Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterday afternoon while y
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MAGA devotee Mark Da Costa has shut down his restaurant after just six weeks, mocking queer people in a social media post announcing the eatery's closure. Da Costa, who once performed on the reality TV singing competition Australian Idol, opened the Bueno Eatery in the Newtown ne...
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Ana Lupez, a trailblazing transgender performer, died Wednesday at the age of 82 from heart cancer in the city of Mendoza, Argentina. She was one of the first Argentinian women to undergo gender-affirming surgery and made a career as a renowned actress and dancer, touring through...
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Written By Christian Castro Every year, Latine people have the highest number of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, after Black people. The “distinction” of being the second most affected by HIV means we are exceptionalized even as we are deprioritized as needing treatment, ...
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Alec Blade, a gay man, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the video game store GameStop, alleging that his coworker at a Brooklyn store made threats and comments against him, creating a hostile workplace that violated a New York human rights law and Title VII, a federal law prohi...
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President Donald Trump admitted he has "very severe problems" when talking to reporters after a live luncheon his administration hosted in the White House Rose Garden to honor first responders. When asked about the danger of first responders resorting to drugs and alcohol to mana...
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Country star Orville Peck has made a name for himself not just as an artist, but as an advocate for gay rights. But during his feature film acting debut as Vega in the adaptation of beloved video game Street Fighter, the masked singer gets the chance to represent gay wrongs. Peck...
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A Texas trans organization is demanding answers after Republican voters in the state received unsolicited texts linking to the advocacy group's website, in what appears to be a duplicitous effort to stoke anti-trans animus ahead of the midterm elections. The culture war scare tac...
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House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will receive the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s 2026 conference in D.C. in December. The Victory Institute, a national nonprofit that works to get LGBTQ elected officials and appointed leaders at every leve...
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MSNBC's Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough was in hysterics while discussing Attorney General Pam Bondi's explanation for why a full minute is missing from the surveillance tape outside the cell of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on the night he died. A newly released memo ...
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a “final demand” to six major medical organizations this week seeking clarification of their positions on gender-affirming procedures for transgender minors and information about any updates to their positions and guidance...
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Katie Miller, the wife of Trump advisor Stephen Miller, appeared on Fox News this week to tell women to stop focusing on their careers and start having more children – or else risk the fall of Western civilization. Miller – who does work by hosting The Katie Miller Podcast – was ...
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Former and present U.S. Senate candidates up for reelection in Ohio in the 2026 Midterms: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) Former U.S. Senator (2007-2025) —Voted for the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act which ensures protections for same-sex and interracial couples under federal law. —Introdu...
