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Three people were fatally shot outside a gay bar in Tucson, Ariz., early Monday morning, about a mile from the city’s nightlife district. Police have said the shooting, which took place in the parking lot of Venture-N bar at 1239 N. 6th Ave., was likely a hate crime and a double ...
As I was growing up, my parents often shared stories about how they were bullied when they were my age, just for being Asian. My mom is Cambodian and my dad is “Wasian,” Chinese and white. Students teased them for their looks, their homemade lunches, and treated their traditional...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office did not respond to a request for comment. The request failed to send because of a server error and was not received by the office...
The prediction market platform Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to gay and disgraced former GOP Congressman George Santos. Kalshi announced Santos' ban on Monday after a federal regulator accused him of making almost $18,000 from betting on his own likelihood of atte...
A fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona, LGBTQ+ bar is being investigated as both a hate crime and a possible double murder-suicide. The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 31, when the suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, is believed to have gon...
The wife of D.C. attorney Robert Wone, who was found stabbed to death on Aug. 2, 2006, in the Dupont Circle area home of three gay men, has filed a complaint in court accusing two of the men of failing to make the payments they promised to make to settle a $20 million wrongful de...
Whitman-Walker Health, D.C.’s LGBTQ supportive healthcare center and medical clinic, is calling on D.C. residents and supporters to take part in its 40th annual Walk & 5K Run to End HIV scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 19. The event, in which participants choose to walk or...
French prosecutors say a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a prominent activist before he attacked him in Paris on Saturday. Media reports indicate Pierre Picavet, a police officer who is the president of FLAG!, a group within the French Justice and Interior Ministries that defends L...
This story appeared originally on Advocate. Two men were shot and killed outside a longtime gay bar in Tucson, Arizona, early Monday in what police are investigating as a hate crime. The suspected gunman was carrying a note listing several LGBTQ-associated businesses, and the cit...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump has for years insisted he loves women, even as he set in motion the reversal of federal abortion rights and blocked enforcement of equal pay regulations. Still, women in politics have stood by the GOP leader — ...
The Department of State apologized for "deadnaming" a lake after President Donald Trump's executive order last week renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Because deadnaming usually refers to the act of referring to a transgender, non-binary, or gender-expansive individual by thei...
Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on Sunday campaigned for U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) in New Hampshire. Robinson traveled to Manchester, the state’s largest city, nine days before the Sept. 8 primary that will determine who will vie for retiring U.S. Sen. Jeann...
Have you heard the gospel of Lola Petticrew? The nonbinary actor first came on my radar after our friends at Autostraddle blogged about their role in Hulu’s FBI serial killer drama Furious, but I resisted watching it. Not because the show doesn’t have great reviews — it does! — b...
Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries as of yesterday, TVP World reported. However, Poland itself has not legalized same-sex marriages within its own borders. The country was compelled to start recognizing foreign s...
Donald Trump said in an interview yesterday that voters should treat the 2026 midterms as if he is on the ballot, while bringing up how he is going to make "transgender… end." Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who is now a Fox News host, asked Trump on his show yesterday about the u...
Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson — who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has referred to as a "mentor" and personally invited to lead a monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon — recently said that he would have fought for the southern Confederacy during the US Civi...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration decided that support for transgender people belonged in the nation’s counterterrorism apparatus. Months later, it commissioned a study that appears designed to tell the government it was right.The U.S. Depart...
The Tennessee Christian Preparatory School in Cleveland will have to pay gay teenager Morgan Armstrong $10,000 in a settlement approved on Monday, after the school blocked her from graduating and withheld her diploma after she came out on Facebook. On April 23, 2025, Armstrong po...
LGBTQ+ adults are significantly more likely to face challenges accessing and paying for necessary healthcare, according to a new survey released last Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy research non-profit. Out of over 2,600 LGBTQ+ adults surveyed, 5...
The internet is abuzz after Christian rock band Skillet removed its opening act Bad Wolves from their upcoming tour after accusations began to circulate that lead singer Sara “Killboy” Skinner is a transgender OnlyFans creator. Skinner was forced to clarify that she is cisgender ...
Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Sunday that he married longtime partner Gregory Scott Jr. “With full hearts, immense joy, and deep gratitude, Gregory and I are proud to share that we are officially married," Jones wrote in a statement posted to social media. "Surro...
By every account, Republicans are facing a disaster in this fall's elections. Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular and seems intent on doing everything possible to increase his party's unpopularity. The odds are very high that Republicans will lose the House, and Democrats are in...
I grew up with the Harry Potter books. There were Christmases when the Harry Potter box set was the background audio for the holidays. Now, I avoid them at all costs. For years I’ve heard excuses about separating art from the artist and the importance of the franchise to people. ...
The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) removed funding from just two of the nearly 180 arts organizations that it supports, both of which have an LGBTQ+ focus, per the Charleston-based newspaper The Post and Courier. At a meeting held on August 20, the board of the state gover...
The Trump administration's trans military ban has taken several hits in court, and officials are now taking their fight to kick trans people out to the Supreme Court. The administration submitted a petition on August 28, asking the justices to determine whether banning trans peop...
With experience as an economist, legislative staffer, and nonprofit director, Michael Smith is looking to protect Delaware from the Trump administration and become Delaware’s first openly LGBTQ treasurer. With a master’s degree in economics from the University of Alabama, Smith h...
Poland has begun to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed outside the country. TVP World, the country’s public broadcaster, reported civil registry offices began to “transcribe same-sex marriages legally” conducted outside of Poland on Aug. 22. The EU Court of Justice in...
Getting into the WNBA’s business and being transphobic? In tennis, that’s called a double fault. On Sunday, tennis icon Martina Navratilova — whose descent into the anti-trans movement has rapidly escalated since she first publicly opposed trans women in sports in 2019 — helped s...
True crime YouTuber and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison is sounding the alarm about how the president may have suffered a focal aware seizure at a recent public event. Garrison played a clip of Trump giving a speech to NASA at Houston's Johnson Space Center this past...
An organization led by trans South Asian immigrants is struggling to survive in the face of fewer opportunities for city and state funding. While the group thought it might have to shut down entirely in October, the community has started to rally around it. Now, leaders are hopef...
Trans advocates are disappointed that Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint will reprise the role of Ron Weasley in a 17-week run of Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Grint – who played the character in all eight original Harry Potter films – originally worked to distance h...
Two Florida cities are standing up to Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of their rainbow crosswalks by painting rainbow colors on two other highly visible public places. At the start of Pride month, St. Petersburg painted the steps of its city hall in the colors of the Progress Pride fl...
This story was originally published by LOOKOUT, a nonprofit newsroom covering LGBTQ+ communities and issues in the Southwest. Editor's note: This story contains mentions of self-harm, as well as physical and sexual violence. When Anna Kilbride told a classmate she would not have ...
A judge in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is defending his decision to grant a transgender woman's petition for an administrative change in civil records acknowledging that she is a woman. "I acted legally and according to my conscience," the judge told Beirut-based news o...
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 ...
Trump administration report says that supporting trans rights makes people violent What this was based on: The report itself was based on a small, unrepresentative survey that asked people about their views on trans rights and whether they support certain high-profile cases of vi...
A pollster specializing in women voters said she is "seeing sirens" for the GOP as women indicate a massive decrease in support for the party. Christina Matthews, who conducts polls for Bellwether Research and Consulting, spearheaded a survey of 1,604 women ages 18 and over and f...
Another former NBA player has inserted himself into the debate over trans athlete participation in the WNBA. Matt Ryan, who used to play forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, posted on social media on Monday in defense of fellow former player Enes Kanter Freedom, who has been on a ...
As LGBTQ and HIV advocates continue to grapple with the Trump administration’s attacks on healthcare, a new book offers a timely look at what happens when public health systems — and the democratic institutions that sustain them — are pushed to their limits. The book, “Aftershock...
Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
Jared Kushner, like his father-in-law, Donald Trump, was born gagging on a golden spoon. Kushner married Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, in 2009 at Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. Anti-nepotism laws prevent Kushner from working in ...
The technology field can be a gateway to economic mobility. At E-INFOSOL, a service-disabled, veteran-owned business based in Rockville, Md., CEO and co-founder Fredy Pesante and Vice President of Service Delivery Charles Barnett say internships, mentorship and free online resour...
A new emergency shelter opened in Houston last Monday to support unhoused LGBTQ+ youth. Asia's House will give young people ages 15 to 17 a place to sleep, filling a gap as the city's first temporary emergency shelter specifically for queer and trans youth, Chron reported. Courtn...
Author JK Rowling is facing criticism for posting an upskirt image of a transgender woman last weekend while demanding that the trans woman debate her. Rowling wrote post after post on X on July 11, demanding that trans writer Freda Wallace debate her after Wallace called Rowling...
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Editor's note: The Department of Homeland Security on Saturday said Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the U.K. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A DHS spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blad...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blade said ICE arrested Yiannopoulos, who they described as "an illegal alien from the Unite...
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, joked that he is "48.6% gay" in an interview with gay progressive political broadcaster Luke Beasley, published August 17. During their conversation, Beasley asked Hunter Biden whether he was gay like him. Hunter Biden replied,...
LGBTQ people have a variety of housing options when they’re lucky enough to be able to afford property. In San Francisco – long considered a safe haven for the queer community – individual needs have to be weighed both against the city’s chronic housing shortage and a competitive...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.On Karoline Leavitt’s final day as White House press secretary, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, took a black marker to a map and crossed out the name of a 7,300-square-mile Great Lake shared with Canada.“Lake Ontario, ...
Love Island USA fans everywhere are vibrating as the reunion of everyone’s favorite heteropessimist reality dating show is set to air on Monday, August 31st. While the American version of the show has yet to include a significant queer storyline within the walls of the villa —and...
Let’s Go Washington, the Republican group behind an anti-trans sports ban that'll appear on the state's ballot in November, denied a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to remove the academy's name from the group's description of its ballot measure, which appear...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s stand-your-ground law protects a transgender activist.Rihanna Kelver has maintained that Scott Durham hurled anti-trans slurs and pushed her to the ground outside the Crowbar & ...
Ex-gay far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Yiannopoulos — who once served as an intern for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and is known for his sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and racist statements — is c...
A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey school district by a right-wing legal advocacy group reveals the coordinated effort among "parents' rights" and other anti-LGBTQ+ groups to strip students of privacy and other protections in schools, all while falsely promoting their legal suc...
Economic mobility usually assumes a starting line: a bedroom to return to, a parent to call, a place to regroup after things go wrong. For many LGBTQ young adults in South Florida, that starting line never existed. That’s why Our Fund Foundation, SunServe, and Sunshine Cathedral ...
Gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, who stepped down last March as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., had his $1 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against jazz artist Chuck Redd thrown out by a judge last Friday be...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both.The former first son declared himself 48.5 percent gay during a recent interview with gay progressive political commentator Luke Beasley — although the ...
Former director of student wellness and health promotion at Georgia Southern University, Gemma Skuraton, filed a lawsuit against the University System of Georgia (USG) and Georgia Southern University vice president Shay Little, alleging she was terminated in retaliation after obj...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the Pentagon to fire decorated transgender troops who have so far beaten the government in court. The Department of Justice is asking the high court...
