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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 t
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
A pastor in Kentucky is defending a skit he staged at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, which featured teen boys armed with assault rifles "shooting" another parishioner to cheers from child
A gay and virulently anti-transgender candidate for Congress in Wyoming is suing over accusations that he's a pedophile, charges lobbed by other, virulently anti-gay Republicans. Reid Rasner, a Trump
Republicans in Colorado nominated Victor Marx, a Marine veteran, culture warrior, and lately a mercenary who claims he single-handedly ordered a strike on ISIS, as their nominee for governor, accordin
New research from the Human Sexualities Research Lab at the State University of New York and The Conversation reveals that women are moving away from exclusively heterosexual relationships and attract
A twisted tale of gay murder worthy of a true-crime podcast — it got one — took another turn over the July 4th holiday, as the man who claimed he bear-hugged the 74-year-old victim while an accomplice
A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida's Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republ
A gay teacher and a parent ally were awarded over $1M in compensatory damages in June after suffering years of defamation at the hands of a right-wing Virginia political action committee. The Virginia
A far-right political party leader in British Columbia, Canada is facing criminal charges after he and another man defaced a Pride crosswalk in the city of Surrey, south of Vancouver. On May 30, Amrit
The gay Filipino man photographed on July 4 surrounded by masked members of Patriot Front on the DC Metro is speaking out about the terrifying incident. DC resident Roswell Encina was on his way to an
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender
A U.S. Appeals Court with three Donald Trump appointees decided on Wednesday to overturn a decision by a lower court throwing out a suit by two Alaska Airlines employees who sued the company over char
In the small town of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, a city council member accused staff at the public library of grooming kids with a Pride Month display in the children's section, which librarians titled
Niger, the former French colony in West Africa, is in the midst of a country-wide gay purge, with dozens of high-ranking officials and civilians arrested and imprisoned. Earlier this year, the governm
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) addressed the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday upholding state bans on trans student-athletes in Idaho and West Virginia and said that liberals need to stop thei
Victor Willis, the original lead singer for the iconic disco group the Village People, died on Tuesday after "a short but aggressive illness,” according to an announcement posted to the band's social
On Tuesday, plaintiffs in the case seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's ban on trans military servicemembers scored a major victory, with a ruling transforming the case, Talbott v USA, into a
Fanni Fajth, an 18-year-old student in Budapest, summed up the mood in the Hungarian capital on Saturday, as tens of thousands of marchers turned out for the first Pride celebration in the country sin
The man accused of stabbing a trans college student to death in Seattle in May has been found incompetent to stand trial. Christopher Leahy, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 19-
The government of Malaysia is urging the public to discontinue use of the term "LGBT" to avoid "normalizing" LGBTQ+ people and the broader community. In its place, the Deputy Minister for Religious Af
Under the direction of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and a mandate from the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation, dozens of workers from Florida's Department of Transportation (FDOT) on
To photographer Mel Porter, one of the clearest examples of the Trump administration's antipathy for the LGBTQ+ community isn't what it's done, but what it has stopped doing. “I actually do work for t
It was the summer of 1956, and Michael Lloyd Gregory was seated on the front porch of his home in Wichita, Kansas, posing for a photo taken by his father. He was two years old at the time. "My mom 'st
A state representative in Louisiana is speaking out over new legislation signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) granting employees in the state a right to deadname trans colleagues. The legislation d
An unlikely pair of countries, Iran and Egypt, are competing Friday night in what's been billed as the 2026 World Cup "Pride Match" in Seattle. Neither nation's government recognizes LGBTQ+ rights. An
It started with a swipe. "In November of 2023, my friend took my phone out of my hands, downloaded the Her app, and created my online profile," says Jennelle Kariotis, a fortysomething assistant profe
Pete Buttigieg zoomed out on Saturday on the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's teardown of the East Wing of the White House, saying he's not as concerned about historic preservation as he is abou
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Maine's U.S. Senate seat, had twin events demonstrating his strong support among the LGBTQ+ community this week. The candidate is facing off against longtime
A trans woman in Kansas accused of operating a motor vehicle without a valid license learned on Tuesday that charges against her have been dropped, Transitic News reports. Kris Ripper had been threate
A damning and exhaustive investigation by a trans civil rights attorney lays a big portion of blame for the current crusade against the transgender community squarely at the feet of The New York Times
The Trump administration's zealous pursuit to remove transgender athletes from girls' sports teams has snared an embarrassing catch in Colorado: boy mascots. Last June, the U.S. Department of Educatio
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's annual gathering in Chicago earlier this month — the first since founder Jesse Jackson died earlier this year — and
Retired electrician Richard Hunt, a St. Louis native, had always said he "would not live my life out in St. Louis." And yet, he declared, "68 years later, I am still here!" Hunt is one of the biggest
President Donald Trump's Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed by an extremist religious freedom organization on behalf of nuns at a Catholic hospice in New York, challenging a state law requi
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct in Texas was overruled last week after it disciplined a justice of the peace in Waco for refusing to marry same-sex couples on religious grounds. A Texas count
"Who is Bubba, and why did Trump blow him?" That's the question from one X user among thousands posed on social media Friday, after an email exchange between sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his bro
Scott Ammarell's kids came up with the idea for a "white party" celebrating their dad's birthday on a chartered cruise in Turkey last year. It was the magic-hour culmination of "how loved I felt durin
A popular, longtime destination for the gay community in Mobile, Alabama, was forced to close ahead of Pride celebrations in the Gulf Coast city, after an ownership transfer revealed irregularities in
Japan is on the verge of instituting a nationwide LGBTQ+ education program, designed to address a lack of public knowledge on gender and sexual diversity in the country, ABC Japan reports. The plan wa
A digital rights advocacy group is reupping its call to ban biometric facial recognition technology in bars and other venues serving the LGBTQ+ community after new reporting revealed widespread use of
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who heads up the Civil Rights Division of President Donald Trump's Justice Department, waded into the ongoing Major League Baseball (MLB) cap controver
An Erie City, Pennsylvania city councilmember who intentionally misgendered a colleague from the dais last week is suffering the backlash, with dozens of outraged constituents showing up to a Wednesda
A church leader in Indianapolis is doubling down on a sermon delivered at the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in the state's capital city last week that called on gay people to "blow yourself in the ba
Adam Trapski had his first brush with motorsports in the 1990s in New Zealand, when he was a young flag marshal. That's one of the race officials you see along the track waving flags at drivers to sha
The Trump administration took the next step in its attack on gender-affirming care for trans youth on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPA
Mark Segal was a witness to history and a participant on "just another night out" at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. The soon-to-be activist was just 18 when he arrived in New York City a few week
A transgender woman and community fixture in Birmingham, Alabama was found dead in the city's jail last week, part of a pattern of neglect and deplorable conditions in the facility, trans advocates sa
Whenever people ask Gregory Marks, “When did you come out?” it earns a laugh from the retired opera singer. "I’ve always been out. I didn’t have a dramatic reveal or a tortured confession. I was simpl
A new poll from Harris coinciding with Pride Month indicates that LGBTQ+ employees are feeling the same chill the current administration's attacks on DEI and the community itself are having on America
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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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