A new poll from Emerson College that was released yesterday shows out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg leading the pack of potential 2028 candidates. The poll, conducted from July 19 to July 20, found that 19% of likely Democratic voters support Buttigieg to be thei...
GLAAD, the LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, has analyzed public comments submitted to the FCC in response to the Trump administration’s push to flag the “promotion” of “controversial gender identity issues” on TV shows with warning labels. The comments reveal Americans overwhe...
Caitlyn Jenner appeared on Tomi Lahren's Fox Nation podcast this week to "break her silence" with an hour of slurred rambling. During the interview, she mentioned that, due to Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders, her passport now says she's male, curtailing her ability to ...
The WNBA All-Star Game and skills competition will keep everyone glued to their screens this weekend, but the fun has already started for fans watching the StudBudz capture the chaos and viral moments among the players on their 72-hour livestream of the event.Besties Courtney Wil...
ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith has come out in support of rising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham after she started saying that transgender women should be excluded from women’s sports. Smith lauded her for speaking out and agreed that her views are “common sense.” “I can’...
Less than a year after losing Virginia's gubernatorial race, former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is campaigning across the state against constitutional amendments that would protect marriage equality and reproductive freedom. She is launching a statewide "Life and Marriage Tour" ...
Last week, the Secretary of Defense posted a video to announce what he called the "High-T Department of War." In it, Pete Hegseth ordered annual testosterone screening for every service member over 30 and offered testosterone therapy to those who want it, all in the name of keepi...
Vandals put severed pig heads and entrails at the entrance of the G×Bar beauty salon in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, July 21, at 6:17 a.m — the same day as the city's Equality March for LGBTQ+ rights, Suspline Media reported. The vandals also doused the salon's doorstep with blood....
The Dinah has finally announced its main headliner for the famous sapphic music festival weekend in Palm Springs and it’s the second coming of Lesbian Jesus. In an exclusive announcement to Them, organizers confirmed Hayley Kiyoko will headline at this year's Dinah. “We are so th...
She called it the Underworld. In 1890s Manhattan, Jennie June, a twentysomething self-described “androgyne,” found a home within a vast, covert network of gender and sexual misfits, whose mutual existence proved to one another that they weren’t flukes of nature or medical odditie...
The Trump administration’s devastating cuts to U.S. foreign aid funding and its shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have led many transgender former aid workers in Nepal to turn to survival sex work. “Because legal work for openly transgende...
Uncloseted Media published this article on July 23. By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON | Earlier this month, hundreds of people filled a conference room in San Diego. These included Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Brian Christine, OpenAI executive Dea...
The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's epic about Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca who embarks on a perilous journey home following the Trojan War. And he brought what feels like half of Holly...
Filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was quite a grueling experience. Star Matt Damon recently described it as “more like an expedition than a movie,” saying that everyone on the cast was “pushed to kind of the limit of what they could do.”Everyone, apparently, except for Elli...
A police captain in Connecticut is accused of using an anti-gay slur earlier this month in front of his colleagues. Captain Lonnie Blackwell of Bridgeport is accusing fellow Captain Kevin Gilleran of using a curse word and then calling Captain John Cummings an anti-gay slur on Ju...
A 29-year-old man has been released from jail after being arrested for rubbing chalk on his shoe as part of a protest against Florida's crackdown on rainbow crosswalks. On Friday night, Orestes Sebastian Suarez and his wife visited the Orlando crosswalk that, until recently, was ...
On June 24, 2026, as cities and towns across the United States celebrated LGBTQ+ pride, Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN), James Lankford (R-ID), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced S. 4925, the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.” The proposed law, which focuses on children under t...
A new policy paper delivered by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the influential Democratic think tank, has advice for Democratic Party candidates ahead of the midterm elections: leave the issue of transgender participation in school sports to local schools and sports grou...
French Sen. François-Noël Buffet, a member of the right-wing Les Républicains party, was nominated last month to the position of Defender of Rights (DDD) and was approved by parliament in a 43-39 vote on Tuesday. Buffet's nomination drew criticism because he opposes marriage equa...
A federal judge overseeing one of the cases against Donald Trump’s second trans military ban has questioned inconsistencies between the ban and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the military will be testing male servicemembers' testosterone levels and offering ho...
President Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, recently noted that his most loyal and sycophantic high-profile supporters — like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly — are starting to question his fitness to lead the country. But while Mary Trump hopes ...
At long last, WNBA players are making bank. Thanks to the 2026 collective bargaining agreement, which will extend through 2032, players can now earn a one-year supermax salary of $1.4 million with a regular annual max of $1.19 million. These represent percentages of a $7 million ...
The 2026 International AIDS Conference will take place next week in Rio de Janeiro. Francisco Ruiz, the former director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima are among those scheduled to speak at the conference that will ...
Outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who recently tanked in her bid to become South Carolina's next governor, said on Wednesday that a display of RuPaul and two RuPaul's Drag Race queens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History "sexualizes" children visiting the museu...
Tammy Slaton, best known for appearing in the TLC show 1,000-lb Sisters, opened up about her 2025 engagement to Andrea Dalton — and exactly how her girlfriend of three years asked Slaton to be her wife last year.During a dreamy date ripped straight from a romance movie, Dalton sa...
An Oregon education specialist who sued his school district after he was ordered to remove anti-trans children’s books from his office lost his appeal this week. In its 2-1 decision on Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a previ...
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) skewered the Trump administration for its war in Iran and the effect it has had on the American people. Reporter Scott MacFarlane asked McBride if she feels the administration is keeping Congress in the dark on Iran or actively lying to the lawmake...
In a now familiar almost daily occurrence, President Donald Trump has once again stepped into the doggie poop of his self-dumped international crises by ordering his Internal Revenue Service to impose a 30% federal withholding tax on Spain’s athletic championship team members aft...
The Trump administration is ending its LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator program, which has helped LGBTQ+ veterans find competent, inclusive care for the past 10 years. An internal email sent on July 22 and obtained by Advocate reportedly told LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinators and r...
West Virginia Del. David Elliott Pritt (R) was arrested Wednesday and criminally charged under allegations that he repeatedly sexually abused an eighth-grade girl in a classroom while he served as a middle school teacher. Federal court documents allege that he had communicated wi...
During a Wednesday appearance on The Don Lemon Show with gay host Don Lemon, Hunter Biden refused to out any specific Republican politicians, despite claiming there are many who are closeted in D.C. "I'm already in enough lawsuits, darn," Biden joked. Related 2nd trans woman says...
I regret to inform you that some cisgender women on TikTok are talking about drinking pee to avoid taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. Yes, you literally read that correctly.In the latest installment of cis people’s obsession...
Fresh off her failed attempt to turn the president's trans military ban into law this week, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) – known for her belief in conspiracy theories – said on Tuesday that the moon landing was faked in an Amazon warehouse. The moon landing was in 1969. Amazon was ...
Summer in D.C. just hits different. Congress is out, school is out, the sun is out, thighs are out. With the skies clearing from Canadian smoke, here are a few ways to stay entertained. Dining Summer restaurant week: The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) is...
By saying we cannot trust our elections, the sick, old, demented, felon, in the White House is trying to scare Americans into not voting. He, and his faithful fascist appointees, dragged out old documents, already proven to be false, to scare people. He revisited claims that thre...
The organization "Them Before Us" – part of the "Greater Than" anti-marriage equality campaign – installed a homophobic billboard in Lima, Ohio, that reads "No child has two dads, no child has two moms." "What bothers me about it is a child that sees this sign, and either asks th...
A lawyer for the Trump administration argued that the president has the authority to fire all women and people over 40 from federal positions if he so chooses. “Could the president decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have codified a ban transgender servicemembers in the military. The bipartisan vote was 212-217. The NDAA is for the 2027 fiscal year and sets policies for the ...
A new study to be presented at an international AIDS conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next week shows the devastating effects of cuts that the Trump administration has made in the global effort to eradicate HIV/AIDS. Sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for ch...
Republican Sen. John Cornyn (TX) caved on the threat he made Monday to vote against two of President Donald Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ ambassadorial nominees if the White House didn't provides proof that it has distributed congressionally pre-approved funds for the President’s Emergency...
The D.C. Council on July 14 gave final approval for the city’s fiscal year 2027 budget that includes an amendment calling for increasing the number and size of funding grants that the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs provides for local organizations providing services for the LGBT...
Actress and ally Whoopi Goldberg said yesterday to conservatives who oppose transgender actor Elliot Page's casting as a Greek soldier in the recent action-adventure blockbuster epic The Odyssey, “Don’t go see the damn movie!” During the Tuesday installment of The View, the co-ho...
MAGA Republicans in Arizona on Tuesday nominated a local sheriff embroiled in scandal with evidence of swinging, sexting, racist and homophobic texts, threats to a former lover over sharing images of his genitals that he sent her, and an investigation by the Mormon church. He den...
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) used a House committee hearing on sanctuary states and immigration policy to berate Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) about a joke he told about restroom use in 2017. It didn't go well for Gill. Pritzker was summoned to the hearing alongside two other Democratic go...
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton fled a press conference on Tuesday after reporters asked about two recent scandals. The reporters' questions referenced a July 16 New York Times report that Paxton and his trusts own at least 15 properties worth roug...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate. A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to explain why testosterone treatment is being promoted as a readiness-enhancing benefit for some service members while the same hormone care is being used to justify removing transgender tro...
The Health Council of the Netherlands published the results of a two-year review last month, reaffirming support for gender-affirming care for trans youth under the country's pre-existing model. Citing the harms caused by delayed treatment, the report concluded (based on Dutch-to...
When I was a teenager, I wanted to sound like Emma Stone. Her low-pitched, husky voice carried an unnameable allure. And given all the compliments my friends paid whenever someone was sick — “Do you have a cold? Your voice sounds all raspy and sexy” — it felt gender-acceptable to...
This story originally appeared on Out.It's a new era for The Real Housewives of New York City!A new crop of women and a familiar face are all joining the cast for the upcoming 16th season. One of the main storylines that's being teased in the trailer is newbie Hailey Glassman's l...
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled this week that a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman against New York City alleging discrimination in the city’s shelter system can move forward. Lawyers for the city had moved last December to have the case dismissed, but as Gothamist rep...
Harry Hay was one of the founders of American gay activism, got thrown out of nearly every group he built, and never once stopped making trouble. Now, 250 years into the American experiment, the pioneer of gay liberation remains its most necessary irritant. LGBTQ Nation spoke to ...
Democratic legislators in Florida want 48-year-old Republican state Rep. Fabian Basabe (who once claimed to be gay) to resign after a July 15 jury verdict found him liable for sexually harassing two male staffers — legislative aide Nicolas Frevola and intern Jacob Cutbirth — and ...
Updated 7/24/2026: In a world of Sophie Cunninghams, we think you should be a Megan Rapinoe. The same day that Sophie Cunningham’s comments aired on trans women in sports, Olympic medalist Megan Rapinoe stood up to transphobia. In a July 21 interview with The View, Rapinoe broke ...
Comedian Dave Chappelle is back to using his platform to mock LGBTQ+ people. During a guest appearance at fellow comedian Shane Gillis's record-breaking July 17 performance at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, Chappelle mocked Vice President JD Vance by calling him gay and ...
(Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-part series profiling the candidates for mayor of Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Commissioners Suzanne Goode, Susan Stewart, and Craig Thier; a fourth candidate, William Raak, filed to join the race but has not responded to multiple...
In a Friday letter, Senate Democrats demanded more information on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new testosterone screening program, which they wrote he introduced "despite longstanding medical guidance recommending against routine population-wide screening." Last week, Hegseth...
Which would you rather watch: A critically acclaimed blockbuster with $250 million of human effort poured into it, starring some of the biggest movie stars on the planet? Or an AI version of The Odyssey made by right-wing billionaire Elon Musk’s slop machine?Musk promised on his ...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced an amendment to ban transgender people from openly serving in the military, but all House Democrats – joined by four Republicans – voted against it yesterday, defeating the measure. Boebert introduced an amendment to the National ...
The president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, vetoed two bills last week that would have extended recognition to same-sex couples. The bills would have created "cohabitation contracts," according to Reuters, which would have given some legal recognition to same-sex couples when it com...
The city of Boise won't take "no" for an answer. Republicans said no Pride flags, so the mayor responded with Pride "wraps." Just days after Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed an updated law that finally banished the Pride standard from flying at City Hall, Boise unveiled vinyl wr...
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