Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is facing criticism for his comments in favor of Albertan separatism, supporting the idea that the Canadian province of Alberta should declare its independence from Canada and, in Bessent's opinion, join the United States. His comments come as...
Anti-LGBTQ+ activist Scott LoBaido suffered a heart attack while waiting to confront pro-LGBTQ+ New York City Mayor at a New York Police Department National Night Out event in the Staten Island neighborhood of Midland Beach last night. First responders performed CPR and used a de...
A medical professor and an expert in psychiatry is sounding the alarm about Donald Trump's quickening mental decline, saying that Trump's mind is going so fast that he can see signs of "deterioration almost week over week." "The rate of decline is accelerating." Related Trump for...
President Barack Obama apparently didn't have a very high opinion of Donald Trump Jr, summing up his thoughts on the president's son in three choice words. Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released part of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary entries from 2019 to 2022, when ...
Friday, July 31 Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Community Happy Hour” at 7 p.m. at DIK Bar. This is a chance to relax, make new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Eventbrite. Saturday, August 1 Go G...
The Department of Defense posted and quickly deleted an image that showed an image of U.S. soldiers and the word "Winning" with the caption, "It's not an option." Numerous social media commenters mocked the Trump administration for the post and connected it with the military's cu...
A Democratic candidate for judge in Kansas's Wyandotte County who has apologized after using an anti-gay slur in a Facebook post. "I apologize, bad day," Reggie Davis told KMBC. "It's just a combination of things where the water just boiled over." Related Same-sex couple sues ant...
Recent arrests in Singapore implicate two young men, one just 14 years old, in planned attacks to kill LGBTQ+ students as signs of allegiance to the ISIS, an Islamic extremist terrorist organization. An 19-year-old named Tan Jun Jie was one of the three teenagers detained by Sing...
An unpublished, semi-autobiographical short story by influential gay mathematician Alan Turing has been studied in depth for the first time, shedding new light on the man whose work was instrumental in winning World War II. Sarah Dillon, a professor of English literature at the U...
After a completely nonsensical MAGA meltdown over a supposedly “woke” rebrand last year, the current CEO of Cracker Barrel is being replaced.The American restaurant and gift shop company announced on July 27 that current CEO and director Julie Masino, who led the controversial re...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Republicans' latest justification for going to war with Iran during an appearance on Fox News this past Friday. Buttigieg was talking about the Iran War with America Reports host Sandra Smith, who said that military experts w...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in Amsterdam from Aug. 5-10. Queen Máxima on July 25 participated in this year’s World Pride opening ceremony in Amsterdam. The Dutch monarch joined Amsterdam Mayor Femke...
At least one person died on Saturday when a van drove into a crowd at Berlin’s annual Pride march. German media reports indicate the incident took place shortly before 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) in Tiergarten park. Berlin police say “the driver of a white vehicle … struck sev...
On Saturday, June 20, Capital Pride hosted the Pride Parade through the heart of Washington, D.C. I broke my foot just a couple days before and couldn’t attend, but beyond my mobility, Pride celebrations have always been difficult as a multiply disabled, queer person. As someone ...
I was inside Benning Road train station in April waiting for my train with two friends on the way to school. It usually took me 25-30 minutes to get from Benning Road Station to school at Congress Heights. As I waited for the train, I kept noticing that every train that got to fi...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Fox News host Jesse Watters warned jokingly that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to screen troops’ testosterone levels could contribute to a culture of sexual violence in the military, and the network has said nothing about it ...
This story originally appeared on Out. J.K. Rowling is back in the hot seat.The Harry Potter appears to be taking a break from X, after posting another flurry of transphobic rants against a British podcaster who is an out transgender woman.Freda Wallace became the latest target o...
Donald Trump flipped out at a journalist who brought up an accusation that an unnamed person was a "pedophile," and she had one "clinical-grade" question in response. CBS News's Norah O'Donnell asked Trump in an interview on Sunday about Cole Allen, the man who allegedly opened f...
An officer-involved shooting outside of a gay dive bar, Shakey’s, in downtown Asheville, N.C., left one man dead Wednesday. The bar released a statement the following morning regarding the incident, stating that bar staff had asked a patron to leave earlier in the night citing co...
Right-wingers are freaking out over a relatively tame video from bisexual comedienne Margaret Cho mocking the death of anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was rumored to be a closeted gay man. "Bye Lindsey, bye Lindsey Graham," Cho's video begins. "From the closet to the ...
Drama alert! Leo season (July 22–August 22) is coming in hot with a surge of creative energy — and some cosmic curveballs. As the Sun’s home sign, Leo knows how to command a room. Doechii, Charli XCX, and Madonna are all Leos, to put this fixed fire sign’s star power into perspec...
Out lesbian U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for allegedly having "weird, intense, homoerotic feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic." In video-recorded comments posted Thursday morning on the X account of the left-leani...
The Hilton Grand Vacations timeshare company announced earlier this week that an employee who allegedly sent a racial slur to WNBA player Chelsea Gray on social media had been fired, as the Associated Press confirmed Wednesday.“The person responsible for posting this information ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi responded with a deafening silence when asked about whether the FBI found compromising photos of Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein's safe. During an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi attempted to evade the question from Sen. Sheldon ...
A gay New York City couple who spent years handing out over 180,000 backpacks filled with essentials to houseless people both died near the end of June and start of July. Jayson Conner, age 48, died on June 28 from a heart attack at their Manhattan home. His partner, Jeffrey Newm...
Two men were turned in by their younger brother decades after they ambushed a man that they thought was gay and bragged about "queer bashing" him. The victim died alone late at night on May 1, 1984, in a deserted London alley after being struck twice in the head with a heavy obje...
This story originally appeared on Out.The unexpected popularity of Heated Rivalry thrust its stars into the limelight almost overnight, but with their rise to fame came a loss of privacy that Hudson Williams is now acutely aware of.Williams is currently being escorted by a bodygu...
Jerusalem's LGBTQ+ community is mourning the closure of the city's only gay bar, which bid farewell to patrons at the end of June. Video Pub has been a haven for LGBTQ+ Israelis and tourists for the past 14 years, but its owner, Avi Goldberger, believes it's no longer needed. Rel...
During a heated hearing before the Congressional House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, three Democratic governors – Kathy Hochul of New York, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, and Tim Walz of Minnesota – answered questions about their states' sanctuary policies for immigrants...
There are some hateful people out there who apparently have far too much free time on their hands. I’ve received plenty of hate messages over the years targeting my gender identity and the work that I do. But in the last year or two, the content of those messages has changed, fro...
A video is circulating on social media of Donald Trump seemingly defending Graham Platner, who stepped down Wednesday night as Maine's Democratic Senate candidate after a woman he used to date credibly accused him of rape. "It's really a question of whether or not you believe the...
It turns out that Madison Square Garden security may be even more of a panopticon than previously reported.The venue, which has come under scrutiny this year after multiple exposés about its surveillance system and also drawn international attention for hosting Taylor Swift and T...
No matter which generation you belong to, you have nostalgic memories of “teen comedy” movies from your adolescent years, even though you’re a little embarrassed about it today. This is particularly true for the Gen X and Millennial crowd, who grew up with raunchy teen movies fro...
CNN host Laura Coates called out a conservative pundit who was raging against Democrats who supported Senate candidate Graham Platner's campaign prior to a woman he dated publicly accusing him of raping her. Now Democrats are calling for Platner to drop out of the race, while Rep...
Belgium's World Cup soccer team mocked the two-handed fist pump dance of U.S. President Donald Trump while celebrating on-field in a Seattle stadium after the team defeated the U.S. men's team with a score of 4-1 on Monday evening. The U.S. men's team defeat followed a scandal in...
A far-right political party leader in British Columbia, Canada is facing criminal charges after he and another man defaced a Pride crosswalk in the city of Surrey, south of Vancouver. On May 30, Amrit Birring, leader of the Freedom Party of B.C. and a perennial and losing candida...
Amid calls for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop out of the race after a sexual assault allegation, one Republican's take on the matter has sent social media into a frenzy. During an appearance on Fox News, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) declare...
During a livestream on Sunday, YouTuber and artist DDG spoke about feeling unable to watch Love Island alone because he is single. “I haven’t watched Love Island,” he said. “You know why? Cuz I don’t have anybody to watch it with.” He continued, “I think it’s gay to watch Love Is...
If you’re a fan of the audacious, award-winning film The People’s Joker, then buckle up. Director Vera Drew, who helmed the aforementioned satirical trans Batman parody film despite facing legal threats over rights to the character, has been announced as the first recipient of th...
In a recent press briefing, Donald Trump was speaking about the war in Iran when he mentioned the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil shipping waterway that Iran has used as a bargaining chip in retaliation for the U.S. attacks, sparking a massive disruption in the global oil supply...
A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly beat a 12-year-old boy in a Manhattan playground while calling the kid a "gay fa***t." According to New York Police, the alleged crime occurred on April 29, when Kevin Maxwell of Brooklyn confronted the tween victim outs...
‘My Favorite Sociopath’Contemporary American Theater FestivalJuly 10-Aug. 2Shepherdstown, W.Va.Catf.org Discernment. It’s a thing some people have, explains playwright Aurin Squire, especially when you’re gay or Black in America (Squire is both). “You instinctively know when the ...
Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is having a hard time defending President Donald Trump's chaotic economic policies. And now he just threatened a journalist for questioning Trump's management of the economy. Bessent appeared on NBC's Meet the Press this past Sunday, where hos...
Donald Trump appeared to not understand what he was saying when he declared that he wanted to have a "threesome" with his two older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, in a speech on Wednesday at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Trump mentio...
When one watches movies for a living, it’s as easy to fall into routine as it is with any job. Each movie is different, of course, each with its own characters, its own viewpoint, and its own story – (or at least its own variation on one), but in so many other ways, they have a t...
A Kentucky church is facing online backlash for subjecting an audience filled with children to a skit that included a tactical military assault in which church staff shot “the devil.” The video, which has been widely circulated and reviewed by Them, shows an audience of children ...
Them Superlatives are awards for our favorite people made up by our favorite people.To honor Gillian Anderson, the resplendent star of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, as our “Mother of the Year” we asked none other than her screen partner, Hannah Einbinder, to pen a tribute...
Two women identified as a couple who have been wanted by Montgomery County, Md. police for allegedly killing the mother of one of them in her Silver Spring home on May 22 were arrested on June 10 in Ohio, according to a police statement The little-noticed statement released on Ju...
Disgraced ex-gay MAGA provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently said that President Donald Trump faked the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on his life. Queer congressional Democrats largely condemned the shooting, which was carried out by the now-dead 20-year-old shooter Thomas ...
I know that everyone who has ever lived on planet Earth has suffered some form of difficulty, hardship, or trauma during their early years. Everyone, even those who may have died in the womb. During those early years when we experienced hardships, we learned, most likely automati...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday recounted being separated from his children following an anonymous police report later determined to be false. The openly gay former mayor of South Bend, Ind., and current 2028 presidential contender was accused of posing a...
There’s something about horror films that makes them particularly apt as a vehicle for allegory. Vampires, zombies, ghosts, or seemingly death-proof serial killers can all easily be seen as metaphors for some lurking threat from the “dark side” of our own collective psyche, and s...
With everything happening in the world — an affordability crisis, an ongoing conflict in Iran — it stands to reason that the top priority at Fox News this week was to … talk trash about bisexual women? While discussing the reviews for the new Supergirl film, The Five hosts, devia...
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Maine's U.S. Senate seat, had twin events demonstrating his strong support among the LGBTQ+ community this week. The candidate is facing off against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November, with control of the Senate at stake....
WNBA legend Angel McCoughtry is not having UFC President Dana White’s casual homophobia this Pride Month. The former Minnesota Lynx forward told TMZ that White’s excuse — namely that they just “don’t talk about that” in the UFC — is actively harmful. In an interview with Tomi Lah...
More than ten years after I first watched Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls” music video — a groundbreaking moment for all young sapphics who were on Tumblr in 2015 — I cried sitting in a dark movie theater finally watching Coley and Sonya’s love story unfold on the big screen. T...
In an October 11th post on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote, in all caps of course, that "THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6." "If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!!" Related "Disgu...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, eviscerated her uncle in a Monday blog post for blaming so-called "vandals" on the mess that he has made of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation. The president was convinced he could solve the algae issue in the Washington, DC ...
A Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives schooled a group of young Republicans who tried to insult her by implying she looked like transgender actress and influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Jennifer Jenkins, who is running in Florida against the incumbent Rep. Mike Haridop...
A popular, longtime destination for the gay community in Mobile, Alabama, was forced to close ahead of Pride celebrations in the Gulf Coast city, after an ownership transfer revealed irregularities in the bar's liquor licensing. The three-story B-Bob’s Bar in downtown Mobile shut...
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A 54-year-old woman named Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi confessed on Tuesday to lethally stabbing her 49-year-old wife Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, i…
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully pressured Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) end its gender-affi…
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.More than four decades after New York shut down adult saunas during the height of the AIDS ep…
Joe Gera, a pro-LGBTQ+ chef and content creator from Pennsylvania, recently accused anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who is married to a…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth insulted trans women during his keynote address at this year's Special Operations Forces Week. "Everything…
Fresh on the heels of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham's controversial comments about "biological men" in girls' locker rooms, the anti-trans n…
I often travel around the United States and to other countries giving presentations and workshops on university and high school campuses and…
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's LGBTQ+ stances matter more than ever now that he recently won his state's primary elec…
One musical director gave himself over to absolute … deception?The story of a local Vermont production of The Rocky Horror Show that was can…
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A nonbinary North Carolina school teacher has become the latest target of a harassment campai…
This story originally appeared on Out.When Rosie O'Donnell sits in for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on ABC stations later this month, the ou…
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