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Lesbian comedienne and talk show hostess Rosie O'Donnell posted a video on Thursday of herself and seven survivors of now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein singing Helen Reddy's 1972 feminist power anthem "I Am Woman," to protest the Trump administration's...
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is stepping down, the league announced on Friday.“After more than seven years at the WNBA and more than 40 total years in business, I have made the decision to retire as WNBA Commissioner,” Engelbert wrote in a press release, adding, “Over the ye...
Written by Shar Jossell A multidisciplinary creator working across mixed media, installation, and fashion design, The Artist L. Haz is a member of GLAAD's 2026 EMEI cohort, bringing a practice rooted in everyday beauty, community, and the transformative power of adornment. The Ar...
Everton Blair Jr. (D-GA) made history on Tuesday by being sworn in as Georgia's first-ever out gay U.S. House representative. The 34-year-old Congress member won a special runoff election on August 25 to complete the term of late Rep. David Scott, who died on April 22 at the age ...
A gay Christian podcaster was arrested this week and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump. Federal agents took 40-year-old Benjamin Azariah Southworth into custody Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, according to a press release ...
The camp appeal of Jawbreaker, an iconic entry in the 1990s queer canon, has given it a permanent home among LGBTQ+ cinephiles. But a recent addition to its musical adaptation has made the film’s queer subtext even more visible. Fern Mayo/ Vylette, who was played by Judy Greer in...
The Pentagon has announced that new clinical guidance will be released establishing mandatory testosterone deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve cisgender male service members ages 30 and older, advancing a policy that expands hormone-related care for cisgender troops....
Over the past several decades, LGBTQ+-specific overnight camps have sprung up across the country, offering queer youth access to the quintessential summer camp experience in an affirming, inclusive environment designed just for them. About a dozen are currently operating, many se...
President Donald Trump told Republican candidates in battleground states at a Wednesday Rose Garden event that he plans to campaign heavily for them in the last 30 days before the November 3 midterm elections. The only problem: Many Republicans don't want him. While Trump has a $...
The Swiss government has said it supports a nationwide ban on so-called conversion therapy. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation on its website notes the government officially announced its position in a report it published on Wednesday. Neuchâtel in 2023 became the first Swiss can...
The Dallas Stars may have tried to put their Pride Night plans on ice, but fans won’t let it happen. Tori Copeland, a longtime Dallas Stars fan who has long attended the team’s annual Pride Night celebrations, has decided to address the lack of an LGBTQ-themed night on the ice ho...
An Idaho jury on August 27 found Rev. Sara LaWall, a pastor with a transgender child, guilty of a misdemeanor trespassing charge for refusing to leave the office of Gov. Brad Little (R) after it closed on April 1st. LaWall was one of nine protesters arrested in Little's office on...
Gloria Steinem, writer, activist, and a leading voice of the feminist movement in the 1970s, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. Her death was announced on Instagram by her official foundation, Gloria’s Foundation, which shared that Steinem "passed away peacefully at her home, surrou...
Two men are in custody in Madison, Wisconsin, after witnesses and surveillance footage revealed they assaulted a transgender woman on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, according to a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to the complaint, the...
While speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump went on a bizarre tangent about Texas Attorney General and Senate Candidate Ken Paxton's (R) looks, as well as his Democratic opponent, James Talarico's, digestive system. "So Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he d...
A West Virginia food bank's shelves are bare after refusing supplies from organizations that are allegedly “part of the gay rights movement" because they support LGBTQ+ people. “To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phon...
A coalition of blue states has come together to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its plan to strip federal funds from gender-affirming care for minors. The lawsuit alleges that the administration is overstepping its authority by trying to dictate what m...
This story originally appeared on Out.Vivian Jenna Wilson knows what's at stake for the LGBTQ+ community. With the fast-approaching midterms, the famous transgender model is using her platform to showcase her unapologetic queerness at a pivotal moment in history.Wilson has teamed...
Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who many considered to be the face of the feminist movement for half a century, died Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. A post on her official Instagram account early Thursday morning said that Steinem “passed away pea...
This story originally appeared on Out.RuPaul's Drag Race stars were in the house and on the dance floor as Cordero Zuckerman, best known to fans as season 13 star Denali, wed his longtime love Alexander Montgomery in Chicago last week."This wedding is a huge mile marker in both o...
The world knows Eric Anderson as Billy Porter's partner. In Rehoboth Beach, Del., he has a life — and a story — entirely his own. My first time with Eric Anderson was hot — very hot. Before he arrived, I sat waiting, overthinking everything. When he finally appeared in a loose-fi...
For much of the modern transgender rights movement, our political vocabulary has understandably been a vocabulary of emergency. We talk about healthcare bans, bathroom restrictions, discrimination, violence, court decisions, and executive orders. We organize because something is ...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow pointed out during her Monday night broadcast that President Donald Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has turned the initials of the nation's five northern Great Lakes from HOMES to SHAME, something she said is fitting for T...
Despite having a memorable role in a box-office juggernaut, Elliot Page hasn’t reaped the benefits of The Odyssey’s gargantuan success. During an interview on the Wednesday, September 2 episode of On Film…with Kevin McCarthy, the Oscar-nominated actor said that he hasn’t been off...
A prominent leader in the fight for transgender rights is speaking out about the "near complete exodus of philanthropy" for trans rights organizations in the midst of the Trump administration's brutal and ongoing campaign against the community. In a piece for Nonprofit Quarterly,...
I have been going back and forth on whether I think adding justices to the Supreme Court is the right thing to do. But if the court takes the final step of allowing the felon’s executive order on mail in ballots to move forward, I am definitely for enlarging the court. There are ...
Trailblazing feminist icon Gloria Steinem died at her New York City home on Wednesday, per a statement on her social media. As many of her obituaries will attest, Steinem publicly challenged gender stereotypes in the earliest days of her journalism and activism careers, dating ba...
With Dancing with the Stars Season 35 set to return September 15th on ABC and Disney+, fans can look forward to two trailblazing LGBTQ stars joining the competition: Olympic gold-medal figure skater Amber Glenn alongside openly bisexual model and reality star Sarah Jane Nader. GL...
This story was originally published in the Alabama Reflector. Before June 2023, Invisible Histories flew under the radar in Alabama. The nonprofit organization, which archives and researches southern LGBTQ+ history, began collecting items in 2018, just two years after President D...
Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterd...
This story originally appeared on Out.Melissa Etheridge and Wynonna Judd don't have time for any prejudice.The iconic singers have not only made strides for the LGBTQ+ community over the years, but they're creating a safe space for every type of fan on their Raised on Radio Tour....
The Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter's mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to ...
It’s hard to overstate the sheer sapphic power of a same-sex Dancing With the Stars casting announcement photo. I mean, just look at this newly released image of openly bisexual reality star Sarah Jane Nader with her dancer partner Hailey Bills. The sequins, the hair, the pose? I...
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has caused a social media frenzy after claiming he doesn't trust the government, despite being a high-ranking government official. Duffy made the comment alongside his wife, Fox Host Rachel Campos-Duffy, during an appearance on The Katie Mil...
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) clinched the Democratic seat for his reelection campaign in Massachusetts’s primary election on Tuesday. Markey won the deep-blue state with 64.8 percent of the vote, according to NBC News, triumphing over Marine Corps combat veteran and Congressman ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Kansas City, Kansas Public School (KCKPS) District for its policy that does not forcibly out trans students to their parents. The district is one of four investigated by the Education Department (ED) earlier th...
Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Andrew Wommack claimed in an interview published August 27 that he has raised over 50 people from the dead. He has previously claimed that his son and wife were also raised from the dead. While speaking on the Christian broadcast FlashPoint, Wommack told h...
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) slammed Pete Hegseth in an interview on Tuesday for pretty much everything he has done so far as Secretary of Defense, accusing him of being "fundamentally unwilling to have anyone who makes him question his own superiority surrounding him." "From ...
This story describes charges of violence and sexual assault against a transgender woman. Details are graphic.Two men were charged on September 1 for allegedly strangling and sexually assaulting a transgender woman on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus over the weekend, in...
A charter school in Nashville, Tennessee, removed over 20 LGBTQ+ children's books from its elementary school libraries after a Christian teacher was disciplined for refusing to read one about lesbian mothers to his students. Eric Rivera, a first-grade teacher at the Knowledge is ...
In a new piece written for Nonprofit Quarterly, Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which describes itself as the largest national trans-led organization, shared that there has been a “near complete exodus” of philanthropy from the transgender r...
Bulgaria's top court has ruled the country's government must allow transgender people to legally change their name and gender on ID documents. A trans woman from Bulgaria who moved to Italy, had tried to change her gender and name on her Bulgarian ID documents, but courts in the ...
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) lost Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary to incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) a month after apologizing for suggesting that Democrats should moderate their support for transgender rights. On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press called the race for Markey, with t...
Self-proclaimed "ex-gay" and far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos – who was deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials back to his home country of the UK last week – said in an interview published Tuesday that he is "ashamed" of his past support for Donald Tr...
“Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade,” a documentary produced by The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., will receive an Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. The film premiered on WETA PBS in D.C. and Maryland P...
The University of Florida disbanded its chapter of the College Republicans after one of its reported members, Dylan Estrella, was photographed allegedly throwing a "seig heil" Nazi salute in an online video stream — the photo went viral. Now, the organization is suing the univers...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Seth Moulton went looking for a promotion and found the exit.Massachusetts Democrats overwhelmingly rejected the congressman’s bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, renominating Sen. Ed Markey after a campaign that turned Moulton’s at...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Milo Yiannopoulos spent more than a year demanding that the U.S. government deport millions of immigrants, particularly Black and brown people. Last week, the Trump administration deported him.Now the far-right provocateur says the s...
Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resoluti...
A Wyoming county district court ruled on Monday that a criminal case against a trans woman who pulled a gun on a man who pushed her to the ground will go to trial. According to The Laramie Reporter, the court found the woman's lawyers failed to prove that her actions were covered...
Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial end of summer in Rehoboth Beach, but there will be no shortage of LGBTQ events, with CAMP Rehoboth’s annual SUNFESTIVAL taking over town this weekend. Thursday (9/3) Get your Labor Day Weekend started early Thursday night with happy hour fro...
This story originally appeared on Out.For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on s...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Anne Arundel County Public Schools staff cannot use transgender students’ preferred names if their parents oppose it, according to an internal document reviewed by the Banner, a change that comes after conservative groups challenged the school system’s appro...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.LGBTQ+ organizations in Arizona will hold a vigil Wednesday for two men killed outside a longtime gay bar, as advocates warn that a note found with the suspected gunman indicates other queer gathering places may also have been target...
Early Monday morning in Tucson, AZ, a gunman reportedly targeting LGBTQ-associated businesses opened fire on patrons outside local LGBTQ bar “Venture-N,” killing two people. Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and Cameron Davis Capara were shot and killed.The attack is being investigated a...
California on Monday prevailed against the Trump administration's bid to strike down the state's law allowing trans student-athletes to compete in school sports. A US District Court judge agreed with California that the administration’s threat to withhold federal education fundin...
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) insinuated yesterday that the president has a terminal illness because he canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing. "Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him t...
The FBI quietly lowered its background check hiring standards back in June to allow the hiring of people who have previously stolen from an employer or engaged in acts of bestiality, CBS News reported on August 28. The lowered standards come at a time when the FBI has lost about ...
Chloe Shapiro was promised an honorable discharge and $86,655.32 in severance if she agreed to voluntarily leave the Army National Guard and not fight Trump’s second trans military ban. Months later, she has received only $20,000 of that payment and is now homeless. “I had my pla...
Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo is opening up about the homophobic backlash he received after coming out as gay earlier this year. During a recent appearance on The Break Down with Nath & Johnny, Shomo explained that shortly after finishing the band’s latest album, Pure Ecstasy, h...
