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Years of scientific research have repeatedly debunked the conservative myth that transgender children are too young to have a solid understanding of their identity, showing that trans and cisgender kids actually develop their internal sense of gender at the same age. The consensu...
What Uncloseted's Investigation Found: Strength in Weakness (SIW) says it does not practice conversion therapy. But 24 former participants and people close to the ministry described teachings centered on suppressing LGBTQ identity and behavior through celibacy, heterosexual relat...
Earlier this year, out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and MAGA conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to years in prison for tampering with voting machines. And new evidence shows that the White House held a "brai...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the frontrunner in the race to become Florida's next governor, attacked the Democratic frontrunner repeatedly for his support of some trans rights. Arguing that Democratic frontrunner and former Rep. David Jolly isn't "a cultural fit for our state," Don...
As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research bri...
In Jane Schoenbrun’s filmography to date, characters have touched screens more than each other.In both We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, the hazy specter of computer monitors and boxy CRTs serve as fantastical portals with the capacity to both trap and tr...
A Russian LGBTQ advocacy group on Monday announced it will shut down after a court declared it an "extremist" organization. A St. Petersburg court in April in response to a Russian Justice Ministry lawsuit made the declaration against the Russian LGBT Network. "For many years, Ru...
Video taken late Saturday night shows Atlanta, Georgia police arresting Jen-Chase Daniels, co-owner of the lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, for a noise violation that she says actually came from Blackjack, a nearby bar with outdoor speakers. "We did nothing wrong tonight. We did not...
The left-leaning media outlet The Kansas Reflector mocked state Republican gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson for viewing drag queens as the state's "greatest threat ever," despite the fact that, during his time as a state senator, he allegedly helped kill an anti-drag bill. Th...
Transgender CIA agent Julia Curlee spent two decades in the agency, serving four presidents through three wars and travelling to 35 countries. She provided daily intelligence briefs to Vice President Mike Pence during President Donald Trump's first term, and worked for the first ...
Companies that maintained their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives performed better than those that removed them in the face of anti-DEI threats from the Trump administration, according to new research reported by The Guardian last Friday. The research's findings ...
Jen-Chase Daniels, the co-owner of Atlanta lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, said she was arrested on Saturday night for alleged noise violations that she says did not come from the business. According to testimony in an incident report by arresting Atlanta Police Department officer ...
A Wisconsin educator is suing his former school district for discrimination, alleging that several members of the district's board worked with anti-LGBTQ+ activists to fabricate a pretext to fire him because he is gay, going so far as to allegedly write an "anonymous" letter fals...
Ready to get your life together? Virgo season (August 23–September 23) is nearly here, and it’s exactly the cosmic cleanup we need after a hectic end to Leo season.Ruled by Mercury, the planet of mental processes, this practical earth sign notices everything. Its mental sharpness...
Resilience takes many forms for LGBTQ people and reveals itself in multiple ways. It comes to light in the long arc of history or in powerful shorter steps for progress. Pride is historically celebrated as a reflection of resilience and determination. For organizers of Prattville...
Bisexual Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho said there is a "trans genocide" currently happening in the US during her conversation on the August 12th installment of Black comedian W. Kamau Bell's podcast Who's With Me? The comedians began their discussion on trans issues by me...
If Pete Buttigieg isn't going to run for president, he's doing a really bad job hiding it. Buttigieg is out on the campaign trail, boosting his favored candidates, which is standard fare for any presidential wannabe at this stage of the game. What is different is that Buttigieg i...
A New Bedford, Massachusetts, police officer is under investigation after being accused of using a Flock Safety camera to track her ex-girlfriend’s movements, per the New Bedford Light. In a signed affidavit, the ex-girlfriend, who is not named in media reports, said she began re...
Barbara ("Boo") Easter Price, a pioneering figure in the women’s music movement, died Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Oakland, Calif. Price produced some of the earliest women’s music concerts as a new lesbian-feminist culture was taking shape, and was a driving force behind the Michigan Womy...
LGBTQ+ people were the only demographic in a recent poll that supported allowing trans people to compete on sports teams as their gender. In results just posted online from the Pew Research Center, 73% of American adults said that they were either "not too" or "not at all" comfor...
Hayden Panettiere, the actress who starred in beloved television shows such as Nashville and Heroes before joining the Scream franchise for two installments, died on Sunday. She was 36 years old. A representative for Panettiere confirmed the actress’s death and her father Skip Pa...
Sometimes, when you think you know what to expect from a movie, it doesn’t match those expectations. What do you do then? I’m not talking about the unmet expectations of fans, like those who complain that Kubrick’s “The Shining” made sweeping changes from Stephen King’s novel, or...
One day, Trump will leave office. T he right-wing minds that control his presidency will have less power, and we'll start dismantling the anti-trans scaffolding that his administration has built around society. When that day comes, some parts of society will heal faster than othe...
An unknown vandal knocked down and crushed a pro-LGBTQ+ display of rainbow-colored doors outside of the First Congregational Church of Fresno in California. While neighbors quickly restored the welcoming display, local police are searching for the vandal (but are not investigatin...
Trump administration cuts off CHIP and Medicaid funding for trans health care What happened: The administration implemented a new rule that bars the two joint federal-state programs that help provide health care to low-income families from covering gender-affirming care for trans...
A Florida newspaper last Wednesday criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed Attorney General James Uthmeier for telling the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops that their schools can't receive taxpayer-funded vouchers if they require vaccinations. "Apparently, Uthmeier believes ...
(Dedicated to the memory of Charles O. Howard, 1961-1984.) Over the years, we have lost a number of good people of all social identities to hate-related murder. This article that I wrote in summer 1994 for World: The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association seems as thou...
The Big Gay Flotilla, a gay informal annual meet-up slated for last Saturday in Long Beach, California, went on as planned, despite a deluge of death threats and homophobic online attacks, according to organizer Sal Flores. One man who posted a death threat was arrested days befo...
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New Hampshire Democratic state representative Alice Wade has spent her brief time in office pushing forward progressive policy points, often fighting against anti-transgender legislation such as bathroom restrictions and gender-affirming care bans since being elected in 2024. As ...
Two queer women directors, Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron, recently revealed that they turned down opportunities to direct episodes of HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series because of the transphobic views of its billionaire author J.K. Rowling. In an Instagram post posted yesterday...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.The Republican urged the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate allegations that medical i...
A fight over strategy against the Trump administration's denial of gender-affirming care for transgender youth erupted on Tuesday at a forum in Massachusetts, where a trans activist confronted the state's attorney general over not suing hospitals and clinics for ending the care. ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s son-in-law Michael Alfonso is running for office, but all the internet can talk about is his eyebrows.Alfonso just won the Republican primary in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, but instea...
One Million Moms (1MM) is upset over the latest commercial for the baked snack cracker Cheez-It because it features "offensive sexual innuendos with an extremely sensual message between two males." The ad, entitled "The Boyfriend," features a young woman who introduces her dad to...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a new report that claims that healthcare providers are mislabeling gender-affirming care to turn a fraudulent profit. The report, based on anti-trans assumptions and bias, is now being used as the basis for a fresh inve...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Larger, hairier gay men who felt excluded from mainstream gay culture and its obsession with smooth skin and a low body fat percentage formed their own community in the late 1970s and dubbed themselves “bears.”In the decades since, t...
A new report is proving once again that the tired conservative phrase “go woke go broke” has no truth behind it. Companies that kept their DEI policies in place, even after President Donald Trump put out an executive order in 2025 threatening companies that supported it, have sin...
Tyler Boebert, the son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), is such a bad parent that he's going to jail for it. But no one – least of all his mother – is going to question his legitimacy as a parent over it, even as these same people refuse to accept that queer people are the parents ...
A text message falsely stating that openly gay Florida state senator Shevrin Jones is living with HIV is now facing widespread condemnation — and possible litigation, per CBS News. Jones, who currently represents Florida’s 34th district in the state senate, is running in the Demo...
Rosie O’Donnell opened up this week about her struggle to remember her nonbinary child’s pronouns and the heartwarming lengths she’s gone to to remind herself. The actress, comedian, and television host was a guest on Tuesday’s episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, where sh...
TikTok has been abuzz this week with controversy surrounding Drew Afualo, a popular social media creator and podcast host known for her feminist content. Though her clips regularly go viral, often drawing adverse reactions from misogynistic men, this most recent controversy has p...
As part of an ongoing effort to celebrate the women and queer women reshaping media, GLAAD, in partnership with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), hosted Beyond the Spotlight: Women Shaping the Future of Media Mixer, a conversation and networking evening spotlighting leaders across e...
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who is running for US Senate this year against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D), called his opponent "masculine" when compared to Minnesota's current governor, Tim Walz. First, looking at Peggy Flanagan, she's just a more muscula- more masculine version of Tim W...
A bill that is being called the "most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill" in Indiana was passed by the state's Senate last week. S.B. 182 contains several provisions. First, it defines sex and gender in terms of reproductive organs and applies that definition to all laws in the state. Seco...
Out actor Neil Patrick Harris said in an interview published yesterday that he publicly came out as gay in a November 2006 statement to People magazine at the age of 33 in anticipation of online blogs potentially outing the then-young actor. Talking with Great Company, a videocas...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A transgender young person confronted Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell over why her office hasn’t sued hospitals denying gender-affirming care.During an interview on Boston Public Radio before a live audience at the Bos...
Fox News rolled out transgender MAGA cheerleader Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday to address the latest far-right trans controversy involving the Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham. Last month, Cunningham, the Fever's popular 6'1″ guard, sparked cheers among anti-trans MAGA types and a...
James Dale, the gay former Boy Scout whose landmark Supreme Court case established the organization’s First Amendment right to exclude him, has filed a second federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its relationship with Scouting America. The Aug. 3 lawsuit, which ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Trump’s handpicked board has devised a new way to put it back.The board voted Thursday to inscribe “Restored ...
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, said in an op-ed published yesterday that President Donald Trump "has not looked well" during his second term, adding, "We should know why." It's the second time Reiner has sounded the alarm about Trump's heal...
Creative Artists Agency, the mega Hollywood talent agency, is backing right-wing comedian Ben Bankas in his fight with a Minnesota comedy club. Laugh Camp in St. Paul canceled Bankas' three-night run following an offensive riff on Renee Good that went viral. Related Don Lemon's a...
Lilly Wachowski revealed that while her new movie, The Hunted, is in late-stage production, it has stalled because Hollywood executives are declining to fund the $10 million project. Wachowski says that's because the story about trans people features an extensive trans cast. "Peo...
Queer writer and director Ally Pankiw is showing that it’s pretty easy, actually, to not pursue work on the Harry Potter television series.In an Instagram post on August 13, the I Used to Be Funny director posted screenshots of a text exchange with an apparent member of her team,...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Minnesota Democrats chose a progressive ally over an LGBTQ+ history-maker Tuesday, handing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan victory against lesbian U.S. Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for U.S. Senate.Results showed Fl...
In the mid to late 1940s, my aunt Bea and her husband lived on an army base where my uncle was stationed. During Bea’s pregnancy, she developed a rash over her body. Her physician diagnosed her symptoms as an allergic reaction to having eaten strawberries. Within the next six mon...
Beloved actress Anne Hathaway, who is currently five months pregnant, is being “transvestigated” for showing off her nearly fully exposed baby bump on the red carpet. Yes, we had to read that twice also.At the August 9 Los Angeles premiere of The End of Oak Street, starring Hatha...
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) has apologized after a discussion of his voting record on trans issues with a group of fellow Democrats turned ugly this week. The congressman, who is up for reelection in November, spent Tuesday evening speaking to Democratic voters in Virginia's predo...
A federal judge dismissed Minnesota's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's stance that states and school districts can't allow trans kids to participate in sports. Minnesota was the only state challenging Donald Trump's "two sexes" executive order. Minnesota sued the Tr...
