Like most recent D.C. elections, LGBTQ voters will be choosing candidates for mayor, City Council, D.C. Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives and other races from a list of mostly strong LGBTQ rights supporters in the city’s Nov. 3 general election. In a city with a large majority of voters
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) followed in the president's footsteps on Monday when he used an anti-trans slur to describe cisgender Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews. Scott said during an appearance on Real America's Voice, “Annie Andrews, as President ...
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Scott Presler, a co-founder of Gays for Trump whose MAGA activism has focused on alleged voter fraud, reportedly let several out-of-state GOP operatives use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the key swing state. Legal experts say Presler, who has often repeated the Republican P...
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This story was reported in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Texas’ Senate race has become one of the most-watched elections of the year. MAGA Republican nominee Ken Paxton pulled off a rare primary defeat against a well-est...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Benito Skinner is opening up about the hot hookup he has planned for Overcompensating’s second season that will fulfill a popular fantasy among fans.On a recent episode of co-star Owen Thiele’s In Your Dreams podcast, Skinner dished on the nu...
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A sweet video of the Brazilian president celebrating his recent victory alongside a trans lawmaker is bringing joy across social media. Transgender Brazilian lawmaker Erika Hilton became her country's most-voted woman congressperson earlier this month after she was re-elected to ...
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Democratic US Senate candidate Adam Hamilton earned praise for his defense of transgender people during a live interview with local news station KMBC. "Where do you come down on transgender rights?" the reporter asked. Related Democratic Senate candidate releases last minute atta...
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Just a week before Election Day, a former Republican governor of South Carolina has publicly endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews over Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), the Trump-backed Republican who was appointed to carry out the rest of her late brother's t...
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The official account for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) used "gay" as an insult when responding to a 60 Minutes report about the deportation of a man from Mali. "Fake & Gay!" ICE's official account posted to X while sharing a post from Fox News reporter Brooke Taylo...
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Tyler Boebert, the son of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), is such a bad parent that he's going to jail for it. But no one – least of all his mother – is going to question his legitimacy as a parent over it, even as these same people refuse to accept that queer people are the parents ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Boo!The Boulet Brothers are bringing the horror at a truly terrifying time in history with the seventh mainline season of The Boulet Brothers' Dragula. Premiering just before Halloween, the horror duo is also celebrating 10 years of the popul...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate. The search for whoever sent deceptive transgender advocacy mailers across Texas has reached an llinois printing company. The discovery offers a new lead in a campaign that has triggered threats against LGBTQ+ advocates and a crimina...
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Erika Hilton, one of the first trans people in Brazil elected to the country’s National Congress, is celebrating the reelection of President Luiz Inácio da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, in the face of a challenge from far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro. Hilton had played ...
