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Seeing that it’s such a tried-and-true part of most people’s sexual development, how to give a hand job may not have crossed your mind in quite some time. You may not put a lot of thought into how you do it, but like with most things in life, the more experience you have and the ...
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the alleged use of "transgender dolls" in schools. However, as LGBTQ Nation explained in an article yesterday, there's no proof as of yet that publi...
Guinness World Records made it official on Tuesday: a drag show at Calgary's annual Cowboys Music Festival earlier this month set the record for largest attendance at a drag artists' performance in history, with 7,423 fans and performers participating in the record-setting event ...
Clear Space Theatre Company was founded in 2004 and has become a huge success in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They present performances all year long, and always have a great summer season when the town grows by the thousands. Not only do they have some great main productions this year, ...
Go anti-woke, go broke. A planned anti-trans rally outside of a WNBA game in Seattle, of all places, appears to have been a major flop. The “rally” took place outside the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game. Even calling it a rally is generous th...
The Trump administration will install temporary warning signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History after releasing a report accusing the museum of promoting what it calls "radical" gender ideology and other politically biased content. According to the Exe...
Last month’s Pride celebration in D.C. was so fun. Walking around my first Capital Pride with a $15 lemonade I was loving the madness and the color. Artists and small businesses battling banks you’ve never heard of collecting your personal information so you can spin a wheel to s...
As Rehoboth Beach voters prepare to elect a new mayor on Aug. 8, some city officials and local residents are raising new concerns about the behavior of City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Suzanne Goode. In addition to a history of troubling emails in which she has used homoph...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International News Editor Michael K. Lavers is participating in a course at Leiden University in the Netherlands that examines the role that international law plays in the LGBTQ and intersex rights movement. The course — Sexual Orientation and Gender Iden...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Allies of transgender children are urging state education officials to fight back against the Trump-Vance administration, which has threatened to punish a growing number of Maryland school districts over local policies that affirm students’ gender identities...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Before Twitter became X, before Elon Musk stripped away protections for transgender users and before the platform earned the lowest LGBTQ+ safety score among major social networks, there was Adm. Rachel Levine, the trailblazing docto...
Transphobes are planning a rally in Seattle in support of anti-trans WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, following her comments against trans women in sports. The rally is slated to take place tonight at the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever game. It is...
Cameron Esposito hosting a season of King of Drag with Ginger Minj and Yvie Oddly as guest judges sounds like a dream I had once. Except this one is really happening, as Variety confirmed earlier this week.Because the gospel of this show still needs to be spread, a brief recap is...
Cinema is inherently a place that people turn to seek representation. Watching a movie by yourself can be a quiet place for self-reflection and self-exploration and watching one in a group often leads to a discussion, so movies naturally are a place people turn to for affirmation...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going viral for posting videos to TikTok in which she phones churches to ask if a registered child sex offender would be welcome at their Sunday family services. The key...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A woman was killed, and 29 people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebration, in what German officials are investigating as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.Authorities were sea...
As if people didn’t hate the DMV enough, a Texas femboy and car enthusiast is sounding the alarm about the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles apparently declaring war on yaoi, so to speak.Content creator aSpicyCow, known only as Amber, posted a video to his social media profiles ...
Remember 2023? The year when transgender influencer and Broadway actress Dylan Mulvaney held up a single can of Bud Light in a video and the right promptly lost its mind, causing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev to lose billions of dollars in market cap? Donald Trump certainly...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.House Republicans tried to turn President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service into something harder to undo. They failed narrowly, and not before approving two measures targeting transgender troops and their families.A...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night to target two prominent gay journalists, mock transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney and deliver a sprawling rally-style address befo...
This discussion contains extensive spoilers for The Odyssey.Much like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is a blockbuster about morality. That’s a rare combination. So often, we treat popcorn cinema as a time to set aside ethical nuance: good guys fight bad guys, good g...
The WNBA All-Star Game and skills competition will keep everyone glued to their screens this weekend, but the fun has already started for fans watching the StudBudz capture the chaos and viral moments among the players on their 72-hour livestream of the event.Besties Courtney Wil...
The Dinah has finally announced its main headliner for the famous sapphic music festival weekend in Palm Springs and it’s the second coming of Lesbian Jesus. In an exclusive announcement to Them, organizers confirmed Hayley Kiyoko will headline at this year's Dinah. “We are so th...
The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's epic about Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca who embarks on a perilous journey home following the Trojan War. And he brought what feels like half of Holly...
Filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was quite a grueling experience. Star Matt Damon recently described it as “more like an expedition than a movie,” saying that everyone on the cast was “pushed to kind of the limit of what they could do.”Everyone, apparently, except for Elli...
On Oct. 30, 2025, a same-sex couple in South Korea filed a petition with the country's human rights commission after a public institution denied marriage leave to one of the men and later reduced his pay and performance bonus for taking time off for their wedding ceremony. The co...
Niger is the latest African country to recriminalize consensual same-sex sexual relations. The Associated Press on June 12 reported the country’s military junta announced a new penal code under which anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practi...
LGBTQ+ ally, actress Julia Roberts, delivered a beautiful tribute to Renee Nicole Good — the 37-year-old queer mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose killing by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last January began a national outcry against the ...
San Francisco police are offering $250,000 to anyone who can help identify the person(s) who targeted six white gay men and murdered them during the late night and early morning hours of nights between late January 1974 to June 1975. Investigators don't think Investigators believ...
Todd Gloria has had a whirlwind two decades as a public servant. Beginning with his successful 2008 San Diego City Council election, followed up by his second successful campaign in 2012 — this time as president of the San Diego City Council — Gloria has been strapped to a rocket...
The bar says they have “no idea” why the account was “deemed inappropriate.”
Dr. SJ Joslin's lawsuit is too soon, according to the court.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
The false conspiracy theory made it all the way to the South Lawn.
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” 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
‘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’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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
