A record number of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. are fleeing the president's anti-transgender policies by seeking asylum in other countries, according to a report released last Saturday by the LGBTQ+ asylum relocation assistance group Rainbow Railroad. Simultaneously, fewer LGBTQ+ re...
They are calling on Heritage of Pride to stand with trans youth and block hospitals, including NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai, from participating.
Former Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson announced last Thursday that he is leaving the Republican Party. Then, today, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said the same. “I voted Republican my entire life, I have been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican p...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced he will step down once his party chooses his successor. Starmer succeeded Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party in No. 10 Downing St. in 2024. The Labour Party included a ban on so-called conversion therapy in England and Wa...
Self-described "proud transphobe" and failed gubernatorial candidate Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on X on June 18 that American taxpayers are spending money on experiments to turn mice transgender. The network's community notes and journalism disproved her claim. "Animals shoul...
Delaware Governor Matt Meyer (D) has signed a bill updating parentage laws around in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy to enhance protections for the family-building methods, which are key to many LGBTQ+ families. SB 250 comes at a time when both IVF access and LGBTQ+ right...
"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 brother surfaced, which references Donald Trump and an unknown individual named "Bu...
A piece of LGBTQ+ history is making its first trip outside the U.S. this summer, when a fragment of the original eight-striped rainbow Pride flag goes on display in Cork, Ireland. Earlier this year, San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society museum and officials from the city of Cor...
The internet has been abuzz since Donald Trump posted a photo of a seemingly random woman to Truth Social on Saturday and wrote, "Great daughter. My Honor!!! President DJT." The woman in the picture was clearly not either of the president's daughters, and many interpreted the mom...
Tens of thousands of people gathered across D.C. over the weekend as Capital Pride celebrated its annual Pride festivities with a parade, festival, concerts, parties, and community events centered on the theme “EXIST. RESIST. Have the Audacity!” Although the events took place a w...
When queer professor Andy Campbell started writing his 2019 book about LGBTQ+ symbols and design, he thought writing about the rainbow flag was boring and stupid. "I had a bad attitude," he tells LGBTQ Nation. "I really felt like so disidentified from it… I could not see what is ...
Abelardo de la Espriella on Sunday narrowly defeated Iván Cepeda in the second round of Colombia’s presidential election. De la Espriella, a far-right lawyer who has praised U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, beat Sen. Iván Cepeda, a member of outg...
Donald Trump's gay niece said on Sunday that her uncle's mental health is in a "downward spiral." Journalist Steven Beschloss asked Mary Trump about the president's ragged appearance at the recent G7 summit. "He appeared bloated and wandering in a daze. He seemed genuinely out of...
When JD Vance signed on to be Donald Trump's running mate in 2024, he had to know what he was in for. After all, Trump stood by while an angry mob threatened to hang his last vice president, Mike Pence, (and reportedly expressed his support for the idea). But Vance must never hav...
With each passing day, Donald Trump further affirms his quest to become an authoritarian leader, this time by threatening to arrest a sitting governor amid clashes between the state and the federal government. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been speaking out against the Tru...
Two Florida cities are standing up to Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of their rainbow crosswalks by painting rainbow colors on two other highly visible public places. At the start of Pride month, St. Petersburg painted the steps of its city hall in the colors of the Progress Pride fl...
I have spent the past eight years leading programs at Rainbow Railroad that support LGBTQI+ people fleeing persecution and violence. What began as a small, volunteer-led effort has grown over the past two decades into an international organization that has supported more than 50,...
By ANTONIO PLANAS | After a physical confrontation outside an early-voting site Thursday, local union leader Gino Renne filed an assault complaint against Del. Gabriel Acevero, who said he plans to do the same. Each accuses the other of starting the fight and throwing punches in ...
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health rejected the lawsuit as another Trump administration attack on transgender patients and medical providers....
The court questioned how authorities would determine who belongs in which restroom.
Before I can begin a review of “Stop! That! Train!” (the movie that’s been algorithmically dominating your queer social media feed in the form of ads for weeks now), I feel it’s necessary to provide a disclaimer: I am not a superfan of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” That doesn’t mean I’m ...
I always look forward to Father's Day. But if I'm being honest, it's complicated. For me, and I suspect for many other LGBTQ+ parents, the day arrives as a mixed bag of celebration, uncertainty, and quiet questions. My husband and I observe it together with our kids, but one of u...
Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer on June 9 signed SB 250, a bill that helps fill the gaps in the state’s parentage law. SB 250 amends the 2017 Uniform Parentage Act to broaden the state’s legal framework for surrogacy. Prior to SB 250, some children, particularly those born through assis...
As Donald Trump continues his ego-driven efforts to secure a legacy both domestically and abroad, one columnist is calling out his endless failed attempts. "Trump sees himself as a strongman and wants the world to see him in the same way," wrote James Ball for The i Paper. "He th...
The bar says they have “no idea” why the account was “deemed inappropriate.”
Dr. SJ Joslin's lawsuit is too soon, according to the court.
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 decades. The Federal Trade Commission, now led by a Trump appointee, is suing the W...
A teacher hired by a Florida school was forced by the superintendent to either resign or be fired (with no reason given) after only three weeks. Now, Shepherd Scalf is filing a discrimination complaint with the ACLU, alleging that the district thought he was trans because he’s 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 was approved by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) earlier this month and i...
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 said that it wasn't her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting...
The Republicans have been running a campaign to claim that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) is secretly a trans woman. While there wouldn’t be anything wrong with Talarico being trans, the Republicans clearly think there is. The attacks are based on transphobia and homophobia,...
I am a Chicagoan whose daughter is transgender. But that is not the most important fact about her. My daughter loves fashion, sings in choir, is active at church, and is, by every measure, your classic American teenager. Yet it is her gender identity that politicians in Washingto...
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 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr announced a new deal with ...
Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. There's a great assortment of inspiring and heartwarming stories in this week's Good News Roundup, includi...
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 the technology in San Francisco's Castro District. This week, Gazetteer SF put ...
The false conspiracy theory made it all the way to the South Lawn.
Ahead of Pride demonstrations this month, two U.K. stores put up window art that supported trans people who had scars from top surgery, one at a LUSH store, and another at an Amnesty bookstore. This particularly angered anti-trans freelance journalist and campaigner Janet Murray,...
A list of 30 agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) shows that 29 of them have been charged with sexual offenses, and two-thirds committed sexual crimes against children, according to a list published by the Ohio Immigrant...
June is Pride Month for LGBTQ+ communities nationwide — and parades abound! But as we all rev up each June for Pride, many of us also grow more aware of the fault lines of race, gender identities, class, and more that still remain; especially today on Juneteenth. This Pride Month...
Two Ontario teens have been charged with mischief after allegedly tearing down a secondary school flag and setting it on fire. The act, which is being investigated as a hate crime, took place in the city of Markham around 11 pm on June 8. York Regional Police have identified Sepe...
During a hearing on blue-state sanctuary policies for immigrants, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) berated New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) for allegedly smiling while the Congresswoman spoke about Laken Riley, a young woman who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant and whose...
An independent minor league baseball team says it is forfeiting a game because some of its players refused to wear a special Pride Night jersey. The Atlantic League Pro Baseball’s York Revolution were planning to hold their 11th annual Pride Night event Thursday for a game agains...
Entre los sonidos vibrantes de la batucada, las luces de colores, la música y los mensajes de reivindicación, el 5 de junio se llevó a cabo una nueva edición de “Mani Fiesta tu Orgullo”, un evento que durante los últimos cuatro años se ha convertido en una de las actividades más ...
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 controversy, stoking outrage over the league's reaction to a San Francisco Giants player ...
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 Wednesday night council meeting to share their displeasure. The councilman, Ed Brzezinsk...
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 back of the head," among other incendiary statements. Church leader Justin Zhong e...
The rising stars of the steamy, runaway HBO hit Heated Rivalry, which is about hockey players who repeatedly scored with each other, are now scoring with major advertisers too, even as Pride events struggle to hold on to sponsors. Their sculpted bottoms play important supporting ...
As states across the country grapple with a rapidly changing federal landscape under President Donald Trump, governors have increasingly become the first line of defense — or enforcement — on issues ranging from healthcare and education to LGBTQ rights. Nowhere is that more appar...
The Delaware Public Archives is set to unveil a new State of Delaware Historical Marker recognizing Rehoboth’s Poodle Beach Saturday, June 27, at 9 a.m. The unveiling will take place at the corner of Prospect Street and the South Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Del. The unveiling ce...
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 lives of tens of millions of LGBTQ+ people. Gallup has been asking people ar...
A New Jersey cop who was fired for using an anti-gay slur on the job returned to work earlier this month, following a two-year legal battle. Roselle, New Jersey, police chief Stacey Williams was fired in July 2024 and had his law enforcement license suspended after an investigati...
In May, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC) to resume providing gender-affirming care to trans youth after it suspended the program in January. Now, it says that they are resuming the program, but that doctors are refusing to provide the care for...
The Trump administration updated the language describing a small federal grant program in what experts are calling a "Trojan horse" that could have sweeping implications for IVF access and reproductive rights overall. The Embryo Adoption Awareness and Services Program is a public...
The Netherlands will ban conversion therapy after the Senate voted 75 to 57 in favor of legislation to eradicate the harmful practice. The Dutch House of Representatives has already approved the bill, which will reportedly punish anyone who practices conversion therapy on childre...
The Barack Obama Presidential Center held media previews on Thursday ahead of its official Juneteenth opening, marking the debut of the first presidential center dedicated to the 44th and only Black U.S. president. The 19.3-acre campus, located on Chicago's South Side within hist...
An intersex teacher in Florida who was fired is alleging in a new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filing that he was terminated based on assumptions that he was transgender. Shepard Scalf in the filing says he was assigned female at birth but identifies as male. According...
The Washington Blade this week published a new glossy magazine, titled “Queering America 250,” a look back at the many contributions that LGBTQ people have made to the founding of the country through the present day. From Colonial times to modern pop culture, the magazine aims to...
Editor’s note: This is part of the “Queering America 250” LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Frederick Crist Trump Jr. (Fred Trump Jr.) was born on October 14, 1938, in Queens, New York City. The eldest son of Mary Anne MacLeod Trump and real estate developer Fred Trump Sr., as well as the older brother of Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) and sisters Elizabeth and ...
Editor’s note: This is part of the “Queering America 250” LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Chad Essert, the 44-year-old Republican police chief of Bethel, Ohio, was arrested and indicted last Thursday on 56 counts of sexual battery and 14 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. He faces up to 280 years in prison if convicted on all charges. The alleged incident...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Vice President J.D. Vance wrote a social media message seemingly supporting an Major League Baseball player who wrote a Bible verse on their baseball cap during a June 12 Pride Night event at the Oracle Park ballpark in San Francisco, California. The image that Vance commented on...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R) lost his re-election bid yesterday as he came in dead last in a three-way Republican primary for his state Senate seat. Deevers received only 29.93% of all votes, placing third behind his opponents, C...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
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 (WPATH), the leading global organization focused on transgender health and the prima...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Legendary actor Robert De Niro did not mince words when he spoke of his feelings about Donald Trump at a Sunday event for democracy. Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment took place at The Town Hall in New York City to call on people to stand up against authoritari...
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 weeks before from his hometown in Philadelphia. He discovered Greenwich Village not ...
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 say. Another inmate died just three days later after an attempted suicide, accordi...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Editor's note: This is part of the "Queering America 250" LGBTQ history magazine published by the Washington Blade. The glossy magazine is free and available across the D.C. region during Pride. You can find it here: Annie’s, As You Are, Bunker, Crush, DIK Bar, District Eagle, Gr...
Terrified of becoming targets of right wing media and activists, businesses and brands are fleeing Pride support in 2026. The fear of boycotts and retribution have seen Pride sponsorships plummet to previously unseen levels. Further, there is now a complete corporate reevaluation...
The 51st annual Capital Pride is already underway with parties and events throughout D.C. The Capital Pride Parade and Capital Pride Festival are the two large signature events slated for this weekend, though there are many other LGBTQ Pride celebrations planned for venues throug...
It was an “all hands on deck” situation. That’s how Lambda Legal fellow Nephetari Smith described it. The Trump administration’s abrupt removal of the rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument in February – under the guise of adhering to “government-wide guidance” – spark...
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 acted like he didn't know what she was talking about. Then, while on Fox News, h...
Editor’s note: This is the first of two reports on the race for Delaware attorney general. Next week: An interview with the incumbent candidate, Kathy Jennings.) Delaware is known as the state of “firsts” and it could deliver another first in this year’s elections if Dwayne Bensi...
Anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant, white nationalist influencer Gregory Moffitt (also known on social media as "Young Bob") was beaten up while holding a public debate in Manchester, England, last weekend. Video shows Moffitt debating a dark-skinned man with gray dreadlocks while seate...
Ian McKellen channeled his fury at Trump into archvillain role in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Iconic out actor Ian McKellen says he shouted “Mar-a-Lago” to get into his character’s destructive headspace while filming Marvel’s upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. The latest installment in Marvel...
Pride began as an uprising against a political system that told LGBTQ people they did not belong. More than 50 years later, after what many believed was a lasting cultural shift toward acceptance, that progress now feels increasingly fragile. What once seemed like hard-won inclus...
I had a thought provoking conversation with Billy Porter over Memorial Day weekend. The talented and opinionated star asked me how things were going at the Blade and in D.C. given the current administration in the White House. It was a loaded question. The short answer is that th...
Maryland voters will see LGBTQ candidates on ballots across the state when they head to the polls for the June 23 primary election. Evan Glass, an at-large member of the Montgomery County Council, is the current frontrunner in the Montgomery County Executive race. He made history...
The Dutch Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy in the Netherlands. NL Times, an online Dutch newspaper, reported 57 of 75 senators backed the proposal. The Dutch House of Representatives, the lower house of the country’s parliament, approv...
Conservatives are up in arms over the fact that Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) appointed a trans rights supporter to the state’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board. Kellen MacBeth, the founder and president of LGBTQ+ advocacy group Equality Arlington, has "a long history of pushing gend...
Activists around the world are marking Pride month this year against the backdrop of war and geopolitical tensions with the U.S. KyivPride on June 21 will hold its annual Pride march in the Ukrainian capital. The group, which is raising funds for the country's air defense, on Jun...
A couple weeks ago, I was walking into my school’s cafeteria, about to get lunch. As I navigated around groups of students, I heard a student shouting “ fa**ot!” over and over again at one of his friends, as some kind of joke or playful insult. How do I know it was a joke? Becaus...
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) officially kicked off her re-election campaign this week with a grueling tour of her state that saw her visit 57 municipalities in just 57 hours. The tour culminated Monday evening in Rehoboth Beach with a packed crowd at the Convention Center. At leas...
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 American society more broadly, with a majority of LGBTQ+ workers saying they are now se...
Edwin Feulner, a former congressional aide in Washington who rose to prominence as a co-founder of the influential Christian Nationalist right-wing think-tank, The Heritage Foundation, died on Friday. He was 83. The Heritage Foundation announced his death but provided no details....
A federal judge issued a temporary injunction against Idaho's new law, which would've given prison time to transgender people who use government and business restrooms that differ from the sex that they were assigned at birth. Idaho’s attorney general, Raul R. Labrador, has pledg...
In a bizarre video that is being compared to a Saturday Night Live sketch, the office of the U.S. Ambassador to The Bahamas, led by appointee Herschel Walker, warned Americans visiting the archipelagic country that "Jet ski rentals pose a serious risk of injury, death, and sexual...
Samar Halabi and her husband, Amjad Muhtaseb, both attended the Republican Party of Texas Convention, which was held in Houston from June 11 to 13, because, as Muhtaseb explained to The Texas Tribune, “We believe in Adam and Eve. We don’t believe in this, multiple genders. We don...
While researching my forthcoming book, We Refuse to Disappear: Resistance Amid Anti-Trans Education Policy, I heard a story from Alabama that I cannot stop thinking about. An elementary school student walked into class, looked at a bulletin board that had once displayed a rainbow...
A gay couple leaving a restaurant during a night market event was taunted, chased, and then beaten by at least one man in a group shouting homophobic slurs. The attack happened in Caldwell, Idaho, a small city west of the capital in Boise, Idaho6 News reports Related Wanna pee in...
Jafer Karausta — a 19-year-old social media influencer from Cambridge, England — came out to his Muslim mom on video. Her refusal to accept him left both of them in tears. He spent the rest of the video explaining to her that he can't change his sexual orientation and promising n...
A cisgender Washington state high school wrestler is suing state officials, her school district, and others, claiming that a transgender opponent sexually assaulted her during a match. Last week, anti-LGBTQ+ Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a ...
Out MS Now host Rachel Maddow pointed out in a Monday segment how suspicious it is that Donald Trump has continued to block the opening of a critical new bridge connecting the United States and Canada. The Gordie Howe International Bridge connects Detroit, Michigan, to Ontario, C...
The nonbinary ranger who was fired for displaying a large trans flag at Yosemite National Park last year has had their lawsuit against the federal government dismissed by a judge. The dismissal came not on the merits of the case, but on a technicality, which requires them to wait...
The city of Key West, Florida, has been forced to end a Pride-themed art initiative due to the state's anti-DEI law. On Friday, the Key West Business Guild wrote on social media that the city attorney had "confirmed what many feared and sadly what we anticipated: Florida's new Se...
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 things I ever said." Related Pete Buttigieg is playing JD Vance in Tim Walz's d...
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 only by the first name Noahm in the media late at night on May 29 in the city of...
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 MAGA supporter. Related Nicki Minaj wants Don Lemon locked up for reporting on ...
On Oct. 30, 2025, a same-sex couple in South Korea filed a petition with the country's human rights commission after a public institution denied marriage leave to one of the men and later reduced his pay and performance bonus for taking time off for their wedding ceremony. The co...
Niger is the latest African country to recriminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations. The Associated Press on June 12 reported the country’s military junta announced a new penal code under which anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practi...
LGBTQ+ ally, actress Julia Roberts, delivered a beautiful tribute to Renee Nicole Good — the 37-year-old queer mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose killing by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last January began a national outcry against the ...
San Francisco police are offering $250,000 to anyone who can help identify the person(s) who targeted six white gay men and murdered them during the late night and early morning hours of nights between late January 1974 to June 1975. Investigators don't think Investigators believ...
Todd Gloria has had a whirlwind two decades as a public servant. Beginning with his successful 2008 San Diego City Council election, followed up by his second successful campaign in 2012 — this time as president of the San Diego City Council — Gloria has been strapped to a rocket...
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 Talarico "around my young kids." Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), age 32, was speaking w...
The president's lesbian psychologist niece, Mary Trump, recently took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test used to assess an adult's cognitive impairment and dysfunctions. Donald Trump bragged about acing the test in the past. But even though she did well on the MoCA ...
Seoul saw dueling LGBTQ+-focused events over the weekend, with tens of thousands showing up for the South Korean capital city’s annual Pride festival while anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrators gathered for a counterprotest less than a mile away. The Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing C...
The administration’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has now come for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and it could mean the end of specialized LGBTQ+ programs at the VA. A new internal memo reportedly instructs the VA to remove LGBTQ+ labels from staff and servi...
California voters selected its two front runners for the state's open governor seat following the second election of Gavin Newsom. Last week former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra became the Democratic nominee for governor, setting up a general election...
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 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
Noted anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost the Republican primary for South Carolina governor in a truly decisive defeat, coming in fifth place. But the pain and policy that she has brought with her rhetoric still remains and can’t be expected to go out the door with her when s...
UFC fighter Josh Hokit, in a crude post-match stunt, told podcaster Joe Rogan that, “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right America?” The incident occurred as part of President Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event held on the White House lawn on Sunday night. Hokit won his fight then gave ...
After weeks of calling Democratic state Rep. and Senate candidate James Talarico transgender, gay, and feminine for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, he's now facing criticism from Republicans for walking back his support. Republicans have spent weeks saying that Talarico is himself "tra...
By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell. The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass. The occasion was t...
The military junta that took over the Sahara nation of Niger in 2023 announced the country's new penal code last Friday. The new penal code criminalizes homosexuality and imposes a prison sentence of five to ten years. The AP notes that homosexuality wasn't formally illegal in Ni...
The primaries in California took place almost two weeks ago, but the election is far from over. For Republicans who see a landslide for Democrats heading their way in November, the Los Angeles mayoral race has become the template for undermining the results. California primaries ...
“There Is No Pride in Detention” is the name of a campaign led by Rainbow Migration, the British organization to which I contribute as part of an advisory panel. The campaign, launched during Pride Month, highlights the fact that an unknown number of LGBTQ people are held in immi...
A raid by Malaysian authorities on an alleged "gay spa" in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur late last month saw over 200 individuals arrested, but ultimately yielded no convictions under colonial-era prohibitions on "carnal knowledge" between men. Local police carried out the joi...
After Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitor Josh Hokit won his heavyweight fight against Derrick Lewis during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House lawn on Sunday night, he concluded his victory interview with popular transphobic broadcaster Joe Rogan by declarin...
In Ghana last week, participants from 20 African nations advanced the latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary “Family, Sovereignty and Values” Charter, a document African rights activists say threatens to dismantle protections for women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in se...
Notorious transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost in her state’s Republican gubernatorial primary earlier this week, coming in 5th place as Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a runoff. And now, Republicans who worked closely with her are speaking o...
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 weeks before from his hometown in Philadelphia. He discovered Greenwich Village not ...
‘Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself’By David Archuletac.2026, Gallery Books$29/290 pages So just make up your mind already. The decision is very much in your control – or, at least that’s how it’s supposed to be. It’ll be your future, your path, and seizing it may not just be...
‘Suffs’June 16 – 28National Theatre1321 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.$115 and upBroadwayatthenational.com Poised to kick off a two-week run at D.C.’s National Theatre (June 16-28), “Suffs,” the Tony Award-winning musical written by Shaina Taub, promises an entertaining chronicle of wha...
June 14 is Flag Day. That's right, smack in the middle of Pride Month – which celebrates a community that absolutely adores flags – there is a day celebrating a flag. I'm not the first person to notice this. A sketch in season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race, which aired in 2021, notice...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released photographs from the Jeffrey Epstein estate confirming the close ties President Donald Trump had to the late child sex trafficker, and documenting his proximity to the young women who were victimized. Committee Democrats r...
O'Shae Sibley's killer found guilty on hate crime charges What he was convicted of: Dmitriy Popov, who stabbed gay dancer O’Shae Sibley to death in 2023, was found guilty of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment because of race...
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to retire in 2027 and recently spoke about her decades-long career advocating for LGBTQ+ rights. “Anything that we accomplished, whether it was fighting HIV and AIDS, ending discrimination, passing hate crimes legislation, or endin...
A gay dad's thoughts on the trials and tribulations of raising a straight son went viral last week as parents across the internet connected to his feelings. The Brazil-based father posted in Portuguese under the handle @cleccio. According to X's translation, he opened by saying t...
National HIV medical associations and providers are challenging the Trump administration's new federal funding guidelines that target transgender identity assisted by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The new regulations bar organizations that access the decades-old program, inclu...
President Donald Trump was accused of trying to orally rape a 13- to 14-year-old girl who then bit his genitals, according to an unproven allegation contained among the 3.5 million pages of investigatory files connected to deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, released t...
Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. It's the second week of Pride Month, and we've got a great mixed bag of rainbow-colored goodies for you to...
British-Jewish journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti authored an article entitled, "Bombing Iran is the perfect way to celebrate Pride." While the article's title has since been changed to, "Bombing Iran’s evil regime is a point of Pride for Israel", in it he praises Israel's missile str...
The D.C. Council on June 9 gave its first round of approval to an amendment to the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget that calls for increasing the number and size of funding grants that the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs provides for local organizations providing services for the L...
David Hockney, the pioneering gay artist best known for his portraits of male desire in mid-century settings, has died. He was 88. His cause of death is not yet publicly known. The British artist, who, along with compatriots Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, was uncompromising in h...
Ten years after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, survivors, family and friends of the 49 victims are gathering in Orlando to honor the dead. Several events around the city will pay tribute to those lost in what was then the largest mass shooting in American history. 58 clubg...
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg slammed Donald Trump for saying that he loves inflation. "We have a president and a White House that clearly don't care," Buttigieg said in a video posted to social media. Related Pete Buttigieg will be the next president. Here's ...
A state judge in Maine agreed on Thursday that "Protect Girls' Sports," an anti-transgender activist group, tried to get a referendum on sports participation on the ballot this fall but failed to collect enough valid signatures. Earlier this year, Protect Girls' Sports, a campaig...
During a press event at the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump claimed that there are six states that are taking people's children and forcing them to transition, leaving people wondering if Trump was lying or if he had lost his mind, since this is not happening anywhere. "No ...
Bud Light has gone from sponsoring Pride events in major U.S. cities to sponsoring the Trump administration’s UFC cage match on the White House lawn. Three years after a one-off Instagram video partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney sparked a MAGA boycott, the bra...
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a proclamation on June 3 designating this month as "Marriage and Family Month." His proclamation makes his state just the latest among several red states that have recently tried to give Pride Month a conservative and anti-LGBTQ+ rebranding. “T...
If you think the idea of a movie about two gender-nonconforming buddies embarking on an anti-establishment crime spree feels dangerously radical in 2026, just think how it must have felt 25 years ago. That’s when “By Hook or By Crook,” a DIY independent film shot in low-tech “Min...
It’s finally that time of year, when we celebrate "Straight Pride!" And frankly, it’s about time. For centuries, heterosexual people have been oppressed, marginalized, and forced to live in the shadows of a ruthlessly queer-dominated world. It’s time we address this glaring inequ...
Republicans are making accusations of being gay, trans, or just not masculine enough, the central issue in the Senate race in Texas this year, accusing state Rep. and Democratic candidate James Talarico of being too light in his loafers because he supports trans people's rights a...
Maryland District Court Judge Julie Rubin has denied a request to turn a challenge against one of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) requests for trans youth's private health information into a class action lawsuit, which would have allowed the case to quash the subpoenas seeking ...
In his June 9 interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump returned again to his loathsome “Big Lie” that he won the 2020 presidential election due to massive fraud in the states that declared Biden as the winner. Ever since November 3, 2020, Trump has sung...
It can be hard to work out what might be going through Donald Trump’s head at the best of times, but lately his actions have seemed to be increasingly bizarre and reckless. However, all of those actions become much easier to understand with one simple perspective shift: Trump kno...
A German advocacy group on the eve of the 2026 World Cup sharply criticized the Trump-Vance administration over its anti-LGBTQ policies. The World Cup will take place in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico through July 19. The tournament began on Thursday in Mexico City with Mexico beat...
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) suspended tenured art therapy professor Savneet Talwar after a student complained about her assignment asking students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer, Muslim woman living in the United States, The Gu...
A giant inflatable bust depicting the shirtless tattooed likeness of transphobic, white supremacist near-trillionaire Elon Musk appeared in New York City's Times Square on Thursday morning. Its appearance foreshadowed the Friday debut of Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, ...
Community advocacy, protest, and mutual aid weren't new concepts for queer businesses and their employees before Donald Trump unleashed Operation Metro Surge on Minnesota late last year. When the brutal immigration raids began, queer businesses were as ready as they could be for ...
A recent court hearing on a lawsuit brought by six transgender Idahoans against the state's latest bathroom bill has revealed just how unworkable the draconian new law would be. In fact, to enforce it, an attorney for the red state said restroom users might need to undergo forced...
Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for all social evils, thinks marijuana makes men "spiritually gay," and thinks Adolf Hitler wasn’t so bad after all — and the co-hosts of his Right Response broadcast said in a June 9 episode that fema...
Several banners forming a 1,000-foot Progress Pride flag covered the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art last Friday morning as activists with Philly Pride 365, the city's lead Pride event organizer, marked the start of the city's Pride Month celebrations. The city held its o...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has joined the growing trend of red states bucking Pride Month to celebrate "traditional" families. The anti-LGBTQ+ governor – who branded his state "the place where woke goes to die" – released a proclamation declaring June as Faith and Family Month...
A new musical currently playing at London’s National Theatre recounts the extraordinary story of an unlikely alliance between the U.K.’s South Wales coal mining communities and LGBTQ+ activists, a relationship that still holds strong today. A stage adaptation of the Golden Globe ...
After seven years, sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange and Houston County, Georgia, have reached a settlement in the case over the county’s health insurance excluding gender-affirming services. The legal case and the county’s push to exclude trans health care are estimated to have cost t...
A project is underway in Staunton, Va., to honor William ‘Billy’ Haines, who was born and raised in Staunton before becoming an out gay 1920s and early 1930s-era Hollywood movie star whose acting career ended around 1934 when he refused demands that he conceal his sexual orientat...
Fox host Jesse Watters wanted to make his audience mad about Pride Month, but he had an odd way of doing it: by showing amazing videos of queer people dancing. Watters started the segment with what he described – apparently derogatorily? – as a "gay dance fiesta," referring to a ...
As we kick off June’s Pride activities, many cis-hetero Christian nationalists are feeling dejected. So, in their attempts to reclaim the month, many Republican governors have pushed “counterprogramming” by labeling June as “Nuclear Family Month” in Indiana and Tennessee, “Strong...
Across much of America, marriage equality is widely accepted and recognized as a fundamental right. More than a decade after the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry, LGBTQ+ families across America have flourished. ...
Hey fellow LGBTQ+ Democrats, this is worth reading! Especially if you're a voter in Washington, D.C. who's planning to cast a ballot for the nomination of local candidates in the District of Columbia in 2026. Because next Tuesday June 16 is a really Big Deal for D.C. Democrats. I...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) posted a picture of Democratic Senate candidate and state Rep. James Talarico as a woman in order to mock the Democrat for supporting action on climate change. "Jimmy Talarico authored the Texas Climate Action Act – Texas’ Green New Deal," Abbott wrote ...
My name is Hope Solomon, and I’m running for mayor of Washington, D.C. I’ve spent my entire life here. I attended D.C. Public Schools. I grew up working in my family’s small business here in D.C. I live in Dupont Circle. For 17 years, I worked in national security with the Depart...
Elections are always important, but this year in D.C. they will bring major changes. Because of that, your vote in the Democratic primary on June 16 is more important than ever. D.C. is so overwhelmingly Democratic it is a near certainty the winners in the Democratic primary will...
LGBTQ voters in the nation’s capital are choosing among a long list of LGBTQ supportive candidates running for mayor, D.C. City Council, and the position of D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives in the city’s June 16 primary election. LGBTQ activists who have spoken ...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! Last August, Ingrid Christina packed up with their "kiddo" and moved from D.C. to Canada. Credit Trump with the relocation. Related This photojournalist usuall...
Friday marks 10 years since a gunman killed 49 people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The massacre, which, at the time was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, left the LGBTQ community in this country and around the world reeling. It also prompted renew...
A bombshell New York Times article, entitled "Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files," repeatedly states that President Donald Trump and his closest White House staff have held numerous meetings discussing how best to delay any release of federal investigatory mat...
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic primary on Tuesday night with an overwhelming showing from voters fired up over prospects of replacing longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins and retaking Congress this fall. Collins has proven unbeatable over a 30-yea...
Earlier this year, criminal charges were filed against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for defying Hungary's ban on Pride celebrations and for helping to organize a Pride march in the capital. The charges against him, though, were just dropped, weeks after Hungarian dictator Vik...
Justice came for 19-year-old Ajani Grimes on Tuesday when he was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for the murder of Laura Schueler, a 47-year-old trans woman. Grimes's arrest in Schueler's killing was the end of a months-long crime spree that started in October 2024, when...
Donald Trump told reporters at the Oval Office today that he loves inflation when asked about new Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) this morning. Earlier today, the BLS released the latest CPI for the month, based on its study of ...
An Ontario, Canada, elementary school's Pride flag installation over the weekend was vandalized for the second time in a week, leaving community members reeling. On Saturday night, two unknown suspects cut down the metal flagpole from which the Pride flag flew at Norwich's Emily ...
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) was caught clearly faking a 90-second phone call to avoid answering a reporter's question about possible cuts to Social Security. The reporter asked Wittman – who is up for reelection this year – about "Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut Social Security." R...
As I walked into my front yard, I noticed that the LGBTQIA-inclusive Pride flag I had hung on my garage was missing once again, for the third time in less than eight months. Coming from the depths of my soul, I looked up into the sky and let out a howl that scattered birds from a...
For Benoît, a gay man in rural France, Pride flags are not decoration. They are a declaration that queer people belong to the same fields, towns, and forests that once made them feel unwelcome. The morning of their first rural Pride march, the organizers returned to the storehous...
Earlier this year, the federal government removed Pride flags from the Stonewall National Monument, and the outrage from the LGBTQ+ community was deafening. Activists across the country spoke out against it, LGBTQ+ media published column after column denouncing the removal, and a...
Dr. Alveda King, niece of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was asked at a committee hearing about President Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters. Her response was to peddle alarmist anti-abortion rhetoric and misinformation about gender-affirm...
Notorious transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost in her state's Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday, coming in 5th place as Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a runoff. As the vote count came in, Equality PAC hosted its National ...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! In June 1978, freelance news photographer Mark Ivins was on assignment for the Village Voice, covering the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York ...
It can be tempting to feel somber this Pride. In 2025 and 2026, the United States dismantled much of the LGBTQ+ rights infrastructure it had spent decades building — eliminating the Global Equality Fund, defunding local LGBTQ+ organizations, and banning the rainbow flag from fede...
Former D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie is running for mayor as Muriel Bowser’s third term expires in January. He’s running in a crowded Democratic primary field; recent polls show him in second place behind Council member Janeese Lewis George. D.C.’s primary is Tuesday, June ...
Satirical comedian and activist Walter Masterson released a Pride Month video on Monday in which he mocks MAGA supporters at pro-Trump demonstrations by complaining about people "with these flags and hats" that they "wave around in people's faces," adding, "It's become their enti...
The Cleveland Clinic of Ohio will direct $2 million to provide no-cost detransition healthcare services for the minuscule number of trans people who detransition, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Friday. Though the hospital already provided detransition care, its pu...
Advocacy groups are criticizing a new Tennessee law, House Bill 1665, signed in April by Gov. Bill Lee (R), which prohibits doctors from asking minor patients questions about gender. The law takes effect in October. Advocacy groups say it's an “unnecessary” attack on the LGBTQ+ c...
A new gender-affirming medical clinic will open in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City. But the clinic (which hasn't announced an opening date) won't serve adults or children under the age of 19, adhering to President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to ban gen...
Deep red states across the country have rolled out anti-Pride alternatives to Pride month recently, inspired by so-called Christian values, and riding the Trump administration’s own anti-LGBTQ+ crusade. However, legislation to create a federal "family month" in June has not gaine...
Laverne Cox is opening up about her former relationship with a Trump-supporting New York City police officer. The actress and trans rights advocate joined the hosts of The View on Monday to discuss her new memoir Transcendent. During their conversation, co-host Alyssa Farah Griff...
For nearly four decades, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been one of the most influential champions of LGBTQ rights in American politics. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker helped lead landmark LGBTQ legislation through Congress; including the repe...
A family-owned bakery in Minnesota is celebrating June as Nuclear Family Month to counter Pride Month celebrations. Joshua Streblow, a farmer and father of nine, is the owner of Carl's Bakery in Granite Falls. He told the News Tribune he believes the nuclear family (as in a mothe...
By his own account, Eric Chung was living the American Dream. A son of immigrants from Communist Vietnam, Chung is a constitutional lawyer who was working at the Commerce Department on the CHIPS and Science Act to boost the economy and bring jobs and manufacturing to places like ...
Republicans are up in arms over a New York state bill seeking to make state child custody and parental laws more inclusive to LGBTQ+ families. The New York Legislature passed a bill last week that would amend gendered language in the state's Family Court Act. Mother and father, f...
Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while attending the Knicks game in his hometown of New York City last night, yet he told the press that New Yorkers gave him a warm and joyous welcome. Despite an abundance of video evidence showing the president being booed multiple times, he se...
Donald Trump was roundly booed multiple times while attending a Knicks game in his hometown of New York City last night, and out MS NOW host Rachel Maddow appeared to enjoy the moments. As the national anthem was sung, the Jumbotron focused on the president, who was saluting in h...
Capital Pride’s date change isn’t slowing down the festivities. Back in December, the Capital Pride Alliance shifted the calendar for Pride celebrations in the nation’s capital from the second weekend of June to two weeks later to the weekend of June 20-21 to not conflict with Pr...
Dmitriy Popov, who stabbed gay dancer O'Shae Sibley to death, was found guilty of a hate crime on Monday but was acquitted on the most serious charges he faced. Sibley, 28, was voguing to Beyoncé when he was killed at a gas station in July 2023. Popov, who was 17 at the time, arg...
Former Republican campaign operative Steve Schmidt called President Donald Trump "deranged," "emotionally and psychologically incontinent," and "in a state of decomposition and collapse" for storming out of an NBC interview last Sunday when journalist Kristen Welker pointed out h...
A new Justice Department memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the FBI to create a “cash reward system” to incentivize providing information against domestic terrorists. However, it also makes it clear that the targets of such domestic terrorist investigations will be “A...
Gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, who stepped down last March as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., had his $1 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against jazz artist Chuck Redd thrown out by a judge last Friday be...
The planned clinic comes as hospitals face mounting federal pressure over gender-affirming care.
Disgraced former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) mounted a political comeback of sorts, Politico reported in a June 8 article, claiming that Venezuela’s vice president had promised him a literal gold mine if he got the U.S. to improve diplomatic relations between the countries. Schock r...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend Pride events in D.C. this month. The Capital Pride Alliance is marking its 51st year with a full slate of events, including a parade, festival, concert, parties, and community events across the city. This year’s theme is “EXI...
The judge's order keeps 14 incarcerated women in their current placements after the court found evidence of serious safety risks.
A federal court blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from transferring 14 transgender women from women's prisons to men's prisons, saying that doing so puts the women in danger. The ruling, which came down on Sunday, is in Doe v. Blanche, a legal challenge to the president...
About 10 neo-Nazis wearing matching red and black outfits, sunglasses, and masks protested Athens Pridefest in Georgia last Saturday, while holding a black flag with a white swastika on it, delivering Nazi salutes, and reportedly shouting “Heil Hitler” along with racist and anti-...
Voters in Washington state could approve an anti-transgender law, Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, which would require girl student-athletes statewide to confirm their "biological sex" with genital inspections just to play sports. Opponents of the initiative say it's invasive, co...
A federal judge has referred attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disciplinary proceedings, criticizing them harshly for how they behaved when asking for trans kids' private medical records as part of a wide and unfocused investigation into a hospital that provides g...
With so many frontal attacks on the LGBTQ+ community coming from the federal government, it's easy to overlook the impact from the private sector. But according to a new report from Out Leadership, which describes itself as "the global LGBTQ+ network," it finds that the red and b...
Attendees at Boston's annual Pride parade on June 6 booed Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) as he marched down the street, likely due to prior comments the lawmaker has made about trans rights. In a video posted to social media, Moulton and his supporters can be seen marching with rainbow...
A grand jury in New York ruled that a judge who refused to marry a same-sex couple in 2024 should be removed from office, ripping into her by accusing her of "[laying] bare her bigotry towards homosexual people and her willingness to put her personal feelings above her oath as an...
Donald Trump stormed out of an NBC interview on Sunday when challenged about his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump was talking about the January 6 rioters, who he pardoned en masse last year, when journalist Kristen Welker said, "Just to be very clear, there's no evi...
Washington has long prided itself on stability. Anchored by the federal government and buoyed by a highly educated workforce, the District has historically weathered economic uncertainty better than most cities. But beneath that stability, cracks have been showing since January 2...
‘Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000’By Barry Waltersc.2026, Viking$35/496 pages Step, step, tap, back step. Shimmy in a circle, left hand waving over your head, shake your tail feathers, repeat to the beat. Once there was a time when you could do any dance in your s...
A new study out of Northwestern University in Chicago asserts that gay candidates are receiving more support than ever from voters, shedding the "electoral penalty" of being gay in ever greater numbers. At the same time, voters are imposing another penalty on candidates for gende...
Billionaire Elon Musk's estranged trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, made headlines this week for her abrupt exit from an interview after the reporter told her that Musk is "the best." Wilson, a model, was at an event in Spain to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Desigual s...
Republicans' increasing attacks on transgender people caused compelled many trans people and their families to move to Portland, Oregon, a trans-friendly city in a state with lots of trans legal protections. To help these newcomers to the city, 65-year-old Stela Marris — who iden...
Islamic authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province will hit a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man 80 times with a cane for kissing and hugging each other in a public toilet. Witnesses in the Taman Sari city park informed police after seeing the men enter the same restroom in Apri...
GOP's first attack on James Talarico in Texas Senate campaign is to call him "too low-T" for Texas Is he really a man? That's the question the GOP has been focusing on in this race, with GOP state Attorney General Ken Paxton mocking Talarico for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, being ve...
‘The Song of Sakuntala’IN SeriesIn Washington and BaltimoreAtlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St., N.E.(Selected dates June 6-14)Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., Baltimore(June 19-21)$25-35Inseries.org As the artistic director of IN Series, Timothy Nelson rarely bl...
Israel, which bills itself as the only democracy in the Middle East, has long claimed that status makes it a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people fleeing persecution elsewhere in the region. In his speech before Congress in 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mocked protesters...
People of all ages have consistently asked me two questions over the years: 1. “Why do you have to have those Pride marches every June?" 2. “Why do you think you deserve these special rights that straight people don’t have?” Related GOP candidate shows no remorse after disturbing...
An 81-year-old St. Louis nun has devoted the past two years to helping Catholic parents affirm their trans children. Sister Nancy Corcoran of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet hosts weekly dinners where about two dozen parents commiserate over the challenges of raising tran...
The Idaho House of Representatives passed a measure this week asking the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the U.S. But the legislation lost three Republican votes compared to a similar measure that passed in the state House ...
Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Happy Pride Month, everyone! This week's Good News Roundup is filled with rainbows, some big firsts, and m...
A 54-year-old man named Mark McMinn pleaded guilty to threatening and abusive behavior on Wednesday and was fined £200 ($267) for harassing a transgender woman at a May 6 karaoke event at the Cloch Caravan Park of Gourock, Scotland (a town 28 miles west of Glasgow). The woman he ...
At least 18 ICE detainees have died shortly after being released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities this year. This week, ICE announced that it would no longer release information related to such deaths. Advocates worry that this will obscure ICE's practice...
A transgender bartender in Laramie, Wyoming, who pointed her gun at a man she says hurled gay slurs at her and threw her to the ground, is headed to trial on felony assault and gun charges. If convicted, she could face up to 15 years in prison. Ríhanna Kelver says she was acting ...
The committee that oversees the gendered swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath in London have decided to maintain the trans-inclusive policies they formalized several years ago. The decision follows the UK Supreme Court’s decision on the legal definition of a woman and a campaign fro...
It can be easy to forget about gubernatorial races as we head towards the midterms. They are, ultimately, state-level elections at a time when we’re focused on national problems. The balance of power in the Senate and the House of Representatives is the focal point for many of us...
A day after a bombshell report dropped revealing disgraced ex-congressman George Santos is the target of a federal probe over insider trading on the prediction market Kalshi, the convicted felon was making more news, and another possible case for prosecutors. Bobby Allyn, the vet...
Just yesterday, The Advocate published a column calling Trump gay as an insult, proving why we still need Pride Month. The publication's reasoning centered around the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage fight scheduled to take place at the White House on June 14, b...
Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
Friday, June 5 “Center Aging: Pride Monthly Luncheon with Chair Yoga & Drag Bingo” will be at 12:00 p.m. at the DC LGBQ+ Community Center. Lunch will be provided. For more details, visit the DC Center’s website. “Comedy Show for LGBTQ+ Prosperity” will be at 7 p.m. at the DC LGBT...
During April 1963, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joined together with the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in a massive nonviolent action to protest Birmingham’s system of segregation during the Easter holiday season, ...
Rihanna Kelver was standing outside the Crowbar & Grill in Laramie, Wyoming, when a man began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at her.
Madonna kicked off Pride Month in New York City on Thursday evening with a free pop-up concert in Times Square. Part of her ongoing collaboration with gay hook-up app Grindr, the 15-minute show saw the 67-year-old pop music icon taking over The Square, a new performance venue ove...
I published an edited book titled Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price in 1992, not long after I read a book by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who escaped the bitter tyranny of slavery to become a preeminent leader for civil rights in the United States during the 19th cent...
Three legal experts share their opinions on the outdoor apparel brand's lawsuit against the drag performer.
Pop icon Madonna celebrated Pride month with a pop-up performance in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday to the delight of 50,000 fans. She performed for about 15 minutes high above street level, including several songs from her new album “Confessions II” due on July 3, alon...
Sacred and historical texts form the backbone of mainstream religions worldwide, but even modern-day writings about religion often exclude queer perspectives, which is why we've compiled this essential list of LGBTQ+ books about religion and spirituality that will expand the mind...
Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that says that people and private organizations don't have to recognize same-sex marriages. It also shields people from facing professional discipline if they refuse to officiate or "celebrate" a same-s...
Hungarian authorities on Thursday dropped charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony over his role in organizing the city’s 2025 Pride march. Karácsony spoke at the event, even though then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government banned it. More than 100,000 people defied t...
Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele implied on Thursday that President Donald Trump is obese and lying about his weight. Steele also noted a recent YouGov poll in which 66% of Americans said that an "average American" could beat Trump in a fight. In an MS NO...
A new poll conducted by GLAAD ahead of Pride Month shows that large majorities of Americans support companies that support Pride as well as politicians who oppose anti-LGBTQ+ attacks. The poll found that 68% of registered voters agreed that companies and brands should be able to ...
Gallup, one of the leading organizations in public opinion polling, has found that LGBTQ support among Americans is dropping. The poll, whose data was collected using Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, was conducted in May and was published on Wednesday. The data was coll...
U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), who represents Tennessee's 5th Congressional District, is facing backlash from LGBTQ advocates and fellow Republicans after a social media post declared that "homosexuality has no place in America." "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuc...
Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter in the Oval Office yesterday who asked him a question about his $1.8 billion fund that he had the Department of Justice approve to disburse money to people he believes were unfairly targeted by the criminal justice system under President Joe ...
California's primary on Tuesday was a "clean sweep" for LGBTQ+ candidates for Congress, as two Democratic incumbents dominated their races and two new contenders advanced to the general election in November. In San Francisco, out California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) captured mo...
Two gay police officers are suing the Seattle Police Department (SPD) for allegedly denying them promotions because of their sexuality. Detective Anna Fishel and Lieutenant Douglas Raguso claim the department repeatedly passed them over for promotions to roles for which they were...
High school sophomore Becky Pepper-Jackson just won the West Virginia Class AAA girls' shot put championship. But she might have played her last season, as the Supreme Court is expected to rule in her challenge to the state’s trans sports ban later this month, and she might be ba...
You’re at a new gay bar, mustering up the courage to leave all your clothes at coat check except for your briefs, socks, and sneakers. Through the door, you catch glimpses of pantless men laughing and grinding to house anthems, and somehow, everyone inside seems totally comfortab...
An influential far-right Christian group that believes LGBTQ+ people are "demonic" is celebrating Donald Trump's failure to acknowledge Pride Month this year. Intercessors for America (IFA), which works closely with the White House Faith Office and has hosted a prayer call with T...
A GOP candidate for the Connecticut state House is doubling down after posting a callous anti-Pride message that has been condemned by both Democrats and Republicans in the state. "Happy Straight Month!" wrote 23-year-old Jadon MacCormack in a June 2nd social media post. "It’s Am...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) shared moving words in support of trans youth during a Senate hearing on gender-affirming care on Wednesday. "If you’re a trans kid watching this hearing, if you have friends who are trans kids, if you have family who are trans kids, if you're not trans but ...
Six years ago, a straight couple in California used a "smoke-generating pyrotechnic device" as part of a gender reveal party, which started a fire that burned 23,000 acres of land, destroyed 20 buildings, and killed at least one person. Now the companies that sold the device have...
Organizers with the Latinx History Project have planned a host of events this Pride season with parties, poetry, drag and more. The festivities begin with the DC Latinx Pride 2026 Kickoff at Crush Dance Bar (2007 14th Street, N.W.) on Friday, June 12 from 6-10 p.m. The party will...
Back in February of 2025, I wrote a piece for New York City-based arts publication Hyperallergic about the importance of museums stepping up for their LGBTQ staff. I was right to be concerned. Over the last three years, censorship of LGBTQ histories and art has exploded in the mu...
A photograph can change how we understand ourselves. In Rainbow History Project’s exhibit “Pickets, Protests, and Parades: The History of Gay Pride in Washington,” one pairing does exactly that: 10 Washingtonians in their Sunday best picketing the White House in 1965, and, a few ...
Donald Trump ranted about trans women in sports, executions in Iran, nuclear weapons, and other topics to kids who were at the Oval Office yesterday. "He's the LeBron James of being weird around kids," one commenter noted on X. Related Medical professor sounds alarm on Trump's "d...
Heterosexual actor Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery on Wednesday related to a February incident in which he assaulted two men and called them "fa***ts" during an altercation amid the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana. LaBeouf insinuated...
Four months after his prison sentence was commuted by Donald Trump, George Santos went on social media to say that he'd be at the State of the Union (SOTU) address in February to cheer the president on. "I'm going to be there for the State of Union in the gallery, guys," Santos s...
Transgender teens who received hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are less likely to run away from home, according to a new study. Researchers at Southern Oregon University and Rutgers University examined data from about 1,101 respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey who be...
Patients and parents say federal demands for records from NYU Langone and Stanford Medicine threaten privacy, safety, and access to gender-affirming care....
Todd Starnes, a pundit who has previously appeared on Fox News and Newsmax, said he wants to ask Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and state Rep. James Talarico a bizarre question about his underwear. While speaking on The Todd Starnes Show, Starnes played a clip of Talarico...
With Pride organizations facing corporate retreat in the wake of President Trump's assault on the LGBTQ+ community and DEI efforts, Phoenix Pride announced on Thursday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The group cited "rising operational costs, economic uncertainty, s...
A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled that President Donald Trump’s policy banning transgender troops likely violates their constitutional rights. The three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that Trump’s Executive Or...
Federal investigators are examining whether the disgraced former congressman profited from bets about his own behavior on Kalshi.
A conservative Christian man is suing Los Angeles County and the L.A. Department of Public Works for making him come to work during Pride Month. Department of Public Works employee Eric Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag flying outside the department’s Alhambr...
Trans patients and their families filed a federal class action lawsuit this week aimed at preventing hospitals from handing trans kids' medical records over to the Trump administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been fighting a nationwide campaign to acquire the medical...
The city council of Madison Heights, Michigan, voted 4-3 on Monday to cancel a drag queen story time that was slated to be a part of the city's Arts & Pride festival. The vote took place less than a week before the festival was scheduled to take place in the city's Civic Center P...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! In the small town of Neenah, along the banks of Lake Winnebago in rural Wisconsin, Pride was alive and thriving one night last year when Jesse Moore and his wi...
While Islam lacks a central governing body to put forth any official stance on homosexuality, those who adhere strictly to the words of the Quran tend to interpret the text similarly to the traditionalist followers of the other Abrahamic religions – as condemning same-sex love. B...
NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper on Monday said LGBTQ Americans and their allies cannot give up in the fight for equality. "We need to band together. We need to stand together, and we need to speak out, and we need to help each other," she told the Washington Blade during an interview aft...
On June 1, the official Sesame Street social media account posted a simple message of acceptance for LGBTQ+ people to honor the start of Pride Month. "Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street!" it read. "Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community." Rel...
Out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a new bill aimed at stopping conversion therapy. "Conversion Therapy can be harmful, traumatizes kids, and is a scam to waste people's hard-earned money," Polis posted to social media after signing the bill on June 1 at The Center on Colfa...
Support for marriage equality and for LGBTQ+ people in general has dropped significantly this decade, according to a new poll from Gallup. Gallup released the results of its yearly Values and Beliefs survey, which asks people, among other things, if they are in favor of same-sex ...
State officials in California had not called the governor’s race as of Wednesday morning but Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra appear likely to advance to the general election. The race for governor has been scrambled several times after Kamala Harris opted not ...
In Columbus, Ohio, police have charged an unnamed 17-year-old with murder and felony assault for lethally stabbing his adoptive father and severely injuring his father's husband. The stabbing occurred on Sunday, May 24, killing 58-year-old Mark Rayburn-Velco and severely injuring...
In a now-deleted X post published Tuesday morning, rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote, "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month." After several Republican politicians called his statement "idiotic" and "insane," Ogles deleted it later that ...
U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested 10 HIV/AIDS activists who protested Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. The activists from Housing Works, Health GAP, the Treatment Action Group, and ACT UP held signs and chanted “Rubio’s Cut...
Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for everything he hates and thinks maybe Adolf Hitler wasn’t so bad after all — said in a May 30 X video that Christian men should smoke tobacco to help restore the nation because marijuana makes men "...
Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterd...
Gay conservative influencer Dave Rubin failed to cite a single way in which President Donald Trump has improved the lives of average Americans since taking office during a recent debate with progressives. Rubin was the featured guest on the most recent episode of Jubilee Media’s ...
While many stories show queer people leaving their unaccepting faith communities to maintain their safety, dignity, and mental health, we've found a handful of LGBTQ+ films about religion that depict queer people who stay in their spiritual communities, both to push for greater a...
Pattie Gonia, the trail-trekking environmental activist drag queen, is fighting back over a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Patagonia, the company whose name resembles her own. The adventure sports and wilderness corporation, well known for investing its profits to suppor...
D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George spoke to a crowd of LGBTQ supporters on June 1 at a meet & greet event held at JR.’s on 17th Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The event, organized by Capital Stonewall Democrats, which has endorsed Lewis George for mayor, with ...
Virginians for Marriage Equality on Monday launched a campaign in support of repealing Virginia’s constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Equality Virginia Executive Director Narissa Rahaman, former state Sen. Adam Ebbin, former state Del. Mar...
If you ask an LGBTQ person what Michelle Visage is known for, you’re likely to get a few similar answers. Most people will say that they know her as the co-judge on "RuPaul’s Drag Race," with the woman serving looks (and scathing critiques) for more than a decade on this seminal ...
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten detailed for viewers yesterday just how much Americans loathe Trump's quest to name government buildings after himself. "Stop it, just stop it," Enten said, explaining that only nine percent of Americans find it acceptable for the president to p...
Republicans have (very maturely) accused Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate from Texas, of lying about having a girlfriend to hide the fact that he is gay. But the media has since identified the girlfriend as 30-year-old Brianna Menard, Talarico's fo...
We’ve said for a long time that anti-trans laws will lead to deaths in the trans community. We’ve cited studies time and again that show there are higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation for trans people who are living in a non-affirming situation or are being ...
Dr. Robin Brennan, CAMP Rehoboth’s new executive director, has been getting adjusted to her role and connecting with the Rehoboth community. In March of this year, Brennan took on the role of executive director of CAMP Rehoboth, an LGBTQ+ community center in Delaware working to C...
As red state governors across the country try to denigrate Pride Month by declaring June a month to celebrate husband-wife families, Democratic leaders are making it clear that Pride is in the air with proclamations of their own. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) kicked off June...
Members of the D.C. Council joined Mayor Muriel Bowser and a crowd of LGBTQ activists and supporters on June 1 for the city’s fourth annual LGBTQ Pride flag raising ceremony held outside the John A. Wilson Building, which serves as the D.C. City Hall. Since its inception four yea...
A federal appeals court ruled against the trans military ban yesterday, saying that it violates the Constitution and was created just to target "a politically unpopular group." Now, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says that he will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Rela...
More red states are designating June as something other than Pride Month in an attempt to make a statement about their states' lack of support for LGBTQ+ people. Tennessee kicked off the "rename June" trend this year by designating the month as "Nuclear Family Month." The declara...
Nearly 80-year-old President Donald Trump underwent a medical check-up last week at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his third such check-up since April 2025. But Jonathan Reiner, the heart doctor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said the White House's three-pag...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a new rating system that would require a warning label to appear before any television content that includes LGBTQ characters. On April 22, the FCC issued a public notice asking Americans to submit comments on whether the TV Ov...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the city of Denton for hosting the “Big Gay Swim Day,” a private Pride month pool event scheduled for June 7 at the city's Civic Center. Paxton alleged that the event's changing rooms will violate the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The state law...
Ghana’s parliament passed a new bill last Friday that punishes the “willful promotion, sponsorship or support of LGBTQ+ activities” with up to five years in prison. The legislation, entitled The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, also punishes same-sex acts with a prison...
Judge Robert Wilkins said key provisions of the Trump administration's transgender military policy may be driven by a “bare desire to harm” transgender people....
A federal court ruled against Donald Trump's transgender military ban earlier today. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 in Talbott v. USA that the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military is a policy designed to...
The film would mark Kendrick’s second feature following the true crime thriller Woman of the Hour.
Anti-trans billionaire Elon Musk claimed on social media that he only began to meddle in politics because he was ashamed of his transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson. On Sunday, a high-traffic X account shared a photo of Wilson's new modeling campaign and wrote, "We should never fo...
Ahead of this weekend’s California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Track & Field Championships, California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) made it clear that he was rooting for a high school athlete who has been the target of relentless anti-trans protests. On Frida...
When the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released its most recent Census of American Religion, its survey data on U.S. spiritual beliefs identified nine types of Christians (including five types of Protestants and three types of Catholics). However, when it came to reli...
As the country begins to celebrate Pride Month, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) has declared this June "Fidelity Month" in her state. The declaration explains that June will be a time to "encourage renewed dedication" to "virtue, commitment, responsibility, and shared mo...
The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.
A new policy proposed by the Trump administration will force organizations receiving federal financial assistance to stop acknowledging that trans people exist or risk losing federal funding. In the new policy proposal, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) claims to be targe...
The lawsuit claims that the Big Gay Swim Day violates the state’s anti-trans bathroom bill.
Hungarian police on May 29 announced they will allow the annual Budapest Pride march to take place. “The Budapest Metropolitan Police has approved the 2026 Budapest Pride Parade and also has issued restrictive orders in relation to three counter-demonstrations,” a Budapest Metrop...
An 18-year-old man has been charged with four misdemeanors after allegedly pulling down a trans woman's skirt and underwear in the middle of Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park on Tuesday evening. The suspect, identified as Marquez D. Williams, allegedly walked up to the woman from...
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Senate campaign released its first ad, which is fixated on state Rep. James Talarico's (D) gender, calling him "too low-T for Texas." And Donald Trump himself joined in the attacks, referring to Talarico as "this transgender" in comm...
Republicans are facing the worst midterm prospects since, well, the last time Donald Trump was president. However, the political landscape for the GOP is far, far worse. Thanks to Trump's failed tariffs and his bumbling war with Iran, the economy is in a precarious position. Gaso...
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM). M...
Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, says "gays" should be banned from "buying children" because it is no different from the institution of slavery in the U.S. It's unclear whether he's referring to adoption, surrogacy, or both. In a May 28 post on...
Former Bogotá Mayor Claudia López on Sunday finished fifth in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. López, a centrist who ran as an independent, received 225,517 votes. This figure is .95 percent of the total votes cast. López was the Colombian capital’s mayor from...
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) of California, a gay and Jewish candidate for Congress from San Francisco, is speaking out over a decision by organizers of Rome Pride to bar a major Jewish LGBTQ+ organization from the event because it “failed to distance itself from the ongoing genoc...
When Pornhub released its most-watched categories of 2025, queer-themed content held the top two spots: “Lesbian” was the most viewed category, and “Transgender” was the second most viewed, up five spots from 2024. The global appetite for LGBTQ adult content is increasing in tand...
Former Congressman Barney Frank, who died last week, was dogged during his life over being gay. The self-proclaimed only “left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman,” in Congress deserved better. Frank’s perseverance paved the way for others. With wit and intelligence, he helped educat...
You’re all geared up. You’ve got your best parade-walking shoes, your coolest tee, your most-comfortable shorts, and a rainbow flag to carry. You’re set for Pride, but before you go, try one of these great new books about LGBTQ life and history. After the parade, where will you e...
A 2023 measure targeting trans school children came into full effect in Idaho last week, following the suicide of one of the plaintiffs in a pair of lawsuits challenging the law. Both the state and Boise High School's Sexuality and Gender Alliance agreed to close the lawsuits cha...
Donald Trump ranted about wiring allegedly installed by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in an attempt to make Buttigieg sound dumb, but instead, everyone pointed out how ignorant Trump's accusations were. "There's Pete Buttigieg, he spent billions of dollars on fix...
Maine quashes anti-trans ballot initiative due to invalid signatures What the initiative did: Maine was one of several states to put a ban on trans sports participation on their 2026 midterms ballot, a move intended to bypass the state's Democratic elected officials. But a court ...
Blood donations in England are way up, as the National Health Service benefits from eligibility changes that have brought more gay and bisexual men to their local donation sites. A recent survey found that 7.5% of male blood donors now report that they're bisexual, gay, pansexual...
Folks online are delighted by Spice Girl Mel C's response to a question on speculation around her sexuality in the nineties, when the Spice Girls were at the height of their fame. The exchange took place on the Mitch Churi Chat Show podcast earlier this month. Churi, who is gay, ...
Though it seems routine by now, each time I hear Donald Trump verbally attack journalists, particularly women of color, who are doing their job by asking him hard questions, I feel as though he has punched me in the gut, making me almost want to scream out against this monster bu...
A former Fox host and current political analyst believes a recent Donald Trump action may have finally spurred a real rebellion among Republicans. "It's a revolt," wrote Howard Kurtz for Fox News. "Practically a revolution." He said the backlash "seems to be breaking, or at least...
The fallout from Donald Trump's decision to illegally rename the Kennedy Center to give himself top billing continues to grow, creating an embarrassing situation for the president. As it turns out, artists don't want their work associated with Trump, despite legal threats from Ri...
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Ghanaian lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that would, among other things, criminalize LGBTQ allyship. Reuters reported MPs approved the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, in a voice vote after parliament's Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee backed it. MP...
A British evangelical Christian man who sued the U.K. government for "religious discrimination" after his government employer refused to accommodate his discomfort of LGBTQ+ symbols had his lawsuit dismissed by a tribunal, according to a Daily Mail article published yesterday. Ma...
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld yesterday defended maggots being fed to detainees at the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. A majority of the detainees there have not been convicted of any crimes but are being held as part ...
Transgender pop music star Kim Petras said in an interview published yesterday that she somewhat regrets discussing her gender transition with the press during her childhood. However, she explores this regret and the happiness she feels about her choices in “Brutalist,” a song on...
Federal employees will now be fully barred from gender-affirming care under their health insurance programs, with no exceptions. The Trump administration has just updated their guidance for health insurance companies who want to provide plans to federal employees and have removed...
Authorities in Budapest have given the green light for the Hungarian capital's Pride parade to march again this June, after last year's event was banned under authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Orbán's government was deposed in elections in April. Related Anti-LGBTQ+ Trump-backed...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! "I didn’t find Frances Faye," singer Terese Genecco tells LGBTQ Nation. "She found me." Genecco is the center of attention in her photo snapped by Fidel Lirio,...
After siding with the Trump administration to ban HIV-positive service members from the military, a federal appeals court has reversed itself and will hear the case again. In February, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed with the Depar...
When Albert Camus published “L’etranger” (“The Stranger”) in 1942, he was living in Nazi-occupied France, so it’s no surprise that it became one of the most celebrated “existential” novels of all time. A fascist regime is great for inspiring thoughts of an indifferent and meaning...
A White House official continued with attacks on Senate candidate and Texas state Rep. James Talarico's (D) masculinity on Thursday evening, saying that he's "transitioning to a woman," that his blood is soy milk, and that he has less testosterone than Black Congresswoman Jasmine...
Thousands of people flocked onto the National Mall in Washington, DC for an all-day prayer rally on Sunday, May 17. The event was promoted as a “re-dedication of our country as One Nation under God.” The rally’s official title was “Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Prai...
Nine LGBTQ groups in Russia have been banned so far this year after authorities deemed them as "extremist." Human Rights Watch on Thursday noted courts in seven regions between March and May banned Coming Out, the LGBT Resource Center, Parni Plus, the Moscow Community Center for ...
West Hollywood councilmember John Erickson and several LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations are condemning recent attack ads targeting his campaign for a California state Senate seat. In a joint statement, Equality California, Los Angeles County LGBTQ+ Elected Officials, the LGBTQ+ Vict...
CNN data analyst Harry Enten was shocked when describing just how much ground Donald Trump has lost with a key demographic: men under the age of 30. Enten pointed out that Trump won men under 30 by one percentage point. While that's not a big margin, it was still surprising in 20...
The latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary “Family, Sovereignty and Values” Conference is scheduled to take place in Ghana next week, the Ghanaian Parliament announced, and it's earning condemnation and controversy days before it starts. Like the gatherings that prec...
Tez Anderson decided to get tested for HIV after he moved to San Francisco in 1986 at the age of 25 and began dating his new boyfriend. When the results came back positive two weeks later, the doctor told Anderson he had 18 to 24 months to live. It was two days after his 26th bir...
Immediately after Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime show performer for the 2026 Super Bowl, right-wingers began trying to "cancel" the cis-het ally by pointing out his refusal to sing in English and his past performances in drag. Bad Bunny — wh...
Washington D.C. police arrested Ryan Fournier, co-founder of Students for Trump and Turning Point Action (the PAC for the young conservatives group Turning Point USA), early Tuesday morning for allegedly assaulting and threatening to kill a woman he was dating. The woman told pol...
The hair is uncanny.
“I thought we were living in 2026 and had moved on from this kind of discrimination."
"I know how romcom it sounds..." Richard told LGBTQ Nation.
They all got the same memo: question his sexuality and gender, avoid substantive policy issues.
Long before tone-deaf Target swag and rainbow-scented hashtags lit up the very queer month of June, Rev. Troy Perry was helping the LGBTQ community create space where it did not yet exist, and he did so with little more than faith and perseverance. This Pride season, as communiti...
We have good news for those seeking assisted living or memory support for a loved one: a fresh, hospitality-driven approach to care is now available in the heart of Tysons, Virginia. Kokua at The Mather opened in fall 2025 and provides residents with collaborative care as well as...
‘Pippin’Through July 26Signature Theatre4200 Campbell Ave.Arlington, Va.$47-$153Sigtheatre.org As Leading Player in Signature Theatre's revival of “Pippin,” Cedric Neal portrays the manipulative narrator who guides the title character, a young medieval prince, on a quest for mean...
(Editor’s note: This column reflects the writer’s opinion and does not constitute a Washington Blade endorsement of any candidate.) The race for Independent Council-at-Large is interesting. There are three main candidates and I suggest making your choice easier by first eliminati...
Since I started my activist career at the early age of 25, I feel incredibly blessed to have learned so much from many of the legends of our movement, including from Congressman Barney Frank. When I was just beginning OutRight International (then the International Gay and Lesbian...
"This is a corporation trying to erase an activist," said the drag performer, breaking her silence on the tense legal battle with the outdoor apparel company....
The new guidance is similar to a 2016 US bathroom ban that was decried by the UK.
“New Yorkers deserve to be safe using our transit system without fear of violence, discrimination or harassment,” said the Manhattan district attorney....
Postgraduate student petitioned for legal clarification The post China’s top court acknowledges anti-LGBTQ discrimination appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
The measure would have singled out trans students for discrimination, even though state law currently forbids it.
The groom's father has a well-documented friendship with the deceased child-sex trafficker.
Some of them also oppose same-sex marriages.
"Silence and delay cannot defeat rights," the High Court wrote.
In the middle of America’s intensifying backlash against trans rights, voters are set to send Bentley Hudgins to the state Capitol.
At least one expert says the removal may violate a court order.
Government ordered to allow trans people to amend ID documents The post Kenyan High Court issues landmark transgender rights ruling appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
The court offered “sincerest sympathies to Jane Doe’s family.”
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Syd Colson, Theresa Plaisance, and Gabby Williams are officially attached to Courtside.
The House Equality Caucus blasted fellow Dems who voted to pass a bill that would compel teachers to out transgender students.
The ACLU has decried the measure as an attack on student privacy.
A majority said stopping care, even under a federal funding threat, violates the state's anti-discrimination law.
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The 2026 Capital Pride Festival was held on Pennsylvania Ave. on Sunday, June 21. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key and Landon Shackelford) The post PHOTOS: Capital Pride Festival and Concert appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.
Ending a career he did not want to leave, Master Sgt. Logan Ireland is still fighting to pass on the "opportunity to succeed" in military service to his mentee Clayton McCallister.
A record number of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. are fleeing the president's anti-transgender policies by seeking asylum in other countries, according to a report released last Saturday by the LGBTQ+ asylum relocation assistance group Rainbow Railroad. Simultaneously, fewer LGBTQ+ refugees from other an
They are calling on Heritage of Pride to stand with trans youth and block hospitals, including NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai, from participating.
Former Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson announced last Thursday that he is leaving the Republican Party. Then, today, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said the same. “I voted Republican my entire life, I have been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party, but there is n
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced he will step down once his party chooses his successor. Starmer succeeded Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party in No. 10 Downing St. in 2024. The Labour Party included a ban on so-called conversion therapy in England and Wales in its elections
There has never been a better time to showcase fervent Pride.
The song tells a popular — and misleading — narrative about trans women who date straight cisgender men.
Self-described "proud transphobe" and failed gubernatorial candidate Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on X on June 18 that American taxpayers are spending money on experiments to turn mice transgender. The network's community notes and journalism disproved her claim. "Animals should not be used for ra
From lesbian space travel to sports romance, find the right vibe for your summer outing.
Delaware Governor Matt Meyer (D) has signed a bill updating parentage laws around in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy to enhance protections for the family-building methods, which are key to many LGBTQ+ families. SB 250 comes at a time when both IVF access and LGBTQ+ rights are being threaten
"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 brother surfaced, which references Donald Trump and an unknown individual named "Bubba." Related Epstei
A piece of LGBTQ+ history is making its first trip outside the U.S. this summer, when a fragment of the original eight-striped rainbow Pride flag goes on display in Cork, Ireland. Earlier this year, San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society museum and officials from the city of Cork signed an agreemen
The internet has been abuzz since Donald Trump posted a photo of a seemingly random woman to Truth Social on Saturday and wrote, "Great daughter. My Honor!!! President DJT." The woman in the picture was clearly not either of the president's daughters, and many interpreted the moment as indicative of
A Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives schooled a group of young Republicans who tried to insult her by implying she looked like transgender actress and influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Jennifer Jenkins, who is running in Florida against the incumbent Rep. Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), posted
The Euphoria creator responded to criticism over the show’s depiction of online sex work.
Tens of thousands of people gathered across D.C. over the weekend as Capital Pride celebrated its annual Pride festivities with a parade, festival, concerts, parties, and community events centered on the theme “EXIST. RESIST. Have the Audacity!” Although the events took place a week later than usual
When queer professor Andy Campbell started writing his 2019 book about LGBTQ+ symbols and design, he thought writing about the rainbow flag was boring and stupid. "I had a bad attitude," he tells LGBTQ Nation. "I really felt like so disidentified from it… I could not see what is still so radical abo
Abelardo de la Espriella on Sunday narrowly defeated Iván Cepeda in the second round of Colombia’s presidential election. De la Espriella, a far-right lawyer who has praised U.S. President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, beat Sen. Iván Cepeda, a member of outgoing President Gusta
Donald Trump's gay niece said on Sunday that her uncle's mental health is in a "downward spiral." Journalist Steven Beschloss asked Mary Trump about the president's ragged appearance at the recent G7 summit. "He appeared bloated and wandering in a daze. He seemed genuinely out of it," Beschloss said
Amazon MGM said that the film would be “better served” by a “different studio.”
When JD Vance signed on to be Donald Trump's running mate in 2024, he had to know what he was in for. After all, Trump stood by while an angry mob threatened to hang his last vice president, Mike Pence, (and reportedly expressed his support for the idea). But Vance must never have bet that his slavi
This is the future liberals want.
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 during the entire week," he says. The cruise marking the gay dad's 65th trip around the sun was eight day
With each passing day, Donald Trump further affirms his quest to become an authoritarian leader, this time by threatening to arrest a sitting governor amid clashes between the state and the federal government. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been speaking out against the Trump administration's
Two Florida cities are standing up to Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of their rainbow crosswalks by painting rainbow colors on two other highly visible public places. At the start of Pride month, St. Petersburg painted the steps of its city hall in the colors of the Progress Pride flag. Related City for
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 the bar's liquor licensing. The three-story B-Bob’s Bar in downtown Mobile shuttered with little wa
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 "in charge" of the country. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg summed up the reason why
I always look forward to Father's Day. But if I'm being honest, it's complicated. For me, and I suspect for many other LGBTQ+ parents, the day arrives as a mixed bag of celebration, uncertainty, and quiet questions. My husband and I observe it together with our kids, but one of us usually gets to en
I have spent the past eight years leading programs at Rainbow Railroad that support LGBTQI+ people fleeing persecution and violence. What began as a small, volunteer-led effort has grown over the past two decades into an international organization that has supported more than 50,000 people around th
Ragtops rock! For drivers looking to carve their own lane, the world already has enough sensible crossovers, minivans, and pickups. These three convertibles trade practicality for sunshine, wind, and the occasional wild-hair day. BMW Z4 $58,000 MPG: 25 city/33 highway 0 to 60 mph: 5.2 seconds Trunk
As Donald Trump continues his ego-driven efforts to secure a legacy both domestically and abroad, one columnist is calling out his endless failed attempts. "Trump sees himself as a strongman and wants the world to see him in the same way," wrote James Ball for The i Paper. "He thinks Congress and th
The 2026 Capital Pride Parade was held in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, June 20. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key, Robert Rapanut and Landon Shackelford) The post PHOTOS: 2026 Capital Pride Parade appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News.
By ANTONIO PLANAS | After a physical confrontation outside an early-voting site Thursday, local union leader Gino Renne filed an assault complaint against Del. Gabriel Acevero, who said he plans to do the same. Each accuses the other of starting the fight and throwing punches in an incident Thursday
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 decades. The Federal Trade Commission, now led by a Trump appointee, is suing the WPATH, saying that it
A teacher hired by a Florida school was forced by the superintendent to either resign or be fired (with no reason given) after only three weeks. Now, Shepherd Scalf is filing a discrimination complaint with the ACLU, alleging that the district thought he was trans because he’s intersex. “Receiving t
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 was approved by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) earlier this month and is expected to get a
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 said that it wasn't her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting her dog to death, a
The Republicans have been running a campaign to claim that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) is secretly a trans woman. While there wouldn’t be anything wrong with Talarico being trans, the Republicans clearly think there is. The attacks are based on transphobia and homophobia, but beyond that, th
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