Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit From Fired Ranger Who Flew Trans Pride Flag at Yosemite
Dr. SJ Joslin's lawsuit is too soon, according to the court.
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GOP congressman says Talarico is "a barely straight Buttigieg" so he shouldn't be around kids
A Republican Congressman said that Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) is "a barely straight" version of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and then said that that's why he wouldn't want Talarico "around my young kids." Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), age 32, was speaking w...
Remember when Trump’s lesbian niece explained the president’s mental decline in just 4 words?
The president's lesbian psychologist niece, Mary Trump, recently took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test used to assess an adult's cognitive impairment and dysfunctions. Donald Trump bragged about acing the test in the past. But even though she did well on the MoCA ...
50,000 celebrate Seoul Pride fest as 15,000 anti-LGBTQ+ activists counterprotested
Seoul saw dueling LGBTQ+-focused events over the weekend, with tens of thousands showing up for the South Korean capital city’s annual Pride festival while anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrators gathered for a counterprotest less than a mile away. The Seoul Queer Culture Festival Organizing C...
Health programs for LGBTQ+ veterans targeted by new administration directive
The administration’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has now come for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and it could mean the end of specialized LGBTQ+ programs at the VA. A new internal memo reportedly instructs the VA to remove LGBTQ+ labels from staff and servi...
Calif. governor’s race spotlights Becerra’s LGBTQ advocacy
California voters selected its two front runners for the state's open governor seat following the second election of Gavin Newsom. Last week former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra became the Democratic nominee for governor, setting up a general election...
Psychologist says Trump is the sickest person he has ever seen
Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
Nancy Mace & Sarah McBride show that the biggest fights are still to come
Noted anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost the Republican primary for South Carolina governor in a truly decisive defeat, coming in fifth place. But the pain and policy that she has brought with her rhetoric still remains and can’t be expected to go out the door with her when s...
UFC fighter says ‘Michelle Obama is a man’ at White House event
UFC fighter Josh Hokit, in a crude post-match stunt, told podcaster Joe Rogan that, “Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right America?” The incident occurred as part of President Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event held on the White House lawn on Sunday night. Hokit won his fight then gave ...
Republicans are now mad at James Talarico for opposing gender-affirming care for minors
After weeks of calling Democratic state Rep. and Senate candidate James Talarico transgender, gay, and feminine for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, he's now facing criticism from Republicans for walking back his support. Republicans have spent weeks saying that Talarico is himself "tra...
This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell. The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass. The occasion was t...
Military junta in Niger bans homosexuality with 5 to 10 years in prison
The military junta that took over the Sahara nation of Niger in 2023 announced the country's new penal code last Friday. The new penal code criminalizes homosexuality and imposes a prison sentence of five to ten years. The AP notes that homosexuality wasn't formally illegal in Ni...
UFC Fighter Josh Hokit Shouts “Michelle Obama is a Man!” After White House Match
The false conspiracy theory made it all the way to the South Lawn.
Trump is already planning how to sow chaos if Republicans lose in November
The primaries in California took place almost two weeks ago, but the election is far from over. For Republicans who see a landslide for Democrats heading their way in November, the Los Angeles mayoral race has become the template for undermining the results. California primaries ...
There is no Pride in detention
“There Is No Pride in Detention” is the name of a campaign led by Rainbow Migration, the British organization to which I contribute as part of an advisory panel. The campaign, launched during Pride Month, highlights the fact that an unknown number of LGBTQ people are held in immi...
Remember when police arrested 201 men in a raid on an alleged “gay spa?” A judge released them all.
A raid by Malaysian authorities on an alleged "gay spa" in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur late last month saw over 200 individuals arrested, but ultimately yielded no convictions under colonial-era prohibitions on "carnal knowledge" between men. Local police carried out the joi...
UFC fighter says, "Michelle Obama is a man!" at White House Freedom 250 event
After Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) competitor Josh Hokit won his heavyweight fight against Derrick Lewis during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House lawn on Sunday night, he concluded his victory interview with popular transphobic broadcaster Joe Rogan by declarin...
New Africa "charter" attempts to impose Christian nationalist ideology across the continent
In Ghana last week, participants from 20 African nations advanced the latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary “Family, Sovereignty and Values” Charter, a document African rights activists say threatens to dismantle protections for women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in se...
"Crybully": Republicans share how they really feel about Nancy Mace after her primary loss
Notorious transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost in her state’s Republican gubernatorial primary earlier this week, coming in 5th place as Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a runoff. And now, Republicans who worked closely with her are speaking o...
Stonewall veteran busts myths: It wasn't about Judy Garland, it was "a revolution"
Mark Segal was a witness to history and a participant on "just another night out" at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969. The soon-to-be activist was just 18 when he arrived in New York City a few weeks before from his hometown in Philadelphia. He discovered Greenwich Village not ...
David Archuleta on Mormon faith, ‘Idol,’ more in new book
‘Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself’By David Archuletac.2026, Gallery Books$29/290 pages So just make up your mind already. The decision is very much in your control – or, at least that’s how it’s supposed to be. It’ll be your future, your path, and seizing it may not just be...
‘Suffs’ an entertaining chronicle of battle to pass 19th Amendment
‘Suffs’June 16 – 28National Theatre1321 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.$115 and upBroadwayatthenational.com Poised to kick off a two-week run at D.C.’s National Theatre (June 16-28), “Suffs,” the Tony Award-winning musical written by Shaina Taub, promises an entertaining chronicle of wha...
It's Flag Day… so why don't we celebrate our flags?
June 14 is Flag Day. That's right, smack in the middle of Pride Month – which celebrates a community that absolutely adores flags – there is a day celebrating a flag. I'm not the first person to notice this. A sketch in season 13 of RuPaul's Drag Race, which aired in 2021, notice...
Remember when Jeffrey Epstein photos showed Trump with victims & Trump-branded condoms?
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...
Hate killer convicted, Nancy Mace loses everything & trans designer makes history
O'Shae Sibley's killer found guilty on hate crime charges What he was convicted of: Dmitriy Popov, who stabbed gay dancer O’Shae Sibley to death in 2023, was found guilty of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime, and aggravated harassment because of race...
Nancy Pelosi refused to remove trans rights from landmark Hate Crimes Act despite pressure
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to retire in 2027 and recently spoke about her decades-long career advocating for LGBTQ+ rights. “Anything that we accomplished, whether it was fighting HIV and AIDS, ending discrimination, passing hate crimes legislation, or endin...
Gay dad goes viral for honest reflection on raising a straight son
A gay dad's thoughts on the trials and tribulations of raising a straight son went viral last week as parents across the internet connected to his feelings. The Brazil-based father posted in Portuguese under the handle @cleccio. According to X's translation, he opened by saying t...
Trump wants to boot trans people from a lifesaving program. Queer health groups are fighting back.
National HIV medical associations and providers are challenging the Trump administration's new federal funding guidelines that target transgender identity assisted by the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The new regulations bar organizations that access the decades-old program, inclu...
Remember when a 13-year-old girl bit Trump’s genitals, according to Epstein documents?
President Donald Trump was accused of trying to orally rape a 13- to 14-year-old girl who then bit his genitals, according to an unproven allegation contained among the 3.5 million pages of investigatory files connected to deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, released t...
A trans man donated his eggs to his sister. The pics of him holding his nephew will melt your heart.
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. It's the second week of Pride Month, and we've got a great mixed bag of rainbow-colored goodies for you to...
Gay writer says, "Bombing Iran is the perfect way to celebrate Pride." Commenters disagree.
British-Jewish journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti authored an article entitled, "Bombing Iran is the perfect way to celebrate Pride." While the article's title has since been changed to, "Bombing Iran’s evil regime is a point of Pride for Israel", in it he praises Israel's missile str...
D.C. Council approves expanded grant funding for Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs
The D.C. Council on June 9 gave its first round of approval to an amendment to the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget that calls for increasing the number and size of funding grants that the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs provides for local organizations providing services for the L...
David Hockney, pioneering gay artist known for bright & playful works, dies at age 88
David Hockney, the pioneering gay artist best known for his portraits of male desire in mid-century settings, has died. He was 88. His cause of death is not yet publicly known. The British artist, who, along with compatriots Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, was uncompromising in h...
"I’ve been crying all day": Ten years after Pulse, survivors gather to honor the dead
Ten years after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub, survivors, family and friends of the 49 victims are gathering in Orlando to honor the dead. Several events around the city will pay tribute to those lost in what was then the largest mass shooting in American history. 58 clubg...
"He clearly doesn't care"; Pete Buttigieg slams Trump for saying he loves inflation
Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg slammed Donald Trump for saying that he loves inflation. "We have a president and a White House that clearly don't care," Buttigieg said in a video posted to social media. Related Pete Buttigieg will be the next president. Here's ...
Judge upholds decision to keep anti-trans referendum off Maine's ballot this year
A state judge in Maine agreed on Thursday that "Protect Girls' Sports," an anti-transgender activist group, tried to get a referendum on sports participation on the ballot this fall but failed to collect enough valid signatures. Earlier this year, Protect Girls' Sports, a campaig...
"He is so insane": Trump claims 6 states steal children & force "transgender mutilization" on them
During a press event at the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump claimed that there are six states that are taking people's children and forcing them to transition, leaving people wondering if Trump was lying or if he had lost his mind, since this is not happening anywhere. "No ...
Bud Light sponsors Trump’s UFC cage fight 3 years after MAGA boycotted over trans influencer video
Bud Light has gone from sponsoring Pride events in major U.S. cities to sponsoring the Trump administration’s UFC cage match on the White House lawn. Three years after a one-off Instagram video partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney sparked a MAGA boycott, the bra...
Anti-LGBTQ+ group praises GOP gov. for signing "Family month" declaration
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed a proclamation on June 3 designating this month as "Marriage and Family Month." His proclamation makes his state just the latest among several red states that have recently tried to give Pride Month a conservative and anti-LGBTQ+ rebranding. “T...
Gender-bending buddy film gets 4K restoration for 25th anniversary
If you think the idea of a movie about two gender-nonconforming buddies embarking on an anti-establishment crime spree feels dangerously radical in 2026, just think how it must have felt 25 years ago. That’s when “By Hook or By Crook,” a DIY independent film shot in low-tech “Min...
Happy Straight Pride Month! Wait… let me double check my notes
It’s finally that time of year, when we celebrate "Straight Pride!" And frankly, it’s about time. For centuries, heterosexual people have been oppressed, marginalized, and forced to live in the shadows of a ruthlessly queer-dominated world. It’s time we address this glaring inequ...
James Talarico slams Republicans for focusing on his gender: "Here's what real men don't do…"
Republicans are making accusations of being gay, trans, or just not masculine enough, the central issue in the Senate race in Texas this year, accusing state Rep. and Democratic candidate James Talarico of being too light in his loafers because he supports trans people's rights a...
Judge denies class action lawsuit to challenge DOJ's collection of trans kids' medical information
Maryland District Court Judge Julie Rubin has denied a request to turn a challenge against one of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) requests for trans youth's private health information into a class action lawsuit, which would have allowed the case to quash the subpoenas seeking ...
Trump's biggest & worst lies aren't about the "rigged" 2020 election
In his June 9 interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump returned again to his loathsome “Big Lie” that he won the 2020 presidential election due to massive fraud in the states that declared Biden as the winner. Ever since November 3, 2020, Trump has sung...
Everything Donald Trump is doing makes sense – if he’s dying
It can be hard to work out what might be going through Donald Trump’s head at the best of times, but lately his actions have seemed to be increasingly bizarre and reckless. However, all of those actions become much easier to understand with one simple perspective shift: Trump kno...
German group slams White House’s LGBTQ rights record ahead of World Cup
A German advocacy group on the eve of the 2026 World Cup sharply criticized the Trump-Vance administration over its anti-LGBTQ policies. The World Cup will take place in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico through July 19. The tournament began on Thursday in Mexico City with Mexico beat...
School fires art professor after student complains about queer-related assignment
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) suspended tenured art therapy professor Savneet Talwar after a student complained about her assignment asking students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer, Muslim woman living in the United States, The Gu...
School suspends art professor after student complains about queer-related assignment
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) suspended tenured art therapy professor Savneet Talwar after a student complained about her assignment asking students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer, Muslim woman living in the United States, The Gu...
Giant inflatable of Elon Musk touts his role in producing child pornography
A giant inflatable bust depicting the shirtless tattooed likeness of transphobic, white supremacist near-trillionaire Elon Musk appeared in New York City's Times Square on Thursday morning. Its appearance foreshadowed the Friday debut of Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, ...
Queer businesses are cleverly fighting Trump's anti-immigrant raids
Community advocacy, protest, and mutual aid weren't new concepts for queer businesses and their employees before Donald Trump unleashed Operation Metro Surge on Minnesota late last year. When the brutal immigration raids began, queer businesses were as ready as they could be for ...
Wanna pee in Idaho? First, get a forced DNA test to prove your gender, state GOP lawyer suggests
A recent court hearing on a lawsuit brought by six transgender Idahoans against the state's latest bathroom bill has revealed just how unworkable the draconian new law would be. In fact, to enforce it, an attorney for the red state said restroom users might need to undergo forced...
MAGA hate pastors say female teachers cause men to become gay
Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for all social evils, thinks marijuana makes men "spiritually gay," and thinks Adolf Hitler wasn’t so bad after all — and the co-hosts of his Right Response broadcast said in a June 9 episode that fema...
Jaw-dropping 1,000-foot Pride banners kicked off this city's Pride weekend: "Symbol of hope"
Several banners forming a 1,000-foot Progress Pride flag covered the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art last Friday morning as activists with Philly Pride 365, the city's lead Pride event organizer, marked the start of the city's Pride Month celebrations. The city held its o...
Ron DeSantis declares June "Faith & Family Month" to honor "Christian faith" & "Biblical" families
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has joined the growing trend of red states bucking Pride Month to celebrate "traditional" families. The anti-LGBTQ+ governor – who branded his state "the place where woke goes to die" – released a proclamation declaring June as Faith and Family Month...
British miners & LGBTQ+ activists have a strong & enduring alliance. Here's how it all began.
A new musical currently playing at London’s National Theatre recounts the extraordinary story of an unlikely alliance between the U.K.’s South Wales coal mining communities and LGBTQ+ activists, a relationship that still holds strong today. A stage adaptation of the Golden Globe ...
Trans sheriff's deputy settles health care lawsuit after 7 years of legal battle
After seven years, sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange and Houston County, Georgia, have reached a settlement in the case over the county’s health insurance excluding gender-affirming services. The legal case and the county’s push to exclude trans health care are estimated to have cost t...
Gay 1920s-era Hollywood star to be honored in Staunton, Va.
A project is underway in Staunton, Va., to honor William ‘Billy’ Haines, who was born and raised in Staunton before becoming an out gay 1920s and early 1930s-era Hollywood movie star whose acting career ended around 1934 when he refused demands that he conceal his sexual orientat...
Fox host rages at mindblowing videos of LGBTQ+ people dancing
Fox host Jesse Watters wanted to make his audience mad about Pride Month, but he had an odd way of doing it: by showing amazing videos of queer people dancing. Watters started the segment with what he described – apparently derogatorily? – as a "gay dance fiesta," referring to a ...
Straight Pride Month would finally help cishet people feel like they belong
As we kick off June’s Pride activities, many cis-hetero Christian nationalists are feeling dejected. So, in their attempts to reclaim the month, many Republican governors have pushed “counterprogramming” by labeling June as “Nuclear Family Month” in Indiana and Tennessee, “Strong...
The right is trying to overturn marriage equality. That will hurt LGBTQ+ families.
Across much of America, marriage equality is widely accepted and recognized as a fundamental right. More than a decade after the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry, LGBTQ+ families across America have flourished. ...
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