This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Colorado voters have passed a proposition that bars transgender students from playing on teams that align with their gender identity.Proposition 134 was approved on Thursday, according to Associated Press, with 47.7 percent of voters opposing the measur
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Reports about the death of Gen Z’s sex life have not been exaggerated: About 37% of single Gen Zers are now celibate, according to a survey by the Kinsey Institute and ModernDating.com. You’d think that at a time when we have more access to sex education, hookup apps, and a great...
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The government of South Korea apologized on Wednesday for language in a manual written for youth counselors that categorized homosexuality as deviant behavior. Homosexuality was grouped with sexual violence, theft and drug abuse under “delinquency-related issues” in the manual, t...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A cannabis worker and daughter of immigrants just won election as Florida’s first out transgender elected official.Quinnie Perez, a trans woman, was the top vote-getter in a three-person race for a relatively low-profile post on Oran...
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Dallas Wings stars Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers announced they are no longer dating — and as it turns out, they haven’t been together for over a year. In a new episode of Fudd’s podcast, Fuddin’ Around, released November 6, the former couple shared that they have broken up. “Well...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) now says she's not bothered by the prospect of losing reelection because her job in Congress "doesn't define me." With 94.9% of the vote counted, the race in Colorado's Fourth Congressional District still hasn't been called. Boebert has gotten 181,555 v...
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Still trailing her Democratic challenger with fewer and fewer votes left to count, Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) campaign is citing "unusual voting patterns" and insisting on a recount. With 94.9% of the vote counted, the race in Colorado's Fourth Congressional District still hasn...
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Following multiple legal challenges and a years-long court battle, a New York appeals court has overturned Nassau County’s anti-trans sports ban. On Wednesday, a four-judge panel of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division handed down decisions in two separate challenges to t...
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Generations are arbitrary. If I had been born eleven days earlier, the Baby Boomer descriptor would have been the shorthand called upon to explain my habits and peculiarities. Hugh Ryan is just shy of having been forever labeled a Millennial, the (mostly) Reagan babies that stake...
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When right-wing media goes low, trans people go funnier! Nonbinary Georgia state rep. Bentley Hudgins made history after winning an assembly seat — and conservatives are (unsurprisingly) losing it. On November 5, End Wokeness, a right wing X account, made a post lamenting their v...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Alex Ukkelberg said he has been living his best life as an out gay man in Los Angeles for years, having come out to family, friends and in the pro beach volleyball community. But beyond that, it wasn’t until Wednesday that he said anything ab...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Chris Pappas stood beside his husband on election night and celebrated a breakthrough in American democracy. By Friday, the first out gay man elected to the U.S. Senate was describing how he intended to defend it.In an interview with...
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This week, Colorado voted on two anti-trans ballot initiatives. One of them passed, and while the other is still too close to call, it looks likely to pass. But the story doesn’t stop there: the new governor and the Democratic supermajority in the Colorado House and Senate could ...
