in prison for having two joints in his pocket. Krishna Andavolu traces Noble’s story from his arrest to his incarceration.
Filmmaker Lance Bangs explores the underground circuit of young comedians living together in group houses, then throws a houseparty and standup comedy show.
We investigate the future of love and sex in the digital age—including the evolution of the porn industry, "teledildonics," and the very real possibility of virtual romances.
For 45 years, America was locked in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and fear of global nuclear annihilation was constant. The end of the Cold War in 1991 was supposed to usher in a new era of pe...
Last year, the United States began withdrawing our combat troops from the longest war in our history: Afghanistan. But the war isn't ending just because we're leaving. This year, Afghan National Se...
The Middle East is fracturing. Arab uprisings and military interventions across the region have caused civil wars and spawned terrorist groups. Stuck in the middle of it all is Saudi Arabia. Confro...
Last year, the worst Ebola outbreak in human history swept through West Africa, killing more than 10,000 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. The disease spread so quickly in part because t...
Virulent homophobia is on the rise in Uganda. In 2014, the Ugandan President signed into law the infamous "Anti-Homosexuality Bill," which in its original version went as far as mandating the death...
Genetically modified seeds have been planted around the world and hailed as a solution to global hunger—but these crops, called GMOs for "genetically modified organisms," have also sparked heated p...
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, countries in the Middle East have seen a surge in the looting of antiquities. In Egypt alone, an estimated $3 billion dollars worth of artifacts have been plund...
In 2011, the state of Alabama passed one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws in the history of the United States. Based on the hardline policy known as “self-deportation,” Alabama's HB-56 aimed to ...
We rely on antibiotics to treat everything from stomach bugs to skin rashes to bronchitis. In fact, we’ve been overusing them—and in doing so giving rise to new crop of dangerous bacterial infectio...
In the course of one week in last spring, more than 100 teenagers in Dallas overdosed on a drug called K2. In August, the governor of New Hampshire declared a state of emergency because of 44 overd...
Cocaine use in Europe has increased dramatically over the past decade and new routes have evolved to supply the demand. Ben Anderson follows the cocaine highway from the streets of Venezuela, to dr...
VICE Profiles is a weekly window into our eccentric and idiosyncratic world that covers everything from offensive college students to exotic animal ownership to gun licenses for the blind to child bullfighters. VICE Profiles airs Mondays on VICE.com.
Phil Tippett is the Oscar-winning stop-motion animator and designer behind some of the greatest fantasy creatures and sci-fi set pieces in cinema history. From his humble beginnings as an alien pat...
When a charismatic former alcoholic named Shaft had his life changed by Burning Man, he realized that he actually identifies as a unicorn. No longer able to face the monotony of work and life in th...
LARPing, or live-action roleplaying, is a game in which people create characters and act out storylines within fictional worlds, in real time, in costume. We go LARPing and meet Jon Gallagher, a LA...
Mr. Cherry is a Japanese man who holds 12 Guinness World Records for feats ranging from crab walking to crushing walnuts with his butt. VICE followed him in the run-up to his biggest record-breakin...
On this episode of VICE Profiles, we meet Melissa, the unlikely astronaut, to understand what motivates a person to relocate to another, unknown planet. Having never found a reason to move from Eng...
Watch Part 2 now on VICE: http://bit.ly/Gay-Conversion-P2 Conversion therapy is the practice of "curing" gay people by trying to turn them straight through counseling and lifestyle restrictions. Th...
In 2011, an international peacekeeping force pushed al Shabaab Islamists from Somalia's capital city. The fight continues in the countryside and in Mogadishu. The weakened extremists launch periodi...
It was just after she’d had her first child that Janet Bloomfield realized she didn’t want to go back to work and pay some nanny to raise her kids. She had gone to college to study film theory and ...
VICE heads to North Dakota fracking territory to meet the new generation of young and wealthy directional drillers who are taking part in the politically loaded and controversial method of obtainin...
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Catemaco in Veracruz, Mexico is known for two things: It's the place where Mel Gibson directed Apocalypto, and it is full of self-called witches that work either for God or the Devil. VICE doesn't ...
Our Vice Mexico team took us to La Esperanza. A little town in the nowadays violent state of Guerrero where indigenous people have the very lovely tradition of beating the shit out of each other in...
For this episode of Mexicali we visited the self named "Barrio Bravo" of Tepito in Mexico City. Tepito is one of the most iconic and dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico, we went there to watch a socc...
Mexico is a predominantly Catholic country; however, as official saints are revered throughout the country, so are some others that the Church does not accept. For example, Jesús Malverde is the pa...
Our Vice Mexico team went to the Sonora desert in search of the Bufo Alvarius, an endemic toad species that contains a very high dosage of 5-MEO-DMT in it´s body. 5-MEO-DMT is said to be the most p...
A group of Mexico City DJs known as "Under Style" has come together to create a new sound based on reggaeton and cumbia that they call Cumbiaton. Ignored by the affluent crowd, and often criticized...
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has become known as the "murder capital of the world" thanks to the seemingly endless string of drug-cartel-related killings and the law-abiding portion of the population is ...
Every November a celebration known as the Vigil of the Authentic Intrepid Searchers of Danger takes place in the city of Juchitán, Oaxaca, in Mexico. In this community of Zapotec indigenous people,...
It's Saturday morning in a Mexico City subway station, and the members of the Panamiur gang are headed to a party. Their leader, Cidel, is wearing huge sunglasses, a fauxhawk slathered in hair gel,...