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"Proud transphobe" Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) started screaming uncontrollably on the House floor today after LGBTQ+ ally Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) gave a speech in support of gender-affirming care, which Mace is trying to ban with an amendment in a military spending bill. Jacobs prese...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The son of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican, now faces child exploitation charges.The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office announced that Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested on charges including sexual exploitation of a child and s...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Fox News host Tomi Lahren wrote yesterday that the “GOP is an utter embarrassment,” citing rising cost-of-living amid the Republican Party’s continued support of the president’s war in Iran. “Let’s be frank about it, some Americans are turning to socialism because Rep...
Wes Streeting, the gay former-health secretary of the United Kingdom who extended the country's indefinite ban on gender-affirming care for youth, was appointed to a new role as Defense Secretary last month. He is now opening up about the massive uptick in homophobic abuse he has...
Retired professional basketball players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White recently announced that they plan to identify as women — at least within the sport of basketball — in order to enter the WNBA draft. After people criticized the pair for pulling an obvious publicity stunt...
On Sunday August 9th, GLAAD, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted a panel at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAFF) exploring how film and visual storytelling can shape culture, influence perception, and expand what is possible for Black LG...
A bar in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, was fined twice for anti-trans discrimination this past month after a state commission found that the bar not only banned a trans woman from using the women's restroom but also selectively scanned people's IDs at the door with a policy that targ...
The public prosecutor’s office in Senegal confirmed Friday that 71 men were arrested and charged with “unnatural acts,” Africa News reports. Twenty-eight other men were arrested but had their charges dropped. The announcement comes several months after the Muslim-majority West Af...
London is a historic city with no end of monumental sights to see: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge. Now add to that list Greta Lee and Rebecca Ferguson being kissy kissy for a new movie. Footage from the filming of a new movie starring Past Lives star Greta Lee and Dune...
India's Income Tax Department has opposed a same-sex couple’s petition that challenges Section 56(2)(x) of the Income Tax Act. The provision exempts gifts between spouses from tax. The couple seeks the same benefit for their relationship. At the center of the challenge is the exp...
Residents of Rehoboth Beach elected City Commissioner Susan Stewart with 61% of the vote on Aug. 8, making her the city’s first openly gay mayor. Stewart beat fellow commissioners Craig Their and Suzanne Goode in the race, as well as newcomer Jake Raak. The final mayoral vote res...
For the past few weeks, the right has been mounting a crusade against trans women in the WNBA. It started with Sophie Cunningham's comments in a July 21 interview and has grown into a full moral panic, with a growing list of prominent conservatives expressing their opposition to ...
Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sworn in as attorney general of the United States on Monday. Blanche secured the position as the country’s 88th chief law enforcement officer on Sunday night after a contentious Senate confirmation process, ultimately en...
This story originally appeared on Out.Editor's note: Major spoilers ahead for the season 3 finale of House of the Dragon.After finally sleeping with Mysaria, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen woke up and chose violence — because she had to.Two seasons of longing looks, one very memorable ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration is abandoning its effort to obtain sensitive medical records from transgender young people who received gender-affirming care at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, bringing one of its most aggressive leg...
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) — a MAGA congresswoman who has repeatedly accused LGBTQ+ people and their supporters of "grooming" children for sexual abuse — has a 21-year-old son who, as of today, has been charged with three felony counts related to sexual exploitation of a child. H...
Two San Francisco bars recently discontinued their use of Patronscan Guard+, an AI-powered facial recognition and surveillance technology that uses cameras and scanners to collect patrons' personal data, including an image of their face and government-issued ID as well as their n...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Delaware bar has been fined a second time for discriminating against a transgender woman.The owner of Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille was fined $15,000 by the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission, according to the Delaware News J...
After a nearly four-year legal battle, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha became the first same-sex couple to be civilly married in the South American country of Bolivia. Despite these women's recent wedding, the country's constitution still forbids same-sex marriages. Nevertheles...
Bel Powley, a star of the forthcoming HBO Max Harry Potter television series, is making it clear that she does not share J.K. Rowling’s famously transphobic views. Powley will play Petunia Dursley in the adaptation, set to stream on December 25 of this year. Despite having a love...
Texan Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who is currently running for U.S. Senate, is touting the latest details of his “detransition clinic.” First agreed to back in May, he says that the settlement that arose from his investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital’s gender-affirmin...
What is at stake for you in the 2026 midterms? What do you think the election could do to change the direction of our country? How has the politics of the last two years affected you personally? And what are you doing to make a difference this year? The September Issue of LGBTQ N...
Two former NBA players have declared themselves eligible for the WNBA’s 2027 draft amid attention being drawn to how the league does not have eligibility requirements for trans players. On Friday, former New York Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom posted a statement and video on X...
Abdul El-Sayed's victory over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the battle to be Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee has been classified as a battle between the progressive and moderate wings of the party. A lot of the coverage was viewed through the prism of the party establishment,...
By Shar Jossell As a contemporary figurative artist and member of GLAAD's 2026 Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative (EMEI) cohort, Jah Beverly creates large-scale oil paintings that center Black trans-masculine bodies with intention, power, and unapologetic presence. Beve...
This story is a collaboration between Them and The Advocate.Taylor Snider says dealing with high-profile clientele was nothing new for her by 2015. She had been a sex worker for nearly seven years at that point, and was accustomed to being paid for her time and discretion. She te...
After two male basketball players publicly declared that they will identify as women only to qualify for the WNBA draft, the women’s professional sports league will soon hold meetings to clarify its language about gender eligibility. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a note ...
In what appeared to be a moment of misspeaking, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) said in a recent congressional speech, "How about we all come together and say 'Let's stop attacking pedophiles’?" During a congressional hearing on the current president's actions addressin...
Donald Trump has appeared in public with strange bruises on his hands for over a year now, but a photo taken this weekend at a golf tournament showed that they're spreading up his arm, and people are concerned. "Trump is known for suspicious bruising, usually it’s the president’s...
Out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was astounded by the energy a top Democratic member of Congress brought to defending Social Security, the retirement insurance program that the Trump administration has set its sites on eliminating. House Democrats wanted to call Elon Musk, who was th...
A church leader in Indianapolis is doubling down on a sermon delivered at the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in the state's capital city last week that called on gay people to "blow yourself in the back of the head," among other incendiary statements. Church leader Justin Zhong e...
He’s played a pygmy hippo, a Chinese spy balloon, disgraced f ormer congressman George Santos, and the iceberg hit by the Titanic. Next month, Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live alum Bowen Yang will make his Broadway debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in the fictional historical comedy O...
A dead dog draped over their mailbox. A tampon shot through with a bullet. Gunshots in the night, and shouts of "Damn queers!" from passing cars. Those were some of the greetings Wanda and Brenda Henson earned when they opened Camp Sister Spirit in Jones County, Mississippi, in 1...
Trump administration created secret, rigged trials to kick trans people out of the military A defense lawyer astonished: "Going in, I had hoped I was paranoid, and boards’ outcomes were not predetermined. It turned out to be much worse than I thought," said Army Reserve lawyer Pr...
AMSTERDAM — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday participated in the World Pride March in Amsterdam. Outright International Executive Director Maria Sjödin and Paolo Rondelli, who in 2022 became the world’s first openly gay head of state when he became Captain Regent of San Ma...
Actor Geno Segers will no longer be the next star in the Broadway production of Hadestown after videos of him making transphobic comments resurfaced last week. The producers confirmed in a statement that they have "mutually agreed" to part ways with Segers only days after announc...
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of another man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” These poignant words from Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped enslavement and became a social activist for the cause of liberation and freedom, were delive...
Psychology Today published a fascinating article up on why straight guys have sex with other men a while back. I've said it repeatedly on Bilerico, but if it weren't for straight guys I wouldn't have had as much sex when I was younger. A good 50% of my experiences have been with ...
The government agency Health Canada announced last week it has ended its restrictions on gay and bisexual sperm donors. Aziz M. told CBC he has "had a wonderful experience" as a sperm donor, with one child conceived with his sperm remaining an active part of his life. But when he...
A library board in Tennessee voted on Monday to fire library director Luanne James for refusing to shield over 100 books – many with LGBTQ+ content – from young readers. The following day, her supporters began a crowdfunding campaign that has since raised nearly $100,000 to suppo...
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. This week's Good News Roundup has lots of examples of LGBTQ+ trailblazers bravely finding their space and ...
‘When Memory Fades’By Nathaniel Chin, MDc.2026, St. Martin’s Essentials$30/422 pages Mom called you in a panic the other day. She’d lost her keys and by the time you arrived to help, she’d found them. In the refrigerator. These kinds of things keep happening, not often but often ...
‘Qtopia: A Memoir of Love, Land and Liberation’2026, University of Wisconsin PressBy Juda Bennett Duffel packed, the new high school graduate could not fall asleep. “On the night before my departure, I stared at the duffel bag as if it were a body bag. We lived close to Dover, wh...
The dystopian future climate scientists predicted decades ago is here. The wildfires that spread across Ontario and Canada’s Northwest Territories in July decimated millions of acres, disproportionately tearing through First Nations communities. Meanwhile, Europe’s unprecedented ...
New York City police arrested 47-year-old psychotherapist Remington Yhap on July 29 for allegedly raping a 16-year-old transgender boy who was his client at Yhap's practice, Liberation Psychotherapy in Midtown Manhattan, on June 15. Yhap reportedly began counseling the teen in Se...
People are bewildered by Donald Trump's latest claim that a judge declared sports "unconstitutional." He was ranting about trans athletes on Thursday this week while addressing a celebration for the athletes who represented the United States at the Winter Olympics and Paralympic ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Connecticut hospital has agreed to Trump administration demands to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors, leaving transgender youth and their families scrambling amid concerns about continuity of care.The Justice Departmen...
U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), a Trump-endorsed ally since his first run for Congress in 2022, lost his primary in Tennessee on Tuesday to a well-funded Republican challenger, according to projections. Ogles, a diehard MAGA loyalist, is notorious for attacking LGBTQ+ people, Muslim...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called for cisgender gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to stand in solidarity with transgender people, who are facing numerous attacks from Republicans all over the country. "I think everybody else has to stick up for them," he said....
Transparent Action, a parent-led initiative in the UK, sent the government a report detailing how kids were faring in school under different policies regarding trans students. The group urged the government to use 2026’s Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance (which ...
The Human Rights Campaign is slamming the White House — and the Department of Education — following their removal of some LGBTQ bullying data from federal data collection. The Civil Rights Data Collection is a mandated survey of all public school districts that collects figures o...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in Amsterdam until Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten on Friday said more needs to be done to defend transgender people and their rights. “Everywhere in...
This essay contains spoilers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.Jack Haven utters no words in the film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Their performance is still the most affecting of them all — at least for trans viewers like me who grew up being taught that the bodi...
A patient at a Hudson Valley, New York, physical therapy office recorded staff and other patients laughing at offensive gay jokes and using anti-gay slurs. The recording, shared with Hudson Valley’s News 12 by the 20-year-old patient’s mother, captures nearly 40 seconds of the co...
Get ready for a fresh, cathartic take on horror with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, arriving in theatres this Friday, August 7. Directed by visionary filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbiner alongside Gillian Anderson. The film follows an ambitious young quee...
Likely 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is being praised for recent comments defending his push for “big swing” goals, acknowledging that they could take 10 or more years to achieve. He’s right, of course: we need long-term plans, and Project 2025 didn’t happen overnigh...
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nonprofit sister organization to the largest LGBTQ human rights lobbying and advocacy organization in the U.S., along with law firms Correia & Puth and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, filed a class action lawsuit against the government as ...
Forty years after state health regulations were used to shut down New York City’s gay bathhouses, two out lawmakers are working to get those regulations repealed. This week, New York state Sen. Erik Bottcher (D) introduced Senate Bill S10673, the Public Health Modernization Act, ...
The name on every disgraced politician’s lips is gonna be … Mamdani. In a nonsensical rant worthy of an IRL “alright, grandpa, let’s get you to bed,” former New York City mayor and flop presidential also-ran Rudy Giuliani used his soap box (also known as his web show America’s Ma...
Written by Thomas Z. Seffernic Since birth and from the creation of society, men are embedded in gender expectations that are routinely instilled throughout their lifetime. While some of these are inherited from past generations, there are always new variations of these “norms” t...
