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 ...
CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins was a guest on The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart Monday night to discuss the president insulting her during his speech at Friday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. "I was not surprised when he insulted me," Collins said. "That happens pret...
Transphobes are planning a rally in Seattle in support of anti-trans WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, following her comments against trans women in sports. The rally is slated to take place tonight at the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever game. It is...
A decision by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the request of the Trump administration to discontinue direct federal funding of community-based organizations and clinics that provide HIV prevention services has raised concern among community health advocates, inc...
A right-wing think tank wants to gut Title IX—the U.S. law that opened school sports to girls 50 years ago. Its claim: feminism – specifically, French feminist philosopher and author of The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir – pushed women into aggressive sports like wrestling, away f...
Right-wing media is outraged that an LGBTQ+ exhibition in England posits that one of the beloved Care Bear characters could be considered transgender. The Villiers Revealed: ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition explores how certain historical figures might be seen today as LGBTQ...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a take on classic paper dolls to help kids understand gender and all of its diversity. But the right has come out swinging with misinformation claiming that this is a taxpayer-funded campaign to force kids in schools...
A trans woman is suing NBCUniversal and Universal Studios, claiming she was punished after reporting sexual harassment by her supervisor and has since suffered both financial and emotional distress. Nikki Campus worked for the company as a crafts service worker starting in 2010, ...
Cameron Esposito hosting a season of King of Drag with Ginger Minj and Yvie Oddly as guest judges sounds like a dream I had once. Except this one is really happening, as Variety confirmed earlier this week.Because the gospel of this show still needs to be spread, a brief recap is...
Donald Trump is under scrutiny for his response to a heckler who called him a "pedophile protector." Trump was speaking in Milford, Michigan, on Monday when someone started chanting "pedophile protector" at him, likely a reference to how his administration refuses to release docu...
Child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein allegedly arranged a same-sex marriage between his girlfriend and one of the many women he victimized in order to get his girlfriend U.S. residency and then citizenship, a Congressional report details. Dr. Karyna Shuliak, by all appearances, w...
On Saturday, during Berlin’s Christopher Street Day, one of Europe’s biggest LGBTQ Pride events, a 21-year-old religious extremist drove a van into the crowd and then used a knife to stab multiple people. One person died and 29 others were injured. When I saw this news on social ...
Republicans opposed to the Senate campaign of Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) have repeatedly criticized him for allegedly saying that there are “six genders.” The attacks over this and his other comments on gender have inspired Republicans to attack his masculinity and to pa...
Speaking at the Museum of the Bible earlier today, Donald Trump appeared to minimize the severity of domestic violence, complaining that it is a crime "if a man has a little fight with the wife." He was saying that crime has decreased since his federal takeover of D.C., claiming ...
Donald Trump's main political base is conservative Christians. As president, Trump has done everything he can to cater to their wishes, from attacking health care for trans youth to having the Department of Justice focus on "anti-Christian bias." He has given Christian nationalis...
The Trump administration on Monday threatened legal action and the end of federal education funding against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly withholding information about a child's gender identity from their parents, The Baltimore Banner re...
A heckler interrupted President Donald Trump's speech at the General Motors Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan on Monday by yelling "pedophile protector." Video captured the interaction. The man can be heard repeatedly yelling as Trump increases his volume. Eventually, t...
Michigan and Indiana State Police are considering possible charges against an unnamed “mentally unstable woman” who made a “vague and unsubstantiated” accusation that out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was abusing his young twin children. The woman's claim led to ...
Cinema is inherently a place that people turn to seek representation. Watching a movie by yourself can be a quiet place for self-reflection and self-exploration and watching one in a group often leads to a discussion, so movies naturally are a place people turn to for affirmation...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | The Trump-Vance administration on Monday threatened to punish Anne Arundel County’s school system with legal action or the loss of federal funding for allegedly withholding information about a student’s gender identity and transition from the child’s parents...
Delegates at the United Nations 70th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) overwhelmingly voted against considering a proposal by the U.S. to adopt an anti-trans definition of “gender.” On March 19, the final day of the nine-day conference, the U.S. introduced a resoluti...
James Talarico is a Texas state representative, former public school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. His opponent is Ken Paxton, Texas’s rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ attorney general, in a race where LGBTQ+ rights, especiall...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed legislation this month ending enhanced criminal penalties for people living with HIV. Senate Bill 45, among more than a dozen bills signed by Shapiro on July 20, removes HIV from the state’s criminal code, which previously allowed those c...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going viral for posting videos to TikTok in which she phones churches to ask if a registered child sex offender would be welcome at their Sunday family services. The key...
On Sunday, Donald Trump doubled down on the transphobic joke he made during Friday's White House Correspondents' Dinner, following up with a Truth Social post. While mocking CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, the president made a bizarre joke connecting her to trans activist and perfo...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A woman was killed, and 29 people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebration, in what German officials are investigating as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.Authorities were sea...
As if people didn’t hate the DMV enough, a Texas femboy and car enthusiast is sounding the alarm about the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles apparently declaring war on yaoi, so to speak.Content creator aSpicyCow, known only as Amber, posted a video to his social media profiles ...
Donald Trump's speech at the Friday night White House Correspondents’ Dinner was chock-full of homophobic and transphobic jokes, including a jab at out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's sexuality. "I like Anderson, actually, because he's covered me well for many years," the president ...
Remember 2023? The year when transgender influencer and Broadway actress Dylan Mulvaney held up a single can of Bud Light in a video and the right promptly lost its mind, causing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev to lose billions of dollars in market cap? Donald Trump certainly...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.House Republicans tried to turn President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service into something harder to undo. They failed narrowly, and not before approving two measures targeting transgender troops and their families.A...
Former Lt. Gov. and failed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (R) announced last week that she'll be traveling across her state to campaign against marriage equality and reproductive rights. On her "Life and Marriage Tour," Earle-Sears will work to convince Virg...
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) sent a legal threat to a local library for hosting a "Rainbow Story Time" event this past Saturday, suggesting that pornography would be shown at the event even though there was no reason to believe that it would be. The Daniel Boon...
A man drove a van into Berlin Pride festivities on Saturday night, killing one Pride-goer and injuring 16 others. Police confirmed yesterday that the suspect died in a shoot-out with officers. Pride in Germany's capital came to an early end on Saturday after 21-year-old Abdul Bal...
Gary A. Sutton, a longtime resident of College Park, Md., who was an active member of several D.C. area LGBTQ social organizations before and after his retirement as a federal government worker, died on July 17. He was 62. His partner of 35 years, Edward Leddy, said the cause of ...
"Stop the Steal" national organizer Ali Alexander – who has been accused of asking teen boys for nude pictures – demanded that Donald Trump "use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up" and that "500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed" in respons...
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney publicly responded to President Donald Trump's mentions of her during his Friday night speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump compared Mulvaney to CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins, who, before his speech, won an award for he...
When airfare costs more than your monthly utility bill and a weekend road trip requires a second mortgage just to fill the gas tank, many homeowners are discovering an unexpected luxury: the staycation. A staycation isn't settling for less—it's reaping the benefits of one of the ...
From late-night museum visits and outdoor jazz concerts to free movie screenings and America250 exhibitions, Washington's summer calendar is packed with events that don’t charge admission. Here's a look at some of the free activities happening across the District through Septembe...
Staycation doesn’t preclude time travel. For instance, Happenstance Theater’s production of “Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly” now playing at Round House Theatre in Bethesda invites audiences to go somewhere familiar but far from home. A timely piece of theater, “Adrift” takes pl...
Ohio middle school teacher Erica Putro was shocked to discover how many of her colleagues didn't know about the state laws legislators have enacted to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ students. She worried that a lack of knowledge on the subject would make it much harder for teacher...
Gay comedian Rosie O'Donnell said she has PTSD from being Donald Trump's target for so many years. “It’s like a post-traumatic stress disorder for me," she told People in an interview published Wednesday, "considering it’s been 20 years of him using me as a punchline." Related LG...
Far-right Infowars host Owen Shroyer appeared fairly upbeat about a church shooting in Minnesota yesterday that resulted in the deaths of two children. "God bless Infowars," he said. "Unbelievable victory today." Related Conservatives aren't mad at male cheerleaders. They're mad ...
In the wake of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death, there’s been a renewed push of a sort of giggling schoolyard gossiping about Republicans being gay. But as much as figures on the right might well be closeted self-hating LGBTQ+ people who do untold harm to our community, mocking them f...
An animal rights activist accidentally recorded a cop degrading a trans woman after her bodycam was confiscated during a protest. Three years later, she has shared the recording online. In 2023, Gemma Barnes was protesting outside the police station in the U.K. city of Norwich, l...
Out MS Now anchor Rachel Maddow eviscerated the Trump Administration's flailing logic for its invasion of Venezuela and suggested a much simpler reason the president decided to arrest Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores: Because he can. Maddow opened her...
Democrats defeat Lauren Boebert's attempt to write the trans military ban into law How the vote shook out: All House Democrats voted against Boebert's amendment to the 2027 NDAA that would have banned trans people from serving in the military. The amendment said that trans people...
At least one person died on Saturday when a van drove into a crowd at Berlin’s annual Pride march. The incident took place shortly before 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) in Tiergarten park. Authorities say a 21-year-old German man of Lebanese descent who tried to join the Islamic ...
“Nothing disgusts me more than a f**got on the sideline.” So said the Rev. Ray Broshears, the collar-clad leader of the Lavender Panthers, a gay vigilante group enlisted by Broshears to combat attacks on gay and trans people in San Francisco during the 1970s. Related Stonewall ve...
Organizers are calling it the “World’s Largest All-Girl Wedding & Renewal Ceremony” (aka. Bride Pride), a massive wedding vows ceremony planned for St. Petersburg Pride next February. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will not be on the guest list. Related Chloë Grace Moretz & Kate H...
Transphobic billionaire author J.K. Rowling has encouraged random people in the United Kingdom to photograph people in women's restrooms just in case they are transgender. Her advice is likely to result in the public harassment of cisgender women who don't fit people's preconceiv...
I recently learned the literal translation for the two-part Latin term, “homo sapiens.” I knew “homo” in Latin means “man,” representing “humans” more generally. I also knew that in Greek, “homo” has the different meaning of “same” as in homosexuality (same sex), a dual language ...
What if they released the LGBTQ-themed action movie we’ve all been waiting for and they didn’t bother to tell us? It’s a rhetorical question, really, because we already know the answer, and it can be found between the lines in the distribution-and-release history of “In the Grey,...
A gay couple in the U.K. is shedding light on the challenges of having a child through surrogacy in the country. Jules Von Hep and Mark Beverlo began their journey to parenthood in 2020 and have still not had success. Von Hep told The Guardian the process has been “incredibly pai...
President Donald Trump made hateful comments about transgender people during his Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney — whose child Sasha Carney, is nonbinary — sat silently on video during Trump's comments; and it's not the first time Trum...
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 something for everyone: a blockbuster film, a newly opened leather bar, ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night to target two prominent gay journalists, mock transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney and deliver a sprawling rally-style address befo...
Melissa Chaudhry, a self-identified progressive Democratic candidate for Congress in Washington State, is facing backlash and calls to rescind her endorsements after she equivocated on support for the LGBTQ+ community and admitted she'll drop Democrats for the Green Party if she'...
This discussion contains extensive spoilers for The Odyssey.Much like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is a blockbuster about morality. That’s a rare combination. So often, we treat popcorn cinema as a time to set aside ethical nuance: good guys fight bad guys, good g...
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