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National Women’s Soccer League star Esther González is facing backlash from fans who say her decision to sign with a Saudi Women’s Premier League team is a betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community as well as her former team. In July, González and NJ/NY Gotham FC agreed to end her contrac...
Last week, Advocate published a list of "11 anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans dogged by gay rumors" and, while it's very stupid, it's also an interesting look at how stifling contemporary culture is when it comes to gender and sexualitly, how people on all parts of the political spectrum u...
Right-wing financier Reid Rasner may have lost his primary for Wyoming's at-large House seat earlier this month, but he's still getting attention online for his lack of understanding of how public restrooms work. "STOP THE INSANITY!" he posted to Facebook this week. "Another tran...
If any movie title can be said to describe exactly what it is going to show us, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” would have to be it – and yet, it doesn’t communicate anything to prepare us for what we are going to see. For that, you’d have to already be a fan of the creato...
There was only one movie I wanted to watch on the day Tim Curry died. Much as I love The Rocky Horror Picture show with its celebration of alterity and sexual liberation, one of the actor’s performances, for me, stands head and shoulders above the rest. I am talking, of course, a...
This medical group would like transphobes to keep its name out of their mouth. A right-wing anti-trans campaign seeking to ban trans athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity has decided not to comply with a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics to...
Editor's note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key were on assignment in the Netherlands from July 28-Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — A transgender American couple who live in the Netherlands say President Donald Trump prompted them to leave the U.S. Jac...
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released a 20-page pseudoscientific report entitled “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” The report concludes that "gender ideology is associated with left-wing autho...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal appeals court has refused to let President Donald Trump’s administration obtain sensitive medical records belonging to transgender young people who received care in New York.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
Recent headlines and GOP-aligned spokespeople like Riley Gaines would have you believe women and girls in sports are under no greater threat than the one posed to them by transgender people. Indiana Fever guard and latest right-wing media darling Sophie Cunningham poured gasoline...
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Thursday called President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America "petty and disappointing." “This is petty and disappointing. We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. ...
Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
President Donald Trump is so desperate to have his name on the Kennedy Center that he’s willing to tear it down if he doesn’t get his way. In a Monday legal filing, the Kennedy Center board members, most of whom were installed by the president himself, described the arts complex ...
Esther González, a National Women’s Soccer League champion married to a woman, is facing criticism after signing to Al-Qadsiah of Saudi Women’s Premier League — located in a country that famously outlaws same-sex relations.The 33-year-old athlete’s shocking move comes after she m...
Written By Shar Jossell Ryan C. Hamilton is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose lens is trained on the people most often left out of the archive. Approaching his work through a sociological framework, Hamilton is dedicated to documenting Black queer life with intimacy and an insi...
Organizers in Idaho started a campaign to buy a notorious venue that hosted anti-LGBTQ+ events. Their goal: to turn it into a gay bar and community hub. Montgomery Kuykendall, a Boise-based entrepreneur, has launched a GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $3 million to buy the Old S...
The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit from a former Georgia Southern University employee who said she was fired for objecting when the school didn’t want to provide free chest binders to students, CBS News Atlanta reported on Thursday. Gemma Skuraton, who was formerly Georgi...
Marni von Wilpert, currently a member of the San Diego City Council, is running for Congress from one of five recently gerrymandered districts in California, redrawn to add Democratic votes and, the party hopes, send a majority to the House of Representatives in 2027. A pledge to...
WNBA star Cameron Brink did not mince words when asked about former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom's crusade against trans inclusion in the women's league. Brink, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, called Kanter Freedom "a stupid piece of sh*t" during an interview where she al...
A GOP Congressman shared a bizarre take this week on the trans athlete controversy currently consuming the WNBA. During an appearance on Jenna Ellis In The Morning, a radio show hosted by the president's former legal advisor, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said he agreed with a comm...
Rehoboth Mayor Stan Mills called for the resignation of Commissioner Suzanne Goode, following release of an independent investigation into Goode’s behavior that led Mills to conclude she has violated her oath of office. Over the past few months, city staff have complained about C...
President Trump’s favorability is at record lows, dragged down by a reckless and unpopular war, soaring food and gas prices, economic instability and a general sense that he is flagrantly corrupt, more focused on vengeance than governing, flailing and mentally unwell. Assuming th...
As the world is still reeling from the news of the death of legendary Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton on Tuesday, many of her LGBTQ+ fans have resurfaced evidence of her long and enduring support of the LGBTQ+ community.That support included a job and a lasting friendship wit...
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat in Michigan, mocked Donald Trump's bizarre pronunciation of his name at a campaign event on Wednesday. "Donald Trump, because he can't resist the red meat, can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth," El-Sayed said. "Ha...
Two women identified as a couple who are charged with the May 22, 2026, murder of the mother one of them in her Silver Spring home and who were arrested three weeks later in Ohio are scheduled to go on trial for murder April 19, 2027. According to online records filed with Montgo...
President Donald Trump said, "I’m allowed to destroy the country," during a bizarre press event he held last Friday to speak about the Supreme Court's ruling against his international tariffs. "I’m even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can ...
Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, spoke in his August 25 broadcast about a news story involving "California sodomites who bought a baby through surrogacy" but then allegedly told the birth mother to "kill it" (per their surrogacy agreement) afte...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Kansas judge says one transgender driver can take the wheel again.After Jamie Miller’s license was suspended under a new state law, Douglas County District Judge James McCabria temporarily restored her driving privileges, ruling th...
Former pro-basketball player and sports commentator Charles Barkley criticized the transgender athlete debate unfolding in the WNBA, saying, "Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women," in his interview with radio host Michael Smerconish published Monday on ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal judge cited Dolly Parton’s bosom as he blocked Texas’ drag ban, proving that even in death, the LGBTQ+ icon can still defend the rights of queens.U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled that a 2023 state law criminalizing “...
President Donald Trump claimed today that the recently deceased country music star Dolly Parton "really liked" him, even though she never publicly discussed her political affiliations and twice turned down Trump's offer to award her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (She also on...
A Kansas school district has agreed to the Trump administration’s demands that officials out trans kids to their parents, ending a yearlong investigation into so-called “gender ideology.” In its Tuesday, August 25, announcement, Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. ...
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the frontrunner in the race to become Florida’s next governor, has been widely criticized for a bizarre misogynistic comment about why women need high-quality roads. “Everybody gets frustrated when it just takes longer to get from point A to point B," D...
An employee of the Grand Island, New York, wastewater treatment facility has filed a lawsuit against the town for alleged anti-gay discrimination. Court documents obtained by WIVB reveal Timothy Burns' accusations against a coworker, who he said subjected him to "overtly homophob...
This story originally appeared on Out.When J.K. Rowling joined the world in mourning the legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating her legacy, her post on X generated an online backlash that drew a stark contrast between the Harry Potter author's controversial "gender critical" view...
Pride parades, sponsorships, and celebrations all trace their roots back to Black and Brown trans people, who reached their absolute limit with police violence, surveillance, and harassment. We gave this movement its heartbeat. But decades later, our communities are still being a...
A federal judge in Texas ruled this week that the state’s drag ban is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech in violation of the First Amendment. US District Court Judge David Hittner’s Tuesday decision strikes down S.B. 12, a 2023 law signed by anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Greg Abbo...
The Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission voted to fine Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille $15,000 last month due to a discrimination complaint filed by a trans woman over her use of the bathroom. Katie Sorber, a transgender woman, said that on April 5, 2023, she was stopped by emp...
I don’t want to say goodbye. To be honest, my first impression of music icon Dolly Parton was similar to the scathing look the demur Jane Fonda gave the boss’s secretary in one of my favorite funny feminist films ever, "9 to 5." Fonda’s aghast up-and-down scrutiny was pure unspok...
A 2026 list of candidates released by the D.C. Board of Elections shows that 31 of the 43 known LGBTQ candidates who won election in 2024 as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners have filed the required petition signatures to be placed on the ballot this year to run for re-election...
By LEE O. SANDERLIN | The Democratic Party is having something of an identity crisis — losing to President Donald Trump twice in three elections will do that. Should the party embrace anti-establishment figures who espouse progressive policy ideas like Medicare for all and rhetor...
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC Foundation), the public education, research, and policy arm of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the United States, has released new data showing that there are more LGBTQ+ identifying people than ever before...
Transgender author Jesse James Rose wrote in an Instagram post published Sunday that recently deceased homophobic Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) regularly paid her "a fat stack of cash" when she was a "twinky pre-transition college student" to do "unspeakable things to him in a hotel...
Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was declared the winner of yesterday's Republican primary runoff after running a short campaign based largely on transphobia and who her brother was. Graham has received 52.5% of the vote in the runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) with 99% o...
“In 1972, my feeling was that this was a gay town and that I was here at the pleasure of somebody else, which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time.”That’s how late chef, author, and television host Anthony Bourdain described his first summer in Provi...
In a heartfelt tribute to the late Dolly Parton, who died today at age 80, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile said that she had “felt her leaving all week” and had been “asking folks to pray every day,” proceeding to share a series of touching thoughts on faith and LGBTQ+ inclusion...
Dolly Parton died on Tuesday at a Nashville hospital. She was 80. Her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Parton passed away at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center "after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer." Parton's nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced his aunt's death in a video...
There are few celebrities whose passing could inspire such universal mourning as Dolly Parton. The country music legend and renowned philanthropist died today at age 80, turning all of our social media feeds into a sea of black-and-white portraits and tearful remembrances. Surpri...
Don’t let the Sophie Cunninghams of the world fool you: the WNBA is filled with players who have openly supported transgender inclusion in sports for years.It should be no surprise that a league that has historically been early on for LGBTQ+ inclusion— and is currently 25% queer,...
Three years ago, the right lost its mind over Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg allegedly flying "private" on the taxpayer's dime, and for once bringing along his husband to honor veterans in his official capacity as a cabinet member's spouse, among other charges. The la...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Dolly Parton, the country music legend whose singular songwriting, towering hair and rhinestone-studded wit made her an American institution, died August 25 at 80.Across a career spanning nearly six decades, Parton wrote an estimated...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth uttered a transphobic slur during his speech yesterday at Oshkosh Defense, a military vehicle and technology company, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It's his latest use of the slur. "Every dollar squandered on redundancy or bureaucracy or waste is an ins...
MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
Country music icon and LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Parton died at age 80, her family announced on Tuesday via a video posted on her Instagram account. Her cause of death has not yet been revealed; however, last May she reported troubles with her immune and digestive systems following issue...
Radio host Charlamagne tha God eviscerated former New York Knicks center Enes Kanter Freedom over his crusade against the WNBA's policy on trans athletes, a war he waged even though the league has never had an out trans player. Earlier this month, Kanter Freedom joined the trans ...
A 67-year-old woman pleaded guilty last week to sending a series of menacing messages to a trans woman, the content of which the sheriff described as "horrific." Lyndsey Peebles, who lives on Scotland's Isle of Bute, has been ordered to pay 500 pounds (approximately $700) to the ...
A New Jersey detective says he was sexually assaulted by a supervisor amid years of anti-gay harassment. Last week, Russell Kingsland, a detective with the state’s Division of Criminal Justice, filed a notice of tort claim, a formal written notice of allegations required in New J...
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … sometimes. Special Assistant to the President Natalie Harp has become the subject of intense media scrutiny in the past few weeks given her uniquely devoted relationship with Donald Trump. Several of Harp’s letters to the pre...
In a tense Fox interview, Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed called out Fox host Jesse Watters for focusing on trans athletes instead of important issues in the upcoming election. "Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually c...
A monument that pays tribute to LGBTQ Canadians who suffered government-sanctioned persecution and discrimination officially opened in Ottawa on Aug. 21. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Governor General Louise Arbour, and Women and Gender Equality Minister Rechie Valdez are...
