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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.As anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace heads for the exits in Washington, she has announced a new podcast—and revealed a collection of previously hidden tattoos.The real gossip emerging from the South Carolina Republican’s latest episode of “...
Friday, August 14 Go Gay DC will host “First Friday LGBTQ+ Happy Hour” at 7 p.m. at Freddie’s Beach Bar and Restaurant.This is a chance to relax, make new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Even...
Bishop Kwabena Albert “Rainey” Cheeks, the founder and former senior pastor of D.C.’s LGBTQ supportive Inner Light Ministries church and founder of Us Helping Us, People Into Living, which provides services for D.C.-area residents with HIV with an outreach to the Black LGBTQ comm...
Not every transgender woman is good at makeup. I have hundreds of failed eyeliner attempts to prove it — and the only times I’ve pulled off a full face in recent memory have been with transmasc assistance in a sort of gender knowledge swap arrangement.But it’s an open secret that...
Last week in Michigan we saw how dramatically wrong, and misleading, political polling can be. Because of that, and the media hype, it might have made a difference in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate. Haley Stevens lost by about 16,000 votes, and the second Dem...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece and clinical psychologist Mary Trump explained the psychological roots of her uncle's compulsion with luxury goods that led him to illegally accept a Boeing 747-8 as a gift from Qatar. "Thanks to my grandfather, money, in my family, was the only curre...
Karamo — the out gay author, activist, and former culture expert on the self-improvement reality TV series Queer Eye — will host the 8th annual .ORG Impact Awards. The October 6 Washington, D.C., event — hosted by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG dom...
Donald Trump spoke from the Oval Office yesterday about the executive order he signed to delay the childhood vaccine schedule in contradiction of medical professionals’ advice. His comments contained numerous inaccuracies when it came to vaccines, but one in particular stood out ...
Texas' rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) tried to mock the Christianity of his Senate competitor, Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) while speaking at a San Antonio political rally last Saturday. It immediately backfired when a heckler pointed out Paxton's own ...
A new study has found that healthcare professionals are not doing enough to screen trans patients who have had top surgery for breast cancer. Published July 29 in the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment journal, the researchers emphasized the "dearth of available data" on cancer...
Mary Trump, the president's lesbian niece and a clinical psychologist, summed up her uncle's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death in seven sarcastic words. "This is quite the display of grief." Related Trump's lesbian niece explains how his upbringing caused him to want Qatar's luxur...
Numerous internet commenters pointed out that when President Donald Trump gave a rally speech in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday night, he seemed to have a "dramatically fuller, fluffier, and suspiciously youthful head of blond hair," the feminist cultural site Jezebel noted. Nume...
Out gay Olympian and silver medalist freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy announced his engagement to fashion executive Andrew Rigby on Tuesday via Instagram, with pics showing the couple embracing on lla de sa Torre, an archipelago off the southwest coast of the Spanish Mediterranean i...
The board of directors of Mary’s House for Older Adults, the D.C.-based home dedicated to providing affordable housing for LGBTQ seniors, has announced it has named longtime nonprofit organization leader A. Charlene Leach as its new executive director. Leach, who is now serving i...
Primary elections in five states on Tuesday yielded big wins for LGBTQ+ candidates, as progressives continue to dominate the Democrats' midterm races in 2026. The marquee election on Tuesday was the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, pitting progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed ...
A new study of Canadian adolescents who were referred to pediatric gender clinics is now part of a growing body of evidence showing that rates of "detransition" are remarkably low. An overwhelming majority (97.1%) of adolescents who were referred to university-associated clinics ...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in the Netherlands through Aug. 10. They will be covering World Pride in Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM — Madonna on Saturday will perform at World Pride in Amsterdam. She is sched...
In today’s edition of “dumb stuff that conservatives are mad about for some reason,” the British right-wing is currently losing its collective mind over a digital museum exhibit that suggests a transgender reading of one of the Care Bears. Yes, really. Villiers Revealed: We Have ...
HIV/AIDS activists on Sunday protested a Trump-Vance administration official at the 2026 International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell and others disrupted U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Jeff Graham, who is leading the Trump-Vance admin...
About 250 people turned out on Friday, June 12, for D.C.’s annual Silver Pride celebration, which honors and recognizes LGBTQ seniors and their role in advancing LGBTQ rights. The event was held in a large conference hall in the building of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! Over seven years and thousands of tossed balls, "Play Catch With a Dad" has become a ubiquitous part of Pride celebrations everywhere. John Piermatteo started ...
Out former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's upcoming speaking gig is amping up speculation that he'll run for president in 2028. He is the scheduled keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty & Justice dinner on July 12, the state party's largest event ...
Out former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's upcoming speaking gig is amping up speculation that he'll run for president in 2028. He is the scheduled keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty & Justice dinner on July 12, the state party's largest event ...
Out former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's upcoming speaking gig is amping up speculation that he'll run for president in 2028. He is the scheduled keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Party's Liberty & Justice dinner on July 12, the state party's largest event ...
Former nuns Francília Costa and Luiza Silvério hated each other when they first met at a convent in their early twenties. But after years of navigating mental health challenges that led them both to give up their habits, they discovered those strong feelings were actually love. "...
After years of struggling with infertility, Kizzy Jones started considering egg donors. To her shock, her trans brother, Kenny Ethan Jones, offered his eggs. Eighteen challenging months later, Kizzy welcomed a baby, and Kenny became an uncle. “When [Kizzy] mentioned she was looki...
The body of a transgender art student missing for nearly a month was found on May 24 in a wooded area near the campus of Northern Kentucky University (NKU), where he was a student, police and family say. Murry Foust, 22, was last seen on April 27 in Covington, Kentucky, just sout...
Delgado’s posts are continuing to create confusion and concern among his followers.
Trans activist and costume designer Qween Jean made history at last night's Tony Awards, becoming the first out trans person to ever win one of the iconic theater awards. Jean won for Best Costume Design of a Musical for her work on Cats: The Jellicle Ball, a revival of the origi...
A psychologist is speaking out about what it means that the president keeps taking cognitive tests, explaining that Donald Trump's doctors are likely past the point of trying to figure out whether he is suffering from dementia and are now just monitoring his decline. Former Johns...
Acclaimed queer author Kristen Arnett recently shared the moving story of her queer Florida wedding, during which she was surrounded by chosen family after a decade of estrangement from her biological one. In an excerpt from the anthology Living, Together published in Oprah Daily...
Resources for homeless youth and the Lorena Borjas Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund did not receive increased funding.
Callen-Lorde is offering LGBTQ+ New Yorkers free kits packed with HIV prevention medication, sexual health supplies, and overdose reversal drugs throughout June....
"I am very much a man and I’m now realizing I always have been one,” Christopher Delgado told followers.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made an appearance in the White House press briefing room on Tuesday, where he not only called people "stupid" for disliking Donald Trump, but also claimed the president is going to the doctor so...
Former congressmember Mike Rogers (R-MI) is running for Senate, and his supporters appear to be employing an unusual strategy: posting AI-generated pictures of him with huge muscles. And he's getting roundly mocked online for his alleged vanity. Related Gay candidate calls out "h...
A Gallup poll showed only 5% of Republicans say that gender transition is morally acceptable.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group founded in 1987 that has become the world’s largest HIV/AIDS organization, has announced it has three million people in care around the world. In a statement released on May 26, the organization, known worldwide ...
Rep. Nancy "proud transphobe" Mace (R) is furious that Donald Trump endorsed her primary opponent in the South Carolina gubernatorial race. Last Friday on Truth Social, Trump endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette (R) to be the state's next governor. His long, effusive pa...
If I admit I’m HIV positive, some men immediately reject me. If I lie and say I’m HIV negative, many of those same men will gladly have unprotected sex with me. That contradiction has haunted me for years and made me wonder: What would the gay men who died of AIDS in the 1980s th...
He said readouts from Trump's physicians indicate a possibly deadly potential health issue.
June 5 marks the 45th anniversary of the first report of AIDS. To commemorate the occasion, Whitman-Walker Health is sponsoring a screening of the film “How to Survive a Plague” on June 5 at 5:30 p.m. at GWU Lisner Auditorium (730 21st St., N.W.). The screening is free and you ca...
How a queer club staple became one of the medical world’s most promising treatments for depression and anxiety.
Building your family through surrogacy or adoption is a profound act of love and an emotionally complex journey that tests your endurance at every turn....
Reality star breaks down new role as healthcare service’s newest ambassador The post Sam Asghari talks allyship and his new MISTR partnership appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
At a challenging time to access transgender medical care, support often comes from past partners.
The actor and former hockey player said that focusing “solely on one hormone” ignores “real barriers to fairness.”
Neary says the discourse around her relationship has been “exhausting.”
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