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The Big Gay Flotilla, a gay informal annual meet-up slated for last Saturday in Long Beach, California, went on as planned, despite a deluge of death threats and homophobic online attacks, according to organizer Sal Flores. One man who posted a death threat was arrested days befo...
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New Hampshire Democratic state representative Alice Wade has spent her brief time in office pushing forward progressive policy points, often fighting against anti-transgender legislation such as bathroom restrictions and gender-affirming care bans since being elected in 2024. As ...
Two queer women directors, Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron, recently revealed that they turned down opportunities to direct episodes of HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series because of the transphobic views of its billionaire author J.K. Rowling. In an Instagram post posted yesterday...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.The Republican urged the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate allegations that medical i...
A fight over strategy against the Trump administration's denial of gender-affirming care for transgender youth erupted on Tuesday at a forum in Massachusetts, where a trans activist confronted the state's attorney general over not suing hospitals and clinics for ending the care. ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s son-in-law Michael Alfonso is running for office, but all the internet can talk about is his eyebrows.Alfonso just won the Republican primary in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, but instea...
One Million Moms (1MM) is upset over the latest commercial for the baked snack cracker Cheez-It because it features "offensive sexual innuendos with an extremely sensual message between two males." The ad, entitled "The Boyfriend," features a young woman who introduces her dad to...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a new report that claims that healthcare providers are mislabeling gender-affirming care to turn a fraudulent profit. The report, based on anti-trans assumptions and bias, is now being used as the basis for a fresh inve...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Larger, hairier gay men who felt excluded from mainstream gay culture and its obsession with smooth skin and a low body fat percentage formed their own community in the late 1970s and dubbed themselves “bears.”In the decades since, t...
A new report is proving once again that the tired conservative phrase “go woke go broke” has no truth behind it. Companies that kept their DEI policies in place, even after President Donald Trump put out an executive order in 2025 threatening companies that supported it, have sin...
Tyler Boebert, the son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), is such a bad parent that he's going to jail for it. But no one – least of all his mother – is going to question his legitimacy as a parent over it, even as these same people refuse to accept that queer people are the parents ...
A text message falsely stating that openly gay Florida state senator Shevrin Jones is living with HIV is now facing widespread condemnation — and possible litigation, per CBS News. Jones, who currently represents Florida’s 34th district in the state senate, is running in the Demo...
Rosie O’Donnell opened up this week about her struggle to remember her nonbinary child’s pronouns and the heartwarming lengths she’s gone to to remind herself. The actress, comedian, and television host was a guest on Tuesday’s episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, where sh...
TikTok has been abuzz this week with controversy surrounding Drew Afualo, a popular social media creator and podcast host known for her feminist content. Though her clips regularly go viral, often drawing adverse reactions from misogynistic men, this most recent controversy has p...
As part of an ongoing effort to celebrate the women and queer women reshaping media, GLAAD, in partnership with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), hosted Beyond the Spotlight: Women Shaping the Future of Media Mixer, a conversation and networking evening spotlighting leaders across e...
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who is running for US Senate this year against Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D), called his opponent "masculine" when compared to Minnesota's current governor, Tim Walz. First, looking at Peggy Flanagan, she's just a more muscula- more masculine version of Tim W...
A bill that is being called the "most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ bill" in Indiana was passed by the state's Senate last week. S.B. 182 contains several provisions. First, it defines sex and gender in terms of reproductive organs and applies that definition to all laws in the state. Seco...
Out actor Neil Patrick Harris said in an interview published yesterday that he publicly came out as gay in a November 2006 statement to People magazine at the age of 33 in anticipation of online blogs potentially outing the then-young actor. Talking with Great Company, a videocas...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A transgender young person confronted Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell over why her office hasn’t sued hospitals denying gender-affirming care.During an interview on Boston Public Radio before a live audience at the Bos...
Fox News rolled out transgender MAGA cheerleader Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday to address the latest far-right trans controversy involving the Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham. Last month, Cunningham, the Fever's popular 6'1″ guard, sparked cheers among anti-trans MAGA types and a...
James Dale, the gay former Boy Scout whose landmark Supreme Court case established the organization’s First Amendment right to exclude him, has filed a second federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense over its relationship with Scouting America. The Aug. 3 lawsuit, which ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Trump’s handpicked board has devised a new way to put it back.The board voted Thursday to inscribe “Restored ...
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, said in an op-ed published yesterday that President Donald Trump "has not looked well" during his second term, adding, "We should know why." It's the second time Reiner has sounded the alarm about Trump's heal...
Creative Artists Agency, the mega Hollywood talent agency, is backing right-wing comedian Ben Bankas in his fight with a Minnesota comedy club. Laugh Camp in St. Paul canceled Bankas' three-night run following an offensive riff on Renee Good that went viral. Related Don Lemon's a...
Lilly Wachowski revealed that while her new movie, The Hunted, is in late-stage production, it has stalled because Hollywood executives are declining to fund the $10 million project. Wachowski says that's because the story about trans people features an extensive trans cast. "Peo...
Queer writer and director Ally Pankiw is showing that it’s pretty easy, actually, to not pursue work on the Harry Potter television series.In an Instagram post on August 13, the I Used to Be Funny director posted screenshots of a text exchange with an apparent member of her team,...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Minnesota Democrats chose a progressive ally over an LGBTQ+ history-maker Tuesday, handing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan victory against lesbian U.S. Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for U.S. Senate.Results showed Fl...
In the mid to late 1940s, my aunt Bea and her husband lived on an army base where my uncle was stationed. During Bea’s pregnancy, she developed a rash over her body. Her physician diagnosed her symptoms as an allergic reaction to having eaten strawberries. Within the next six mon...
Beloved actress Anne Hathaway, who is currently five months pregnant, is being “transvestigated” for showing off her nearly fully exposed baby bump on the red carpet. Yes, we had to read that twice also.At the August 9 Los Angeles premiere of The End of Oak Street, starring Hatha...
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) has apologized after a discussion of his voting record on trans issues with a group of fellow Democrats turned ugly this week. The congressman, who is up for reelection in November, spent Tuesday evening speaking to Democratic voters in Virginia's predo...
A federal judge dismissed Minnesota's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's stance that states and school districts can't allow trans kids to participate in sports. Minnesota was the only state challenging Donald Trump's "two sexes" executive order. Minnesota sued the Tr...
The WNBA has commented on the growing number of outsiders trying to use the league’s gender eligibility policies to stir up controversy. Following news that two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom, plan to register for the WNBA draft by simply saying they iden...
A third GOP candidate who had Donald Trump's endorsement just lost his primary race this week, which led some commentators to point out that Trump's influence on the party is waning. "Mike Lindell falling short in Minnesota is a HUGE embarrassment to Trump after his endorsement,"...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is getting called out for her "psychotic episode" in an airport by a former GOP congressman who she joked was transgender. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was on Fox News discussing next year's midterm elections when he brought up Mace, saying tha...
For much of my adult life, people have assumed they know my politics before I open my mouth. As a transgender man writing for an LGBTQ publication, many assume I fit neatly into one political camp. The truth is more complicated. I have long felt politically centrist. I believe de...
Content Warning: This story contains descriptions of fatal violence against a transgender woman.On the evening of August 5, Juju Nadeau was walking with friends along Back Cove Trail, a wooded path wedged between the water and Interstate 295 in Portland, Maine. As an avid urban e...
Washington DC Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay $252,479.70 to jazz musician Chuck Redd within 45 days because the Center's former president, gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, baselessly tried to sue...
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...
Anti-LGBTQ+ and MAGA Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (R) spoke at the recent Signs & Wonders Christian conference alongside homophobic pastors and a self-described ex-gay man who raped two 15-year-old boys. Bailey — who said in a 2025 interview that schoolchildren ...
The Central European nation of Slovakia rejected a gay couple's attempt to have their marriage registered, possibly setting up a clash with the European Union (EU). Ivan Novotný and Metod Špaček, who are both Slovak, got married in Austria in 2020. Both nations are EU member stat...
Set in the glitzy Hollywood Hills of 1981, Bret Easton Ellis' semi-autobiographical thriller The Shards has just about everything one would want from a Ryan Murphy series. The acts of violence are mysterious, the teens are poreless, everyone is oversexed. It comes as no surprise ...
The Democratic primary for a seat in Congress representing parts of the Miami area got ugly on Tuesday when voters received a campaign text message smearing the leading candidate with an accusation that he is HIV positive. Shevrin Jones, Florida's first out Black state senator, i...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Eugene Vindman came to a predominantly Republican Virginia county Tuesday night expecting to tell local Democrats why they needed to help him win reelection and put their party back in control of Congress. Instead, the first-ter...
Most Americans are uncomfortable with two things: transgender athletes and science. According to polling data shared this week by the Pew Research Center in light of the current debate around the WNBA, a majority of Americans (73%) say that they are uncomfortable with the idea of...
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary for the Senate in Minnesota, as progressive Democrats continue to clinch nominations across the country. On Tuesday night, NBC News called the race for Flanagan, who received 59.0% of the state’s Democratic primary vote, while he...
Newly confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 50 to 49, Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche has carte blanche to turn the Department of Justice from justice for We the People to just us, the Trump family. The Department of Justice, while falling within the Executive b...
The Trump administration has released a finalized version of a new rule that will bar federal insurance, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), from covering gender-affirming care for trans youth. CHIP is a joint federal-state health insurance program that prov...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.It’s been just about a month since U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced his plan for the “High-T” Department of War, which he says includes giving testosterone replacement therapy, known as TRT, to cisgender troops deemed...
Two anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic schools in Colorado will get their case heard at the Supreme Court on November 3, the Court announced on Monday. St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood, Colorado, along with two parents and the Archdiocese of ...
Gay D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Donohue on Aug. 11 filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court charging that D.C. police acted improperly and violated a local law by not paying him $30,000 in reward money for his role in helping police identify and arrest — and obtain ...
During Pride month this year, the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective (DSGC) announced plans for The Collective, which will become Delaware’s first LGBTQIA+ visitor center and Wilmington’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ space in nearly 40 years. “We’ve been talking about the conce...
The flags in the film community are flying at half mast today after news that Superman actor Nicholas Hoult has been cast in the already greenlit second season of the upcoming HBO-produced Harry Potter remake series.Hoult will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the second season of the up...
A former Trump official's speech about how Christian nationalists will "impose" their religion on everyone in the U.S. is getting attention online. William Wolfe served as both the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a Director of Legislative Affairs at the State Department...
Written down on paper, the world of One Night Only is a harrowing one. A conservative government and an opportunistic tech industry have colluded to implant mandatory biochips in people’s wrists that surveil their sexual activity, with carceral consequences for anyone who does th...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in a Pennsylvania case where the adminsitration sought access to the private medical records of transgender children. In a short motion, the DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a l...
As transgender sports policy continues to make headlines, two former NBA players are attempting to use vague WNBA wording on players’ gender identity to extend their finished professional sports careers. Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, two male former professional basketball...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration has finalized a rule cutting off Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for gender-affirming medical care for transgender young people, turning the federal government’s financial leverage ov...
The manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas reportedly screamed and rushed children out of the women's restroom and changing area on August 8 after three self-described “bearded, burly” transgender men wearing yellow “Compliance Crew” t-shirts followed ...
New court documents reveal a gay couple in Denver was the victim of a road rage shooting in the city. The men were called an anti-gay slur and other derogatory comments before the suspect shot one of them in the head. Police later arrested Jacob Sifuentez, who has been charged wi...
