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President Trump’s favorability is at record lows, dragged down by a reckless and unpopular war, soaring food and gas prices, economic instability and a general sense that he is flagrantly corrupt, more focused on vengeance than governing, flailing and mentally unwell. Assuming th...
As the world is still reeling from the news of the death of legendary Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton on Tuesday, many of her LGBTQ+ fans have resurfaced evidence of her long and enduring support of the LGBTQ+ community.That support included a job and a lasting friendship wit...
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat in Michigan, mocked Donald Trump's bizarre pronunciation of his name at a campaign event on Wednesday. "Donald Trump, because he can't resist the red meat, can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth," El-Sayed said. "Ha...
Two women identified as a couple who are charged with the May 22, 2026, murder of the mother one of them in her Silver Spring home and who were arrested three weeks later in Ohio are scheduled to go on trial for murder April 19, 2027. According to online records filed with Montgo...
Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, spoke in his August 25 broadcast about a news story involving "California sodomites who bought a baby through surrogacy" but then allegedly told the birth mother to "kill it" (per their surrogacy agreement) afte...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Kansas judge says one transgender driver can take the wheel again.After Jamie Miller’s license was suspended under a new state law, Douglas County District Judge James McCabria temporarily restored her driving privileges, ruling th...
Former pro-basketball player and sports commentator Charles Barkley criticized the transgender athlete debate unfolding in the WNBA, saying, "Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women," in his interview with radio host Michael Smerconish published Monday on ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal judge cited Dolly Parton’s bosom as he blocked Texas’ drag ban, proving that even in death, the LGBTQ+ icon can still defend the rights of queens.U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled that a 2023 state law criminalizing “...
President Donald Trump claimed today that the recently deceased country music star Dolly Parton "really liked" him, even though she never publicly discussed her political affiliations and twice turned down Trump's offer to award her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (She also on...
A Kansas school district has agreed to the Trump administration’s demands that officials out trans kids to their parents, ending a yearlong investigation into so-called “gender ideology.” In its Tuesday, August 25, announcement, Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. ...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the frontrunner in the race to become Florida’s next governor, has been widely criticized for a bizarre misogynistic comment about why women need high-quality roads. “Everybody gets frustrated when it just takes longer to get from point A to point B," D...
An employee of the Grand Island, New York, wastewater treatment facility has filed a lawsuit against the town for alleged anti-gay discrimination. Court documents obtained by WIVB reveal Timothy Burns' accusations against a coworker, who he said subjected him to "overtly homophob...
This story originally appeared on Out.When J.K. Rowling joined the world in mourning the legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating her legacy, her post on X generated an online backlash that drew a stark contrast between the Harry Potter author's controversial "gender critical" view...
Pride parades, sponsorships, and celebrations all trace their roots back to Black and Brown trans people, who reached their absolute limit with police violence, surveillance, and harassment. We gave this movement its heartbeat. But decades later, our communities are still being a...
A federal judge in Texas ruled this week that the state’s drag ban is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech in violation of the First Amendment. US District Court Judge David Hittner’s Tuesday decision strikes down S.B. 12, a 2023 law signed by anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Greg Abbo...
The Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission voted to fine Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille $15,000 last month due to a discrimination complaint filed by a trans woman over her use of the bathroom. Katie Sorber, a transgender woman, said that on April 5, 2023, she was stopped by emp...
I don’t want to say goodbye. To be honest, my first impression of music icon Dolly Parton was similar to the scathing look the demur Jane Fonda gave the boss’s secretary in one of my favorite funny feminist films ever, "9 to 5." Fonda’s aghast up-and-down scrutiny was pure unspok...
A 2026 list of candidates released by the D.C. Board of Elections shows that 31 of the 43 known LGBTQ candidates who won election in 2024 as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners have filed the required petition signatures to be placed on the ballot this year to run for re-election...
By LEE O. SANDERLIN | The Democratic Party is having something of an identity crisis — losing to President Donald Trump twice in three elections will do that. Should the party embrace anti-establishment figures who espouse progressive policy ideas like Medicare for all and rhetor...
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC Foundation), the public education, research, and policy arm of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the United States, has released new data showing that there are more LGBTQ+ identifying people than ever before...
Transgender author Jesse James Rose wrote in an Instagram post published Sunday that recently deceased homophobic Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) regularly paid her "a fat stack of cash" when she was a "twinky pre-transition college student" to do "unspeakable things to him in a hotel...
Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was declared the winner of yesterday's Republican primary runoff after running a short campaign based largely on transphobia and who her brother was. Graham has received 52.5% of the vote in the runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) with 99% o...
“In 1972, my feeling was that this was a gay town and that I was here at the pleasure of somebody else, which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time.”That’s how late chef, author, and television host Anthony Bourdain described his first summer in Provi...
In a heartfelt tribute to the late Dolly Parton, who died today at age 80, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile said that she had “felt her leaving all week” and had been “asking folks to pray every day,” proceeding to share a series of touching thoughts on faith and LGBTQ+ inclusion...
Dolly Parton died on Tuesday at a Nashville hospital. She was 80. Her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Parton passed away at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center "after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer." Parton's nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced his aunt's death in a video...
There are few celebrities whose passing could inspire such universal mourning as Dolly Parton. The country music legend and renowned philanthropist died today at age 80, turning all of our social media feeds into a sea of black-and-white portraits and tearful remembrances. Surpri...
Don’t let the Sophie Cunninghams of the world fool you: the WNBA is filled with players who have openly supported transgender inclusion in sports for years.It should be no surprise that a league that has historically been early on for LGBTQ+ inclusion— and is currently 25% queer,...
Three years ago, the right lost its mind over Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg allegedly flying "private" on the taxpayer's dime, and for once bringing along his husband to honor veterans in his official capacity as a cabinet member's spouse, among other charges. The la...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Dolly Parton, the country music legend whose singular songwriting, towering hair and rhinestone-studded wit made her an American institution, died August 25 at 80.Across a career spanning nearly six decades, Parton wrote an estimated...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth uttered a transphobic slur during his speech yesterday at Oshkosh Defense, a military vehicle and technology company, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It's his latest use of the slur. "Every dollar squandered on redundancy or bureaucracy or waste is an ins...
Country music icon and LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Parton died at age 80, her family announced on Tuesday via a video posted on her Instagram account. Her cause of death has not yet been revealed; however, last May she reported troubles with her immune and digestive systems following issue...
Radio host Charlamagne tha God eviscerated former New York Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom over his crusade against the WNBA's policy on trans athletes, a war he waged even though the league has never had an out trans player. Earlier this month, Kanter Freedom joined the trans ...
A 67-year-old woman pleaded guilty last week to sending a series of menacing messages to a trans woman, the content of which the sheriff described as "horrific." Lyndsey Peebles, who lives on Scotland's Isle of Bute, has been ordered to pay 500 pounds (approximately $700) to the ...
A New Jersey detective says he was sexually assaulted by a supervisor amid years of anti-gay harassment. Last week, Russell Kingsland, a detective with the state’s Division of Criminal Justice, filed a notice of tort claim, a formal written notice of allegations required in New J...
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … sometimes. Special Assistant to the President Natalie Harp has become the subject of intense media scrutiny in the past few weeks given her uniquely devoted relationship with Donald Trump. Several of Harp’s letters to the pre...
In a tense Fox interview, Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed called out Fox host Jesse Watters for focusing on trans athletes instead of important issues in the upcoming election. "Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually c...
A monument that pays tribute to LGBTQ Canadians who suffered government-sanctioned persecution and discrimination officially opened in Ottawa on Aug. 21. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Louise Arbour, and Women and Gender Equality Minister Rechie Valdez are...
179 Democrats currently in Congress signed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold Colorado's anti-discrimination policy in schools, a case the Court will hear next year in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court announced that it would be hearin...
Republicans are attacking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) – who is running for the U.S. Senate – with a fake artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video of her giving a boy "a no-parent-permission-required estrogen kit." Mills has been a strong supporter of transgender rights this pa...
By JULIE SCHARPER and WESLEY CASE | Soon after Jim Becker came out as gay in 1967, he ducked into a Mount Vernon bar called Leon’s. In the dark, smoky bar, men used pseudonyms for fear of being outed, as homosexual acts were illegal in Maryland. Bartenders, wary of vice squad rai...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Fox News host Jesse Watters wanted Abdul El-Sayed to account for what happens to transgender children’s bodies. He was less enthusiastic when the Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee asked about his.During El-Sayed’s appearance Mo...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.There is a wall inside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, carved with words meant to outlast the administrations whose officials pass beneath them. “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you...
Sometimes I wonder whether home is a place or a feeling. I have lived in places where I never imagined I would stay. I have crossed borders I never expected to cross and spent years in refugee communities where people wake up each morning wondering what the future will bring. I h...
Transphobic billionaire Harry Potter author JK Rowling compared herself to convicted rapist and championship boxer Mike Tyson while threatening critics who dare to publicly criticize her on social media. "If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doub...
Security camera footage at Protest Pizzeria, a gay-owned pizza shop in Washington DC's Dupont Circle, captured a criminal breaking the restaurant's glass front door and stealing $78 in cash from their register around 3 a.m. last Friday, The Washington Blade reported. Though polic...
The first American Pope has made room for progressive LGBTQ+ voices in several recent high-profile appointments, per an analysis in the popular Substack Letters from Leo, written by former Obama staffer Christopher Hale.In February, Pope Leo XIV officially appointed Bishop James ...
Queer smut lovers everywhere, many of whom likely developed their sexual identities by reading erotic fan fiction on Wattpad, were sent into a panic this week after the online publishing platform updated its terms and conditions, leading some to believe it would be banning sexual...
Archbishop Cyril Kobina Ben-Smith, the Anglican Primate of West Africa, spoke out last week against Ghana's recent parliamentary-approved law punishing the “willful promotion, sponsorship or support of LGBTQ+ activities” with up to five years in prison. “Our point in our province...
If anyone knows how to handle a little reality TV chaos, it’s Ariana Madix. Since strutting into the villa on Love Island USA, the Emmy-nominated host has become one of reality TV's most beloved stars. Known for her hilarious commentary, stunning fashion, and genuine fandom of th...
Brittany Boltinhouse — the now-dethroned, Trump-supporting winner of the Miss North Carolina USA 2026 beauty pageant — filed a defamation lawsuit yesterday against the pageant's producers A Blaize Productions and Miss USA President Thom Brodeur for “maliciously coordinating to pu...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's (D) reelection campaign trolled his Republican opponent, Darren Bailey, last Wednesday over his alleged belief that dinosaurs and early humans coexisted. The Pritzker campaign sent a group of people in inflatable dinosaur costumes to the State Fair's R...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has quietly removed several documents from its website pertaining to the care of trans inmates, according to new reporting by Transistics. That includes the long-established policy that allowed trans people to receive non-surgical g...
Remember when buying a new car didn’t require the financial stamina of a “Succession” character? This summer, the average new-vehicle price hit $49,758—basically $50,000 with a little lipstick on it. That makes the Kia K4 hatchback and Nissan Kicks especially refreshing. Neither ...
In a lengthy sit-down interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Sam Smith opened up about rising to fame and coming out as nonbinary in their twenties.“The whole time, I’ve always been nonbinary,” Smith, 34, said, reflecting on the period following the release of their May 2014 deb...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Despite ever-growing food and fuel prices, an ailing health care system, and violent conflicts in the U.S. and abroad, the far right has decided to continue to wage war on transgender student-athletes. And while politicians debate th...
Former New York Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom was kicked out of a WNBA game on Sunday after clashing with a player over his anti-trans beliefs. The incident took place at Chicago's Wintrust Arena during a matchup between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever. Kanter Freedom, ...
The former publicist of Phil McGraw, known publicly as Dr. Phil, is suing the television personality for anti-gay discrimination, among other alleged indiscretions, Jerry Sharell started working for the former talk show host in 2016 and became president of publicity in 2019. He c...
People who thought they were attending a WNBA game in Chicago on Sunday evening were also treated to a three-ring circus courtesy of former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom.Freedom, who announced his intention to be drafted into the WNBA on August 7 as a seeming anti-trans publicit...
India’s proposed overhaul of its foreign funding law could put LGBTQ organizations that depend on overseas donations under new pressure. Introduced in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, on March 25, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, or FCRA, w...
Donald Trump is now claiming that he has ordered hospitals to perform "reverse surgery" on trans people. It is not clear what he's referring to. The president was speaking at a rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Darline Graham Nordone ...
