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The heat is on in the city this fall for gala season, culture, and nightlife, including many LGBTQ and ally artists. Select shows, parties, and events for the season are below. September 9/18-20: Fuchsia Fest – The inaugural Fuchsia Fest is a new multi-day celebration created to ...
Conservatives don't care about free speech, but they could stand to be a little less obvious about it. A federal appeals court is allowing the state of Florida to sue three medical associations for their statements in support of gender-affirming care for trans youth. Florida Atto...
The fall season is barely upon us, and already the “must-see” queer movies and shows are leaping out of the gate. The next two months offer a hearty lineup of big screen and streaming options, with something for every taste. Whether you’re a fan of prestige drama, campy horror, “...
Earlier this month, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay allegedly shot two people in the parking lot of Venture-N, a well-known gay bar in Tucson, Ariz. Both victims — Vincent Anthony Siquerioes and Cameron Davis Capara — died at the scene. Police discovered a list of several LGBTQ busines...
In the wake of controversy surrounding the funding of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding, the president's gay niece, Mary Trump, discussed the "gobsmacking" level of corruption in which her family is entangled and explained just why her cousin might feel a deep need to take the money. In...
A representative for actress Hayden Panettiere is contradicting claims put out by TMZ that the actress died after taking an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, per Page Six. On September 14, TMZ reported that several law enforcement agencies believe actress Hayden Panettiere took...
A right-wing law firm has threatened to sue North Carolina's Wake County Public School system if it does not allow parents to opt their kids out of a class taught by a transgender teacher. The Thomas More Society — a prolific Christian nationalist litigator with a history of case...
Bisexual model and reality television star Sarah Jane Nader got the first axe of the 36th season of Dancing With the Stars on Wednesday night and was eliminated, alongside her dancing partner Hailey Bills. Nader and Bills earned a score of 14/30 during the second night of the two...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had the audience laughing with a clever joke at the expense of current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while speaking at an event supporting out congressional candidate, Cait Conley, in New York. "Speaker [Mike] Johnson sent them [mem...
The White House has updated its website to attack previous Democratic presidents as it lashes out against critics of Donald Trump's destruction of a third of the White House without Congressional authorization. The White House website has a timeline of "Major Events" that now inc...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow warned viewers on Monday that President Donald Trump plans to interfere with midterm election results, following the Supreme Court's recent 7-2 ruling against his executive order instructing the US Postal Service (USPS) to block states from ...
The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards illuminated Los Angeles on September 14, 2026, bringing together television’s leading talent at the Peacock Theater for an evening celebrating groundbreaking storytelling, career milestones, and the continued cultural impact of television. Hosted by...
Released just yesterday, the new PlayStation 5 game Marvel’s Wolverine is apparently not as gay as a developer’s comment may have made it sound.In The Washington Post review of the game, Insomniac Games narrative director Walt Williams was quoted discussing the back-and-forth, lo...
The city council of Southlake, Texas — one of the wealthiest cities in the US — voted unanimously on Tuesday night to deny a permit to Pride So-Kel, a community Pride festival planned for October 3 on the 10-acre property of St. Martin-in-the-Field, an Episcopal church. While one...
U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first out trans person in Congress, asked her Democratic House colleagues in a September 14 letter to support her bid to become one of the next co-chairs of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. The committee develops caucus-wide ...
Dumb, dumber, dumbest, and evil. Any of the felon’s Cabinet and close aides could fit these terms depending on the discussion. You have Commerce Secretary Lutnick saying “no American military were killed in Iran war.” Then it was reported our venal Vice President JD Vance said, “...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride secured the Democratic nomination for a second term representing Delaware on Tuesday without facing a primary challenger. By Wednesday, she was back to emphasizing the work rather than the history.McBride, the...
Leaves have scarcely turned, but throughout the DMV, the fall theater season is well underway. In Arlington, Signature Theatre got a jump on the season with Stephen Sondheim's musical “Merrily We Roll Along” (through Nov. 1). Told entirely in reverse chronological order, this sto...
Written by Shar Jossell Some things fade. Pictures rip, memories blur, and whole ways of being go undocumented. BE3K paints against that erasure. A member of GLAAD's 2026 EMEI cohort, the New Orleans-based figurative painter preserves the rituals and intimate moments that define ...
Rob Sand, a Democrat running for governor in Iowa, has been trying to portray himself as being outside of the left-and-right dichotomies of politics and “culture wars.” Part of that political styling now appears to include claiming to support trans rights while opposing trans inc...
Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explained in three words why the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday was so terrible. "Weakest performance ever," Buttigieg said on CNN after the speech, noting that the speech received low approval ratings from voters, mu...
A tangled domestic violence case in Delaware has led the alleged victim to sue the state's attorney general and the University of Delaware over accusations of racism and homophobia. Tymothy ‘Ty’ Moyer is suing both the attorney general's office and the university over actions in ...
If you’re looking for an LGBTQ+-friendly stop on a road trip through the Sonoran Desert, or a destination worth flying into on its own, Tempe, Arizona, offers a welcoming entry point to the Southwest. Located in the heart of Greater Phoenix and just minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbo...
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) said that Donald Trump's massive "tantrum" during a virtual Kennedy Center board meeting "was the most unprofessional thing that I've ever witnessed or been a part of." During an appearance on MS Now, she said Trump called her "dumb," "incompetent," and "...
Cisgender women at the Kansas State Fair are facing long lines at the restroom — and signs warning them not to use the men’s bathrooms, even if those lines are significantly shorter. That’s just one of the ripple effects of Kansas’s draconian anti-trans bathroom law. S.B. 244, wh...
Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained more than 150 people who gathered outside an Istanbul courthouse to protest raids that targeted the country's LGBTQ community. CNN reported the protesters had planned to speak with reporters outside the city’s Caglayan courthouse, but autho...
Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to defend Donald Trump's handling of the economy by blaming Joe Biden, and one gay Democrat had enough. Out Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) was questioning Bessent about his statement last month that the "K-shaped economy is over." A K-shaped...
I'm excited to focus this month's family-building column on domestic adoption, and more specifically, open adoption, which can create meaningful opportunities for children to maintain connections to their birth families when those relationships are safe and appropriate. While eve...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A gay congressional candidate whose fetish modeling drew right-wing media attention has responded to the coverage, saying he will not be shamed out of his race for Congress.Democratic candidate Chris Gallant, an Army veteran and New ...
Beloved out actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, are celebrating a remarkable 40 years together, 18 of them married. "Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles," Takei wrote on social media...
In a video clip that has now been widely shared on right-wing social media, an attendee at a recent campaign event for Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico asks the lawmaker who his favorite Texan drag queen is. Talarico responds quickly, sharing that he’s a fan of Drag...
The 2026 election is shaping up to be a referendum on Donald Trump, even though he is not on any ballot. At least according to LGBTQ Nation readers. Related Trump's gay niece says his "downward spiral" is becoming "impossible to hide" Last month, we asked you what your main conce...
Tymothy ‘Ty’ Moyer, a gay former resident of Wilmington, Del., earlier this year filed a lawsuit in federal court charging Delaware Attorney General Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Jennings, one of her deputies, and a state-employed victims advocate with conspiring to deny him “equal protection...
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass an ordinance officially recognizing non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, as well as multigenerational households, as protected classes. The measure will amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recogni...
A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a series of attacks on queer men that occurred last summer in Nantes, France. While the assailant denies that he picked his victims because of their sexuality, he was found guilty on hate crime charges. 19-year-old Sophian M-Ne...
A loss of federal funding has threatened to adversely impact the Virginia Anti-Violence Project's work in the state. The group's mission is to assist LGBTQ and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) victims of domestic, sexual, interpersonal, and state violence with direct...
Nicki Minaj can't take a joke. Trevor Noah, who hosted the Grammy Awards this Sunday in LA, made a joke about her meeting with Donald Trump last week, part of her transformation into a QAnon-believing MAGA supporter. Related Nicki Minaj wants Don Lemon locked up for reporting on ...
Florida may soon elect Marshall Clayton Rawson — a Republican, White nationalist supporter who supports the execution of LGBTQ+ people — to its state legislature. Rawson has a long history with the League of the South, a white nationalist group that has been certified as a hate g...
MAGA supporter and entrepreneur Jay Katari stepped down from the board of directors of EqualPride — the parent company of LGBTQ+ media outlets like The Advocate, Out, and them — and resigned as the company's strategic advisor for growth and innovation one day after reports of his...
The Very Rev. Micah Cronin has made history as the first known out transgender dean of any Episcopal cathedral — and, as a 30-year-old, he is also one of the youngest. A dean (given the honorific title "Very Reverend" in the Episcopal faith), is the senior priest and chief execut...
As with any celebrity competition show, I can’t help but do a deep dive on the contestants (read: stalking their socials). While there are 16 whole celebrities competing on season 35 of Dancing With The Stars, there’s only one pair that I’m truly invested in and giddily anticipat...
It came as a big surprise to a lot of Emmy Award viewers on Monday night when screens for the In Memoriam segment lit up with a picture of Bob Mackie, the behind-the-scenes fashion legend behind the 70s-era glamour looks for Cher, Carol Burnett, and countless other variety stars ...
(UPDATE: Since this story was posted, EqualPride announced that Jay Katari has resigned from the board as of Tuesday afternoon. “I have decided to step down from the Board of Directors of equalpride,” Katari said in a statement shared by EqualPride CEO Mark Berryhill. “My intenti...
Jay Katari has resigned from the board of equalpride, which owns The Advocate, Out, and Them.The news comes one day after queer and transgender editors and other editorial staff at the country’s leading LGBTQ+ newsroom demanded answers about Katari's expanded role in the company ...
The Denver City Council is considering an ordinance to limit the collection and sharing of information on sexual orientation and gender identity by city agencies as a way to protect LGBTQ+ people from state and federal probes. The ordinance, according to The Denver Gazette, would...
Entertainment has been bittersweet for queer people. We've lost Dolly Parton, Bob Mackie, and Tim Curry. We've seen a 41 percent drop in queer characters on television due to TV cancellations. So you likely weren't expecting the Emmys to be a particularly queer affair. And yet, t...
A queer bookstore in Govanhill in Glasgow, Scotland, was vandalized. Vandals smashed its window, which had a message that read, “Trans liberation now.” Seeking community support to repair the window and install security shutters, the owners of the store, which is named Category I...
On September 14, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down proposed changes by the Trump administration to limit mail-in ballot voting. This decision comes just a month and a half before the midterm elections in November. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 31 aime...
Chris Gallant, the out Democratic candidate for New York’s First Congressional District, says he’s “not embarrassed or ashamed” of a series of racy photos that recently resurfaced in media reports. Over the weekend, right-wing outlet the New York Post reported that more than a de...
Meidas Touch reporter Pablo Manríquez asked several lawmakers on Monday how they feel about the president's repeated claims that America has entered a golden age under his leadership. And they had some very pointed thoughts. Related "I'm out of jokes": Jaws drop as White House cr...
Brian and Brant Rawls-McQuillan began building their family a bit more than 12 years ago. Although it wasn't too far in the past, the landscape for LGBTQ+ families looked entirely different. Social media feeds weren't flooded with happy queer families; it was far less common to b...
Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body has proposed replacing the term “LGBT” with “LGSP,” grouping lesbian and gay people with sodomy and sexual abuse, as it prepares a proposed law that would criminalize conduct and advocacy it consideres prohibited. Asrorun Niam Sholeh, head of ...
A high school student and her family have settled their lawsuit with the Boise School District after the student said she saw a trans girl in the bathroom, which is something that people have been able to sue over in the state since 2023. The district agreed to pay her $34,000, p...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate floor for the first time since June — so he could confirm an anti-LGBTQ+ judge.The former Republican Majority Leader, who was hospitalized for months after a June health incident —...
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said during a press conference on Saturday that his government will move to end the country's ban on same-sex couples adopting children. "We can say unequivocally that we will change this system," Magyar told reporters. "It should not be a mi...
Brianna Turner has been fighting back against the targeting of transgender athletes long before the toxic discourse currently surrounding the WNBA. In 2023, she took to X to say that “people disguise their transphobia as caring for women’s athletics” and has even used her tunnel ...
An organization called Hands Off the Arts has announced it is holding a protest on Friday, Sept. 18, in which between 400 and 800 participants are expected to create a “human chain” around the Kennedy Center to voice their strong objection to President Donald Trump’s call for pos...
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said this past weekend that an attempt by her Republican predecessor to restrict trans kids' ability to participate in school sports is now dead, and she got emotional during her announcement. She was speaking at Virginia Pridefest this past S...
Republican Jadon MacCormack, a Connecticut State House candidate who literally wants to execute all LGBTQ+ people, decisively lost his primary race last night against his competitor, Anthony Emilio. MacCormack won only 90 votes, less than 20% of the total votes cast for both cand...
A woman told the FBI that, when she was 13 years old, Donald Trump watched as her uncle murdered her newborn child and dumped its tiny corpse into Lake Michigan. Her claim appears in an FBI document among Epstein files, newly released by the Department of Justice (DOJ), but it's ...
