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The world knows Eric Anderson as Billy Porter's partner. In Rehoboth Beach, Del., he has a life — and a story — entirely his own. My first time with Eric Anderson was hot — very hot. Before he arrived, I sat waiting, overthinking everything. When he finally appeared in a loose-fi...
For much of the modern transgender rights movement, our political vocabulary has understandably been a vocabulary of emergency. We talk about healthcare bans, bathroom restrictions, discrimination, violence, court decisions, and executive orders. We organize because something is ...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow pointed out during her Monday night broadcast that President Donald Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has turned the initials of the nation's five northern Great Lakes from HOMES to SHAME, something she said is fitting for T...
Despite having a memorable role in a box-office juggernaut, Elliot Page hasn’t reaped the benefits of The Odyssey’s gargantuan success. During an interview on the Wednesday, September 2 episode of On Film…with Kevin McCarthy, the Oscar-nominated actor said that he hasn’t been off...
A prominent leader in the fight for transgender rights is speaking out about the "near complete exodus of philanthropy" for trans rights organizations in the midst of the Trump administration's brutal and ongoing campaign against the community. In a piece for Nonprofit Quarterly,...
I have been going back and forth on whether I think adding justices to the Supreme Court is the right thing to do. But if the court takes the final step of allowing the felon’s executive order on mail in ballots to move forward, I am definitely for enlarging the court. There are ...
Trailblazing feminist icon Gloria Steinem died at her New York City home on Wednesday, per a statement on her social media. As many of her obituaries will attest, Steinem publicly challenged gender stereotypes in the earliest days of her journalism and activism careers, dating ba...
With Dancing with the Stars Season 35 set to return September 15th on ABC and Disney+, fans can look forward to two trailblazing LGBTQ stars joining the competition: Olympic gold-medal figure skater Amber Glenn alongside openly bisexual model and reality star Sarah Jane Nader. GL...
This story was originally published in the Alabama Reflector. Before June 2023, Invisible Histories flew under the radar in Alabama. The nonprofit organization, which archives and researches southern LGBTQ+ history, began collecting items in 2018, just two years after President D...
Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterd...
This story originally appeared on Out.Melissa Etheridge and Wynonna Judd don't have time for any prejudice.The iconic singers have not only made strides for the LGBTQ+ community over the years, but they're creating a safe space for every type of fan on their Raised on Radio Tour....
The Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter's mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to ...
It’s hard to overstate the sheer sapphic power of a same-sex Dancing With the Stars casting announcement photo. I mean, just look at this newly released image of openly bisexual reality star Sarah Jane Nader with her dancer partner Hailey Bills. The sequins, the hair, the pose? I...
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has caused a social media frenzy after claiming he doesn't trust the government, despite being a high-ranking government official. Duffy made the comment alongside his wife, Fox Host Rachel Campos-Duffy, during an appearance on The Katie Mil...
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) clinched the Democratic seat for his reelection campaign in Massachusetts’s primary election on Tuesday. Markey won the deep-blue state with 64.8 percent of the vote, according to NBC News, triumphing over Marine Corps combat veteran and Congressman ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Kansas City, Kansas Public School (KCKPS) District for its policy that does not forcibly out trans students to their parents. The district is one of four investigated by the Education Department (ED) earlier th...
Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Andrew Wommack claimed in an interview published August 27 that he has raised over 50 people from the dead. He has previously claimed that his son and wife were also raised from the dead. While speaking on the Christian broadcast FlashPoint, Wommack told h...
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) slammed Pete Hegseth in an interview on Tuesday for pretty much everything he has done so far as Secretary of Defense, accusing him of being "fundamentally unwilling to have anyone who makes him question his own superiority surrounding him." "From ...
This story describes charges of violence and sexual assault against a transgender woman. Details are graphic.Two men were charged on September 1 for allegedly strangling and sexually assaulting a transgender woman on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus over the weekend, in...
A charter school in Nashville, Tennessee, removed over 20 LGBTQ+ children's books from its elementary school libraries after a Christian teacher was disciplined for refusing to read one about lesbian mothers to his students. Eric Rivera, a first-grade teacher at the Knowledge is ...
In a new piece written for Nonprofit Quarterly, Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which describes itself as the largest national trans-led organization, shared that there has been a “near complete exodus” of philanthropy from the transgender r...
Bulgaria's top court has ruled the country's government must allow transgender people to legally change their name and gender on ID documents. A trans woman from Bulgaria who moved to Italy, had tried to change her gender and name on her Bulgarian ID documents, but courts in the ...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) lost Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary to incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) a month after apologizing for suggesting that Democrats should moderate their support for transgender rights. On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press called the race for Markey, with t...
Self-proclaimed "ex-gay" and far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos – who was deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials back to his home country of the UK last week – said in an interview published Tuesday that he is "ashamed" of his past support for Donald Tr...
“Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade,” a documentary produced by The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., will receive an Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. The film premiered on WETA PBS in D.C. and Maryland P...
The University of Florida disbanded its chapter of the College Republicans after one of its reported members, Dylan Estrella, was photographed allegedly throwing a "seig heil" Nazi salute in an online video stream — the photo went viral. Now, the organization is suing the univers...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Seth Moulton went looking for a promotion and found the exit.Massachusetts Democrats overwhelmingly rejected the congressman’s bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, renominating Sen. Ed Markey after a campaign that turned Moulton’s at...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Milo Yiannopoulos spent more than a year demanding that the U.S. government deport millions of immigrants, particularly Black and brown people. Last week, the Trump administration deported him.Now the far-right provocateur says the s...
Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resoluti...
A Wyoming county district court ruled on Monday that a criminal case against a trans woman who pulled a gun on a man who pushed her to the ground will go to trial. According to The Laramie Reporter, the court found the woman's lawyers failed to prove that her actions were covered...
Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial end of summer in Rehoboth Beach, but there will be no shortage of LGBTQ events, with CAMP Rehoboth’s annual SUNFESTIVAL taking over town this weekend. Thursday (9/3) Get your Labor Day Weekend started early Thursday night with happy hour fro...
This story originally appeared on Out.For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on s...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Anne Arundel County Public Schools staff cannot use transgender students’ preferred names if their parents oppose it, according to an internal document reviewed by the Banner, a change that comes after conservative groups challenged the school system’s appro...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.LGBTQ+ organizations in Arizona will hold a vigil Wednesday for two men killed outside a longtime gay bar, as advocates warn that a note found with the suspected gunman indicates other queer gathering places may also have been target...
Early Monday morning in Tucson, AZ, a gunman reportedly targeting LGBTQ-associated businesses opened fire on patrons outside local LGBTQ bar “Venture-N,” killing two people. Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and Cameron Davis Capara were shot and killed.The attack is being investigated a...
California on Monday prevailed against the Trump administration's bid to strike down the state's law allowing trans student-athletes to compete in school sports. A US District Court judge agreed with California that the administration’s threat to withhold federal education fundin...
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) insinuated yesterday that the president has a terminal illness because he canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing. "Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him t...
The FBI quietly lowered its background check hiring standards back in June to allow the hiring of people who have previously stolen from an employer or engaged in acts of bestiality, CBS News reported on August 28. The lowered standards come at a time when the FBI has lost about ...
Chloe Shapiro was promised an honorable discharge and $86,655.32 in severance if she agreed to voluntarily leave the Army National Guard and not fight Trump’s second trans military ban. Months later, she has received only $20,000 of that payment and is now homeless. “I had my pla...
Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo is opening up about the homophobic backlash he received after coming out as gay earlier this year. During a recent appearance on The Break Down with Nath & Johnny, Shomo explained that shortly after finishing the band’s latest album, Pure Ecstasy, h...
Three people were fatally shot outside a gay bar in Tucson, Ariz., early Monday morning, about a mile from the city’s nightlife district. Police have said the shooting, which took place in the parking lot of Venture-N bar at 1239 N. 6th Ave., was likely a hate crime and a double ...
As I was growing up, my parents often shared stories about how they were bullied when they were my age, just for being Asian. My mom is Cambodian and my dad is “Wasian,” Chinese and white. Students teased them for their looks, their homemade lunches, and treated their traditional...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office did not respond to a request for comment. The request failed to send because of a server error and was not received by the office...
The prediction market platform Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to gay and disgraced former GOP Congressman George Santos. Kalshi announced Santos' ban on Monday after a federal regulator accused him of making almost $18,000 from betting on his own likelihood of atte...
A fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona, LGBTQ+ bar is being investigated as both a hate crime and a possible double murder-suicide. The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 31, when the suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, is believed to have gon...
The wife of D.C. attorney Robert Wone, who was found stabbed to death on Aug. 2, 2006, in the Dupont Circle area home of three gay men, has filed a complaint in court accusing two of the men of failing to make the payments they promised to make to settle a $20 million wrongful de...
Whitman-Walker Health, D.C.’s LGBTQ supportive healthcare center and medical clinic, is calling on D.C. residents and supporters to take part in its 40th annual Walk & 5K Run to End HIV scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 19. The event, in which participants choose to walk or...
French prosecutors say a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a prominent activist before he attacked him in Paris on Saturday. Media reports indicate Pierre Picavet, a police officer who is the president of FLAG!, a group within the French Justice and Interior Ministries that defends L...
This story appeared originally on Advocate. Two men were shot and killed outside a longtime gay bar in Tucson, Arizona, early Monday in what police are investigating as a hate crime. The suspected gunman was carrying a note listing several LGBTQ-associated businesses, and the cit...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump has for years insisted he loves women, even as he set in motion the reversal of federal abortion rights and blocked enforcement of equal pay regulations. Still, women in politics have stood by the GOP leader — ...
The Department of State apologized for "deadnaming" a lake after President Donald Trump's executive order last week renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Because deadnaming usually refers to the act of referring to a transgender, non-binary, or gender-expansive individual by thei...
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on Sunday campaigned for U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) in New Hampshire. Robinson traveled to Manchester, the state’s largest city, nine days before the Sept. 8 primary that will determine who will vie for retiring U.S. Sen. Jeann...
Have you heard the gospel of Lola Petticrew? The nonbinary actor first came on my radar after our friends at Autostraddle blogged about their role in Hulu’s FBI serial killer drama Furious, but I resisted watching it. Not because the show doesn’t have great reviews — it does! — b...
Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries as of yesterday, TVP World reported. However, Poland itself has not legalized same-sex marriages within its own borders. The country was compelled to start recognizing foreign s...
Donald Trump said in an interview yesterday that voters should treat the 2026 midterms as if he is on the ballot, while bringing up how he is going to make "transgender… end." Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who is now a Fox News host, asked Trump on his show yesterday about the u...
Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson — who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has referred to as a "mentor" and personally invited to lead a monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon — recently said that he would have fought for the southern Confederacy during the US Civi...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration decided that support for transgender people belonged in the nation’s counterterrorism apparatus. Months later, it commissioned a study that appears designed to tell the government it was right.The U.S. Depart...
The Tennessee Christian Preparatory School in Cleveland will have to pay gay teenager Morgan Armstrong $10,000 in a settlement approved on Monday, after the school blocked her from graduating and withheld her diploma after she came out on Facebook. On April 23, 2025, Armstrong po...
LGBTQ+ adults are significantly more likely to face challenges accessing and paying for necessary healthcare, according to a new survey released last Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy research non-profit. Out of over 2,600 LGBTQ+ adults surveyed, 5...
The internet is abuzz after Christian rock band Skillet removed its opening act Bad Wolves from their upcoming tour after accusations began to circulate that lead singer Sara “Killboy” Skinner is a transgender OnlyFans creator. Skinner was forced to clarify that she is cisgender ...
