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Across much of America, marriage equality is widely accepted and recognized as a fundamental right. More than a decade after the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry, LGBTQ+ families across America have flourished. ...
Hey fellow LGBTQ+ Democrats, this is worth reading! Especially if you're a voter in Washington, D.C. who's planning to cast a ballot for the nomination of local candidates in the District of Columbia in 2026. Because next Tuesday June 16 is a really Big Deal for D.C. Democrats. I...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) posted a picture of Democratic Senate candidate and state Rep. James Talarico as a woman in order to mock the Democrat for supporting action on climate change. "Jimmy Talarico authored the Texas Climate Action Act – Texas’ Green New Deal," Abbott wrote ...
My name is Hope Solomon, and I’m running for mayor of Washington, D.C. I’ve spent my entire life here. I attended D.C. Public Schools. I grew up working in my family’s small business here in D.C. I live in Dupont Circle. For 17 years, I worked in national security with the Depart...
Elections are always important, but this year in D.C. they will bring major changes. Because of that, your vote in the Democratic primary on June 16 is more important than ever. D.C. is so overwhelmingly Democratic it is a near certainty the winners in the Democratic primary will...
LGBTQ voters in the nation’s capital are choosing among a long list of LGBTQ supportive candidates running for mayor, D.C. City Council, and the position of D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives in the city’s June 16 primary election. LGBTQ activists who have spoken ...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! Last August, Ingrid Christina packed up with their "kiddo" and moved from D.C. to Canada. Credit Trump with the relocation. Related This photojournalist usuall...
Friday marks 10 years since a gunman killed 49 people inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The massacre, which, at the time was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, left the LGBTQ community in this country and around the world reeling. It also prompted renew...
A bombshell New York Times article, entitled "Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files," repeatedly states that President Donald Trump and his closest White House staff have held numerous meetings discussing how best to delay any release of federal investigatory mat...
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic primary on Tuesday night with an overwhelming showing from voters fired up over prospects of replacing longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins and retaking Congress this fall. Collins has proven unbeatable over a 30-yea...
Senate candidate Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic primary on Tuesday night with an overwhelming showing from voters fired up over prospects of replacing longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins and retaking Congress this fall. Collins has proven unbeatable over a 30-year car...
Earlier this year, criminal charges were filed against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for defying Hungary's ban on Pride celebrations and for helping to organize a Pride march in the capital. The charges against him, though, were just dropped, weeks after Hungarian dictator Vik...
Justice came for 19-year-old Ajani Grimes on Tuesday when he was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for the murder of Laura Schueler, a 47-year-old trans woman. Grimes's arrest in Schueler's killing was the end of a months-long crime spree that started in October 2024, when...
Donald Trump told reporters at the Oval Office today that he loves inflation when asked about new Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) this morning. Earlier today, the BLS released the latest CPI for the month, based on its study of ...
An Ontario, Canada, elementary school's Pride flag installation over the weekend was vandalized for the second time in a week, leaving community members reeling. On Saturday night, two unknown suspects cut down the metal flagpole from which the Pride flag flew at Norwich's Emily ...
Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) was caught clearly faking a 90-second phone call to avoid answering a reporter's question about possible cuts to Social Security. The reporter asked Wittman – who is up for reelection this year – about "Mike Johnson's secret plan to cut Social Security." R...
As I walked into my front yard, I noticed that the LGBTQIA-inclusive Pride flag I had hung on my garage was missing once again, for the third time in less than eight months. Coming from the depths of my soul, I looked up into the sky and let out a howl that scattered birds from a...
For Benoît, a gay man in rural France, Pride flags are not decoration. They are a declaration that queer people belong to the same fields, towns, and forests that once made them feel unwelcome. The morning of their first rural Pride march, the organizers returned to the storehous...
Earlier this year, the federal government removed Pride flags from the Stonewall National Monument, and the outrage from the LGBTQ+ community was deafening. Activists across the country spoke out against it, LGBTQ+ media published column after column denouncing the removal, and a...
Dr. Alveda King, niece of civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was asked at a committee hearing about President Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters. Her response was to peddle alarmist anti-abortion rhetoric and misinformation about gender-affirm...
Notorious transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost in her state's Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday, coming in 5th place as Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a runoff. As the vote count came in, Equality PAC hosted its National ...
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! In June 1978, freelance news photographer Mark Ivins was on assignment for the Village Voice, covering the Christopher Street Liberation Day March in New York ...
It can be tempting to feel somber this Pride. In 2025 and 2026, the United States dismantled much of the LGBTQ+ rights infrastructure it had spent decades building — eliminating the Global Equality Fund, defunding local LGBTQ+ organizations, and banning the rainbow flag from fede...
Former D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie is running for mayor as Muriel Bowser’s third term expires in January. He’s running in a crowded Democratic primary field; recent polls show him in second place behind Council member Janeese Lewis George. D.C.’s primary is Tuesday, June ...
Satirical comedian and activist Walter Masterson released a Pride Month video on Monday in which he mocks MAGA supporters at pro-Trump demonstrations by complaining about people "with these flags and hats" that they "wave around in people's faces," adding, "It's become their enti...
The Cleveland Clinic of Ohio will direct $2 million to provide no-cost detransition healthcare services for the minuscule number of trans people who detransition, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Friday. Though the hospital already provided detransition care, its pu...
Advocacy groups are criticizing a new Tennessee law, House Bill 1665, signed in April by Gov. Bill Lee (R), which prohibits doctors from asking minor patients questions about gender. The law takes effect in October. Advocacy groups say it's an “unnecessary” attack on the LGBTQ+ c...
A new gender-affirming medical clinic will open in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City. But the clinic (which hasn't announced an opening date) won't serve adults or children under the age of 19, adhering to President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to ban gen...
Deep red states across the country have rolled out anti-Pride alternatives to Pride month recently, inspired by so-called Christian values, and riding the Trump administration’s own anti-LGBTQ+ crusade. However, legislation to create a federal "family month" in June has not gaine...
Laverne Cox is opening up about her former relationship with a Trump-supporting New York City police officer. The actress and trans rights advocate joined the hosts of The View on Monday to discuss her new memoir Transcendent. During their conversation, co-host Alyssa Farah Griff...
For nearly four decades, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been one of the most influential champions of LGBTQ rights in American politics. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker helped lead landmark LGBTQ legislation through Congress; including the repe...
A family-owned bakery in Minnesota is celebrating June as Nuclear Family Month to counter Pride Month celebrations. Joshua Streblow, a farmer and father of nine, is the owner of Carl's Bakery in Granite Falls. He told the News Tribune he believes the nuclear family (as in a mothe...
By his own account, Eric Chung was living the American Dream. A son of immigrants from Communist Vietnam, Chung is a constitutional lawyer who was working at the Commerce Department on the CHIPS and Science Act to boost the economy and bring jobs and manufacturing to places like ...
Republicans are up in arms over a New York state bill seeking to make state child custody and parental laws more inclusive to LGBTQ+ families. The New York Legislature passed a bill last week that would amend gendered language in the state's Family Court Act. Mother and father, f...
Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while attending the Knicks game in his hometown of New York City last night, yet he told the press that New Yorkers gave him a warm and joyous welcome. Despite an abundance of video evidence showing the president being booed multiple times, he se...
Donald Trump was roundly booed multiple times while attending a Knicks game in his hometown of New York City last night, and out MS NOW host Rachel Maddow appeared to enjoy the moments. As the national anthem was sung, the Jumbotron focused on the president, who was saluting in h...
Capital Pride’s date change isn’t slowing down the festivities. Back in December, the Capital Pride Alliance shifted the calendar for Pride celebrations in the nation’s capital from the second weekend of June to two weeks later to the weekend of June 20-21 to not conflict with Pr...
Dmitriy Popov, who stabbed gay dancer O'Shae Sibley to death, was found guilty of a hate crime on Monday but was acquitted on the most serious charges he faced. Sibley, 28, was voguing to Beyoncé when he was killed at a gas station in July 2023. Popov, who was 17 at the time, arg...
Former Republican campaign operative Steve Schmidt called President Donald Trump "deranged," "emotionally and psychologically incontinent," and "in a state of decomposition and collapse" for storming out of an NBC interview last Sunday when journalist Kristen Welker pointed out h...
A new Justice Department memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the FBI to create a “cash reward system” to incentivize providing information against domestic terrorists. However, it also makes it clear that the targets of such domestic terrorist investigations will be “A...
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...
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...
The planned clinic comes as hospitals face mounting federal pressure over gender-affirming care.
Disgraced former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) mounted a political comeback of sorts, Politico reported in a June 8 article, claiming that Venezuela’s vice president had promised him a literal gold mine if he got the U.S. to improve diplomatic relations between the countries. Schock r...
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend Pride events in D.C. this month. The Capital Pride Alliance is marking its 51st year with a full slate of events, including a parade, festival, concert, parties, and community events across the city. This year’s theme is “EXI...
The judge's order keeps 14 incarcerated women in their current placements after the court found evidence of serious safety risks.
A federal court blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from transferring 14 transgender women from women's prisons to men's prisons, saying that doing so puts the women in danger. The ruling, which came down on Sunday, is in Doe v. Blanche, a legal challenge to the president...
About 10 neo-Nazis wearing matching red and black outfits, sunglasses, and masks protested Athens Pridefest in Georgia last Saturday, while holding a black flag with a white swastika on it, delivering Nazi salutes, and reportedly shouting “Heil Hitler” along with racist and anti-...
Voters in Washington state could approve an anti-transgender law, Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, which would require girl student-athletes statewide to confirm their "biological sex" with genital inspections just to play sports. Opponents of the initiative say it's invasive, co...
A federal judge has referred attorneys from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disciplinary proceedings, criticizing them harshly for how they behaved when asking for trans kids' private medical records as part of a wide and unfocused investigation into a hospital that provides g...
With so many frontal attacks on the LGBTQ+ community coming from the federal government, it's easy to overlook the impact from the private sector. But according to a new report from Out Leadership, which describes itself as "the global LGBTQ+ network," it finds that the red and b...
Attendees at Boston's annual Pride parade on June 6 booed Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) as he marched down the street, likely due to prior comments the lawmaker has made about trans rights. In a video posted to social media, Moulton and his supporters can be seen marching with rainbow...
A grand jury in New York ruled that a judge who refused to marry a same-sex couple in 2024 should be removed from office, ripping into her by accusing her of "[laying] bare her bigotry towards homosexual people and her willingness to put her personal feelings above her oath as an...
Donald Trump stormed out of an NBC interview on Sunday when challenged about his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Trump was talking about the January 6 rioters, who he pardoned en masse last year, when journalist Kristen Welker said, "Just to be very clear, there's no evi...
Washington has long prided itself on stability. Anchored by the federal government and buoyed by a highly educated workforce, the District has historically weathered economic uncertainty better than most cities. But beneath that stability, cracks have been showing since January 2...
‘Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000’By Barry Waltersc.2026, Viking$35/496 pages Step, step, tap, back step. Shimmy in a circle, left hand waving over your head, shake your tail feathers, repeat to the beat. Once there was a time when you could do any dance in your s...
A new study out of Northwestern University in Chicago asserts that gay candidates are receiving more support than ever from voters, shedding the "electoral penalty" of being gay in ever greater numbers. At the same time, voters are imposing another penalty on candidates for gende...
Billionaire Elon Musk's estranged trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, made headlines this week for her abrupt exit from an interview after the reporter told her that Musk is "the best." Wilson, a model, was at an event in Spain to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Desigual s...
Republicans' increasing attacks on transgender people caused compelled many trans people and their families to move to Portland, Oregon, a trans-friendly city in a state with lots of trans legal protections. To help these newcomers to the city, 65-year-old Stela Marris — who iden...
Islamic authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province will hit a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man 80 times with a cane for kissing and hugging each other in a public toilet. Witnesses in the Taman Sari city park informed police after seeing the men enter the same restroom in Apri...
