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A new report that Outright International released on Thursday notes 90 percent of LGBTQ and intersex rights groups around the world have lost funding since January 2025. The New York-based global advocacy group surveyed 229 LGBTQ and intersex rights groups in 94 countries. Forty-...
Gloria Steinem was an icon, a feminist, a woman of substance and consequence. A rare person who made a difference her entire life; sometimes quietly, sometimes by making noise. She was an incredibly beautiful woman, inside and out. I heard of Gloria Steinem and admired her for al...
A federal judge ruled last Friday that the ex-wife of bisexual former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)'s former male bodyguard can sue Sinema for “willfully and intentionally” breaking up her marriage of 14 years under North Carolina's homewrecker law. Last week, the Associated Press r...
Numerous Democratic midterm candidates have previously made anti-trans statements or voted for anti-trans legislation. Trans journalist Erin Reed published a list yesterday of these candidates and advised her followers not to vote for them, lest their victories convince the Democ...
Grindr has reached a settlement in a UK lawsuit filed in 2024 accusing the dating app of breaking UK privacy laws. It will pay plaintiffs £26 million (~$35 million) over allegations that Grindr shared app users’ sensitive information – including their ethnicity, sexual orientatio...
Trans and nonbinary Broadway fanatics can all breathe a deep sigh of relief, because the Trans Voices Cabaret is back for another show on Saturday, September 19 at the Caveat in New York City’s Lower East Side, jam-packed with a variety of talented performers that span a range of...
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...
NEW YORK — On Tuesday evening, over 250 protestors gathered outside of Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to condemn the hospital system for settling with the Trump administration last week, agreeing to permanently cease providing gender-affirming care to transge...
An Indiana prosecutor will not press charges against the woman who called in an anonymous false report alleging out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a danger to his young twins. The report led to Buttigieg being temporarily separated from his children while an i...
The Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention kicks off today in Dallas, Texas with the goal of rallying MAGA voters to the polls this November. But according to CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, the party has completely missed the mark on who it needs to reach. Enten...
It goes without saying that Carly Rae Jepsen is a capital-A ally to the queers. From performing at Capital Pride in DC as early as 2015 to donating to The Trevor Project, she’s made it absolutely clear where she stands. And on an artistic level, her perfectly crafted melodic tune...
I remember how devastated I was in November 2024 when I woke up to find that Donald Trump had won a second term in the White House. I spent that week commiserating with others. I built a life surrounded by people who care about equal rights, peace, democracy, and the planet, only...
After 20 years in the Army, Master Sergeant Amiah Sale's future hangs in the balance. The Trump administration has made it a mission to purge all transgender service members from the military, but as the trans military ban makes its way through the courts, some service members, l...
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Jennifer Sey had been waiting for an athlete like Sophie Cunningham. Related What the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about the state of MAGA Sey, the founder of XX-X...
Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.24 million) to settle a lawsuit in the UK over allegations it shared users' HIV status and other personal information with third parties. The BBC on Monday reported a lawsuit was filed in the High Court of England and Wales in 2024. A cla...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy are awarding a total of $10 million in grants in the 2027 fiscal year to nonprofit organizations that work to prevent hate crimes in the state. The funds will be used to support those who feel target...
When Native American Two-Spirit Hosteen Klah first met transcendental religious scholar Mary Cabot Wheelwright, he likely had no idea their friendship would help establish a museum to preserve his culture for over 100 years. Sadly, he died right before its opening, but its existe...
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM). M...
New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas on Tuesday won the Democratic primary in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in the U.S. Senate. Pappas defeated Karishma Manzur, who was his primary challenger, by a 61.8-36.1 percent margin. The gay congressman w...
Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for their role as "ringleaders" in the brutal early 2025 torture and killing of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist. During the sentencing, Nordquist's mother and sister spoke, and Arzuaga ...
Colorado’s second-largest school district, Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), has made history as one of the few local school districts to sue the Trump administration for its threats to cut off federal education funding unless the district drops its policies accommodating...
A newborn baby died after contracting measles in Pennsylvania last month, and, as if it wasn’t enough grief for his parents, anti-vax activists are trying to track down and harass his family. Apparently, Gov. Josh Shapiro tangled with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his “inaccurate an...
The Department of Health and Human Services has embraced an unfinished report from a Princeton think tank that it claims shows a link between support for "gender ideology," political violence, and left-wing authoritarianism. It appears officials at the federal agency jumped the g...
When Ben Shapiro fires verbal shots at Nick Offerman’s masculinity, how does the Parks and Recreation actor respond? Spoiler: he doesn’t. While sitting down with Sam Fragoso of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso for an interview published over Labor Day weekend, the talk show host shared...
There has been plenty of speculation about Donald Trump’s mental health, from his proud claims that he is regularly acing cognitive tests (which they keep giving him anyway) to experts sounding the alarm about dementia. Now Trump’s gay niece, Mary Trump, is adding to that specula...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Two women who helped kidnap, rape, and torture Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, to death will spend the rest of their lives in prison.Precious Arzuaga pleaded guilty in June to charges including first-degree murder, kidnapping and t...
On Sunday, September 6, supporters of the brand XX-XY Athletics were asked to leave a National Women’s Soccer League game between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at Portland’s Providence Park after donning apparel that displayed the brand’s logo.The brand, which esp...
Over the last few years, it seems as though every time a candidate has run on an anti-trans platform, the result is heralded as a referendum on trans acceptance. In a world where we only have so many concrete data points, it’s very tempting to do. Unfortunately, the reality is of...
The U.S. military is reportedly searching service members’ medical records in its efforts to identify and remove transgender troops. Early last month, trans military advocacy nonprofit SPARTA Pride issued a press release in which executive director Kara Corcoran said the organiza...
Georgia made history last week when Everton Blair, Jr., was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the state’s first openly LGBTQ member of Congress and the latest LGBTQ addition to the chamber. Blair, who represents Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, was swor...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Defense Department has accessed private medical records belonging to U.S. troops as it tries to drive closeted transgender service members out of the military.Multiple sources told the Federal News Network that the Pentagon is us...
SANTA ANA, El Salvador — La muerte de Yoisi Villalta, mujer trans y vendedora de tortas en Texistepeque, Santa Ana Norte, ha vuelto a colocar en el centro del debate una realidad que durante años ha acompañado a la población LGBTQ en El Salvador: la violencia no termina con una a...
A virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Mobile, Alabama, pastor has dedicated the month of September to spreading anti-trans hate throughout the city. Pastor Travis Johnson spearheaded a project to hang banners through downtown Mobile that declare, "Protect Our Children From Gender Ideology." R...
New rules that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Iceland took effect on Sept. 1. The Iceland Review, an English-language magazine, notes the new regulations the country's Health Ministry approved are gender-neutral. Some restrictions, however, remain in plac...
Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, who has dedicated her life to trying to ban trans women from women's sports, mocked a recent WNBA game she attended as being filled with "a bunch of disgruntled lesbians." Gaines made the comment during an appearance on Fox News, where she said s...
Even though the Supreme Court is not in regular session, the right-wing justices on the Court spent last month giving Donald Trump legal cover for his corrupt and authoritarian efforts. Using the shadow docket – the express route for emergency cases – the right-wing keeps letting...
Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman with stage four rectal cancer, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City after she secretly recorded her surgical team allegedly making transphobic comments about her....
While technically non-partisan or political, many school boards have been taken over by right-wing majorities and members of so-called "parents' rights" groups, like Moms for Liberty. With elections set for the Forest Lake school board in Wyoming, punk rock musician Claire Luger ...
Tonya Agnew is a mom of two adult children, a wife, and the Vice President of Communications & Marketing for Family Equality – a national nonprofit that protects and advances freedoms for LGBTQ+ families Pack lunch. Set out the perfect first day outfit. Finish summer reading. Com...
Just when you thought Dolly Parton couldn't be any more sainted, her death at the age of 80 last week surfaced a story that makes it so. One of the most important staffers among Parton's close circle of supporters was a transgender man. Related Country star & LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Pa...
Immediately after Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime show performer for the 2026 Super Bowl, right-wingers began trying to "cancel" the cis-het ally by pointing out his refusal to sing in English and his past performances in drag. Bad Bunny — wh...
While school history textbooks characterize the earliest colonists in the US as Puritan zealots who punished all sinners, dissenters, and non-believers, an early American settler established a small community that held the seeds of LGBTQ+ counter-cultural revolution. The Mayflowe...
The Washington Blade Foundation will host a fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 12 in Rehoboth Beach featuring remarks from Rehoboth’s Mayor-elect Susan Stewart and Delaware state Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall. The Foundation funds fellowships for aspiring queer journalists and enterprise jo...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Sept. 9-Oct. 11Round House Theatre4545 East-West HighwayBethesda, MD 20814$50 and upRoundhousetheatre.org Among the Black blues women of the 1920s and 1930s, being “in the life” wasn’t uncommon. Self-supporting and often on the road, they followed the Gr...
The phone has not been ringing lately for Elliot Page. The trans actor said in an interview earlier this week that he has not been offered any roles since the July release of The Odyssey, a massive box-office summer blockbuster in which Page played the Greek warrior Sinon. “Do yo...
After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents. The case began when a Bulgarian trans woman moved to Italy and, for ye...
As new fathers, Randall Tarpey-Schwed and his husband loved the bedtime ritual of reading stories with their kids, so much so that they ran out of books that contained their favorite themes: acceptance, community, and love in families like theirs. “We read all kinds of children’s...
There are a lot of queer coming-of-age movies about how hard coming of age can be when you’re queer – and that’s because, for far too many queer young people, coming of age is a very difficult experience. Yet as difficult as it may be, imagine how much more so it is for queer kid...
This story was originally published in The Buckeye Flame, a newsroom dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles their triumphs, struggles and lived experiences. Finding c...
MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Newark, New Jersey duct taped a grey-haired white man to his first-class seat after he began yelling about Jesus and going to hell and then called a Black flight attendant the n-word and "fa**ot" when ...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he's still alive. Noem said that it wasn't her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting...
LGBTQ+ advocates are sounding the alarm over a new Ecuadorian adoption law explicitly banning LGBTQ+ couples in the South American country from adopting children. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption took effect on August 14 after the National A...
If one listened to Donald Trump’s words and actions in upholding his presidential duties, one would think the people’s top priorities include prosecuting all the malicious vandals whom he has accused of destroying the beautiful work his non-bid contractors did on the Lincoln Memo...
Tez Anderson decided to get tested for HIV after he moved to San Francisco in 1986 at the age of 25 and began dating his new boyfriend. When the results came back positive two weeks later, the doctor told Anderson he had 18 to 24 months to live. It was two days after his 26th bir...
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An anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing Republican candidate for Missouri state representative is in custody on a charge that he conspired to plant drugs on his opponent in the Republican primary last month. He won the race by 32 votes. Thomas Ross, 37, was booked into Joplin City jail on Tues...
This story originally appeared on Out.It wouldn't be Doll Invasion in Fire Island without Kim Petras!For her first time ever in the Pines, the international pop superstar made a special appearance at the Pavilion to mingle with the dolls and sing along to her biggest hits. Throug...
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