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The so-called “MAGA Barbie” of the WNBA and the Fifth-Place Avenger have made contact. WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, a guard for the Indiana Fever, was seen hanging out and posing for photos with NCAA swimmer and anti-trans crusader Riley Gaines at a Sunday away game between the...
The Tennessee legislature has passed the Charlie Kirk Act, which, if signed by Gov. Bill Lee (R), will ban public institutions of higher education from preventing people with bigoted views from speaking on campus. Moreover, it will also punish students who speak out against campu...
No one that Donald Trump would chose to be attorney general was going to be any good. Case in point: Pam Bondi, Trump's first attorney general. Bondi brought a long history of anti-LGBTQ+ animus to the job, only to be unceremoniously canned over her handling of the release of fil...
AMSTERDAM — Madonna on Sunday headlined the final night of the World Pride Music Festival in Amsterdam. The gay icon took the stage shortly before 2:30 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m. ET on Saturday) during Club Confessions, a set that MISTR, a telehealth platform that offers free acc...
Madly talented and preternaturally energetic, Reggie D. White, 38, is about to launch his first season as artistic director of D.C.’s boundary-pushing Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. White brings a lot to the job. As actor, playwright, and director, his varied resume includes a 2...
Stonewall uprising veteran Stormé DeLarverie and her wife Diana met in 1943 at Smalls’ Paradise, a 24-hour nightclub in Harlem. Stormé — a "stone butch gay woman" in the words of their "gay daughter," trans singer Christy Henderson Jenkins — went on to be the "male impersonator" ...
A typically queer-friendly fashion brand is ending its Harry Potter-inspired line after customer backlash, considering Harry Potter creator JK Rowling uses her money to fund anti-trans initiatives. The California-based Unique Vintage not only announced a new Harry Potter collecti...
Amy Paris worked for the federal government in various critical capacities for the past 10 years. She was critical to helping the Biden administration implement trans-inclusive policies and most recently served as deputy digital services lead in the Department of Health and Human...
From Riley Gaines to Sophie Cunningham, athletes seem ready to weigh in on trans inclusion in sports as reliable sources, but too often it seems they have never looked beyond simple scaremongering and right-wing talking points. The same problem, at its core, is affecting all aspe...
A gay couple's decades-long love story has gone viral after being featured on the popular social media account @meetcutesnyc. The couple, Allen and Tony, were featured in an on-the-street interview in which they shared that they've been together for 53 years, having met on a tenn...
A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign for Jonathan Ross — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Good, a queer mother of three — has raised nearly $500,000 as of Monday evening. GoFundMe has said it's "reviewing" whether the campaign violates its own poli...
1 person killed in terrorist attack on Berlin Pride What happened: Abdul Ballout, a German citizen who was a supporter of the Islamic State (ISIL), drove a rented van into the Tiergarten in Berlin on the last day of the city's Christopher Street Day celebrations, killing one pers...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key are on assignment in the Netherlands through Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of thousands of people lined Amsterdam’s canals on Saturday for the city’s annual Amsterdam Pride Canal Parade. Dutch...
Nonbinary music artist Sam Smith announced their engagement on Tuesday in an interview with the New York Times. Smith told the Times "with a giddy smile" that they are engaged to fashion designer Christian Cowan and explained that their new album – Hazel Eyes, which will be relea...
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...
As former Biden White House Press Secretary and current host of MS Now’s prime time host Jen Psaki read and posted the banner headline from the New York Times, I was sent into traumatic shock. It brought back all the horrors I heard about my Polish family after their torture and ...
A TikTok influencer has delighted the internet with a video describing why he believes "lesbians are an elevated form of the human race." Steve Watson, who goes by That Steve Guy on social media, detailed a night at his lesbian neighbors' house after they invited him and his wife...
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Poland’s top court this week rejected the recognition of same-sex marriages legally performed in other EU countries. The EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg last November ruled in favor of a same-sex couple who challenged Poland’s refusal to recognize their German marriage. Poland’...
This story originally appeared on Out.Gregg Araki found the spark for I Want Your Sex in an unlikely place: a statistic about Gen Z's dwindling sex lives.Directed and co-written by Araki, along with co-writer Karley Sciortino, the erotic comedy centers on the sexual relationship ...
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner is now separated from her wife, Cherelle, and wants a divorce, according to court records filed in Atlanta on Thursday and first reported by TMZ.Attorney Cherelle Griner of Atlanta stood by her wife when she was sentenced to nine years in a Russian ...
I’ve been obsessed with the premise of One Night Only since the first time I watched the trailer. Of course, I’ve since been subjected to that trailer approximately 500 times, as has anyone who has been to the movies in the past few months. But I remain seated for what will surel...
As much as I loved The Odyssey, one thing it wasn’t was homoerotic. I would really have to do quite a lot of imaginative labor to write fan fiction about Matt Damon’s Odysseus and Himesh Patel’s Eurylochus being together romantically. Maybe they’d get stranded on an island togeth...
In May, right-wing media blasted a small Trans Period Pride event sponsored by the Massachusetts National Organization for Women (Mass NOW) and the MA Trans Political Coalition aimed at creating community for trans people who menstruate. The backlash was so intense the organizers...
A New Jersey high school reached a settlement with the family of Myles Fitzpatrick, a trans teen who took his own life in 2022 after serial harassment by classmates and the alleged failure of school staff to acknowledge his distress or stop the bullying, My Central Jersey reports...
The LGBTQ organization Lambda Legal held its annual "Lambda Legal in the Pines" fundraiser on Saturday, July 25. The event was held at a house on Fire Island featured in Ryan Murphy's 2014 HBO film, "The Normal Heart." Organizers say over $500,000 was raised to support Lambda Leg...
Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday establishing a "religious liberty commission" at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and present strategies to eliminate "threats to domestic religious liberty." During his comments on the order, Trump said that he doesn...
Wednesday night was supposed to be a "conversation" about Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton's inexplicable description of transgender girls as "boys," but the meeting between her campaign and LGBTQ+ advocates devolved into nothing short of a disaster. For starters...
Facing pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to eliminate so-called “woke” policies, Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) eliminated its spaces for gay young people, women, and scouts of color at its National Jamboree. An estimated 15,000 scouts, troop lea...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, called out how her uncle's "black hole of need" — combined with what she described as his "cognitive, psychological, and physical decline" — has resulted in him facing daily "humiliation." Speaking with journalist Si...
A West Virginia food bank's shelves are bare after refusing supplies from organizations that are allegedly “part of the gay rights movement" because they support LGBTQ+ people. “To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phon...
Young conservative activists "furiously" booed anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy offstage after he delivered just 14 minutes of his scheduled 30-minute speech at the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday evening,...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had a hard time answering questions about his support for Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who was accused by his ex-wife of severe physical abuse, especially in light of Jordan's recent statements that former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner should have droppe...
More than four years after Taiwan began formally studying legislation to overhaul its legal gender recognition system, and despite repeated recommendations from international human rights experts, the government has yet to introduce a bill that would replace decades-old administr...
Administration officials presented a map of Africa where every single highlighted country was mislabeled at a global conference in Brazil this week. The US State Department included the map as part of their presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro to highlight a...
Earlier this year, a group of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launched a new campaign to end marriage equality in the U.S., demanding that the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The campaign, called "Greater Than" – a response to the push for equality by claiming that stra...
Out gay Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener's LGBTQ+ rights record has come under greater scrutiny ever since he launched his campaign to fill the seat of soon-to-be-retiring former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Wiener has a good chance of winning the seat, ha...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration came to the world’s largest AIDS conference to explain its approach to global health. Its presentation showed that the U.S. government could not locate the countries whose health systems it was proposing to r...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Even paper dolls can’t escape the Trump administration’s anti-transgender obsession.Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced an investigation into Minnesota-based MyGender Dolls, saying parents had complained about the possibility...
Billboards featuring Kylie Jenner have popped up across the nation promoting new AI glasses, the latest from Meta’s Big Brother empire. The new collection features frames that are meant to look sleek and fashionable, just like any other pair of sunglasses, making it even harder f...
After allegedly taking two transphobes to task, one of the co-owners of the Seattle Storm has been fined and suspended from attending the WNBA team’s next five home games. On Tuesday, anti-trans protestors staged a rally both inside and outside of the Climate Pledge Arena in supp...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.If a Black transgender teenager gets shot and killed in Florida and no one reports it, what does that say about the value of their life? It’s a question trans activists are struggling with after the scant attention paid to the killin...
Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, "I Love America Better Than You," at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for ...
Eric Conn, an antisemitic far-right Christian nationalist pastor at Refuge Church in Utah, knows what causes "transgenderism," and it's the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In a July 29 post published on X, Conn wrote, "Women's sports are a key propaganda & discipl...
A political candidate in Russia was sentenced yesterday to 10 days in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow flag on it in a video posted to social media. Daniil Neonov, who is running for municipal deputy in Moscow, was arrested earlier this month for posting the video on J...
Award-winning gay Mexican-American author and poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz, perhaps best known for his 2012 gay young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, has died. Sáenz passed away at the age of 71 Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, his longtime home, foll...
Victor Marx is battling demons — including the gay ones — as he runs for governor of Colorado. Republicans nominated Marx, a Marine veteran, culture warrior, and lately, he claims, a mercenary who single-handedly ordered a strike on ISIS, at the end of June. His own Republican ri...
A Colorado school district is suing the Trump administration over pressure to rescind its trans-inclusive policies. The administration threatened to withhold federal funding for Jeffco Public Schools if it continued to support trans students. In response, the district announced T...
Texas' scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton has worked closely with Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) to launch numerous attacks against the state's LGBTQ+ community, particularly its transgender residents. He has made national headlines in his numerous legal crusades to persecute pro...
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten detailed a seismic shift taking place among voters under 50 that spells very good news for Democrats. "We are talking about an absolutely huge shift," Enten said this morning. "A 180 – young voters are fed up, and they're taking their anger out ...
James Dale’s current battle to ensure trans kids are welcome in Scouting America really started 26 years ago, when his soul was crushed after he lost a separate 10-year legal battle for gay equality. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America, as it was calle...
Enraged over a trans music teacher at an elementary school in her district, a North Carolina lawmaker suggested it "may be time" to introduce legislation requiring teachers to wear clothing that aligns with the sex assigned at birth while teaching. In a July 27 Facebook post, sta...
Conservative Christian advocacy organization One Million Moms (OMM) is raging over a campaign urging people to educate themselves about the HIV-prevention medication, long-acting injectable PrEP. The ad, produced by ViiV Healthcare, aired on TV Land, which OMM described as "whole...
The Trump administration is expanding its campaign to pressure institutions into compliance by threatening federal funding. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took to Fox News this past weekend to announce investigations into school systems that have been allowing trans kids to...
Poland's highest court rejected a ruling from a European court requiring the Catholic-majority nation to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad. The ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal comes after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last November th...
The right has been ginning up hatred against transgender people for years now in order to pass bans on sports and gender-affirming care amid their War on Woke. But now that every state that could pass one of these laws has already done so, they're looking for new targets… and the...
Two members of Congress known for their virulently anti-trans statements had pictures taken in drag in the past that are getting attention today. Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Mike Collins (R-GA) both have scores of "0" on HRC's Congressional Scorecard; they have both made anti-t...
Voters in Rehoboth Beach head to the polls on Aug. 8 to elect a new mayor and the choice couldn’t be more obvious. Susan Stewart is a smart, effective Commissioner with a background in finance who happens to identify as part of the LGBTQ community, which would make her the first ...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow on Monday blamed President Donald Trump's defunding of various programs for the recent outbreaks of wildfires, measles, and diarrhea. Maddow noted that Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire transphobe Elon...
President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as wo...
