LGBTQ News
This story originally appeared on Out.Madison Bailey is speaking up!After reaching mainstream success thanks to the popularity of the hit Netflix series Outer Banks, the pansexual actress is ready to embrace her next chapter.Bailey wants to focus on queer roles as she books her n...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Republican Party is full of politicians who actively fight to strip LGBTQ+ people of their rights and humanity. But it is often those same politicians who get caught up in gay sex scandals or have their sexualities whispered abou...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Florida voters advanced several out candidates on Tuesday and, perhaps just as importantly, handed losses to candidates aligned with the once-dominant Moms for Liberty.Equality Florida cheered after 81 percent of the candidates it en...
LGBTQ+ people now make up 12% of adults across the United States, a percentage accounting for roughly 26.5 million people (higher than the entire population of Florida), according to an analysis of U.S. Census data conducted by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the HRC'...
We don’t know if it’s the stars or the infamous “mold” on the walls of her multi-million dollar castle, but J.K. Rowling is posting about transgender adults and is… glad they’re happy? This doesn’t change anything about how much damage she’s done, and how much she has personally ...
New York City lawmakers are pushing to repeal a decades-old prohibition on adult bathhouses, arguing the regulation was created during the height of the AIDS crisis and no longer reflects modern science or public health practices. Erik Bottcher, the openly gay New York state sena...
Camila Toro de Paula, a 25-year-old transgender woman from Venezuela, arrived in the United States two years ago seeking asylum after a history of abuse at the hands of authorities and family in her home country. Last August, at a routine immigration interview in New York City, T...
A three-judge panel for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals ruled that gender-affirming care for minors constitutes an essential medical treatment for trans youth and that the ban on gender-affirming care is in violation of a state constitutional amendment. Originally passed...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.New Jersey has drawn a legal line around its doctors, patients and families.Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Thursday signed an extensive shield law protecting people who provide, receive or help others obtain reproductive and gende...
A Norfolk, Virginia, officer who accused a transgender recruit of inappropriate behavior is suing both the city and Police Chief Mark Talbot for allegedly refusing to do anything in response. Meghan Grabow claims that in 2024, a "biological male" recruit "who self-identified as a...
The Drug Enforcement Administration, a federal agency, has joined the investigation into the August 16 death of actress Hayden Panettiere, a source familiar with the matter told The New York Times on Wednesday. As previously reported, Panettiere died at 36 years old in a Greenvil...
Fox Host Sean Hannity is being called out for blatant hypocrisy after defending Sen. Darline Graham Nordone's (R-SC) clueless answer to a debate question about Taiwan. Video is making the rounds on social media, comparing Hannity's attempt to downplay Graham Nordone's gaffe with ...
Not all heroes wear capes. Some just use the bathroom. A group of transgender men who call themselves the “compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.The new law, Senate Bill 244, went into effect in February of thi...
A judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), a bipartisan sex education program that has been running since 2010. Under Donald Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services tried to push an abstinence-only model an...
During a conversation with right-wing commentator Benny Johnson earlier this week, anti-trans Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) poked fun at the current controversy surrounding trans people in the WNBA. Johnson asked Abbott whether NBA players should be allowed to play in the WNBA and a...
When people hear the word “conference,” they often imagine a weekend event that begins on Friday and ends on Sunday. For Black Educated Lesbians (BEL), our annual conference is only one part of a much larger mission. BEL was founded because Black lesbians deserve spaces intention...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday used an anti-transgender slur while campaigning for U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), drawing attention to the Trump-Vance administration’s ongoing efforts to restrict trans people from serving in the military. “At the Department of War, we do...
Spoiler alert: This essay contains spoilers for The End of Oak Street. Childhood crushes are an enduring cinematic staple and The End of Oak Street is no different. But this time, it’s queer.For those who have yet to see the dino-fighting thriller, the premise is simultaneously h...
It’s been ten years since “San Junipero,” the groundbreaking episode of Black Mirror, aired. Though it’s been a decade, the impact of the story remains, and lives on in new formats. “San Junipero” tells an unlikely love story between Yorkie and Kelly, two women who meet in a simu...
It’s hard to imagine where LGBTQ+ television would be without “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” the trailblazing reality series that premiered in 2003. Each episode of this Emmy-winning show saw a group of gays converge on a struggling man — the titular straight guy — and offer n...
There is a column in the New York Times asking, “Is Ocasio-Cortez ready for the glass cliff?” The author thinks it’s a great idea for her to run for president. I believe it’s a bad idea for her personally, and a disastrous idea for the Democratic Party. However, that is not the o...
Yesterday, the internet piled on Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) – the sister of the late Lindsey Graham, who was appointed by her state's Republican governor to serve the rest of her brother's term – for giving one of the worst answers in a political debate when asked about h...
On Chicago’s West Side, the ballroom scene doubles as a lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth. Every week, teens are drawn into TaskForce Prevention & Community Services for its popular Vogue School. Once there, they then have access to a variety of resources like housing support, a food pan...
GLAAD released the findings of its sixth annual State of HIV Stigma Report, created in partnership with Gilead Sciences. The study reveals a widening gap between game-changing scientific advancements in HIV prevention and treatment and awareness of these advances that can save li...
“Proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is running for governor of South Carolina on a campaign that focuses heavily on her opposition to trans rights. Now she's claiming that the person who shot rightwing political operative Charlie Kirk – who has not been identified or appreh...
Despite conservative attempts to suppress queer and transgender life across the United States, LGBTQ+ people are still coming out every day and living in our truths. A new Human Rights Campaign Foundation analysis of U.S. Census data found that LGBTQ+ people now make up 12% of ad...
Navigating Big Brother is as much about social acceptance as it is strategy. For Jason De Puy, the house’s sole out LGBTQ representative, that journey exposed a subtle, quiet isolation. Jason experienced an environment where implicit biases left him feeling “othered” and an outca...
Grab your Stetson and polish those boots, country music fans! The queer country supergroup, The Cowgays, featuring powerhouses Brooke Eden, Chris Housman, and Adam Mac, has teamed up with GLAAD to premiere the ultimate feel-good music video for their track, “Been Done Did That.” ...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Under pressure from the Trump-Vance administration, Anne Arundel County Public Schools Supt. Mark Bedell announced Wednesday the district had updated a regulation intended to protect transgender students’ right to be called by their chosen name. The revised ...
Fox News and Republicans are apparently scandalized that out bisexual San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who is running for one of California's U.S House seats, held an August 13 fundraiser at a San Diego, California, lesbian bar called Gossip Grill. The right-wing m...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appointed Michael Allen Caruso last August to serve as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller. Caruso was arrested yesterday on charges of molestation, kidnapping, luring and enticing a child, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and child ab...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A decade ago, Giovonni Santiago asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for something groundbreaking: a place where transgender veterans, like him, could see doctors who understood them.The government listened. Now, Santiago says, i...
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona testified in court today about the moment she understood the wife of her bodyguard knew that the pair was having an affair. Months into the adulterous relationship, the bisexual then-congresswoman sent her bodyguard lover, Matthew Ammel, a...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.An appellate court said the Justice Department can continue investigating QueerDoc, a telehealth service providing care to transgender people across the country.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court had wrongly blocke...
A lot has changed since 2024 in America, especially when it comes to LGBTQ+ people's lives. Can the 2026 midterms turn that around? The September Issue of LGBTQ Nation will be about the stakes of the midterm elections. While the media will spend a lot of time reporting on the hor...
There’s no use crying over spilled milk — or, misinterpreted song lyrics. David Kushner, the songwriter behind the viral track “Daylight,” has posted several videos seemingly upset that “atheists” have glommed onto the track, which has gained quite a following on TikTok for sound...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been the talk of the town recently. His social media trolling of Donald Trump has captured national attention and has skyrocketed his popularity among Democrats both in his home state and around the country. With many wondering if this social ...
A Russian publisher censored passages about LGBTQ+ issues contained in Hope, the recently released autobiography of now-deceased Pope Francis, TVP World reported Monday. An image posted by Christians Against War — a group of regional Christians who oppose Russia's four-year, ongo...
Following Tuesday’s primaries, the race to succeed Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is set up to be a contest between former U.S. Rep. David Jolly (D) and Trump endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Byron Donalds (R). Both candidates were considered frontrunners, and each won his ...
This story originally appeared on Out.Just weeks after launching a new gay dating app billed as "social-first" and "anti-algorithm," Derek Chadwick has revealed he quit Goose last week over a conflict of "vision for where this should go and the direction the company is going."Wha...
A Kansas judge has issued an order to temporarily reinstate the driver's license of one trans woman. The ruling states that she is likely to succeed in her case against the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) and that KDOR violated due process by invalidating the license. "Plaint...
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 — The first openly gay man elected to the Thai Senate says the law that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Th...
LGBTQ+ advocacy groups are outraged after Ohio's Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) abruptly stopped accepting the official form long used by trans people in the state to update the gender marker on their IDs. Equality Ohio and TransOhio told The Toledo Blade that the change occurred...
Philadelphia’s Washington Square West neighborhood — which is home to the city’s Gayborhood — was awarded a historic designation in 2024. While many LGBTQ+ Philadelphians were excited by news of preserving approximately 1,500 residences, religious spaces and business properties s...
Update: In response to a request for comment on the nature of Dez and Dot’s relationship, a spokesperson for the Toronto Tempo said they are “besties.”Original Article: A new butch snapping turtle icon has entered the chat (with a femme rabbit, as well).The Toronto Tempo unveiled...
A Las Vegas resident is going viral for her speech calling out a Moms for Liberty-aligned school board trustee for wearing a transphobic T-shirt to a board meeting. "A dangerous message is sent: 'You do not belong here. Your safety is not our priority,'" resident Amanda Nuchols s...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blasted the Trump administration's attempt to blame him and former President Joe Biden for all of their problems, and he pithily summed up his criticism of them. Buttigieg appeared on Jen Psaki's MS NOW show last night to discuss Don...
A Germantown, Md., man arrested by D.C. police on a charge of simple assault with a hate crime designation for allegedly assaulting a gay man while using “homophobic slurs” has agreed to an offer by prosecutors to plead guilty to simple assault without the hate crime designation ...
While Michael Jackson is the uncontested King of Pop, Madonna can easily be considered its queen. She has managed to maintain relevancy throughout the decades and borrowed from different genres and even cultures. There was Puerto Rican freestyle-inspired early Madonna, the "Evita...
A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits....
An unknown vandal spray-painted graffiti and smashed a window displaying pro-LGBTQ+ signs at Corner Drug, a family-owned pharmacy in Woodland, California early Monday morning. The signs expressed support for Woodland Pride and LGBTQ+ residents, with one sign stating, "Hate has no...
A Ring home security camera captured footage of anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) looking through a voter's mailbox while canvassing for votes last Sunday around 4:55 p.m., Fine confirmed to the celebrity gossip website TMZ. The video shows Fine ringing the house's front do...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last week that federal funding could no longer be used to pay for gender-affirming care through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The rule prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from covering puberty blockers...
Lesbian comedian Rosie O'Donnell briefly mocked the president and mentioned her recent life in Dublin, Ireland, with her 13-year-old child (who is nonbinary) while guest-hosting the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday. "They said you can't come home again, but here I...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have prevented some gender-affirming care from being treated as an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act.Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gor...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just handed the Trump administration a win, upholding a Department of Justice (DOJ) administrative subpoena seeking the personal and confidential health records of trans youth. The ruling cedes authority to the executive branch while making part...
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has announced her campaign against efforts to enshrine marriage equality and reproductive rights in the state constitution will make several stops in Northern Virginia. Her “Life and Marriage Tour” will include stops in Manassas, Winch...
Citing risk to both clients and staff, the Russian LGBT Network, the country's largest LGBTQ+ rights group, announced on Monday it is shutting down. “We made this decision after carefully assessing the risks. We cannot control the repressive environment, but we can do everything ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-trans slur at a public appearance in Iowa yesterday. "At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies," he said at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, referring to the Department of Defense as the "Department of War," even though only...
A female police officer in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is facing an internal affairs investigation after being accused of using Flock cameras to track an ex-girlfriend. In an affidavit for an abuse prevention order filed last week, the ex-girlfriend alleged that after she ended t...
