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The Republican Party held an unusual midterm convention in Dallas last week, where President Donald Trump and other prominent GOP officials spoke in hopes of building enthusiasm and support ahead of the November elections. The two-day gathering at the American Airlines Center was...
This story originally appeared on Out.Props to these celebs for bringing the fashion!Historically, boring black suits dominate the red carpet at every major award show, including the Primetime Emmy Awards. Thankfully, quite a few stars elevated their looks by wearing something da...
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he believes America is ready for a gay president when asked about it on the Sunday morning news talk program Meet the Press. The show's hostess Kristen Welker mentioned to Buttigieg that former Vice President Kamala Harris w...
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Maygar has said his government will amend a law that essentially bans same-sex couples from adopting children. Lawmakers approved the effective adoption ban in 2020, when then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government was in power. Maygar announced p...
The editorial staff of some of the country’s most prominent LGBTQ+ publications presented a united front Monday, publicly demanding answers from their parent company equalpride after a report revealed that one of its board members had expressed support for President Donald Trump ...
By DARREONNA DAVIS | Denise Johnson imagined spending Sunday with her daughter, Sophie Lee, eating crabs at the park. Instead, she stood on a Barclay street corner Sunday evening surrounded by nearly 100 people who came to remember her daughter, a transgender woman who was fatall...
A statue of the late anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk was vandalized barely three days after its display outside the Phoenix, Arizona headquarters of his young conservative organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA). It was displayed on September 10, the one-year anniversary ...
Legal authorities in Istanbul, Turkey, arrested at least 47 people across 12 provinces in government raids on LGBTQ+ bars, activist homes, and associations that took place over the weekend. The government crackdown is part of its ongoing "My Family Is Safe" campaign targeting LGB...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham had folks face-palming across social media after an extraordinarily tone-deaf rant about the dangers of socialism. "The end goal, it's clear," Ingraham said, warning Democrats about the rise of Democratic Socialists in the party, "forced scarcity for ...
Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHC) is currently in court defending itself from allegations that it is in contempt of court. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in May that the hospital had to resume providing gender-affirming care for trans youth, but plaintiffs argue the hospital i...
Authorities in Turkey over the weekend detained dozens of people during raids they carried out against gay bars and LGBTQ activists’ homes across the country. The BBC reported the raids were part of the government’s “My Family is Safe” campaign. A statement from a group of Turkis...
Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-DE) believes the trans community has far more support than the media makes it seem. McBride didn't hesitate when asked by The Independent what she wants trans youth to know. “What you see on the TV and what you see on the news is not reflectiv...
A school board in Virginia voted late last week to reverse a policy banning extracurricular clubs at the middle school level following a settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of students who wanted to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). On Friday, the King George County Scho...
Model Kai Schreiber, 17-year-old daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, made history on Friday at New York Fashion Week as she became the first trans girl to win the Breakthrough Model of the Year statue at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards, per the Daily Mail.“I’ve...
Sophie Lee, a Black transgender woman, was shot and killed in Baltimore on Friday morning, per a report in local ABC affiliate WMAR. Police are still looking for a suspect in Lee’s death, as well as a motive, per NBC affiliate WBAL.While initial reports said that Lee had not been...
America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misin...
Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) may have made a veiled threat to out anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for having sex with men, longtime gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile publicly suggested in his Substack post yesterday. While Moreno angrily swore at former White ...
“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand.” -Judi Dench as M in “Casino Royale” On the right-wing side of the dictatorial strongmen’s political spectrum, we find the philosophy and practice of “fascism.” While also deployed as an epithet by some, fascism developed as a...
A First Nation in Alberta, Canada has declared itself a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care amid the province's crackdown on providing such care to trans kids under 16. “All children, including trans and two-spirit children and their family, will have safety under our tr...
This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think...
San Francisco's Chinatown doesn't just have some of the city's most unique markets, eateries, and architecture — it's also home to the OUT Museum, the word's first Chinese LGBTQ+ Museum. Opened in May, the free museum currently has a one-room exhibition space that is only open on...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.For nearly a year, LGBTQ+ students in one rural Virginia county watched the adults overseeing their education move the goalposts.Students at King George Middle School followed the rules to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance. The princ...
Russia has slapped the international travel site Booking.com with an approximately $70,000 fine (6 million rubles) for violating the country's so-called LGBT propaganda laws. The Tagansky district court of Moscow reportedly handed down two three-million-ruble fines to the company...
One does not have to be a certified clinical psychologist to witness the clearly obvious flaws of character of Donald John Trump. Even the casual spectator, whether or not a Trump supporter, can see his offensive style of communication, grievances and attacks against anyone and a...
Hard as it is to believe for those who were around when it happened, “Thelma and Louise” celebrates the 35th anniversary of its release this year. Deeply popular with both critics and audiences at the time, its reputation continues to ride high; it’s a movie that manages to exist...
The Swiss government says it supports a uniform, national ban on so-called conversion therapy, and it's moving ahead to consider federal legislation to outlaw the discredited practice. A report from the government published last week details a number of current national regulatio...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) hired 25-year-old Stephen Woytek as his campaign's political director in August. Woytek's social media activity shows that he posted an image of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo, follows a group that reenacts Nazi military campaigns, ...
This week, Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico pulled a screeching U-turn on his support of trans people, retreating behind the concept of “fairness.” He went on Fox News to say, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness.” H...
A second transgender sex worker said she was hired by the recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Her claim comes one week after another trans sex worker came forward with her own story about Graham. "Lindsey Graham was one of my clients. This transphobic, homophobic man ca...
Transgender action and sci-fi director Lilly Wachowski told Variety that fans of the magical kids' fantasy series Harry Potter are "supporting trans genocide" because it helps fund the anti-trans activism of the series' author JK Rowling. "She is funding trans genocide," Wachowsk...
The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care. In December 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the United Cons...
The Trans Filmmakers Summit (TFS) celebrates its fifth year at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, with legendary Beverly Glenn-Copeland, award-winning musician, composer and collaborator of Sam Smith, Blood Orange, Bon Iver, to receive the CMF Barrier Breaker Award. Th...
The bus at first looks unassuming, a black trailer you’d see at any old craft fair or farmers market. But like a mysterious wardrobe or rabbit hole, the doors open to something fantastical: lavender shelves, disco balls, brightly colored stickers, and rows and rows of queer books...
Lilly Wachowski, acclaimed co-director of films including The Matrix, Bound, and V For Vendetta, said in a new interview that supporting the Harry Potter franchise is akin to supporting genocide against transgender people.In an interview with Variety published today, Wachowski wa...
Officials with the U.S. State Department have removed a painting by out artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, which they have variously described as “very woke” and as depicting a lesbian picnic. The painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, was...
As part of its commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a federally operated program, released information during the past week showing it has awarded more than $18 billion to over 77,000 9/11 victims and th...
Backed into a rhetorical corner by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s escalating attacks ahead of the November midterm elections, Democrats are being advised to take a middle-of-the-road position on transgender athletes rather than ignore the issue entirely, per a new report in...
Seattle moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the tenth American city to adopt civil rights protections for polyamorous and other "nontraditional" relationships. A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council's Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee...
A GOP convention attendee in Dallas, Texas shouted, "He should be shot!" after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mentioned three pro-LGBTQ+ Democrats in his Thursday night speech. “A simple truth: When people tell you who they are, believe them: When [New York City Mayor] Mamdani says he want...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Twenty-five years after Father Mychal Judge died inside the World Trade Center, the life behind one of the day’s defining images still challenges the Catholic Church’s ideas about who may be holy.In the photograph, almost everything ...
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Gillian Anderson, the 58-year-old American TV and film actress, came out as pansexual in a recent interview with The Australian, though she has previously discussed her past attraction to women. The interview's author Nikki Gemmell wrote “[Anderson] tells me she’s pan, as in pans...
Nicole DeBiase, a lesbian police officer in New Jersey, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the borough of Somerville and Police Chief Dennis Manning for alleged discrimination based on her sexual orientation. The married lesbian (whose sexual orientation was known to her employer ...
More than 250 protestors congregated outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City this week to challenge the hospital's recent agreement with President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ). In a move that protestors suggested was “bending the knee,” Mount Sinai agreed to permanen...
Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness,...
A remarkable 90% of LGBTQ+ organizations around the world have lost funding since January 2025, according to a new report released on Thursday from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Outright International. The report, entitled “Breaking Point: the Urgent Need to Invest in Global LGBTIQ M...
Republican lawmakers, including the president, went all-in on anti-transgender rhetoric on the first night of the party’s first-ever midterm convention — dubbed “Trumpapolooza” by some critics. President Donald Trump closed out day one of the event at the American Airlines Center...
As Next Gen NYC wraps its eventful season, Brooks Marks is entering an exciting new chapter that extends far beyond the screen. The Bravo reality series follows a new generation of young adults raised in the spotlight as they navigate careers, relationships, friendships and adult...
A gay UK couple is devastated after their campaign to change surrogacy laws in the country failed to convince Parliament to take action. Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett had their daughter, Leven, through a surrogate in the United States and, upon returning to the UK, faced countles...
‘Making Gay History, Memoir of a Scholar-Activist’By John D’EmilioDukeupress.edu/making-gay-history “Dear Dr. Kameny,” wrote the earnest graduate history student almost 50 years ago. “As you know, the academic community only rarely deemed the lives of gay men and women to be wort...
Many in the LGBTQ community in the D.C. area and throughout the country were expected to join friends, co-workers, and family members this week in commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and on t...
American singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Parton died last month. Parton’s death was announced by the family with a tribute video in which her nephew Bryan Seaver noted that her final wish was to rest in a “beautiful bed of plush cotton” so that she could finally be comfortabl...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is currently running for reelection, has been called out for photoshopping a trans Pride flag into an ad released by his opponent, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D). The original ad, posted by Hinojosa, involved a video of the candidate spea...
Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee voted unanimously to further a bill that would extend civil rights protections to people in non-traditional relationship structures at a Wednesday afternoon meeting, council member Alexis Mercedes Rinck confirmed in ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign has apparently decided that James Talarico’s real words are insufficient for its purposes. So it has manufactured new ones.The Republican U.S. Senate nominee released an artificial intelli...
Transgender model and disavowed daughter of Elon Musk, Vivian Jenna Wilson, is starring in a well-timed campaign for Desigual, the "not the same" Barcelona-based fashion brand. The campaign's tagline: "Born to Disobey." Related "A fighting chance": Trans rights are in the balance...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released photographs from the Jeffrey Epstein estate confirming the close ties President Donald Trump had to the late child sex trafficker, and documenting his proximity to the young women who were victimized. Committee Democrats r...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), who’s running for the US Senate, said in a Fox News interview aired on Wednesday evening, "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness." Talarico has previously voted against an anti-trans sports bill, s...
Gillian Anderson being part of the LGBTQ+ community is not a revelation. As long ago as 2012, the X-Files star told Out magazine that she was once in relationships with other women, and has spoken intermittently about feeling sexually fluid since then. But in a new interview with...
