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An 18-year-old was released on his own recognizance on Monday after he was charged with attacking a man he met on Grindr. His lawyer denied the allegations. The victim, who is unnamed, sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized after the attack by the teen and four other juv...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) followed in the president's footsteps on Monday when he used an anti-trans slur to describe cisgender Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews. Scott said during an appearance on Real America's Voice, “Annie Andrews, as President ...
In light of a growing number of actors who are having trouble meeting the yearly minimum wage requirement to qualify for the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, actor Cheyenne Jackson has launched a series called One Job Away to help actors who need help meeting the requirement of $28,933.Jac...
Scott Presler, a co-founder of Gays for Trump whose MAGA activism has focused on alleged voter fraud, reportedly let several out-of-state GOP operatives use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the key swing state. Legal experts say Presler, who has often repeated the Republican P...
Like most recent D.C. elections, LGBTQ voters will be choosing candidates for mayor, City Council, D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives and other races from a list of mostly strong LGBTQ rights supporters in the city’s Nov. 3 general election. In a city with a large...
This story was reported in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Texas’ Senate race has become one of the most-watched elections of the year. MAGA Republican nominee Ken Paxton pulled off a rare primary defeat against a well-est...
Last night at its New York Gala, GLAAD honored acclaimed producer Bruce Cohen—an Oscar and Tony winner and Emmy nominee—with the prestigious Vito Russo Award, celebrated for exceptional contributions to LGBTQ equality. The Vito Russo Award, named in honor of GLAAD’s co-founder—th...
A sweet video of the Brazilian president celebrating his recent victory alongside a trans lawmaker is bringing joy across social media. Transgender Brazilian lawmaker Erika Hilton became her country's most-voted woman congressperson earlier this month after she was re-elected to ...
Democratic US Senate candidate Adam Hamilton earned praise for his defense of transgender people during a live interview with local news station KMBC. "Where do you come down on transgender rights?" the reporter asked. Related Democratic Senate candidate releases last minute atta...
Just a week before Election Day, a former Republican governor of South Carolina has publicly endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews over Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), the Trump-backed Republican who was appointed to carry out the rest of her late brother's t...
The official account for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used "gay" as an insult when responding to a 60 Minutes report about the deportation of a man from Mali. "Fake & Gay!" ICE's official account posted to X while sharing a post from Fox News reporter Brooke Taylo...
Tyler Boebert, the son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), is such a bad parent that he's going to jail for it. But no one – least of all his mother – is going to question his legitimacy as a parent over it, even as these same people refuse to accept that queer people are the parents ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate. The search for whoever sent deceptive transgender advocacy mailers across Texas has reached an llinois printing company. The discovery offers a new lead in a campaign that has triggered threats against LGBTQ+ advocates and a crimina...
Erika Hilton, one of the first trans people in Brazil elected to the country’s National Congress, is celebrating the reelection of President Luiz Inácio da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, in the face of a challenge from far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro. Hilton had played ...
Last Ditch, the small-town Massachusetts lesbian bar that became the center of a national firestorm after a Boston Globe article about the loosening of its masking policy went viral last month, announced on Monday that it will “soft close” as it seeks new ownership.In an Instagra...
Two Western North Carolina drag performers have issued cease-and-desist letters to Republican congressional candidate Jennifer Balkcom’s campaign after their likenesses were used in an AI-generated ad attacking Balkcom’s Democratic opponent Jamie Ager. The ad, which was paid for ...
Out trans Colorado state Rep. Brianna Titone (D) received an email claiming to be from gay Republican Rich Guggenheim, a major force behind the state’s anti-trans ballot initiative that Titone had spoken out against. In the email, Guggenheim called Titone anti-trans slurs, deadna...
On October 15, The Empire State left no stone unturned in showing out for LGBTQ youth for #SpiritDay! Celebrities, politicians, sports leagues, schools, landmarks, and more all went purple in the name of putting an end to bullying. Whether they were visiting Times Square, shoppin...
A Democratic Senate candidate released an ad highlighting his opposition to trans rights just a week before election day. Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek's latest ad shows him using his experiences as a Paralympian to justify his opposition to trans people being allowed to participate...
During the sprint to the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump has been focused on what’s really important: No, not the affordability crisis. Not his cratering approval ratings, either. We’re talking, of course, about Trump’s incessant focus on men’s bodies — which, to b...
A new study from political science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that people who are more sexist are also more likely to support restrictions on trans girls and women participating in women's sports. The study examined the beliefs of 1000 American a...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate. When Betsy Driver’s mother took her to medical appointments as a child, she asked whether other children were like her daughter. According to Driver, doctors told her no.Years later, Driver found people with the same intersex variat...
From the campaign ads and stump speeches of the president and his party, one might assume that their Democratic opponents are transgender children who are also Muslim communists from Somalia who lied about being raped by their stepfathers and about their citizenship status after ...
A spokesperson for the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA mocked Democrats after the release of what has been billed as a shocking documentary about the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) employment of male sex workers. "Dear Democrats, This is why we called him Lad...
There was a time when moving to Dupont Circle wasn't just a real estate decision. It was practically a declaration of independence. You weren't simply choosing an apartment. You were choosing a life. One where you could hold someone's hand on the sidewalk, flirt badly at a bar, o...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds (R) purposefully and repeatedly misgendered a transgender woman during a tense exchange on the campaign trail. Video shared on social media shows the woman confronting Donalds about an anti-LGBTQ+ mailer she received from ...
There’s no getting around it: Horror is a horny genre, and some of the best horror movies are also the sexiest. There’s already a very thin line between being scared and getting turned on. Couple that with horror’s focus on the outsider, and it’s no surprise that queers in search...
Political ads are usually forgotten once the election is over, but Republican's Vivek Ramaswamy's most recent ad in the Ohio gubernatorial race will live long in the annals of reprehensible campaigning. Ramaswamy dug up the mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton to have her brand...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is getting attention on social media for turning a bizarre question about his wife into a slam on Donald Trump. The Atlantic published a profile by Mark Leibovich about the senator, who is the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ). Giffords served in...
Few people outside of Maine probably knew much about Troy Jackson's LGBTQ+ legislative record until earlier this year, when he joined the state's US Senate race after Democratic candidate Graham Platner dropped out. While Jackson started his political career as a Republican (and ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday defeated Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of the country's presidential election. Lula beat Bolsonaro by a 51.79-48.21 percent margin with 100 percent of the votes counted. CNN Brasil declared Lula the winner shortl...
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 ...
Dear Ms. Rowling, I am writing to you not as a political organization, an activist institution, or a representative of any movement. I am writing as a transgender woman who has spent much of her life trying to live with dignity, integrity, and the freedom to be herself. I knew fr...
Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered for being gay. He died on October 12, 1998, at the age of 21. December 1, 2026, would be his 50th Birthday. Not many years ago, when I was teaching a university Queer Studies course, I opened a unit on the topic of violence directed against m...
It’s rare for a movie that was made over a half-century before to somehow become one of the most anticipated film releases of the year, but thanks to Ken Russell’s “The Devils,” we know that it does happen. It’s true that Russell’s legendarily controversial 1971 period horror dra...
During the 2024 election cycle, a multimillion-dollar deluge of Donald Trump- and GOP-fueled anti-trans campaign ads flooded the airwaves. Those ads peeled away some support for trans people, but in researching their efficacy, the Transgender Law Center and its communications and...
At a White House military Mother’s Day event on May 6, First Lady Melania Trump stated that while many know her husband, President Donald Trump, as a "strong commander-in-chief," she believes he is a caring leader who "constantly remembers each and every American soldier is someo...
Republican Jadon MacCormack, a Connecticut State House candidate who literally wants to execute all LGBTQ+ people, decisively lost his primary race last night against his competitor, Anthony Emilio. MacCormack won only 90 votes, less than 20% of the total votes cast for both cand...
Donald Trump has never cared about the people of the United States. He has always concerned himself with the richest of the rich, the upper 1% on the financial scale. He has given massive tax and regulatory breaks and other favors to the tech oligarchs and relegated the rest of t...
“Queer zine, N. A sexy, subversive and explicit publication devoted to enlarging and examining our cultural assumptions.” That's a definition of queer zines unearthed by the Queer Zine Archive Project, or QZAP, an online archive dedicated to the preservation and promotion of quee...
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 ...
Review boards tasked with expelling trans troops from the U.S. military aren't performing as expected. The boards, composed of everyday uniformed service members, are voting to keep their trans colleagues. Related Trans service members challenging military ban score major victory...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Republican district attorney has launched a criminal investigation into the mailers sent to thousands of Texas voters posing as guides from a transgender rights organization, all while a company is taking initial steps to end its r...
The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) filed a petition in state court Thursday seeking authorization to begin taking depositions as part of its effort to determine who has been impersonating the organization in text messages and mailers sent to Texas voters ahead of t...
Chefs for Equality celebrated its 15th anniversary on Oct. 19, an event that makes it clear that the fight for full LGBTQ equality is not yet fully won, through the lens of delicious dishes along with fine wines. Launched in 2012, Chefs for Equality is a proud, fierce, sumptuous ...
Florida-based drag queen Miss Bouvèé has raised over $25,000 from selling the bricks from a Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk that was demolished as part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s ongoing war against LGBTQ-affirming roads. After the Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk was dismantled in Oc...
Half a billion dollars in attack ads deployed by Republicans in Texas this election season are having unintended consequences. According to conservative voters in the state, they're teaching their children that trans people exist. "My kids didn’t even know what transgender meant ...
A lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, is suffering an empty dance floor after announcing it would make masking optional on Saturday nights. The change earned a scorching reaction online from patrons who've come to expect a full masking protocol every time they visited, the ...
Whether you know him as the unmistakable, Emmy-nominated voice of Linda Belcher on Bob’s Burgers or as a staple of New York’s downtown comedy and music scenes, John Roberts has always had something special to share. Now, the multi-talented queer artist is inviting us to the dance...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is highlighting the sexual violence in U.S. prisons and jails committed by inmates perceived to be transgender, while obscuring the notably higher rates of incarcerated transgender victims of abuse. Earlier this month, the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice S...
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. On Tuesday, an X account attributed to a Texas man named Zyron Lewis posted a video of Lewis claiming that in 2012, when he was a middle school student, he was sexually assault...
Friday, October 23 Trans Discussion Group will be at 7 p.m. on Zoom. This group is intended to provide an emotionally and physically safe space for trans people and those who may be questioning their gender identity/expression to join together in community and learn from one anot...
For years, the true identity of the writer “Lisa Ben” – a clever anagram for lesbian – remained a mystery. But in the 1940s, the creator of Vice Versa, the first known lesbian magazine in the country, had to write anonymously. People who valued their safety and livelihoods had no...
Chrishell Stause will not be tuning in to season 10 of Netflix reality series Selling Sunset. Her lawyers, on the other hand, will be watching closely. During a red carpet interview for The Hollywood Reporter’s Creator A-list party on October 21, the Selling Sunset alum shared th...
Federal authorities on Thursday charged Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) with racketeering and money laundering in connection with a cannabis business that she co-owns. U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel during a Norfolk press confere...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has earned praise for her response to a question on trans rights during a town hall hosted by the progressive campus group More Perfect University. At the organization's Students vs. Billionaires town hall in Maine on Thursday, a trans student...
The owner of the Anthem Orlando nightclub says that Meta suspended the venue’s Instagram account shortly after the city’s October Pride celebration, marking yet another LGBTQ+ business that has had its social presence scrubbed by the social media giant in recent months. “On Oct 2...
A gay dad will not face charges after he punched a right-wing influencer who tricked him into a homophobic interview. 32-year-old David Vulin fulfilled a “pre-filing diversion," a program that allows certain people to fulfill requirements like community service or rehabilitation ...
By DYLAN SEGELBAUM | A Baltimore teacher has cleared a key hurdle in her defamation lawsuit against those including the founder of the conservative social media account Libs of TikTok. Baltimore County Circuit Judge Marc DeSimone Jr. on Wednesday denied Chaya Raichik’s motion to ...
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