An activist from Puerto Rico who spoke at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus briefing last week in D.C. said anti-LGBTQ laws and policies have left the LGBTQ community in the U.S. commonwealth even more vulnerable. "A human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico — one that dispro...
Republican Sen. John Cornyn (TX) threatened on Monday to block two of President Donald Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ ambassadorial nominees unless the White House provides proof that it has distributed congressionally pre-approved funds for the President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief (P...
After online backlash, 2nd Base Espresso, a "bikini barista" drive-through coffee stand in Spokane, Washington, removed its outdoor public-facing sign last Wednesday ], which said, "Trans women are r**arded men,” using a slur for people with intellectual disabilities. Protestors ...
In Indonesia this week, viral video captured one of a number of brazen attacks by a vigilante group dedicated to eradicating LGBTQ+ people in the Muslim-majority nation. The incident darkened the national debate raging over the community's place in the country. The attacks in Bog...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised Monday at a "political terrorism summit" that his State Department will soon designate various left-wing groups in the U.S. as terrorist organizations. On the same day, he released a 100-page report naming 43 individuals and groups that the...
Supporters of the Denny Blaine Park nude beach in Seattle, Washington got a mixed verdict last week, after a neighborhood group tried to shut down the popular LGBTQ+ gathering spot. The judge in the case agreed that public sex and masturbation remain a public nuisance at the park...
The X account for the campaign of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mocked a gay conservative influencer with long hair by referring to him as the rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). While numerous X commenters laughed at Newsom's mockery and misgendering, Newsom has come ...
Tom Homan, Trump's so-called "border czar" overseeing national immigration and border security, told reporters yesterday that he can't even buy milk without being harassed due to Democrats' "hateful rhetoric" against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. This rhetoric...
Polish President Karol Nawrocki on July 17 vetoed bills that would have extended rights to same-sex couples. Reuters reported Nawrocki rejected two measures that would have allowed same-sex couples who live together to enter into "cohabitation contracts." Reuters noted the bills ...
While defending the GOP's SAVE Act – which would disenfranchise millions of voters, including many transgender Americans – House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said there is nothing wrong with strict voter ID laws since you even need an ID to utilize Olive Garden's never-en...
A Spokane, Washington, coffee stand has taken down a transphobic and ableist sign after community backlash, according to local newspaper The Spokesman-Review. 2nd Base Espresso adjusted the reader board outside its business earlier this month to display the message “Trans women a...
An Iowa school district will pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by three high school teachers who were disciplined for their involvement in a student drag show in 2022. Jill Bjorklund, Mollie Jo Blahunka, and PJ Hurley will each receive $27,700 with an additional 67,000 goi...
The Divine Playhouse — an LGBTQ+ theater troupe in Sydney, Australia — is fighting a landlord who terminated the lease to their venue (a former church) over the group's allegedly “offensive” religious-themed work. The artists are speaking out, holding a counter-protest, and raisi...
Uncloseted Media published this article on July 18. By SAM DONNDELINGER | On a June night in rural North Carolina, dozens of campers sat around the fire as a counselor asked them to close their eyes. “Picture a place where you feel completely safe,” they were told. “Think about w...
The American Library Association (ALA) is sounding the alarm as a federal bill seeking to ban "sexually oriented material" in public schools makes its way through Congress. S.B. 4925 was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on June 24. Offici...
At the Democrats' Leadership Blue Conference in Florida over the weekend, keynote speaker Pete Buttigieg declared, "There is no such thing as a permanently red state" and said he believes there is "enormous opportunity" for Florida Democrats in the upcoming election cycle. "I fee...
A Methodist conference that was scheduled to take place in Boise, Idaho, next year will have to find a new venue as its members voted to leave the state out of concerns for the safety of transgender and nonbinary participants The United Methodist Church held its annual Oregon-Ida...
Big might be moving to Paris, but Miranda is officiating weddings in Florida. Cynthia Nixon will be the “Reverend-for-the-Day” at Bride Pride, billed as the “World’s Largest All-Girl Wedding & Renewal Ceremony,” per its website. The event will take place on February 21, 2027, in ...
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...
Underrated and mismarketed, Jennifer’s Body did not find its core audience of sapphic movie lovers until long after its release. I still remember the first time I watched it, in the early 2020s, having grown up believing the narrative that it was a movie that simply pandered to t...
Charges against two women who were arrested for kissing in public were dropped, prosecutors in Uganda confirmed earlier this month. The two women – Wendy Faith, a 22-year-old dancer, and Alesa Diana Denise, unemployed and 21 years old – were arrested in February after they moved ...
Victoria Cruz, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising and unwavering advocate for survivors of violence, died on June 25 from liver cancer at age 79. Fierce, generous, and unyielding, Cruz emerged from Stonewall as a witness to history who would spend more than five decades hel...
Donald Trump attacked former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg twice in the past day, blaming him for the problems the current administration is facing when it comes to air safety and also mocking Buttigieg for being married to a man. "When they took over, Buddha-dedge," Tr...
A 30-year-old Florida man who shot and paralyzed his 24-year-old LGBTQ+ neighbor after months of harassment pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and will now face seven years in prison. The attacker, Tyler Getchell, pleaded guilty last May 4 to shooting Kyle McFarlane. The Fl...
President Donald Trump claimed last Wednesday that the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law signed by former President Joe Biden to invest $52 billion to improve computer chip manufacturing in the U.S., required companies accepting the funding to be run by transgender executives. His clai...
The global organizing body for professional women's tennis will institute a new policy on Tuesday requiring all competitors to undergo testing to confirm their female sex. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced that the policy will "preserve the integrity of women’s profe...
A gold-colored statue of Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin, unveiled outside the Capitol yesterday, is facing heavy criticism online. The 12-foot statue was installed outside the Capitol building on Third Street on the National Mall and was paid for by a group of cryptocurrency inve...
One Iowa school district has learned the hard way that targeting teachers for helping students can be a real drag. Three teachers who were sanctioned for helping to facilitate a student-led drag show have received a settlement of $150,000 from Iowa’s Ankeny school district, per a...
Martin O’Donnell, a Trump-endorsed Republican and the composer of music for popular video games like Halo and Destiny, is challenging a Democratic incumbent in a race that could decide control of the House in the midterms. He called LGBTQ+ people part of the abyss that America is...
A second transgender sex worker said she was hired by the recently deceased Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Her claim comes one week after another trans sex worker came forward with her own story about Graham. "Lindsey Graham was one of my clients. This transphobic, homophobic man ca...
The parents of a transgender teen who died by suicide earlier this year are speaking out about the toll Idaho’s anti-trans laws and the Trump administration’s anti-trans crusade took on their daughter. “You worry about that hatred being internalized, and that’s what happened to m...
We have always said that this fight has never really been about trans people. It has been about control. It’s the power to define what people can and can’t do, how they can look, and how they can participate in society. It’s been a fight for basic rights that we’ve fought hard fo...
Frank Larue Asher, described by friends and family members as an acclaimed urban gardener who operated a nonprofit nursery business in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood from around 2008 until his retirement in 2018 when he moved to Cumberland, Md., and served on the board of a local museu...
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, recently postulated that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a "really kinky" sex life. Biden made the comment during an appearance on the progressive political podcast, I've Had It, with host Jennifer Welch. Welch asked him which three M...
Attorneys for gay former FBI employee David Maltinsky, who was fired from his job as a non-agent employee at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office in October 2025 after more than 16 years of service for displaying an LGBTQ Pride flag at his workstation, filed court papers on July 15...
As a target of constant right-wing vitriol, elite shitposter Hunter Biden knows a thing or two about Republican hypocrisy, and he elaborated on the subject during an interview on the latest episode of the hit podcast I’ve Had It with Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan. In ...
Official executive agency social media accounts have been posting hateful content since Donald Trump took office again last year, but two memes shared last week drew particular attention. First, the White House posted "Patriot Guidelines" on Wednesday, presenting the correct and ...
A gay senior conservative politician in Germany resigned Saturday after facing outcry that he and his husband added to their family with the help of an American surrogate mother. The politician himself – Jens Spahn, the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)...
Transgender medicine for everybody. That’s the rule now, that’s the goal.Look, it’s hard to bring a genuine smile to my face these days. Between dodging wildfire smoke and avoiding parasitic produce, the summer of 2026 has felt downright Biblical in a bad way. But the one thing I...
By KYLE GOON | It was midmorning, and the March winds lashed against the faces of the players on the Ferals rugby team as they suited up at a park in Frederick. The turf was frozen. Harper Ockert, 24, wrapped her left knee with tape, stabilizing her joint for the jarring hits to ...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece and clinical psychologist Mary Trump eviscerated her uncle's handling of the Texas floods, calling his recent comments on the tragedy a "grotesque display of self-promotion." The president recently visited the disaster zone where more than 130 people,...
The one think that Donald Trump will never admit to being is a loser. That's especially true when he is one. So Trump took to television last Thursday to lie yet again about his defeat in the 2020 presidential election and to pave the way for disputing — if not outright discardin...
Since I was a teenager, I have liked sci-fi because of the depth with which it explores social issues. At the time, I didn’t know that I was autistic and queer, so I couldn’t see myself in other autistic and queer people. Instead, I saw myself in androids, mutants, telepaths, and...
A converted arts space in an unconsecrated church in Sydney is at the center of a row over free speech between Catholic organizations and LGBTQ+ artists in Australia's first city. The diminutive 150-year-old building, in the heart of Sydney’s central business district, hasn't bee...
A trans staff member at the University of Kansas is speaking out after someone reported her for using the women's restroom in violation of the state's anti-trans bathroom ban. Siobhán Kirchstein works as a janitor at the school's Kansas Geological Survey. She told the Lawrence Ti...
‘Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! My Memoir’By Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinsteinc.2026, Grand Central$36/ 421 pages Twenty feet In front of you, and you can’t see a thing. Even the closest faces are in shadow – lit, but not quite enough for you to see for sure what the pe...
“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” – Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. On a usual day in Germany in 1940, Jewish people discovered upon waking that they had been changed...
The latest Honda Civic hatchback and Subaru Impreza are two of the segment’s stars. Both offer sensible pricing, excellent utility and enough personality to avoid feeling like appliances. The Civic is more polished. The Impreza, more rugged. Luckily, neither is trying to be obnox...
The United Kingdom’s Department of Education has published its updated guidance for “Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026” (KCSIE) and it will take effect on September 1. However, the guidance is likely to put trans and gender-non-conforming children at greater risk. “We criti...
Vice President JD Vance joined Bluesky this week and hatefully trolled trans people — he immediately became the most-blocked account on the site. Bluesky has been a refuge for trans and other marginalized groups escaping the right-wing echo chamber X has become since Elon Musk bo...
Trump administration backs off its attempt to use Medicare & Medicaid funding to force hospitals to stop providing trans care Why they backed off: The administration was trying to create a new rule that would deny Medicare and Medicaid funding to hospitals that provide gender-aff...
In the late 1980s, two women set about creating a lesbian community in Kansas City, Missouri. The result was Womontown, an urban community of over 70 women that spanned a 12-block radius and contained 28 homes and 14 apartment buildings. “We just started imagining, what if we cou...
Nightlife promoter Matthew Moody has big plans for Phoenix's up-and-coming gayborhood in the Melrose district: a leather bar called the Barracks. Along with "Eagle" and "Anvil," the "Barracks" name has a long history and is a shout-out to the leather community everywhere. Moody u...
Ten students at Redwood High School in California's Central Valley are facing blowback from fellow students and the wider community after they spelled out the word "FA***TS" (without the asterisks) on t-shirts during a school assembly on Friday. On Monday, Visalia Unified School ...
Donald Trump can hug and kiss and praise the flag all he likes, but he and his supporters do not alone own it. Donald Trump can hug and kiss and praise Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un all he likes, but this does not make these dictators our nation’s allies. Related Sarah McBride f...
Trans journalist and activist Erin Reed updated her Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map, adding Idaho to the list of "Do Not Travel" states for trans people. Idaho is the fourth state to join this list, which also includes Florida, Texas, and Kansas. Reed also recategor...
A Republican state rep from Michigan testifying about his anti-trans sports bill on Monday was left speechless after an out Democratic colleague began his questioning by asking, "Representative, can you tell me: are you trans?" A long beat staring down out gay Democratic state Re...
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By WESLEY CASE | Leon’s Backroom, Baltimore’s oldest gay bar, temporarily shut down after service on Wednesday night, according to a post on the business’s Instagram page. The announcement comes a little more than a week after the death of the Mount Vernon bar’s owner, Ron Singer...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate. Big gay salads are the spice of life when it comes to summer living, but queer people can’t have anything under this administration — not even fresh produce and a sense of unadulterated whimsy at the farmers market. It’s no secret t...
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