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Jefferson County, Colorado, Clerk Amanda Gonzalez is projected to win the race for state secretary of state. Gonzalez, who is bisexual, handily won the race with 60% of the vote to her Republican opponent's 37%, according to Colorado Public Radio. The position will put Gonzalez i...
In what was once an unthinkable result, Kansas voters have chosen Adam Hamilton to be their next Senator. Hamilton, a Methodist minister, easily defeated incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall in a race that should have been a breeze for Republicans. The last time Kansas elected a Democra...
In a stunning victory for Democrats, James Talarico has easily defeated Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the battle for Senate. Talarico was ahead of Paxton by more than a million votes when AP called the race. Republicans have controlled Texas for so long that Talarico seeme...
Looks like Darline Graham, who replaced her late brother Lindsey Graham as the Senator from South Carolina, is in for a very tight race. Early results show that Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee, is doing well in deep red districts. Andrews is doing better than Kamala Harris ...
The FDA approved a generic version of lenacapavir, a medication used to prevent the transmission of HIV as a form of PrEP. The medication's price is now expected to drop sharply where it's available. Lenacapavir, marketed as Yeztugo, was approved in 2025 and can protect a person ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed made clear he will defend transgender rights in an often combative 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday.CBS sent conservative columnist Ross Douthat to interview the Democrat ahead of tod...
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...
JD Vance and Fox host Jesse Watters expressed outrage at mailers and text messages sent to Texas families telling their kids to transition behind their parents' backs, even though a Republican group has already been accused of sending them in a potential attempt to boost transpho...
President Donald Trump referred to Democrat Annie Andrews as “Tranny Annie” while campaigning for Republican Senate candidate Darline Graham at the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center in Rock Hill, S.C, on Thursday. “If Tranny Annie does not have the judgment to know that sex chang...
During a town hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, out former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg hilariously mocked the right-wing organization for young conservatives, Turning Point USA. "As a tactical matter, I'll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic c...
This story originally appeared on Out. Autumn is here, and that means cozy sweaters, fall leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, and orgasm denial.Locktober — a portmanteau of lock and October — is an annual month-long celebration of chastity within the kink and BDSM community where peopl...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Could rapper Nicki Minaj be the next “Super Freaky Girl” to serve as White House press secretary?White House communications director Steven Cheung openly floated the prospect, releasing a video of himself interviewing Minaj on Air Fo...
This story originally appeared on Out. In a move that feels more like a Saturday Night Live skit than real life, Nicki Minaj’s name was floated as the next White House Press Secretary, after Trump praised her ass at a rally.The position is wide open since Katie Zacharia was fired...
Filippo Sorcinelli, an Italian tailor known for crafting vestments for Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, and Pope Leo XIV through his studio Atelier LAVS, is also a perfume mogul in his spare time. In a new interview with Dazed about his “conceptual perfume house” UNUM, he opened ...
Hunter Schafer was recently in London for the wedding of her Euphoria co-star Zendaya, who married actor Tom Holland. She found time for a night out with close friends at a nightclub. “We were dancing incredibly hard. There were no cameras out, which was great, so everybody was r...
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...
The Washington Blade held a celebration for the 25th annual Best of LGBTQ D.C. Awards at Long View Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 22. Ashley Darby of "The Real Housewives of Potomac" was the emcee at the "Murder on the Dance Floor" costume party. Performers included Elextra G, Druex S...
This story originally appeared on Out.As one of the world's most sought-after supermodels, whose career also includes acting and music, Cara Delevingne is no stranger to soirees and other invitation-only events in her dual hometowns of Los Angeles and New York City. But there was...
Vice President JD Vance is being brutally mocked after a video circulated online of an entire NFL team ignoring him. The video shows Vance standing outside the locker room of the Cincinnati Bengals as the players file in from practice. Presumably, Vance was standing there to gree...
Is Ken Paxton looking to make an omelette? Because he may be cracking quite a few eggs. Some parents in a conservative subreddit are upset that the ubiquitous GOP-aligned ads in targeting Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, specifically those that highlight the Democrat’s...
Them’s Person of the Year, awarded in conjunction with Out magazine’s annual Out100 list, honors a cultural figure with a distinctly queer influence — not just an LGBTQ+ person who made a big impact, but one whose work crossed genres, mediums, or boundaries in an extraordinary wa...
Shawn Oliver, a transphobic 42-year-old Republican now-former candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts, suspended his campaign on Sunday after being arrested on Saturday night for crashing and overturning his car while under the suspected influence of alcohol. Around 11...
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...
In New York City, Jasmine Kennedie, who famously came out as trans while competing on Season 14 of RuPaul's Drag Race, faced a harrowing incident of public harassment on Sunday night. On Monday, she shared her story on Instagram, with video of her tormenter. After a performance a...
The new dollar coin with Donald Trump's face on it is set to be released next month, and one administration official is telling conservatives to patronize liberal businesses with the coin to "watch their heads explode." But people pointed out that giving liberals money is probabl...
While Jacob Tierney may have brought us the gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry, one of the biggest queer cultural phenomena of the decade, the creator and showrunner slammed real-life men’s hockey for its “toxic” culture.While appearing on Radio Andy, Bravo star Andy Cohen’s Siriu...
Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines is getting mocked online for ranting about how she believes Hillary Clinton is stuck in the past because she recently mentioned Donald Trump winning his first election in 2016. People are pointing out that Gaines herself built an entire career out...
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on October 3 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign amid the US military's strategic failures in its ongoing war with Iran. Speaking with Eugene Daniels, co-host of MS NOW's The Weekend, Daniels asked Buttigieg ab...
‘The Lost Brontë’By Catherine Friendc.2026, Bywater Books$22.95/335 pages Mom always said to tell the truth. One lie leads to another and another and you have to remember them all until pretty soon, you’re caught. Fibs are hard, mistruths are messy, even little white social lies ...
Musician Brandi Carlile recently opened up about how becoming a mother helped her finally feel at ease as a gay person. “When I really felt comfortable in the world as a queer person was, weirdly, when I had kids," Carlile said, as reported by People, while being honored during a...
Jessica Waddell-Lewinstein Kopp was raised amongst a vibrant queer community. Her dad was gay Olympic athlete Dr. Tom Waddell, who also founded the Gay Games. Her mom was activist Sara Lewinstein. Waddell died from AIDS complications when Kopp was just three, and she spent her ch...
Sure, this spooky season has blessed us with a lot of new horror on TV and at the movies, but when it comes to Halloween, you can never have too much horror to watch. With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of celebrated queer chillers that queer horror fans may know about b...
The New Jersey queer bar Pint fired its Wednesday night trivia host and donated all of this last trivia night's proceeds to sexual violence prevention programs after the host awarded Best Team Name to a group called “Cornell 7 inches,” a reference to the seven Cornell University ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked his supporters at a rally to harass everyone they know until they vote Republican. Paxton is running for a US Senate seat and may pull off what some thought was impossible just earlier this year: losing a statewide election in Texas as ...
Police in Gujarat, India have arrested several men in connection with the murder of one of the region’s most prominent LGBTQ+ personalities. Mad Sandhu, a Punjabi social media influencer, makeup artist, and LGBTQ+ activist, was shot Saturday evening in Amritsar, the economic capi...
Not that a basic vodka-soda should ever dare to appear in print on the craft cocktail list at year-old Bar Betsie, but if it did, its name would be written in big black block letters, back-lit, on a marquee behind the 14-seat bar, with its ingredients – Tito’s, seltzer water – si...
Detectives investigating the stabbing of three men outside a gay bar in Liverpool, England have arrested three suspects. Merseyside Police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder, a 22-year-old man on suspicion of two counts of "wounding," and an...
Health insurance in the United States, is infamously difficult to procure, especially for workers without a traditional 9 to 5. This unfortunately happens to be the case for highly award-nominated trans actor Jack Haven, known for their roles in Atypical, I Saw The TV Glow, and T...
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...
The fall books season offers lots of options so curl up and get ready to read. FICTION For the mystery fan who likes a sprinkle of thriller, look for “The Longest Death” by Kevin Jagernauth (Soho Crime, December). Richard Cobson hates his small town, he’s bored and desperate to g...
More than 2,000 supporters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts turned out on Sept. 18, for a rally in support of the performing arts center and a vocal protest against President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently close the center and possibly demolish it. The...
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...
It’s long been known that the bullying LGBTQ+ people face in their youth can have lifelong health ramifications, but a new study is finding this type of social rejection may have a particularly impactful effect on vaping rates.Previous research has shown that LGBTQ+ people tend t...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told Fox News today that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) adjourned the US House early today to block a potential vote on Massie's eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The House will not reconvene until after the Novembe...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Episcopal Church has its first transgender dean of a cathedralThe Very Rev. Micah Cronin in August became dean of All Saints’ Cathedral in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin faith leader told the Episcopal News Service in an interview publ...
Renowned three-Michelin-star Chef Patrick O’Connell says food and wine hold a unique ability to bring people together. Indeed, he has served everyone from right-wing zealot Jerry Falwell to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth during his decades at the beloved Inn at Little Washington in ru...
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Lioness season 3, episode 7 "Kiss the Girls."After a grueling search, Joe has been saved. Much of Lioness season 3 has been about the team trying to save Joe after she was abducted, and now they finally have her back. The final ha...
Baltimore's LGBTQ+ community is reeling after a 27-year-old trans woman was shot and killed Friday morning in the city's Barclay neighborhood. While police have not yet publicly identified the victim, the housing and health organization Baltimore Safe Haven told media outlets her...
The Republican midterm convention, held last week in Dallas, was a dud by any measure. The convention hall was half-empty at best, the event tanked in the ratings, and even Republican strategists admitted that it would do nothing to help the party in the midterms. Basically, the ...
A woman interviewed by a right-winger at a March 28 No Kings protest against the U.S. president has earned the praise of the internet for her responses that seemed to leave the interviewer speechless. Youtuber Nate Friedman claimed to have "exposed" No Kings protestors in New Yor...
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 ...
An Indiana prosecutor has declined to file criminal charges against a woman who made a false child welfare complaint against Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary in the Biden-Harris administration, was accused in June of posing a threat to his children v...
MAGA pastor and self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries recently said that uncircumcised people are trying to steal the nation. His comment was part of a bizarre transphobic and Islamophobic statement on the midterm elections. “I am not going to let uncirc...
A National Women’s Soccer League game between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at Portland’s Providence Park last weekend was disrupted when stadium officials ejected a group of attendees for wearing apparel displaying anti-trans iconography. The group was wearing ap...
Trans people's rights are a top concern among LGBTQ Nation readers this year. Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026 midterms and what you think they could change. Quite a few people discussed trans rights, which have been under attack for the past seve...
Out Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) has secured his party’s nomination to replace retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) after winning Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in New Hampshire. Pappas took home 65% of the vote, defeating progressive challenger Karishma Manzur, a medical scienti...
Shower sex: Some people can’t get enough of it, while many others have tried and failed to see the appeal. Between the awkward angles, slippery surfaces and the risk of leaving your partner out in the cold (literally), shower sex is a textbook example of something that often look...
Video captured a MAGA counterprotestor shouting homophobic slur to "No Kings" protestors in Denver, Colorado, shortly before face planting twice on the pavement, causing his face to bleed as other protestors suggest that he leave for his own safety before others possibly cause hi...
An 18-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly stalking a former classmate and saying he "couldn't wait to kill a gay person." The victim, referred to as F.F. by the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office, reportedly attended West...
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) allegedly broke the hand of Brian McGinnis, a decorated Marine officer who protested the Iran war during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Sheehy was assisting Capitol Police officers attempting to eject McGinnis from the hearing. A CB...
