LGBTQ News
Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Sunday that he married longtime partner Gregory Scott Jr. “With full hearts, immense joy, and deep gratitude, Gregory and I are proud to share that we are officially married," Jones wrote in a statement posted to social media. "Surro...
By every account, Republicans are facing a disaster in this fall's elections. Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular and seems intent on doing everything possible to increase his party's unpopularity. The odds are very high that Republicans will lose the House, and Democrats are in...
I grew up with the Harry Potter books. There were Christmases when the Harry Potter box set was the background audio for the holidays. Now, I avoid them at all costs. For years I’ve heard excuses about separating art from the artist and the importance of the franchise to people. ...
The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) removed funding from just two of the nearly 180 arts organizations that it supports, both of which have an LGBTQ+ focus, per the Charleston-based newspaper The Post and Courier. At a meeting held on August 20, the board of the state gover...
The Trump administration's trans military ban has taken several hits in court, and officials are now taking their fight to kick trans people out to the Supreme Court. The administration submitted a petition on August 28, asking the justices to determine whether banning trans peop...
With experience as an economist, legislative staffer, and nonprofit director, Michael Smith is looking to protect Delaware from the Trump administration and become Delaware’s first openly LGBTQ treasurer. With a master’s degree in economics from the University of Alabama, Smith h...
Poland has begun to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed outside the country. TVP World, the country’s public broadcaster, reported civil registry offices began to “transcribe same-sex marriages legally” conducted outside of Poland on Aug. 22. The EU Court of Justice in...
Getting into the WNBA’s business and being transphobic? In tennis, that’s called a double fault. On Sunday, tennis icon Martina Navratilova — whose descent into the anti-trans movement has rapidly escalated since she first publicly opposed trans women in sports in 2019 — helped s...
True crime YouTuber and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison is sounding the alarm about how the president may have suffered a focal aware seizure at a recent public event. Garrison played a clip of Trump giving a speech to NASA at Houston's Johnson Space Center this past...
An organization led by trans South Asian immigrants is struggling to survive in the face of fewer opportunities for city and state funding. While the group thought it might have to shut down entirely in October, the community has started to rally around it. Now, leaders are hopef...
Trans advocates are disappointed that Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint will reprise the role of Ron Weasley in a 17-week run of Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Grint – who played the character in all eight original Harry Potter films – originally worked to distance h...
Two Florida cities are standing up to Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of their rainbow crosswalks by painting rainbow colors on two other highly visible public places. At the start of Pride month, St. Petersburg painted the steps of its city hall in the colors of the Progress Pride fl...
This story was originally published by LOOKOUT, a nonprofit newsroom covering LGBTQ+ communities and issues in the Southwest. Editor's note: This story contains mentions of self-harm, as well as physical and sexual violence. When Anna Kilbride told a classmate she would not have ...
A judge in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is defending his decision to grant a transgender woman's petition for an administrative change in civil records acknowledging that she is a woman. "I acted legally and according to my conscience," the judge told Beirut-based news o...
President Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, recently noted that his most loyal and sycophantic high-profile supporters — like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly — are starting to question his fitness to lead the country. But while Mary Trump hopes ...
Trump administration report says that supporting trans rights makes people violent What this was based on: The report itself was based on a small, unrepresentative survey that asked people about their views on trans rights and whether they support certain high-profile cases of vi...
A pollster specializing in women voters said she is "seeing sirens" for the GOP as women indicate a massive decrease in support for the party. Christina Matthews, who conducts polls for Bellwether Research and Consulting, spearheaded a survey of 1,604 women ages 18 and over and f...
Another former NBA player has inserted himself into the debate over trans athlete participation in the WNBA. Matt Ryan, who used to play forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, posted on social media on Monday in defense of fellow former player Enes Kanter Freedom, who has been on a ...
As LGBTQ and HIV advocates continue to grapple with the Trump administration’s attacks on healthcare, a new book offers a timely look at what happens when public health systems — and the democratic institutions that sustain them — are pushed to their limits. The book, “Aftershock...
Jared Kushner, like his father-in-law, Donald Trump, was born gagging on a golden spoon. Kushner married Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, in 2009 at Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. Anti-nepotism laws prevent Kushner from working in ...
The technology field can be a gateway to economic mobility. At E-INFOSOL, a service-disabled, veteran-owned business based in Rockville, Md., CEO and co-founder Fredy Pesante and Vice President of Service Delivery Charles Barnett say internships, mentorship and free online resour...
A new emergency shelter opened in Houston last Monday to support unhoused LGBTQ+ youth. Asia's House will give young people ages 15 to 17 a place to sleep, filling a gap as the city's first temporary emergency shelter specifically for queer and trans youth, Chron reported. Courtn...
Author JK Rowling is facing criticism for posting an upskirt image of a transgender woman last weekend while demanding that the trans woman debate her. Rowling wrote post after post on X on July 11, demanding that trans writer Freda Wallace debate her after Wallace called Rowling...
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Editor's note: The Department of Homeland Security on Saturday said Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the U.K. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A DHS spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blad...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blade said ICE arrested Yiannopoulos, who they described as "an illegal alien from the Unite...
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, joked that he is "48.6% gay" in an interview with gay progressive political broadcaster Luke Beasley, published August 17. During their conversation, Beasley asked Hunter Biden whether he was gay like him. Hunter Biden replied,...
LGBTQ people have a variety of housing options when they’re lucky enough to be able to afford property. In San Francisco – long considered a safe haven for the queer community – individual needs have to be weighed both against the city’s chronic housing shortage and a competitive...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.On Karoline Leavitt’s final day as White House press secretary, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, took a black marker to a map and crossed out the name of a 7,300-square-mile Great Lake shared with Canada.“Lake Ontario, ...
Love Island USA fans everywhere are vibrating as the reunion of everyone’s favorite heteropessimist reality dating show is set to air on Monday, August 31st. While the American version of the show has yet to include a significant queer storyline within the walls of the villa —and...
Let’s Go Washington, the Republican group behind an anti-trans sports ban that'll appear on the state's ballot in November, denied a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to remove the academy's name from the group's description of its ballot measure, which appear...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s stand-your-ground law protects a transgender activist.Rihanna Kelver has maintained that Scott Durham hurled anti-trans slurs and pushed her to the ground outside the Crowbar & ...
Ex-gay far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Yiannopoulos — who once served as an intern for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and is known for his sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and racist statements — is c...
A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey school district by a right-wing legal advocacy group reveals the coordinated effort among "parents' rights" and other anti-LGBTQ+ groups to strip students of privacy and other protections in schools, all while falsely promoting their legal suc...
Economic mobility usually assumes a starting line: a bedroom to return to, a parent to call, a place to regroup after things go wrong. For many LGBTQ young adults in South Florida, that starting line never existed. That’s why Our Fund Foundation, SunServe, and Sunshine Cathedral ...
Gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, who stepped down last March as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., had his $1 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against jazz artist Chuck Redd thrown out by a judge last Friday be...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both.The former first son declared himself 48.5 percent gay during a recent interview with gay progressive political commentator Luke Beasley — although the ...
Former director of student wellness and health promotion at Georgia Southern University, Gemma Skuraton, filed a lawsuit against the University System of Georgia (USG) and Georgia Southern University vice president Shay Little, alleging she was terminated in retaliation after obj...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the Pentagon to fire decorated transgender troops who have so far beaten the government in court. The Department of Justice is asking the high court...
National Women’s Soccer League star Esther González is facing backlash from fans who say her decision to sign with a Saudi Women’s Premier League team is a betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community as well as her former team. In July, González and NJ/NY Gotham FC agreed to end her contrac...
Last week, Advocate published a list of "11 anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans dogged by gay rumors" and, while it's very stupid, it's also an interesting look at how stifling contemporary culture is when it comes to gender and sexualitly, how people on all parts of the political spectrum u...
Right-wing financier Reid Rasner may have lost his primary for Wyoming's at-large House seat earlier this month, but he's still getting attention online for his lack of understanding of how public restrooms work. "STOP THE INSANITY!" he posted to Facebook this week. "Another tran...
If any movie title can be said to describe exactly what it is going to show us, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” would have to be it – and yet, it doesn’t communicate anything to prepare us for what we are going to see. For that, you’d have to already be a fan of the creato...
There was only one movie I wanted to watch on the day Tim Curry died. Much as I love The Rocky Horror Picture show with its celebration of alterity and sexual liberation, one of the actor’s performances, for me, stands head and shoulders above the rest. I am talking, of course, a...
This medical group would like transphobes to keep its name out of their mouth. A right-wing anti-trans campaign seeking to ban trans athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity has decided not to comply with a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics to...
Editor's note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key were on assignment in the Netherlands from July 28-Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — A transgender American couple who live in the Netherlands say President Donald Trump prompted them to leave the U.S. Jac...
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released a 20-page pseudoscientific report entitled “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” The report concludes that "gender ideology is associated with left-wing autho...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal appeals court has refused to let President Donald Trump’s administration obtain sensitive medical records belonging to transgender young people who received care in New York.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
Recent headlines and GOP-aligned spokespeople like Riley Gaines would have you believe women and girls in sports are under no greater threat than the one posed to them by transgender people. Indiana Fever guard and latest right-wing media darling Sophie Cunningham poured gasoline...
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Thursday called President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America "petty and disappointing." “This is petty and disappointing. We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. ...
Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
President Donald Trump is so desperate to have his name on the Kennedy Center that he’s willing to tear it down if he doesn’t get his way. In a Monday legal filing, the Kennedy Center board members, most of whom were installed by the president himself, described the arts complex ...
Esther González, a National Women’s Soccer League champion married to a woman, is facing criticism after signing to Al-Qadsiah of Saudi Women’s Premier League — located in a country that famously outlaws same-sex relations.The 33-year-old athlete’s shocking move comes after she m...
Written By Shar Jossell Ryan C. Hamilton is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose lens is trained on the people most often left out of the archive. Approaching his work through a sociological framework, Hamilton is dedicated to documenting Black queer life with intimacy and an insi...
Organizers in Idaho started a campaign to buy a notorious venue that hosted anti-LGBTQ+ events. Their goal: to turn it into a gay bar and community hub. Montgomery Kuykendall, a Boise-based entrepreneur, has launched a GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $3 million to buy the Old S...
The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit from a former Georgia Southern University employee who said she was fired for objecting when the school didn’t want to provide free chest binders to students, CBS News Atlanta reported on Thursday. Gemma Skuraton, who was formerly Georgi...
Marni von Wilpert, currently a member of the San Diego City Council, is running for Congress from one of five recently gerrymandered districts in California, redrawn to add Democratic votes and, the party hopes, send a majority to the House of Representatives in 2027. A pledge to...
WNBA star Cameron Brink did not mince words when asked about former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom's crusade against trans inclusion in the women's league. Brink, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, called Kanter Freedom "a stupid piece of sh*t" during an interview where she al...
A GOP Congressman shared a bizarre take this week on the trans athlete controversy currently consuming the WNBA. During an appearance on Jenna Ellis In The Morning, a radio show hosted by the president's former legal advisor, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said he agreed with a comm...
Rehoboth Mayor Stan Mills called for the resignation of Commissioner Suzanne Goode, following release of an independent investigation into Goode’s behavior that led Mills to conclude she has violated her oath of office. Over the past few months, city staff have complained about C...
