LGBTQ News
When Ben Shapiro fires verbal shots at Nick Offerman’s masculinity, how does the Parks and Recreation actor respond? Spoiler: he doesn’t. While sitting down with Sam Fragoso of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso for an interview published over Labor Day weekend, the talk show host shared...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Two women who helped kidnap, rape, and torture Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, to death will spend the rest of their lives in prison.Precious Arzuaga pleaded guilty in June to charges including first-degree murder, kidnapping and t...
On Sunday, September 6, supporters of the brand XX-XY Athletics were asked to leave a National Women’s Soccer League game between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at Portland’s Providence Park after donning apparel that displayed the brand’s logo.The brand, which esp...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Defense Department has accessed private medical records belonging to U.S. troops as it tries to drive closeted transgender service members out of the military.Multiple sources told the Federal News Network that the Pentagon is us...
Colorado’s second-largest school district, Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), has made history as one of the few local school districts to sue the Trump administration for its threats to cut off federal education funding unless the district drops its policies accommodating...
A newborn baby died after contracting measles in Pennsylvania last month, and, as if it wasn’t enough grief for his parents, anti-vax activists are trying to track down and harass his family. Apparently, Gov. Josh Shapiro tangled with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his “inaccurate an...
The Department of Health and Human Services has embraced an unfinished report from a Princeton think tank that it claims shows a link between support for "gender ideology," political violence, and left-wing authoritarianism. It appears officials at the federal agency jumped the g...
There has been plenty of speculation about Donald Trump’s mental health, from his proud claims that he is regularly acing cognitive tests (which they keep giving him anyway) to experts sounding the alarm about dementia. Now Trump’s gay niece, Mary Trump, is adding to that specula...
Over the last few years, it seems as though every time a candidate has run on an anti-trans platform, the result is heralded as a referendum on trans acceptance. In a world where we only have so many concrete data points, it’s very tempting to do. Unfortunately, the reality is of...
The U.S. military is reportedly searching service members’ medical records in its efforts to identify and remove transgender troops. Early last month, trans military advocacy nonprofit SPARTA Pride issued a press release in which executive director Kara Corcoran said the organiza...
Georgia made history last week when Everton Blair, Jr., was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the state’s first openly LGBTQ member of Congress and the latest LGBTQ addition to the chamber. Blair, who represents Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, was swor...
SANTA ANA, El Salvador — La muerte de Yoisi Villalta, mujer trans y vendedora de tortas en Texistepeque, Santa Ana Norte, ha vuelto a colocar en el centro del debate una realidad que durante años ha acompañado a la población LGBTQ en El Salvador: la violencia no termina con una a...
A virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Mobile, Alabama, pastor has dedicated the month of September to spreading anti-trans hate throughout the city. Pastor Travis Johnson spearheaded a project to hang banners through downtown Mobile that declare, "Protect Our Children From Gender Ideology." R...
New rules that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Iceland took effect on Sept. 1. The Iceland Review, an English-language magazine, notes the new regulations the country's Health Ministry approved are gender-neutral. Some restrictions, however, remain in plac...
Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, who has dedicated her life to trying to ban trans women from women's sports, mocked a recent WNBA game she attended as being filled with "a bunch of disgruntled lesbians." Gaines made the comment during an appearance on Fox News, where she said s...
Even though the Supreme Court is not in regular session, the right-wing justices on the Court spent last month giving Donald Trump legal cover for his corrupt and authoritarian efforts. Using the shadow docket – the express route for emergency cases – the right-wing keeps letting...
Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman with stage four rectal cancer, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City after she secretly recorded her surgical team allegedly making transphobic comments about her....
While technically non-partisan or political, many school boards have been taken over by right-wing majorities and members of so-called "parents' rights" groups, like Moms for Liberty. With elections set for the Forest Lake school board in Wyoming, punk rock musician Claire Luger ...
Tonya Agnew is a mom of two adult children, a wife, and the Vice President of Communications & Marketing for Family Equality – a national nonprofit that protects and advances freedoms for LGBTQ+ families Pack lunch. Set out the perfect first day outfit. Finish summer reading. Com...
Just when you thought Dolly Parton couldn't be any more sainted, her death at the age of 80 last week surfaced a story that makes it so. One of the most important staffers among Parton's close circle of supporters was a transgender man. Related Country star & LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Pa...
Immediately after Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime show performer for the 2026 Super Bowl, right-wingers began trying to "cancel" the cis-het ally by pointing out his refusal to sing in English and his past performances in drag. Bad Bunny — wh...
While school history textbooks characterize the earliest colonists in the US as Puritan zealots who punished all sinners, dissenters, and non-believers, an early American settler established a small community that held the seeds of LGBTQ+ counter-cultural revolution. The Mayflowe...
The Washington Blade Foundation will host a fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 12 in Rehoboth Beach featuring remarks from Rehoboth’s Mayor-elect Susan Stewart and Delaware state Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall. The Foundation funds fellowships for aspiring queer journalists and enterprise jo...
‘Every Inch a Lady’By Audrey Smaltz with Alina Mitchellc.2026, Amistad$27.99/256 pages Snaps, zippers, buttons, ties. Toss that garment on, pull it up, wrap it around, you know what you like and how to wear it. The color is perfect for your skin tone, the fabric enhances your for...
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Sept. 9-Oct. 11Round House Theatre4545 East-West HighwayBethesda, MD 20814$50 and upRoundhousetheatre.org Among the Black blues women of the 1920s and 1930s, being “in the life” wasn’t uncommon. Self-supporting and often on the road, they followed the Gr...
The phone has not been ringing lately for Elliot Page. The trans actor said in an interview earlier this week that he has not been offered any roles since the July release of The Odyssey, a massive box-office summer blockbuster in which Page played the Greek warrior Sinon. “Do yo...
After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents. The case began when a Bulgarian trans woman moved to Italy and, for ye...
As new fathers, Randall Tarpey-Schwed and his husband loved the bedtime ritual of reading stories with their kids, so much so that they ran out of books that contained their favorite themes: acceptance, community, and love in families like theirs. “We read all kinds of children’s...
There are a lot of queer coming-of-age movies about how hard coming of age can be when you’re queer – and that’s because, for far too many queer young people, coming of age is a very difficult experience. Yet as difficult as it may be, imagine how much more so it is for queer kid...
This story was originally published in The Buckeye Flame, a newsroom dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles their triumphs, struggles and lived experiences. Finding c...
MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Newark, New Jersey duct taped a grey-haired white man to his first-class seat after he began yelling about Jesus and going to hell and then called a Black flight attendant the n-word and "fa**ot" when ...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he's still alive. Noem said that it wasn't her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting...
LGBTQ+ advocates are sounding the alarm over a new Ecuadorian adoption law explicitly banning LGBTQ+ couples in the South American country from adopting children. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption took effect on August 14 after the National A...
If one listened to Donald Trump’s words and actions in upholding his presidential duties, one would think the people’s top priorities include prosecuting all the malicious vandals whom he has accused of destroying the beautiful work his non-bid contractors did on the Lincoln Memo...
Tez Anderson decided to get tested for HIV after he moved to San Francisco in 1986 at the age of 25 and began dating his new boyfriend. When the results came back positive two weeks later, the doctor told Anderson he had 18 to 24 months to live. It was two days after his 26th bir...
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. Just because summer is slowly turning into autumn doesn't mean the sun has stopped shining, no ma'am! Our ...
An anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing Republican candidate for Missouri state representative is in custody on a charge that he conspired to plant drugs on his opponent in the Republican primary last month. He won the race by 32 votes. Thomas Ross, 37, was booked into Joplin City jail on Tues...
This story originally appeared on Out.It wouldn't be Doll Invasion in Fire Island without Kim Petras!For her first time ever in the Pines, the international pop superstar made a special appearance at the Pavilion to mingle with the dolls and sing along to her biggest hits. Throug...
This story originally appeared on Out.In a world full of a million different kinds of sex toys, the strap-on reigns supreme. It’s simple — some type of harness and a dildo — but serves so many purposes. The most recognizable lesbian sex toy is great for penetrative sapphic sex, p...
Lesbian comedienne and talk show hostess Rosie O'Donnell posted a video on Thursday of herself and seven survivors of now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein singing Helen Reddy's 1972 feminist power anthem "I Am Woman," to protest the Trump administration's...
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is stepping down, the league announced on Friday.“After more than seven years at the WNBA and more than 40 total years in business, I have made the decision to retire as WNBA Commissioner,” Engelbert wrote in a press release, adding, “Over the ye...
Written by Shar Jossell A multidisciplinary creator working across mixed media, installation, and fashion design, The Artist L. Haz is a member of GLAAD's 2026 EMEI cohort, bringing a practice rooted in everyday beauty, community, and the transformative power of adornment. The Ar...
Everton Blair Jr. (D-GA) made history on Tuesday by being sworn in as Georgia's first-ever out gay U.S. House representative. The 34-year-old Congress member won a special runoff election on August 25 to complete the term of late Rep. David Scott, who died on April 22 at the age ...
A gay Christian podcaster was arrested this week and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump. Federal agents took 40-year-old Benjamin Azariah Southworth into custody Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, according to a press release ...
The camp appeal of Jawbreaker, an iconic entry in the 1990s queer canon, has given it a permanent home among LGBTQ+ cinephiles. But a recent addition to its musical adaptation has made the film’s queer subtext even more visible. Fern Mayo/ Vylette, who was played by Judy Greer in...
The Pentagon has announced that new clinical guidance will be released establishing mandatory testosterone deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve cisgender male service members ages 30 and older, advancing a policy that expands hormone-related care for cisgender troops....
Over the past several decades, LGBTQ+-specific overnight camps have sprung up across the country, offering queer youth access to the quintessential summer camp experience in an affirming, inclusive environment designed just for them. About a dozen are currently operating, many se...
President Donald Trump told Republican candidates in battleground states at a Wednesday Rose Garden event that he plans to campaign heavily for them in the last 30 days before the November 3 midterm elections. The only problem: Many Republicans don't want him. While Trump has a $...
The Swiss government has said it supports a nationwide ban on so-called conversion therapy. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation on its website notes the government officially announced its position in a report it published on Wednesday. Neuchâtel in 2023 became the first Swiss can...
The Dallas Stars may have tried to put their Pride Night plans on ice, but fans won’t let it happen. Tori Copeland, a longtime Dallas Stars fan who has long attended the team’s annual Pride Night celebrations, has decided to address the lack of an LGBTQ-themed night on the ice ho...
An Idaho jury on August 27 found Rev. Sara LaWall, a pastor with a transgender child, guilty of a misdemeanor trespassing charge for refusing to leave the office of Gov. Brad Little (R) after it closed on April 1st. LaWall was one of nine protesters arrested in Little's office on...
Gloria Steinem, writer, activist, and a leading voice of the feminist movement in the 1970s, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. Her death was announced on Instagram by her official foundation, Gloria’s Foundation, which shared that Steinem "passed away peacefully at her home, surrou...
Two men are in custody in Madison, Wisconsin, after witnesses and surveillance footage revealed they assaulted a transgender woman on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, according to a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to the complaint, the...
While speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump went on a bizarre tangent about Texas Attorney General and Senate Candidate Ken Paxton's (R) looks, as well as his Democratic opponent, James Talarico's, digestive system. "So Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he d...
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...
A coalition of blue states has come together to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its plan to strip federal funds from gender-affirming care for minors. The lawsuit alleges that the administration is overstepping its authority by trying to dictate what m...
This story originally appeared on Out.Vivian Jenna Wilson knows what's at stake for the LGBTQ+ community. With the fast-approaching midterms, the famous transgender model is using her platform to showcase her unapologetic queerness at a pivotal moment in history.Wilson has teamed...
Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who many considered to be the face of the feminist movement for half a century, died Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. A post on her official Instagram account early Thursday morning said that Steinem “passed away pea...
This story originally appeared on Out.RuPaul's Drag Race stars were in the house and on the dance floor as Cordero Zuckerman, best known to fans as season 13 star Denali, wed his longtime love Alexander Montgomery in Chicago last week."This wedding is a huge mile marker in both o...
