LGBTQ News
Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) may have made a veiled threat to out anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for having sex with men, longtime gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile publicly suggested in his Substack post yesterday. While Moreno angrily swore at former White ...
A First Nation in Alberta, Canada has declared itself a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care amid the province's crackdown on providing such care to trans kids under 16. “All children, including trans and two-spirit children and their family, will have safety under our tr...
San Francisco's Chinatown doesn't just have some of the city's most unique markets, eateries, and architecture — it's also home to the OUT Museum, the word's first Chinese LGBTQ+ Museum. Opened in May, the free museum currently has a one-room exhibition space that is only open on...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.For nearly a year, LGBTQ+ students in one rural Virginia county watched the adults overseeing their education move the goalposts.Students at King George Middle School followed the rules to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance. The princ...
Russia has slapped the international travel site Booking.com with an approximately $70,000 fine (6 million rubles) for violating the country's so-called LGBT propaganda laws. The Tagansky district court of Moscow reportedly handed down two three-million-ruble fines to the company...
One does not have to be a certified clinical psychologist to witness the clearly obvious flaws of character of Donald John Trump. Even the casual spectator, whether or not a Trump supporter, can see his offensive style of communication, grievances and attacks against anyone and a...
Hard as it is to believe for those who were around when it happened, “Thelma and Louise” celebrates the 35th anniversary of its release this year. Deeply popular with both critics and audiences at the time, its reputation continues to ride high; it’s a movie that manages to exist...
The Swiss government says it supports a uniform, national ban on so-called conversion therapy, and it's moving ahead to consider federal legislation to outlaw the discredited practice. A report from the government published last week details a number of current national regulatio...
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. Our Good News Roundup is chock-full of stars this week — celebrities and politicians who are shining brigh...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) hired 25-year-old Stephen Woytek as his campaign's political director in August. Woytek's social media activity shows that he posted an image of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo, follows a group that reenacts Nazi military campaigns, ...
This week, Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico pulled a screeching U-turn on his support of trans people, retreating behind the concept of “fairness.” He went on Fox News to say, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness.” H...
Transgender action and sci-fi director Lilly Wachowski told Variety that fans of the magical kids' fantasy series Harry Potter are "supporting trans genocide" because it helps fund the anti-trans activism of the series' author JK Rowling. "She is funding trans genocide," Wachowsk...
The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care. In December 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the United Cons...
The Trans Filmmakers Summit (TFS) celebrates its fifth year at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, with legendary Beverly Glenn-Copeland, award-winning musician, composer and collaborator of Sam Smith, Blood Orange, Bon Iver, to receive the CMF Barrier Breaker Award. Th...
The bus at first looks unassuming, a black trailer you’d see at any old craft fair or farmers market. But like a mysterious wardrobe or rabbit hole, the doors open to something fantastical: lavender shelves, disco balls, brightly colored stickers, and rows and rows of queer books...
Lilly Wachowski, acclaimed co-director of films including The Matrix, Bound, and V For Vendetta, said in a new interview that supporting the Harry Potter franchise is akin to supporting genocide against transgender people.In an interview with Variety published today, Wachowski wa...
Officials with the U.S. State Department have removed a painting by out artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, which they have variously described as “very woke” and as depicting a lesbian picnic. The painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, was...
As part of its commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a federally operated program, released information during the past week showing it has awarded more than $18 billion to over 77,000 9/11 victims and th...
Backed into a rhetorical corner by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s escalating attacks ahead of the November midterm elections, Democrats are being advised to take a middle-of-the-road position on transgender athletes rather than ignore the issue entirely, per a new report in...
Seattle moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the tenth American city to adopt civil rights protections for polyamorous and other "nontraditional" relationships. A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council's Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee...
A GOP convention attendee in Dallas, Texas shouted, "He should be shot!" after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mentioned three pro-LGBTQ+ Democrats in his Thursday night speech. “A simple truth: When people tell you who they are, believe them: When [New York City Mayor] Mamdani says he want...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Twenty-five years after Father Mychal Judge died inside the World Trade Center, the life behind one of the day’s defining images still challenges the Catholic Church’s ideas about who may be holy.In the photograph, almost everything ...
Gillian Anderson, the 58-year-old American TV and film actress, came out as pansexual in a recent interview with The Australian, though she has previously discussed her past attraction to women. The interview's author Nikki Gemmell wrote “[Anderson] tells me she’s pan, as in pans...
Nicole DeBiase, a lesbian police officer in New Jersey, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the borough of Somerville and Police Chief Dennis Manning for alleged discrimination based on her sexual orientation. The married lesbian (whose sexual orientation was known to her employer ...
More than 250 protestors congregated outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City this week to challenge the hospital's recent agreement with President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ). In a move that protestors suggested was “bending the knee,” Mount Sinai agreed to permanen...
Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness,...
A remarkable 90% of LGBTQ+ organizations around the world have lost funding since January 2025, according to a new report released on Thursday from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Outright International. The report, entitled “Breaking Point: the Urgent Need to Invest in Global LGBTIQ M...
Republican lawmakers, including the president, went all-in on anti-transgender rhetoric on the first night of the party’s first-ever midterm convention — dubbed “Trumpapolooza” by some critics. President Donald Trump closed out day one of the event at the American Airlines Center...
As Next Gen NYC wraps its eventful season, Brooks Marks is entering an exciting new chapter that extends far beyond the screen. The Bravo reality series follows a new generation of young adults raised in the spotlight as they navigate careers, relationships, friendships and adult...
A gay UK couple is devastated after their campaign to change surrogacy laws in the country failed to convince Parliament to take action. Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett had their daughter, Leven, through a surrogate in the United States and, upon returning to the UK, faced countles...
‘Making Gay History, Memoir of a Scholar-Activist’By John D’EmilioDukeupress.edu/making-gay-history “Dear Dr. Kameny,” wrote the earnest graduate history student almost 50 years ago. “As you know, the academic community only rarely deemed the lives of gay men and women to be wort...
Many in the LGBTQ community in the D.C. area and throughout the country were expected to join friends, co-workers, and family members this week in commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and on t...
American singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Parton died last month. Parton’s death was announced by the family with a tribute video in which her nephew Bryan Seaver noted that her final wish was to rest in a “beautiful bed of plush cotton” so that she could finally be comfortabl...
Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee voted unanimously to further a bill that would extend civil rights protections to people in non-traditional relationship structures at a Wednesday afternoon meeting, council member Alexis Mercedes Rinck confirmed in ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign has apparently decided that James Talarico’s real words are insufficient for its purposes. So it has manufactured new ones.The Republican U.S. Senate nominee released an artificial intelli...
Gillian Anderson being part of the LGBTQ+ community is not a revelation. As long ago as 2012, the X-Files star told Out magazine that she was once in relationships with other women, and has spoken intermittently about feeling sexually fluid since then. But in a new interview with...
A new report that Outright International released on Thursday notes 90 percent of LGBTQ and intersex rights groups around the world have lost funding since January 2025. The New York-based global advocacy group surveyed 229 LGBTQ and intersex rights groups in 94 countries. Forty-...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is currently running for reelection, has been called out for photoshopping a trans Pride flag into an ad released by his opponent, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D). The original ad, posted by Hinojosa, involved a video of the candidate spea...
Transgender model and disavowed daughter of Elon Musk, Vivian Jenna Wilson, is starring in a well-timed campaign for Desigual, the "not the same" Barcelona-based fashion brand. The campaign's tagline: "Born to Disobey." Related "A fighting chance": Trans rights are in the balance...
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...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), who’s running for the US Senate, said in a Fox News interview aired on Wednesday evening, "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness." Talarico has previously voted against an anti-trans sports bill, s...
Trans and nonbinary Broadway fanatics can all breathe a deep sigh of relief, because the Trans Voices Cabaret is back for another show on Saturday, September 19 at the Caveat in New York City’s Lower East Side, jam-packed with a variety of talented performers that span a range of...
NEW YORK — On Tuesday evening, over 250 protestors gathered outside of Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to condemn the hospital system for settling with the Trump administration last week, agreeing to permanently cease providing gender-affirming care to transge...
It goes without saying that Carly Rae Jepsen is a capital-A ally to the queers. From performing at Capital Pride in DC as early as 2015 to donating to The Trevor Project, she’s made it absolutely clear where she stands. And on an artistic level, her perfectly crafted melodic tune...
Gloria Steinem was an icon, a feminist, a woman of substance and consequence. A rare person who made a difference her entire life; sometimes quietly, sometimes by making noise. She was an incredibly beautiful woman, inside and out. I heard of Gloria Steinem and admired her for al...
A federal judge ruled last Friday that the ex-wife of bisexual former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)'s former male bodyguard can sue Sinema for “willfully and intentionally” breaking up her marriage of 14 years under North Carolina's homewrecker law. Last week, the Associated Press r...
Numerous Democratic midterm candidates have previously made anti-trans statements or voted for anti-trans legislation. Trans journalist Erin Reed published a list yesterday of these candidates and advised her followers not to vote for them, lest their victories convince the Democ...
Grindr has reached a settlement in a UK lawsuit filed in 2024 accusing the dating app of breaking UK privacy laws. It will pay plaintiffs £26 million (~$35 million) over allegations that Grindr shared app users’ sensitive information – including their ethnicity, sexual orientatio...
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...
An Indiana prosecutor will not press charges against the woman who called in an anonymous false report alleging out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a danger to his young twins. The report led to Buttigieg being temporarily separated from his children while an i...
The Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention kicks off today in Dallas, Texas with the goal of rallying MAGA voters to the polls this November. But according to CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, the party has completely missed the mark on who it needs to reach. Enten...
I remember how devastated I was in November 2024 when I woke up to find that Donald Trump had won a second term in the White House. I spent that week commiserating with others. I built a life surrounded by people who care about equal rights, peace, democracy, and the planet, only...
After 20 years in the Army, Master Sergeant Amiah Sale's future hangs in the balance. The Trump administration has made it a mission to purge all transgender service members from the military, but as the trans military ban makes its way through the courts, some service members, l...
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Jennifer Sey had been waiting for an athlete like Sophie Cunningham. Related What the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about the state of MAGA Sey, the founder of XX-X...
Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.24 million) to settle a lawsuit in the UK over allegations it shared users' HIV status and other personal information with third parties. The BBC on Monday reported a lawsuit was filed in the High Court of England and Wales in 2024. A cla...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy are awarding a total of $10 million in grants in the 2027 fiscal year to nonprofit organizations that work to prevent hate crimes in the state. The funds will be used to support those who feel target...
When Native American Two-Spirit Hosteen Klah first met transcendental religious scholar Mary Cabot Wheelwright, he likely had no idea their friendship would help establish a museum to preserve his culture for over 100 years. Sadly, he died right before its opening, but its existe...
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...
New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas on Tuesday won the Democratic primary in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in the U.S. Senate. Pappas defeated Karishma Manzur, who was his primary challenger, by a 61.8-36.1 percent margin. The gay congressman w...
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for their role as "ringleaders" in the brutal early 2025 torture and killing of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist. During the sentencing, Nordquist's mother and sister spoke, and Arzuaga ...
