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An LGBTQ+ community leader in Florida was arrested last Monday for allegedly misusing a nonprofit organization's funds. Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce's former director, Jason Nunez,
After a month of radio silence from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) since neighbors saw him being rushed to the hospital, his office released a photo of him holding a newspaper in what is perhaps an attem
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly on Saturday night from an aortic rupture at age 71. And one of the last things he said was that he "can't die now." In his final hours, Graham talked to the pr
A disabled transgender college student who was bullied by conservatives on social media because of his disability and trans identity has had his accounts on Instagram and Facebook banned because they
A Texas judge is asking a federal court to overturn marriage equality in the U.S., arguing in a lawsuit filed on Friday that marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional because it was legalized
Gay cruise blocked from docking in Turkey and Egypt due to "moral values" Why they blocked the ship: An LGBTQ+ cruise operated by Atlantis Events was supposed to stop at a port city in Turkey this wee
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was rushed to a hospital on a stretcher last month, according to new information reported by CNN, including video. A neighbor said that emergency responders arrived due to
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has a new excuse for why Donald Trump's hands are bruised again. People have been noticing for the past year that Trump's hands are often bruised when he a
Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) argued that people should vote against state Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D) because he can't lift weights. "He's a lightweight," the 76-ye
Donald Trump is getting mocked online for his statement that the "Islamic Republic of Japan" shot missiles at a U.S. aircraft carrier. The comments came earlier this week, on July 8, when he was speak
Transportation Sean Duffy is apparently still mad at his predecessor, gay former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, as he's mocking Buttigieg's name on social media while bragging about ending "
Days after Politico published credible rape allegations against Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner – and after numerous major Democrats from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to NYC
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeatedly shouted a slur during a House committee hearing, specifically because a Democratic colleague was criticizing her for using a slur. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the ran
"Bring back the ‘60s. I don’t give a s**t who you love, but don’t shove your ideology down my throat and tell me that I need to use pronouns." Rose Milner, Canadian far-right activist Last October, on
CNN data analyst Harry Enten showed a promising sign that Democrats will take back the House in November's elections. Enten showed data from primaries held so far this year, which shows that more Demo
CNN host Laura Coates called out a conservative pundit who was raging against Democrats who supported Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign prior to a woman he dated publicly accusing him of rapi
The White House called transgender people "insane" in an official press release on the last day of Pride Month. Donald Trump did not issue a proclamation celebrating Pride Month this year or last year
A man accused of shooting two people to death because they're gay – and trying to kill a third as well – is at large in Philadelphia. Police are looking for 21-year-old Jahylin Melchur, who is a suspe
A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly beat a 12-year-old boy in a Manhattan playground while calling the kid a "gay fa***t." According to New York Police, the alleged crime occur
A picture of Donald Trump's hands with makeup on both of them is getting attention online from people alarmed by his allegedly poor health. "Yikes! Both of Trump's hands are discolored today, and one
A federal judge issued a scathing ruling against the Trump administration as it tried to get Stanford University's hospital to turn over the private medical records of transgender minors. "The disclos
Donald Trump misquoted the Declaration of Independence while speaking at a July 4 celebration of America's 250th anniversary, completely botching a line in a possible attempt to change its meaning. "A
Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is having a hard time defending President Donald Trump's chaotic economic policies. And now he just threatened a journalist for questioning Trump's management of t
Supreme Court rules in favor of trans sports bans in 6-3 decision What the ruling says: Two trans athletes challenged their states' bans on trans sports participation on Title IX (equality in educatio
In the wake of Donald Trump's first electoral win in 2016, a friend of mine – a gay progressive who doesn't follow politics too closely – told me, exasperatedly, "The Democrats should get rid of the E
Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who regularly uses anti-trans slurs and calls herself a "proud transphobe," is getting called "totally befuddled" and accused of "having a sharp mental decline" by m
Donald Trump appeared to not understand what he was saying when he declared that he wanted to have a "threesome" with his two older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, in a speech on Wednesday at t
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Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Europe contestant who participated in the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant when she was in her 20s, says that Trump asked her a disturbing question after he allegedl
“Proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is running for governor of South Carolina on a campaign that focuses heavily on her opposition to trans rights. Now she's claiming that the person who shot ri
Liberals are cheering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for her response to a question about JD Vance. Outside the Capitol this week, a reporter asked her: "JD Vance just said in an interview that
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an entire opinion just to express his contempt for transgender people in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox cases yesterday, an opinion that ha
First Lady Melania Trump celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox cases yesterday, where the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX and the Constitution don'
MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement
Vyacheslav Khasanov, the 37-year-old owner of the Pose club in Orenburg, Russia, was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay a 1 million ruble (about $13,000) fine on charges connected t
Two anti-LGBTQ+ Republican members of Congress are demanding that an Irish dance organization kick a trans teen out of an upcoming competition, arguing that trans women have a "biological" advantage o
Anti-trans activist and fifth-place swimmer Riley Gaines is getting attention on social media after she made a video complaining that her dream of going to dentistry school was ruined by pro-trans uni
Donald Trump invaded Venezuela and arrested the Latin American strongman Nicolas Maduro on January 3 in an operation that resulted in at least 80 people's deaths. Trump then said that the U.S. is now
Trump administration sues the world's leading trans medical group to suppress gender-affirming care What the lawsuit argues: The WPATH has published the standards of care for trans health care for dec
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he's still alive. Noem s
Donald Trump is facing scrutiny online after a clip went viral showing him falling asleep in the Oval Office during a press event, waking up, and falling asleep again. The clip is from an event where
Gallup Poll released global survey data on the state of gay and lesbian rights, and it's pretty clear that we're now in the midst of not just a national stagnation, but a global one that is affecting
The vice president appeared on both The View and Fox News yesterday to promote his book about religion. On The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked him about racism in the Trump administration, and he
JD Vance was on Fox News' The Five yesterday to promote his book about religion. As the segment ended, host Jesse Watters – who is obsessed with performing heterosexual masculinity – noted that it was
People are reacting strongly to images of Donald Trump appearing excessively fatigued as he met with French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday for the G7 summit. "Trump looks like death warmed over,"
Vice President JD Vance now says it was "boneheaded" of him to call several prominent Democrats "childless cat ladies." In his new book Communion, Vance said that the comments were "One of the dumbest
The French legislature observed a minute of silence for a teenager who was killed in a potential homophobic hate crime last month. Two men, ages 20 and 27, allegedly attacked a 19-year-old identified
Nicki Minaj can't take a joke. Trevor Noah, who hosted the Grammy Awards this Sunday in LA, made a joke about her meeting with Donald Trump last week, part of her transformation into a QAnon-believing
A Republican Congressman said that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) is "a barely straight" version of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and then said that that's why he wouldn't want T
Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40
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Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump's "carnival of corruption" during his speech at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty & Justice dinner last Sunday. The speech ramped up expectations that Buttigieg may run for president in 2028. “Right now, what’s at
An LGBTQ+ community leader in Florida was arrested last Monday for allegedly misusing a nonprofit organization's funds. Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce's former director, Jason Nunez, is accused of spending $11,097 of the organization's funds on Uber rides, gas, and haircuts, accord
Two religious parents filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly "socially transitioning" their child with a masculine name and pronouns without notifying them. The parents, identified in court documents only as John and Jane Doe, ar
A community in East Toronto has come together to support the LGBTQ+ community after a student-created pride display at an elementary school was set on fire earlier this month. Hundreds of students from RH McGregor Elementary School helped create an intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag, made from i
I entered Club Confessions through a pussy — or rather, an opening in a giant inflatable Mistr-branded pair of legs flanked by a greeting committee of lithe gay guys clad in skimpy bodysuits. If anyone else had been DJing Saturday night, the visual would be unforgivably gauche. But this is Madonna w
Former Trump Administration Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly divorcing her husband, Bryon Noem, following tabloid reports of his alleged crossdressing and “bimbofication” fetishes earlier this year. In a recent interview with The Daily Mail, the former South
This story originally appeared on Out.The unexpected popularity of Heated Rivalry thrust its stars into the limelight almost overnight, but with their rise to fame came a loss of privacy that Hudson Williams is now acutely aware of.Williams is currently being escorted by a bodyguard around France's
Social media is eviscerating anti-trans activist Riley Gaines after she tried to compare the moment Kamala Harris made a moving speech to a WNBA team to the time FBI Director Kash Patel partied in the locker room with the USA Men's Hockey Team in Italy. "I haven't yet seen that video of Kamala Harri
Lawsuits in Arizona and New Hampshire challenging the states’ anti-trans sports bans are being dismissed following the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which upheld such bans. While attorneys for both cases suggested their suits could continue after June 30, plaintiffs have chosen
After a month of radio silence from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) since neighbors saw him being rushed to the hospital, his office released a photo of him holding a newspaper in what is perhaps an attempt to show that he's still alive. The image, posted to his congressional webpage, shows McConnell in
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, widely seen as a coded gay film, a bickering pair of urbanites try to keep a terrible secret during a tense dinner party. Slowly, a third party — in the form of an inquisitive Jimmy Stewart — begins to unravel them.Olivia Wilde’s masterful The Invite is kind of like strai
One night in the early 1930s, the great Jean Malin, hungry and tired, decided to stop by a cafeteria as he headed home from winning first prize at a drag ball. Still clad head to toe in drag, his flamboyance angered a group of four men inside. They threw a pitcher of hot water on him. Malin reacted
‘Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex’By Perrin Roosevelt Irelandc.2026, W.W. Norton$29.99 241 pages Birds do it. According to Cole Porter, bees do, too, but it’s not exactly what he imagined. Wild and tame, avians, insects, and mammals all have sex – although not always as you’ve bee
As the Trump administration celebrates America's historic semiquincentennial – the two and a half centuries that have passed since the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence – it's important to note that the president and his political party have spent the past several years actively erasin
Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has died, and what he has left behind is a power vacuum for his U.S. Senate seat — and within the Republican Party. The South Carolina senator had been a major part of Republican politics up until his Saturday death at his home in Washington, reportedly o
Mexico's first out gay mayor was shot to death on July 7 while exiting an ice cream shop in the city of Guadalajara. 59-year-old Benjamín Medrano Quezada served as mayor of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, from 2013 to 2015 and subsequently served as a federal deputy in the Mexican Congress Chamber of Deputies
Transgender author Jesse James Rose wrote in an Instagram post published Sunday that recently deceased homophobic Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) regularly paid her "a fat stack of cash" when she was a "twinky pre-transition college student" to do "unspeakable things to him in a hotel room while he wore
After longtime U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday night, reportedly from aortic dissection, the reaction from the LGBTQ+ community was immediate.The South Carolina Republican had served in the U.S. Senate since 2003, spending his final years as a loyalist to President Donald Tru
The eighth annual Westminster Pride Festival was held at Westminster City Park in Westminster, Md. on Saturday, July 11. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) The post PHOTOS: Westminster Pride appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.
El 24 de junio de 2026, dos terremotos sacudieron Venezuela y alteraron la vida de miles de personas en cuestión de segundos. Para gran parte del mundo fue una noticia que ocupó titulares durante algunos días. Para quienes nacimos allí, el tiempo pareció detenerse. Antes de pensar en la magnitud del
Did you know that today, July 13, is Lesbian Aunts Day? Did you even know that there’s an entire day devoted to the sapphic sisters of your parents? Well, there should be. Because lesbian aunts are the givers of the best birthday gifts and — I can only say this because I am one — the weirdos who mak
The fifth annual Emerald City Pride was held in Greenbelt, Md. on Saturday, July 11. (Washignton Blade photos by Michael Key) View on Threads The post PHOTOS: Emerald City Pride appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.
By CODY BOTELER | Two parents, backed by a conservative nonprofit group, are suing Anne Arundel County Public Schools over the school system’s policies related to transgender children. The suit, filed Wednesday in Maryland’s U.S. District Court, accuses staff at an unidentified county high school of
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly on Saturday night from an aortic rupture at age 71. And one of the last things he said was that he "can't die now." In his final hours, Graham talked to the president on the phone about Ukraine, Russian sanctions, and airstrikes against Iran. Just after that
A disabled transgender college student who was bullied by conservatives on social media because of his disability and trans identity has had his accounts on Instagram and Facebook banned because they allegedly broke the rules on "Community Standards on child sexual exploitation, abuse, and nudity."
So after nearly a month of silence, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decided to prove that he is still alive. In a statement yesterday, McConnell said that the reason he was wheeled away on a stretcher in an ambulance was because of a fall, not a heart attack or stroke. He subsequently contracted "mild p
At their annual Continental Congress gathering last week, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a proposal to define trans women out of membership in the organization. The vote was the culmination of a two-year battle among members over who does and doesn't qualify as a "daughter"
Amidst Russia's crackdown on so-called LGBTQ+ propaganda, television viewers in the country noticed the censorship of a rainbow in a famous episode of the children's cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. In the episode, SpongeBob speaks about the fun of using one's imagination, and as he does so, his hands
A Texas judge is asking a federal court to overturn marriage equality in the U.S., arguing in a lawsuit filed on Friday that marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional because it was legalized in a decision that "subordinat[ed] state law to the policy preferences of unelected judges." The cas
State Sen. J. Stuart Adams, Republican leader of the Utah Senate, once said that transgender athletes put cisgender girls at risk. Now, he's facing criticism for his help to keep his 18-year-old relative out of jail after the relative raped a 13-year-old. Adams helped change a state law to give his
Leading up to the 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which made marriage equality a federal right, sociologist Mark Regnerus published controversial research titled the “New Family Structures Study”. Regnerus, who is forthcoming about the fact that his Catholic faith shapes
Following the start of the Iran war, many Americans were worried for the first time in decades about a potential draft. When asked about the possibility, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted that it was not part of the current plans but that, “The president wisely keeps his options on
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) recently spoke about her high hopes for Democrats in the midterm elections this November. In a Tuesday interview with Out, McBride said she's "determined to enter a Democratic majority in January of 2027." "I'm determined as a member of Congress, but even more so as a
During an appearance on Fox News last night, anti-LGBTQ+ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) spoke with host Sean Hannity about what Hannity called a "mass migration" of conservative voters moving from blue states to red states. DeSantis said a massive influx of GOP voters to Florida has inflated the perc
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.As questions swirl around Washington about the health status of Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for weeks after emergency responders went to his house for a patient in cardiac arrest, the political world woke up Sunday morn
Gay cruise blocked from docking in Turkey and Egypt due to "moral values" Why they blocked the ship: An LGBTQ+ cruise operated by Atlantis Events was supposed to stop at a port city in Turkey this week, but authorities denied access to it because LGBTQ+ people are " known for behaviors that do not a
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) died suddenly on Saturday. The South Carolina Republican’s office in a statement said Graham, 71, “passed away from a brief and sudden illness.” The Washington Post reported first responders responded to Graham’s Washington home on Saturday and transported him to a
Goose, a new gay dating app that launched last month, is using AI-generated Instagram "friends" to recruit members to the Grindr alternative, reporting from Wired alleges. “On one hand, I’m flattered that I’m their target audience,” Ryan Cheam, a PR professional and a mark in the fake friends' campa
Jerusalem's LGBTQ+ community is mourning the closure of the city's only gay bar, which bid farewell to patrons at the end of June. Video Pub has been a haven for LGBTQ+ Israelis and tourists for the past 14 years, but its owner, Avi Goldberger, believes it's no longer needed. Related How LGBTQ+ affi
MAGA infighting erupted at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona, as conservative broadcaster Ben Shapiro blasted Candace Owens for spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Turning Point's founder Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson for platforming neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, and Steve B
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