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The WNBA has commented on the growing number of outsiders trying to use the league’s gender eligibility policies to stir up controversy. Following news that two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom, plan to register for the WNBA draft by simply saying they iden...
A third GOP candidate who had Donald Trump's endorsement just lost his primary race this week, which led some commentators to point out that Trump's influence on the party is waning. "Mike Lindell falling short in Minnesota is a HUGE embarrassment to Trump after his endorsement,"...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is getting called out for her "psychotic episode" in an airport by a former GOP congressman who she joked was transgender. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was on Fox News discussing next year's midterm elections when he brought up Mace, saying tha...
For much of my adult life, people have assumed they know my politics before I open my mouth. As a transgender man writing for an LGBTQ publication, many assume I fit neatly into one political camp. The truth is more complicated. I have long felt politically centrist. I believe de...
Content Warning: This story contains descriptions of fatal violence against a transgender woman.On the evening of August 5, Juju Nadeau was walking with friends along Back Cove Trail, a wooded path wedged between the water and Interstate 295 in Portland, Maine. As an avid urban e...
Washington DC Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay $252,479.70 to jazz musician Chuck Redd within 45 days because the Center's former president, gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, baselessly tried to sue...
Republican Jadon MacCormack, a Connecticut State House candidate who literally wants to execute all LGBTQ+ people, decisively lost his primary race last night against his competitor, Anthony Emilio. MacCormack won only 90 votes, less than 20% of the total votes cast for both cand...
Anti-LGBTQ+ and MAGA Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (R) spoke at the recent Signs & Wonders Christian conference alongside homophobic pastors and a self-described ex-gay man who raped two 15-year-old boys. Bailey — who said in a 2025 interview that schoolchildren ...
The Central European nation of Slovakia rejected a gay couple's attempt to have their marriage registered, possibly setting up a clash with the European Union (EU). Ivan Novotný and Metod Špaček, who are both Slovak, got married in Austria in 2020. Both nations are EU member stat...
Set in the glitzy Hollywood Hills of 1981, Bret Easton Ellis' semi-autobiographical thriller The Shards has just about everything one would want from a Ryan Murphy series. The acts of violence are mysterious, the teens are poreless, everyone is oversexed. It comes as no surprise ...
The Democratic primary for a seat in Congress representing parts of the Miami area got ugly on Tuesday when voters received a campaign text message smearing the leading candidate with an accusation that he is HIV positive. Shevrin Jones, Florida's first out Black state senator, i...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Eugene Vindman came to a predominantly Republican Virginia county Tuesday night expecting to tell local Democrats why they needed to help him win reelection and put their party back in control of Congress. Instead, the first-ter...
Most Americans are uncomfortable with two things: transgender athletes and science. According to polling data shared this week by the Pew Research Center in light of the current debate around the WNBA, a majority of Americans (73%) say that they are uncomfortable with the idea of...
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary for the Senate in Minnesota, as progressive Democrats continue to clinch nominations across the country. On Tuesday night, NBC News called the race for Flanagan, who received 59.0% of the state’s Democratic primary vote, while he...
Newly confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 50 to 49, Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche has carte blanche to turn the Department of Justice from justice for We the People to just us, the Trump family. The Department of Justice, while falling within the Executive b...
The Trump administration has released a finalized version of a new rule that will bar federal insurance, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), from covering gender-affirming care for trans youth. CHIP is a joint federal-state health insurance program that prov...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.It’s been just about a month since U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced his plan for the “High-T” Department of War, which he says includes giving testosterone replacement therapy, known as TRT, to cisgender troops deemed...
Two anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic schools in Colorado will get their case heard at the Supreme Court on November 3, the Court announced on Monday. St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood, Colorado, along with two parents and the Archdiocese of ...
Gay D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Donohue on Aug. 11 filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court charging that D.C. police acted improperly and violated a local law by not paying him $30,000 in reward money for his role in helping police identify and arrest — and obtain ...
The flags in the film community are flying at half mast today after news that Superman actor Nicholas Hoult has been cast in the already greenlit second season of the upcoming HBO-produced Harry Potter remake series.Hoult will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the second season of the up...
A former Trump official's speech about how Christian nationalists will "impose" their religion on everyone in the U.S. is getting attention online. William Wolfe served as both the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a Director of Legislative Affairs at the State Department...
During Pride month this year, the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective (DSGC) announced plans for The Collective, which will become Delaware’s first LGBTQIA+ visitor center and Wilmington’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ space in nearly 40 years. “We’ve been talking about the conce...
Written down on paper, the world of One Night Only is a harrowing one. A conservative government and an opportunistic tech industry have colluded to implant mandatory biochips in people’s wrists that surveil their sexual activity, with carceral consequences for anyone who does th...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in a Pennsylvania case where the adminsitration sought access to the private medical records of transgender children. In a short motion, the DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a l...
As transgender sports policy continues to make headlines, two former NBA players are attempting to use vague WNBA wording on players’ gender identity to extend their finished professional sports careers. Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, two male former professional basketball...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration has finalized a rule cutting off Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for gender-affirming medical care for transgender young people, turning the federal government’s financial leverage ov...
The manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas reportedly screamed and rushed children out of the women's restroom and changing area on August 8 after three self-described “bearded, burly” transgender men wearing yellow “Compliance Crew” t-shirts followed ...
New court documents reveal a gay couple in Denver was the victim of a road rage shooting in the city. The men were called an anti-gay slur and other derogatory comments before the suspect shot one of them in the head. Police later arrested Jacob Sifuentez, who has been charged wi...
"Proud transphobe" Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) started screaming uncontrollably on the House floor today after LGBTQ+ ally Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) gave a speech in support of gender-affirming care, which Mace is trying to ban with an amendment in a military spending bill. Jacobs prese...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The son of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican, now faces child exploitation charges.The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office announced that Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested on charges including sexual exploitation of a child and s...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Fox News host Tomi Lahren wrote yesterday that the “GOP is an utter embarrassment,” citing rising cost-of-living amid the Republican Party’s continued support of the president’s war in Iran. “Let’s be frank about it, some Americans are turning to socialism because Rep...
Wes Streeting, the gay former-health secretary of the United Kingdom who extended the country's indefinite ban on gender-affirming care for youth, was appointed to a new role as Defense Secretary last month. He is now opening up about the massive uptick in homophobic abuse he has...
Retired professional basketball players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White recently announced that they plan to identify as women — at least within the sport of basketball — in order to enter the WNBA draft. After people criticized the pair for pulling an obvious publicity stunt...
On Sunday August 9th, GLAAD, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted a panel at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAFF) exploring how film and visual storytelling can shape culture, influence perception, and expand what is possible for Black LG...
A bar in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, was fined twice for anti-trans discrimination this past month after a state commission found that the bar not only banned a trans woman from using the women's restroom but also selectively scanned people's IDs at the door with a policy that targ...
The public prosecutor’s office in Senegal confirmed Friday that 71 men were arrested and charged with “unnatural acts,” Africa News reports. Twenty-eight other men were arrested but had their charges dropped. The announcement comes several months after the Muslim-majority West Af...
London is a historic city with no end of monumental sights to see: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge. Now add to that list Greta Lee and Rebecca Ferguson being kissy kissy for a new movie. Footage from the filming of a new movie starring Past Lives star Greta Lee and Dune...
India's Income Tax Department has opposed a same-sex couple’s petition that challenges Section 56(2)(x) of the Income Tax Act. The provision exempts gifts between spouses from tax. The couple seeks the same benefit for their relationship. At the center of the challenge is the exp...
Residents of Rehoboth Beach elected City Commissioner Susan Stewart with 61% of the vote on Aug. 8, making her the city’s first openly gay mayor. Stewart beat fellow commissioners Craig Their and Suzanne Goode in the race, as well as newcomer Jake Raak. The final mayoral vote res...
For the past few weeks, the right has been mounting a crusade against trans women in the WNBA. It started with Sophie Cunningham's comments in a July 21 interview and has grown into a full moral panic, with a growing list of prominent conservatives expressing their opposition to ...
Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sworn in as attorney general of the United States on Monday. Blanche secured the position as the country’s 88th chief law enforcement officer on Sunday night after a contentious Senate confirmation process, ultimately en...
This story originally appeared on Out.Editor's note: Major spoilers ahead for the season 3 finale of House of the Dragon.After finally sleeping with Mysaria, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen woke up and chose violence — because she had to.Two seasons of longing looks, one very memorable ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration is abandoning its effort to obtain sensitive medical records from transgender young people who received gender-affirming care at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, bringing one of its most aggressive leg...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) — a MAGA congresswoman who has repeatedly accused LGBTQ+ people and their supporters of "grooming" children for sexual abuse — has a 21-year-old son who, as of today, has been charged with three felony counts related to sexual exploitation of a child. H...
Two San Francisco bars recently discontinued their use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-powered facial recognition and surveillance technology that uses cameras and scanners to collect patrons' personal data, including an image of their face and government-issued ID as well as their n...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Delaware bar has been fined a second time for discriminating against a transgender woman.The owner of Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille was fined $15,000 by the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission, according to the Delaware News J...
After a nearly four-year legal battle, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha became the first same-sex couple to be civilly married in the South American country of Bolivia. Despite these women's recent wedding, the country's constitution still forbids same-sex marriages. Nevertheles...
Bel Powley, a star of the forthcoming HBO Max Harry Potter television series, is making it clear that she does not share J.K. Rowling’s famously transphobic views. Powley will play Petunia Dursley in the adaptation, set to stream on December 25 of this year. Despite having a love...
Texan Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who is currently running for U.S. Senate, is touting the latest details of his “detransition clinic.” First agreed to back in May, he says that the settlement that arose from his investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital’s gender-affirmin...
What is at stake for you in the 2026 midterms? What do you think the election could do to change the direction of our country? How has the politics of the last two years affected you personally? And what are you doing to make a difference this year? The September Issue of LGBTQ N...
Two former NBA players have declared themselves eligible for the WNBA’s 2027 draft amid attention being drawn to how the league does not have eligibility requirements for trans players. On Friday, former New York Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom posted a statement and video on X...
Abdul El-Sayed's victory over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the battle to be Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee has been classified as a battle between the progressive and moderate wings of the party. A lot of the coverage was viewed through the prism of the party establishment,...
By Shar Jossell As a contemporary figurative artist and member of GLAAD's 2026 Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative (EMEI) cohort, Jah Beverly creates large-scale oil paintings that center Black trans-masculine bodies with intention, power, and unapologetic presence. Beve...
This story is a collaboration between Them and The Advocate.Taylor Snider says dealing with high-profile clientele was nothing new for her by 2015. She had been a sex worker for nearly seven years at that point, and was accustomed to being paid for her time and discretion. She te...
After two male basketball players publicly declared that they will identify as women only to qualify for the WNBA draft, the women’s professional sports league will soon hold meetings to clarify its language about gender eligibility. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a note ...
In what appeared to be a moment of misspeaking, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) said in a recent congressional speech, "How about we all come together and say 'Let's stop attacking pedophiles’?" During a congressional hearing on the current president's actions addressin...
Donald Trump has appeared in public with strange bruises on his hands for over a year now, but a photo taken this weekend at a golf tournament showed that they're spreading up his arm, and people are concerned. "Trump is known for suspicious bruising, usually it’s the president’s...
Out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was astounded by the energy a top Democratic member of Congress brought to defending Social Security, the retirement insurance program that the Trump administration has set its sites on eliminating. House Democrats wanted to call Elon Musk, who was th...
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...
He’s played a pygmy hippo, a Chinese spy balloon, disgraced f ormer congressman George Santos, and the iceberg hit by the Titanic. Next month, Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live alum Bowen Yang will make his Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in the fictional historical comedy O...
