LGBTQ News
James “Jim” Bedore, an international affairs specialist whose career included work for the U.S. Department of State and as a private sector consultant in Europe with a focus on Middle Eastern and African development before his retirement in 2000, died on Sept. 2 at his home in D....
Public schools banned nearly 12,000 books during the 2025-2026 school year, according to a new report released from PEN America, a group dedicated to freedom of expression for writers. That represents the highest number of bans in a single year since PEN started tracking them in ...
Virginia advocacy groups have launched a campaign that urges the Virginia High School League to once again allow student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. Equality Arlington on Sept. 16 published an article about the “Right 2 Play VA”...
Two women sit on a bed, a Pride flag hanging behind them. One is nervous; the other tells her to be calm and that she’ll do “all the work.” The music swells. The two hold hands and — fill out a ballot voting for Steve Hilton? This is the new advertisement from the Hilton gubernat...
President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur against Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews on Monday as he sought to rally support for Republicans in the state’s Senate race. In a post on Truth Social, Trump attacked Andrews three times, referring to her as “...
A year after Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital ended its gender-affirming care program for transgender youth, researchers from the same institution have released a study measuring the negative impacts of anti-transgender legislation on the health of trans people in the U....
Speaker Laurie Jinkins, the first woman and first lesbian Speaker of the House in Washington state, is speaking out about two ballot measures up for a vote right now in her state that endanger the health and safety of all girls and other vulnerable youth. Ballot measure 638, now ...
On the October 5 episode of Behind the Table, a podcast in which hosts of ABC’s talk show The View recount the week’s episodes by taking a closer look at the stories covered — current co-host and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin revealed that her close friend and sorority s...
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham remains at the center of a culture war around transgender participation in women’s sports. But since the publication of her consequential July profile with ESPN, in which she said she opposed trans inclusion because she wanted to “protect you...
(Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 contribution to the D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout the week at bit.ly/DCHCRP.) A decision by President Trump’s administration to...
Everyone really does watch women’s sports. According to a new report in the Sports Business Journal, the WNBA shattered its attendance record in 2026, drawing 3.79 million fans to games this season — a 20% year-over-year increase.SBJ attributes this record-breaking high in part t...
The Real Housewives of New York City has always been known for its vibrant personalities and unforgettable moments, but season 16 brings a refreshing, ground-breaking layer of representation to our screens. Among the newest cast members stepping into the spotlight is publicist an...
Despite Washington State’s strong Democratic leaning, having voted blue in every presidential election since 1988, recent polling data suggests that an anti-transgender sports ban on the ballot this November is more viable than the state’s progressive reputation might suggest.Thi...
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning to allocate $8.9 million to healthcare nonprofits in the city to provide gender-affirming care services to patients under 18. The move comes in light of several major hospital systems in the metropolis ceasing ...
If you were ever hoping for more queer masculine representation in media à la King of Drag, look no further than Tom Thailand, the country’s first ever national pageant for “toms,” a culturally specific term for masc-of-center lesbians, transmascs, and trans men.. The months-long...
The job of parents has always been to keep their children as safe as possible, but what happens when an entire presidential administration has made your family the target of its political animus? For parents of transgender children, this question isn’t a hypothetical nightmare sc...
As the U.S. midterm elections approach, a new survey is shedding light on what’s motivating younger LGBTQ+ voters.According to data from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, gathered online by the research company Verasight, Gen Z voters — defined as being currently ...
A reelection advertisement created by a Republican super PAC in support of Ohio Senator Jon Husted misleads viewers into thinking that a young person’s gender transition was somehow Democratic opponent Sherrod Brown’s fault due to failed state-level policies. There’s only one pro...
Posts featuring a drag queen landed Austin, Texas-based gay bar Rain on 4th in hot water with social media company Meta, leading to their account being deleted, per a new report. Scott Neal, the president of Rain on 4th and a managing member of Oilcan Harry’s, another queer bar, ...
It was a slam dunk. University of South Carolina Salkehatchie men’s basketball coach Matt Lynch announced on social media that he is engaged to his partner, Cody Aaron. “Lifetimes,” Lynch wrote alongside a carousel of images of the proposal. See on Instagram Lynch is the only out...
Actor Elliot Page is in lockstep with the Gender Liberation Movement to stand up and fight for transgender youth. On Tuesday, September 23, the award-winning actor joined crowds of trans people and allies rallying outside of NYU Langone Health in New York City, protesting the hos...
Freedom Fest — a MAGA event featuring 55-year-old anti-LGBTQ+ musician Kid Rock — has been canceled after selling just six $1,000 VIP tickets to the otherwise free event. The event was set to feature 68-year-old US House candidate Ed Gallrein (R-KY), 54-year-old Rep. James Comer ...
An AI-generated political ad released on September 15 targets Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) by insinuating that he's feminine. It's just the latest ad using misogyny and homophobic innuendo to attack a young progressive Democrat. In the 30-second ad, a woman at a beauty salon says of th...
Advocates, public health experts, and healthcare providers gathered for the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS on Sept. 17 in Anaheim, Calif. The conference is the largest of its kind in the nation and came amid a wave of new challenges for HIV research and treatment. Since the...
A new poll found that Pete Buttigieg is the most popular likely 2028 presidential candidate among Democratic voters and the second most popular person Democrats were asked about overall, more popular than Mr. Rogers. The poll, conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics for th...
Over the weekend, California Governor Gavin Newsom went on a bill-vetoing spree. Among those that he shot down was a bill that prevented California from extraditing patients or providers as part of another state’s investigations into gender-affirming or reproductive care. “I am r...
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...
Bisexual Awareness Week is upon us and what an amazing time of year it is! The crisp winds of fall are beginning to blow; Libra season is nigh; and bisexuals everywhere are rejoicing — and if you’re not bi yourself, you should still be celebrating, too!As the largest contingent o...
A new video game based on Marvel Comics’ X-Men characters has been censored to remove references to LGBTQ+ content for its release in the Middle East, according to fans in the region. Over the weekend, players on social media began sharing screenshots and video clips from Marvel’...
Imagine this. Huge, beefy men are tumbling over each other, a mess of biceps, calves, and thighs, slick with sweat, bodies glistening, hair wet and plastered to their faces and necks. If you thought I was describing a heated gay sex scene, you’d be wrong. I’m actually referring t...
Uncloseted Media published this story on Sept. 22. By EMMA PAIDRA | Claire, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, distinctly remembers the night she and her ex-girlfriend broke up. “She was strangling me in a CVS parking lot,” Claire recalls, adding how she was gasping for air as b...
The internet went wild with excitement earlier this month after news broke that out pop star Lady Gaga welcomed her first child with her fiancé, venture capitalist Michael Polansky. Their daughter, Rose Bean Polansky, was reportedly born on June 9 at 11:19 pm. And now, TMZ report...
Donald Trump's attack on the free press is already backfiring. The president held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new White House helicopter pad on Monday, and because no one from the press pool was there to provide microphones, no one could hear him speak. Trump recently banne...
In the fight for trans rights and against a pair of draconian ballot initiatives in Washington State, a grassroots campaign is confronting not only the toxic effects of the Trump administration's crusade against trans people, but the deep pockets of the MAGA billionaire who's spo...
Tensions between pro- and anti-trans protestors escalated in Portland, Oregon, over two weeks after a group of people wearing anti-trans shirts was asked to leave The Sports Bra, a women's sports bar. The Sports Bra has stood by its decision, saying in a statement at the time tha...
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is coor...
A man was arrested in New York City, deported to Guyana, and remanded to prison on Monday on charges related to a decade-old murder of a gay sex worker named Noel Luther. Luther was shot in the chest in the South American nation's capital, Georgetown, on July 22, 2015, and Guyane...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-trans slur while delivering a speech to college students this past Saturday. This is at least the third time he has used this slur in a public setting while the Trump administration attempts to argue in court that the trans military ban...
Past the first checkpoint to get into the White House, multiple carts filled with camera equipment sat along a fence. Wagons loaded with tripods, cables, mics, and cameras sat just past where they normally would be working at full power. Today, they were turned off and packed awa...
In the first episode of Buffy’s seventh season, titled “Lessons,” Spike is going mad in the basement of the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High when he gets a lecture from the season’s still-ruminating Big Bad. To deliver the speech, The First inhabits each of Buffy’s central nemeses fr...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert denied having same-sex relationships and castigated the media covering an ethics complaint alleging she had relationships with staffers in a video she posted to social media on Sunday.“I hate to spoil t...
This story originally appeared on Out.A deluge of internet memes flooded social media over the weekend as news broke that Rep. Lauren Boebert was accused of having a sexual relationship with staffers she supervised, some of whom were women.The accusations came to light after a co...
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL 9000, the fictional homicidal computer in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is just one example in science fiction of an artificial intelligence (AI) that outsmarts and takes control of its human developers and...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Major hospital systems in New York and Pennsylvania have struck deals with the Justice Department that carry steep financial penalties and keep gender-affirming services closed to minors.NYU Langone Health will pay the department $8....
Pete Buttigieg skewered Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Saturday while delivering the keynote speech at a Texas Democratic Party event in Dallas. "A lot of people believed him when he said he was going to drain the swamp," Buttigieg said. "And then we wake up to see bill...
Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the beloved Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," denounced trans rights while promoting their new album, claiming the movement for equality is merely "the Left losing their collective mind...
The executive director of the world’s oldest LGBTQ Catholic organization has announced she will retire once her successor has been chosen. Marianne Duddy-Burke has been with DignityUSA for more than four decades. She has been the group’s executive director since 2007. DignityUSA ...
A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men's prisons, overturning a lower court's ruling earlier this year. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unani...
Social media screenshots and video seem to indicate that copies of the game Marvel’s Wolverine sent to countries in the Middle East included redacted and heavily altered references to Mystique’s same-sex relationship and marriage with crime boss Tyger Tiger, per a report in Kotak...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) – known for her outspoken advocacy against LGBTQ+ people's rights – is facing a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee claiming that, among other things, she had sexual relationships with two women and one man whom she supervised and paid one o...
If you want to see how the Democratic Party's muddled messaging on transgender issues, look no further than Ohio. There, two Democratic candidates have taken dramatically different approaches on how to deal with GOP anti-trans attacks. The worse strategy of the two comes from Rep...
In a hearing convened by Canada's Alberta Human Rights Tribunal on Monday, the lawyer for an anti-transgender advocate in the small town of Westlock (90 miles north of Edmonton), argued that a flyer distributed by her client calling on residents to protest the installation of a r...
WNBA star and longtime trans advocate Brianna Turner is furious that the league has become the center of the debate over trans athletes. “I hate being used as something to dismantle the rights of trans people,” she told Them earlier this week, emphasizing that the anti-trans move...
This story was originally published by LOOKOUT, a nonprofit newsroom serving LGBTQ+ communities in the Southwest. Hotel Bamy in Equatorial Guinea is not a prison, but Pietro Graza hasn’t been able to leave for weeks. He has been held captive in the semi-abandoned luxury hotel in ...
One of the biggest headaches of the new home process is the actual moving part. By the time someone is buying a home, most people are beyond the “I just need a pickup truck, a pizza and a case of beer for my friends.” If that is still someone’s preferred way to move, that’s great...
Despite a U.S. political climate that has made electric vehicles about as welcome as a vegan at a Texas barbecue, automakers haven’t gotten the memo. The 2027 BMW iX3 and Rivian R2—in showrooms soon—prove the point. But think of them as distant cousins: one arrives impeccably dre...
The Tennessee Christian Preparatory School in Cleveland will have to pay gay teenager Morgan Armstrong $10,000 in a settlement approved on Monday, after the school blocked her from graduating and withheld her diploma after she came out on Facebook. On April 23, 2025, Armstrong po...
The United States treats trans kids poorly. State legislatures and school boards are instituting bans on appropriate inclusion in school sports, the right to use the correct bathroom, and access to gender-affirming care. We have evidence and research on both the short- and long-t...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Lauren Boebert is publicly refuting a complaint filed with the House Committee on Ethics on September 17 which alleged that the Colorado congresswoman had sexual relationships with three staffers she supervised, including two wo...
Caitlyn Jenner appeared on Tomi Lahren's Fox Nation podcast this week to "break her silence" with an hour of slurred rambling. During the interview, she mentioned that, due to Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders, her passport now says she's male, curtailing her ability to ...
