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By KRISTEN GRIFFITH | A Harford County Circuit Court judge sided with the state school board Thursday afternoon, ruling that a young adult novel can remain in public school libraries. Judge Yolanda L. Curtin said the Harford board of education’s June 2025 decision to remove “Flam...
For over 25 years, OutYouth in Texas had a home at 909 E. 49th1/2 Street, affectionately known as The Little Blue Bungalow. In 2024, a water leak damaged the structure beyond reasonable repair, and now the group is building a new home on the same site. They have raised funds for ...
(Original article published 10/5/26 has been updated.) GLAAD and Fair Wisconsin have documented the LGBTQ records of the candidates for governor of Wisconsin, David Crowley and Tom Tiffany. David Crowley (D) Milwaukee County Executive —October 12, 2026: responded to a Wisconsin W...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender healthcare. It was a one-two punch from Hegseth in service of the president's cr...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Texas transgender rights organization has filed a petition in state court seeking to uncover who is behind an impersonation campaign it says has reached thousands of Texas residents ahead of the November 3 general election.The Tran...
In 1983, the Food and Drug Administration instituted a ban on blood donations from men who have sex with other men in an attempt to keep HIV out of the nation’s blood supply. This came as the AIDS epidemic was ravaging queer communities, and contributed to a nationwide blood shor...
This story originally appeared on Out.They're back to make it nice!The classic phrase is all good things come to an end, but in the world of reality TV, sometimes they're just rebooted. Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, Dorinda Medley, and Kelly Bensimon made televis...
United Methodist pastor Adam Hamilton's LGBTQ+ views could help determine whether Kansas elects its first Democratic US Senator since 1932. But because he has never held elected office, his queer rights record is based mostly on comments he has made as a pastor and since announci...
This year marks a quarter century of celebrating our community in the Blade’s annual Best Of LGBTQ D.C. Awards. The awards began 25 years ago as a way to highlight businesses, performers, activists, non-profits, allies, clergy, athletes, and others contributing to D.C.’s vibrant ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration has once again all but erased transgender people from reports about sexual violence in prisons and jails across the country — except to report data about trans people as perpetrators of violence. The same rep...
Asexual people around the world face pathologization, discrimination, and violence, according to a new report from Outright International. The LGBTQ+ rights organization teamed with British asexual activist Yasmin Benoit and asexual advocates from Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana,...
Questions about how high-level political appointees wield their power have long persisted, particularly under the Trump-Vance administration. Now, allegations involving openly gay Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell, White House adviser Alina Habba, and he...
New Zealand's High Court on Wednesday struck down the government's ban on puberty blockers for trans youth, ruling that the measures were passed unlawfully and amounted to unjustified discrimination. The decision is a victory for advocates who challenged the rules, which followe...
A Florida woman is suing the city council that suspended her after her history of obscene, racist and homophobic tweets was uncovered and published in a local paper. The councilwoman, Judi Fike, was appointed to her seat in Groveland, Florida last year and is running for a full t...
Earlier this year, out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and MAGA conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to years in prison for tampering with voting machines. And new evidence shows that the White House held a "brai...
Billionaire anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling published an essay this week in which she attempts to make the case that trans rights activism is “elitist.” The Harry Potter author framed the piece, posted October 21 on her personal website, as an “update” to her infamous June 2020 ...
Written By: Brandon R. Nicholas I’m sitting in a packed room in Austin, Texas for the Prism/aGLIFF awards dinner. I’m being awarded the Queer Black Voices honor with two other filmmakers. This is the third festival screening for my documentary short film Miss Honey: The Catsuit, ...
A married gay couple is suing a solar installation company after they say they were harassed by fellow workers, targeted by management, and fired without notice. Wilmer Muchacho, 46, and Jose Cordero, 30, allege in a lawsuit filed last week in Maine District Court that employees ...
Colorado voters are deciding on two interconnected statewide ballot measures that would severely limit the freedom of transgender Americans, broadly alter state law, and establish rigid statewide rules that override the decision-making power of local communities, clinical experti...
New Zealand’s High Court on Wednesday struck down regulations that banned new puberty blocker prescriptions for minors. The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. challenged the Health Ministry over the regulations it adopted in 2025. “The applicant success...
I grew up on a cattle ranch, where the day’s first sounds were gates creaking, hooves shifting, and cows mooing across the pasture. I remember looking into animals’ eyes while feeding them and learning how different each was. Some were bold, some cautious; some wanted touch, some...
I consider myself fortunate to be able to take an annual transatlantic cruise. When I began doing this, what were called repositioning cruises, moving ships to better climates for a different season, were fairly inexpensive, and never full. That is not the case today. Now they ar...
A note from Brian: When it comes to sperm donation, most people immediately think of sperm banks. But banks are just one of several ways to find a donor, and each option comes with its own considerations around cost, access, legal protections, and the long-term implications for y...
Two hundred and fifty years ago in Cumberland, R.I., the Publick Universal Friend proclaimed that the person who had formerly occupied their body (a young woman named Jemima Wilkinson) had died after a short battle with Typhus. After their death, their body was resurrected, reani...
A thirty-minute documentary released this morning by the Young Turks features three male sex workers who say they were paid to have sex with the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was long plagued by gay rumors despite his anti-LGBTQ+ policy stances. One man in the documenta...
Hadouken! Orville Peck is stepping into a new arena. The masked country music star makes his feature film acting debut as Vega, the flamboyant, claw-wielding villain, in the latest live-action Street Fighter film. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Noah Centineo, Andrew Koj...
The WNBA has officially declared former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White ineligible for the league after the pair made a mockery of trans women by saying they would pretend to be trans to try out for a WNBA team. Outgoing WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert rejected ...
If you’re a transgender actor, rapper Kid Cudi may have work for you.The Grammy Award-winning performer took to X late Wednesday night, shortly after announcing that he would write, direct, and star in a biopic about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, writing, “If you are a trans actor...
Donald Trump's lesbian psychologist niece, Mary Trump, said his public ogling over Sen. Jon Husted's (R-OH) body is a sign of his declining mental capacity. "I just wonder where we should be on the gaydar with Donald," The Rest is Politics podcast host Alastair Campbell asked Mar...
This story originally appeared on Out.Safe sex usually involves regular STI testing, condoms, and PrEP, but during cold and flu season there are other things to worry about. Getting sidelined by the flu is no fun, and now we have to worry about COVID-19 as well. Masking and socia...
Trans people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody are revealing the horrific conditions they face daily during immigration detention that has lasted months. They report fearing both other inmates and guards, being trapped in solitary confinement (supposedly for th...
Donald Trump recently told a crowd that he has "much better blood" because his uncle taught at MIT. He also called himself "real smart" because he attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, despite having said moments earlier that he knows "a lot of stupid people t...
The death of Anna Nicole Smith has been portrayed for decades by the very entertainment industry that led to her downfall. This tale of manipulation and institutional incompetence continues to be a warning, with Smith showing what happens when people see you as a product rather t...
Outgoing WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert responded earlier this month to a letter from Republican lawmakers who attempted to press the issue of two male ex-NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declaring their intent to be drafted in the women’s league. Both men had...
Members of a Washington state high school girls’ cross-country team are speaking out about what has become a national controversy surrounding their transgender teammate. Against the backdrop of a statewide anti-trans sports ban on the November ballot, the members of the Camas Hig...
Amber Glenn made history in 2024 as the first out queer woman to win a U.S. figure skating title, proudly draping herself in a Progress Pride flag during her victory lap on the ice. Now, after winning Olympic gold earlier this year, Glenn is turning to her queerness as a source o...
New data confirms what LGBTQ+ advocates have feared: hate crimes against queer and transgender people are on the rise in Los Angeles. Released Tuesday, intradepartmental correspondence from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirms that the number of LGBTQ+ hate crimes ag...
SPONSORED CONTENT — In our current sociopolitical climate, the LGBT+ population can face immense stress just opening our phones and scrolling through social media, the news, or walking out our front door. For many, it becomes a daily experience shaped by discrimination, micro/mac...
Pamphlets mailed to Texas voters and claiming to be a resource guide for trans and LGBTQ+ students have reportedly been linked to an LLC that was registered in Wyoming just last month. Social media posts by outraged conservatives who received the mailers began appearing on Monday...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to overturn a lower court ruling halting the denial of gender-affirming care for trans prisoners in federal custody. In an unsigned 7-2 decision, the justices declined to let the administration’s policy ta...
A trans woman in Tennessee is suing the state over its refusal to update her driver's license to accurately reflect her gender identity. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, updated her birth certificate in Illinois in June but was denied when she attempted to make t...
Oscar winner and famously gender-bending performer Tilda Swinton is set to reprise her role as a cross-dressing character named Ella/Max in an off-Broadway production of Manfred Karge’s Man to Man at New York City’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in February 2027.As Deadline first report...
MAGA political consultant Seth Weathers launched Ultra Right Beer, a "100% woke-free American beer," in April 2023 in response to the right-wing boycott of Bud Light over its collaboration with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. But over three years later, the we...
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a Trump-Vance administration policy that would have ended gender-affirming care for prisoners. On Wednesday, the justices rejected an emergency application filed by the administration that would have allowed the Bureau of Prisons to restrict gen...
Donald Trump fawned over Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) body for the second time in a week while speaking at a Tuesday rally in Greenville, North Carolina. “I’m studying his body. I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course," Trump t...
As in most elections, Californians’ heads are spinning over the many ballot measures they’re being asked to vote on this year. We’re offering some guidance on the various measures, but first, a little history to underscore why propositions should not be dismissed as less importan...
Rhoam Summer was among the shooting deaths at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15, 2026. He was 5 years old. His father, Kelik Summer, posted that night to a Facebook group. “[It was] the worst day of my life. My son Rhoam was killed in a school shooting....
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender people in federal prisons, preserving access while a legal challenge continues.The policy would have ended ...
Uncloseted Media published this story on Oct. 21. This story was reported in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. By HOPE PISONI | Texas’s Senate race has become one of the most-watched elections of the year. MAGA Republican no...
During a speech at a rally for Democratic Congressional candidates in Virginia, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg mocked Republicans for trying to take credit for Democratic initiatives. Buttigieg highlighted the investments he made in Virginia while working for t...
A new pro-Democrat ad skewering the Republican obsession with trans people is making waves across the internet. The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young girl trying to use the bathroom then ...
Virginia's Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program on Oct. 13 stopped covering gender-affirming care for transgender minors in response to a Trump-Vance administration directive. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in August announced federal funding could no ...
When Lauren Rowello’s wife came out to them as a trans woman, they "didn’t know where else to find anyone who’d understand.” Rowello and their wife both found their communities in the years that followed, but getting the right support to understand their own narratives was a chal...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A transgender rights advocacy group in Texas says it is being impersonated in a campaign mailing unsolicited flyers about transgender identity to households across the state, prompting threats against its staff.The Transgender Educat...
Lesbian federal Judge Ana C. Reyes received death threats today after President Donald Trump called her a "crazed lunatic" on social media earlier in the day. Reyes gained the Trump administration's ire by delaying the president's rushed attempt to remove numerous historic featur...
A recirculated clip of lesbian pop star Renée Rapp has sparked a firestorm of renewed discourse on the sapphic internet. In the clip, pulled from an August 2025 interview with Alex Cooper on her megapopular podcast Call Her Daddy, the host asks Rapp to disclose “the most lesbian ...
Trump fired Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary last Friday after barely five days on the job. But guess who's eager to fill the now-empty role? None other than disgraced, gay former US Rep. George Santos (R-NY). In an X post published last Friday evening, Santos wrote,...
Gay Russian journalist Vadim Vaganov fled his home country in 2024, one year after its Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Russia's government now considers him, the media outlet he works for, Parni+, and other LGBTQ+ jo...
Half the members of a high school girls’ cross-country team in Washington state walked off the field earlier this month rather than run with their transgender teammate. The protest took place amid debate over a proposed trans sports ban in the state and followed weeks of media at...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.An Iowa candidate for Congress is pushing back against anti-transgender attacks in new ads without treating LGBTQ+ people as obstacles to knock down.Christina Bohannan released a digital video of herself on a track in Iowa-branded at...
