Facing pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to eliminate so-called “woke” policies, Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) eliminated its spaces for gay young people, women, and scouts of color at its National Jamboree. An estimated 15,000 scouts, troop lea...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, called out how her uncle's "black hole of need" — combined with what she described as his "cognitive, psychological, and physical decline" — has resulted in him facing daily "humiliation." Speaking with journalist Si...
A West Virginia food bank's shelves are bare after refusing supplies from organizations that are allegedly “part of the gay rights movement" because they support LGBTQ+ people. “To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phon...
In May, right-wing media blasted a small Trans Period Pride event sponsored by the Massachusetts National Organization for Women (Mass NOW) and the MA Trans Political Coalition aimed at creating community for trans people who menstruate. The backlash was so intense the organizers...
Young conservative activists "furiously" booed anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy offstage after he delivered just 14 minutes of his scheduled 30-minute speech at the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday evening,...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had a hard time answering questions about his support for Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who was accused by his ex-wife of severe physical abuse, especially in light of Jordan's recent statements that former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner should have droppe...
More than four years after Taiwan began formally studying legislation to overhaul its legal gender recognition system, and despite repeated recommendations from international human rights experts, the government has yet to introduce a bill that would replace decades-old administr...
Administration officials presented a map of Africa where every single highlighted country was mislabeled at a global conference in Brazil this week. The US State Department included the map as part of their presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro to highlight a...
Earlier this year, a group of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launched a new campaign to end marriage equality in the U.S., demanding that the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The campaign, called "Greater Than" – a response to the push for equality by claiming that stra...
Out gay Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener's LGBTQ+ rights record has come under greater scrutiny ever since he launched his campaign to fill the seat of soon-to-be-retiring former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Wiener has a good chance of winning the seat, ha...
Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, "I Love America Better Than You," at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for ...
Eric Conn, an antisemitic far-right Christian nationalist pastor at Refuge Church in Utah, knows what causes "transgenderism," and it's the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In a July 29 post published on X, Conn wrote, "Women's sports are a key propaganda & discipl...
A political candidate in Russia was sentenced yesterday to 10 days in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow flag on it in a video posted to social media. Daniil Neonov, who is running for municipal deputy in Moscow, was arrested earlier this month for posting the video on J...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration came to the world’s largest AIDS conference to explain its approach to global health. Its presentation showed that the U.S. government could not locate the countries whose health systems it was proposing to r...
Award-winning gay Mexican-American author and poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz, perhaps best known for his 2012 gay young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, has died. Sáenz passed away at the age of 71 Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, his longtime home, foll...
Victor Marx is battling demons — including the gay ones — as he runs for governor of Colorado. Republicans nominated Marx, a Marine veteran, culture warrior, and lately, he claims, a mercenary who single-handedly ordered a strike on ISIS, at the end of June. His own Republican ri...
A Colorado school district is suing the Trump administration over pressure to rescind its trans-inclusive policies. The administration threatened to withhold federal funding for Jeffco Public Schools if it continued to support trans students. In response, the district announced T...
Texas' scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton has worked closely with Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) to launch numerous attacks against the state's LGBTQ+ community, particularly its transgender residents. He has made national headlines in his numerous legal crusades to persecute pro...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Even paper dolls can’t escape the Trump administration’s anti-transgender obsession.Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced an investigation into Minnesota-based MyGender Dolls, saying parents had complained about the possibility...
Billboards featuring Kylie Jenner have popped up across the nation promoting new AI glasses, the latest from Meta’s Big Brother empire. The new collection features frames that are meant to look sleek and fashionable, just like any other pair of sunglasses, making it even harder f...
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten detailed a seismic shift taking place among voters under 50 that spells very good news for Democrats. "We are talking about an absolutely huge shift," Enten said this morning. "A 180 – young voters are fed up, and they're taking their anger out ...
James Dale’s current battle to ensure trans kids are welcome in Scouting America really started 26 years ago, when his soul was crushed after he lost a separate 10-year legal battle for gay equality. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America, as it was calle...
After allegedly taking two transphobes to task, one of the co-owners of the Seattle Storm has been fined and suspended from attending the WNBA team’s next five home games. On Tuesday, anti-trans protestors staged a rally both inside and outside of the Climate Pledge Arena in supp...
Enraged over a trans music teacher at an elementary school in her district, a North Carolina lawmaker suggested it "may be time" to introduce legislation requiring teachers to wear clothing that aligns with the sex assigned at birth while teaching. In a July 27 Facebook post, sta...
Conservative Christian advocacy organization One Million Moms (OMM) is raging over a campaign urging people to educate themselves about the HIV-prevention medication, long-acting injectable PrEP. The ad, produced by ViiV Healthcare, aired on TV Land, which OMM described as "whole...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.If a Black transgender teenager gets shot and killed in Florida and no one reports it, what does that say about the value of their life? It’s a question trans activists are struggling with after the scant attention paid to the killin...
The Trump administration is expanding its campaign to pressure institutions into compliance by threatening federal funding. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took to Fox News this past weekend to announce investigations into school systems that have been allowing trans kids to...
Poland's highest court rejected a ruling from a European court requiring the Catholic-majority nation to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad. The ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal comes after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last November th...
The right has been ginning up hatred against transgender people for years now in order to pass bans on sports and gender-affirming care amid their War on Woke. But now that every state that could pass one of these laws has already done so, they're looking for new targets… and the...
Two members of Congress known for their virulently anti-trans statements had pictures taken in drag in the past that are getting attention today. Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Mike Collins (R-GA) both have scores of "0" on HRC's Congressional Scorecard; they have both made anti-t...
Voters in Rehoboth Beach head to the polls on Aug. 8 to elect a new mayor and the choice couldn’t be more obvious. Susan Stewart is a smart, effective Commissioner with a background in finance who happens to identify as part of the LGBTQ community, which would make her the first ...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow on Monday blamed President Donald Trump's defunding of various programs for the recent outbreaks of wildfires, measles, and diarrhea. Maddow noted that Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire transphobe Elon...
President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as wo...
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the alleged use of "transgender dolls" in schools. However, as LGBTQ Nation explained in an article yesterday, there's no proof as of yet that publi...
Seeing that it’s such a tried-and-true part of most people’s sexual development, how to give a hand job may not have crossed your mind in quite some time. You may not put a lot of thought into how you do it, but like with most things in life, the more experience you have and the ...
Guinness World Records made it official on Tuesday: a drag show at Calgary's annual Cowboys Music Festival earlier this month set the record for largest attendance at a drag artists' performance in history, with 7,423 fans and performers participating in the record-setting event ...
South Dakota is reportedly set to enforce a policy that will make it impossible for trans people in the state to update the gender marker on their driver’s license. However, the policy has not yet been enacted, meaning trans people may still have a small window to update their ge...
Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder and president of Turning Point USA, was shot in the neck and killed during the first stop of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University, according to the president. Two detained suspects have been released, so the shooter remains a...
A group of LGBTQ+ journalists from Russia, indicted as "foreign agents" promoting "LGBT propaganda" at the country's largest LGBTQ+ publication, are speaking out after they were forced into exile this year. The online news and culture site Parni+ was branded an "extremist organiz...
A homophobic billboard campaign denigrating LGBTQ+ families has sparked a counter-campaign celebrating kids who have two moms or two dads. Many Ohioans were enraged after the organization “Them Before Us” – part of the “Greater Than” anti-marriage equality campaign – installed a ...
Rep. Max Miller (R), an Ohio congressman who has supported anti-LGBTQ+ bills, was accused this month of allegedly pouring boiling water on his ex-wife and breaking the collarbone of his daughter. He denies the accusations and accused his ex-wife of trying to “malign his character...
Clear Space Theatre Company was founded in 2004 and has become a huge success in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They present performances all year long, and always have a great summer season when the town grows by the thousands. Not only do they have some great main productions this year, ...
Richard Bruce Nugent spent much of his life creating art that refused easy definitions. He wrote fiction, painted, illustrated books, designed costumes, acted on stage, and moved through the creative circles that transformed Harlem into the center of Black artistic life during th...
People perceived to be transgender or gender nonconforming are more likely to be searched and arrested during encounters with police in California than those perceived to be cisgender, according to a new study. Researchers with the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and the...
Go anti-woke, go broke. A planned anti-trans rally outside of a WNBA game in Seattle, of all places, appears to have been a major flop. The “rally” took place outside the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game. Even calling it a rally is generous th...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is being raked over the coals after what many have characterized as a blatantly tone deaf statement about corrupt government leaders. While bashing communists – and Russian leader Vladimir Putin – during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News, Cruz seemed to have n...
The Trump administration will install temporary warning signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History after releasing a report accusing the museum of promoting what it calls "radical" gender ideology and other politically biased content. According to the Exe...
Last month’s Pride celebration in D.C. was so fun. Walking around my first Capital Pride with a $15 lemonade I was loving the madness and the color. Artists and small businesses battling banks you’ve never heard of collecting your personal information so you can spin a wheel to s...
Conservatives are outraged that an organization in Scotland is hosting a short meeting once a week to help LGBTQ+ parents breastfeed their children. The organization LGBT Health and Wellbeing in the UK was founded in 2003 and offers numerous services related to LGBTQ+ people's he...
As Rehoboth Beach voters prepare to elect a new mayor on Aug. 8, some city officials and local residents are raising new concerns about the behavior of City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Suzanne Goode. In addition to a history of troubling emails in which she has used homoph...
After speculation that she would be running for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia, anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced earlier this week that she would not seek the Senate seat. Now she is lashing out at rumors that she decided not to run because Donald Trump t...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International News Editor Michael K. Lavers is participating in a course at Leiden University in the Netherlands that examines the role that international law plays in the LGBTQ and intersex rights movement. The course — Sexual Orientation and Gender Iden...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Allies of transgender children are urging state education officials to fight back against the Trump-Vance administration, which has threatened to punish a growing number of Maryland school districts over local policies that affirm students’ gender identities...
Actor François Arnaud made a splash as gay hockey player Scott Hunter in “Heated Rivalry.” Now the Under Armour athletic apparel company is counting on the actor to make a splash promoting its HeatGear sportswear line. The Baltimore-based company announced on July 23 that it has ...
A former employee of PepsiCo sued the company on July 24, alleging that the company fired her after she returned from family leave following a period of repeated anti-gay harassment that they failed to stop, Human Resources Direction reported. Her lawsuit was filed in the US Dist...
Funding for HIV services is the likely victim of a longtime Republican goal of devolving power to the states. The Trump administration notified the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) last month that it would cease a years-long community grant program funding local organizations th...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Before Twitter became X, before Elon Musk stripped away protections for transgender users and before the platform earned the lowest LGBTQ+ safety score among major social networks, there was Adm. Rachel Levine, the trailblazing docto...
An anti-trans activist in Australia has lost her appeal on an unlawful vilification ruling, so now she has to pay $95,000 in damages and issue a public apology to the two trans women she targeted. Kirralie Smith, CEO of the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Binary Australia, posted pictur...
President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that Democrats will take over Congress and the presidency unless Senate Republicans help him pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (the SAVE America Act), which would effectively disenranchise millions of American voters, inc...
A new lawsuit filed this month accuses former county clerk Kim Davis of deliberately transferring over $400,000 of land to family members to avoid paying over $565,000 awarded to a same-sex couple, David Ermold and David Moore, for illegally denying marriage licenses to same-sex ...
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