This week, the Women’s Pro Baseball League revealed the official details of its first four teams: the Boston Hunters, the Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, and the San Francisco Firebells.Founded in 2024, the league had announced the first four host cities last October, b...
Police in the Malaysian state of Kelantan arrested 12 men during a raid on a "gay party," the regional news site Sloboden Pecat reported. The arrests follow 20 that occurred in the state capital of Kota Bharu in June, amid a nationwide crackdown on LGBTQ+ people. Kelantan state p...
Lesbian comedian Rosie O’Donnell said on July 2 that President Donald Trump is "quite ill – and getting worse daily," after he posted a deepfake AI video depicting her as a patient suffering from so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS), a pejorative term used by Trump suppor...
Transportation Sean Duffy is apparently still mad at his predecessor, gay former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, as he's mocking Buttigieg's name on social media while bragging about ending "DEI bike lanes." DEI refers to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. It ...
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The Dinah music festival is expanding its slate of performers by adding Sasha Keable and The Aces to the lineup, Them can exclusively announce.The artists join Grammy-nominated rapper Da Brat, who was previously announced as a performer for the festival, which has been hosted in ...
A first-of-its-kind research review has found that pregnant trans men may be more likely to miscarry than pregnant cis women, though researchers emphasized that much more data is needed to draw any strong conclusions. A review of 44 studies published in the journal Acta Obstetric...
A gay cruise that was previously blocked from entering Turkey has now been banned from Egypt. Early on Thursday, just hours before it was scheduled to dock in Alexandria, passengers aboard the Scarlet Lady, a Virgin Voyages-owned ship chartered by American LGBTQ+ travel company A...
Out gay politician Jordan Wood has thrown his hat in the ring to replace Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat who was set to face off against longtime GOP senator Susan Collins in November. Wood announced his intentions after Platner dropped out of the race on Wednesday following a...
Egyptian authorities have refused to allow a gay cruise to dock in the country. The Scarlet Lady, a Virgin Voyages ship that Atlantis Events chartered, was to have docked in Alexandria, a port city on the Mediterranean Sea. The Washington Blade obtained a letter that Atlantis Eve...
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...
Former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner officially dropped out of Maine's race Wednesday night in response to a woman he dated credibly accusing him of raping her in 2021. The rape accusation was the final nail in the coffin of a scandal-plagued candidacy. The party is ...
Days after Politico published credible rape allegations against Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner – and after numerous major Democrats from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on him to drop out – Platner has suspended his campa...
Much to the elation of sapphics and country fans everywhere, Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope seemingly just confirmed their relationship. Just two years after coming out as bisexual, Morris posted a picture of her cuddled up with the fellow country musician in an Instagram carouse...
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...
On June 30, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3 that states may bar transgender girls and women from girls' and women's sports teams. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that states may keep these teams for "biological females" and set eligibility by "biological sex." The country will now spe...
Nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are here — and they are so, so queer! With the year we’ve seen in LGBTQ media, this isn’t very surprising; whether it be jaw-dropping new series or the ends of fan-favorite classics, every month offered a new project or performer for...
A twisted tale of gay murder worthy of a true-crime podcast — it got one — took another turn over the July 4th holiday, as the man who claimed he bear-hugged the 74-year-old victim while an accomplice stabbed him to death was released from prison after recanting his testimony. Th...
It was shocking to see some of the MAGA-loving majority on the Supreme Court actually voted against the felon in the White House a couple of times. Not surprisingly, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas were steadfast in their ultra-MAGA, outrageous views. They just want to help make...
America’s 250th isn’t the only milestone birthday D.C. is celebrating this year. Beloved D.C. restaurant Mr. Henry’s, that Capitol Hill staple, celebrates its Diamond Jubilee all year long. Named for its original owner Henry Yaffe, the restaurant opened on a warm day 60 years ago...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeatedly shouted a slur during a House committee hearing, specifically because a Democratic colleague was criticizing her for using a slur. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was speak...
In a win for trans people, their families, and healthcare providers in the state, California has passed a new budget that includes funds to protect gender-affirming and reproductive healthcare from federal funding interference. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed the budget, which was t...
A coalition of pro-LGBTQ+, educational, and free-speech advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit today against the Texas Tech University system for violating their rights to free speech and due process rights by censoring lessons on LGBTQ+ people and anti-Black racism. The lawsuit...
A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida's Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republicans running to represent House District 20 in Broward County. "You never see a...
Christian nationalist and former Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert (R) said in a recent broadcast, "I don't want LGBTQ activists in the Republican Party" because God considers them an abomination. "I'm a Christian," he said in a video posted by the watchdog group Right Wing Watch ...
Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines went on a seemingly random transphobic rant against actor Elliot Page on Tuesday, after a fellow anti-trans activist posted a paparazzi video of Page signing autographs in London. "Not a single person with a functioning brain and a shred of honest...
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) signed a law last week that will force state-credentialed public school educators to out transgender students to their parents. Though the law has an exception to protect child safety, the law also flies in the face of a 2024 state Supreme Cour...
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — pleaded guilty last Friday to distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM) after first denying it, Newsweek reported — including images of adults ...
Getting ready to start testosterone can be an exciting time in any transmasculine person’s life. That said, like literally any medication, HRT can sometimes come with unintended side effects. Feeling pre-T anxiety, including around hair loss, is common for transmasculine people a...
A gay teacher and a parent ally were awarded over $1M in compensatory damages in June after suffering years of defamation at the hands of a right-wing Virginia political action committee. The Virginia Project PAC and its founder, David Gordon, were found liable for falsely claimi...
This article originally appeared on Out.One week after coming out as bisexual on a podcast, Layla Taylor is teasing a new relationship with another woman with a video post on Instagram.The ex-Mormon reality TV star appeared in a video that shows her holding hands with what People...
Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic nominee for governor of Florida and former mayor of Tallahassee, was arrested on drug possession charges in Alabama last week. Police in Daphne, Ala., said they pulled Gillum over for erratic driving and found marijuana and methamphetamine in ...
Radical hate pastor Tony Spell was recorded on police bodycam on June 25 calling his neighbor's 20-year-old son a "fa**ot," just two days after Spell was recorded on video attacking the young man. The attack required the young man to get stitches and resulted in Spell facing a se...
A U.K. appeals court began proceedings on Wednesday over the country of Trinidad and Tobago's colonial-era gay sex ban that remains in effect today. The lawsuit was brought in 2017 by LGBTQ+ activist Jason Jones, who argued that Sections 13 and 16 of the country's Sexual Offenses...
"Bring back the ‘60s. I don’t give a s**t who you love, but don’t shove your ideology down my throat and tell me that I need to use pronouns." Rose Milner, Canadian far-right activist Last October, on a Sunday evening, workers from the Florida Department of Transportation bulldoz...
Apparently, when Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton isn’t busy attacking his political opponents for supporting transgender people, coming after gender-affirming medical care, and suing out-of-state companies for selling binders, he likes to summer ...
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten is scheduled to open this year’s World Pride Human Rights Conference in Amsterdam. Organizers in a July 1 press release said Jetten will open the conference on Aug. 5. Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema; South African Deputy Minister for Women, Youth, a...
A judge in Northern Ireland found three men not guilty of murdering queer journalist and author Lyra McKee. The 29-year-old McKee was struck by a bullet while covering an April 2019 riot in Derry. While the actual gunman has never been identified, Irish republican paramilitary gr...
A new trailer for Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender seems to have put rumors about a beloved character’s sexuality to bed. Released on Tuesday, the trailer for the upcoming animated film, which takes place after Aang brought warring nations together in peace, finds Team Avatar enco...
Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act, championed by anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), received a major blow on Tuesday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a 2022 injunction against applying the law to colleges and universities. In the 2-1 decision, the judge...
CNN data analyst Harry Enten showed a promising sign that Democrats will take back the House in November's elections. Enten showed data from primaries held so far this year, which shows that more Democrats have been turning out to vote in their primaries than Republicans have in ...
Police seek the public’s support in finding a suspect wanted in connection with three Philadelphia shootings, including two murders, who may have targeted his victims because they were gay. All three shootings took place near Hunting Park Recreation Center between May 29 and June...
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...
The board of directors for Mary’s House for Older Adults, DC’s first official home dedicated to providing affordable housing for LGBTQ seniors, announced on July 7 that its founding president and CEO, Dr. Imani Woody, has retired. Woody, who holds a PhD in Human Services, is cred...
We’re deep into dream blunt rotation territory with this. Inde Navarette, the openly bisexual star of the summer box-office horror sensation Obsession, made a recent appearance in an Instagram story posted by none other than Ethel Cain. In the story, posted to Cain’s social media...
The White House called transgender people "insane" in an official press release on the last day of Pride Month. Donald Trump did not issue a proclamation celebrating Pride Month this year or last year, breaking from his predecessors. The press release, intended to celebrate the S...
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to enforce laws barring transgender students from participating on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity, a decision LGBTQ advocates say could encourage additional restrictions across the country. W...
By LIZ BOWIE | Somerset County’s school board is considering barring students under the age of 18 from reading any young-adult literature in school libraries, essentially restricting all but 12th graders from checking out books written for teens and tweens. The proposed policy al...
Juries in two separate civil trials in Fairfax County, Va., last month awarded a gay teacher and an LGBTQ-supportive parent a combined total of just over $1 million in damages from a conservative group and its leader accused in their lawsuits of falsely and maliciously linking th...
A transgender influencer refused to let Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) have the last word after the anti-trans congresswoman publicly bullied her. Sabre, who goes by Bottleneckloser on Instagram, recently posted side-by-side photos of herself on X depicting her pre- and post-transition. ...
A 60-year-old history teacher was banned from teaching for six years yesterday after he allegedly made comments calling LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" and claiming that "billionaires are the cause of transgenders." Neither of his claims are true. The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA...
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...
The FBI arrested 44-year-old New Mexico resident Michael Thompson on June 28 for allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting at Lubbock Pride Fest in West Texas. He has now been federally charged with interstate threatening communications, though it's unclear if he had con...
As President Donald Trump's second administration has pushed the federal government further to the right on issues ranging from immigration to LGBTQ rights, a different political movement has been gaining momentum inside the Democratic Party. From industrial communities in upstat...
Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, deleted thousands of social media posts before his nomination. One was a May 2023 post calling for the killing of Randi Weingarten, the lesbian president of the American Federa...
The gay Filipino man photographed on July 4 surrounded by masked members of Patriot Front on the DC Metro is speaking out about the terrifying incident. DC resident Roswell Encina was on his way to an Independence Day celebration in Maryland on Saturday when his train filled with...
The creator of a popular cat-focused Instagram account devoted to trolling JD Vance filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that she was denied entry to a public-facing event featuring the vice president over her political views.“The government can’t exclude me from official vice-presid...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last week handing broad authority to fire heads of independent agencies to the president, former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) member Jocelyn Samuels has dropped her lawsuit challenging her termination by President Dona...
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a three-part series profiling the candidates for mayor of Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Commissioners Suzanne Goode, Susan Stewart, and Craig Thier; a fourth candidate, William Raak, filed to join the race but has not responded to Blade in...
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Mr. Henry’s Victorian Pub will host a gala celebrating its 60th anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. There will be signature cocktails…
Friday, August 7 Go Gay DC will host “First Friday LGBTQ+ Community Social” at 7 p.m. at Silver Diner Balston. This is a chance to relax, ma…
Greg Araki may not have been solely responsible for the “New Queer Cinema” movement of the 1990s, but he certainly gave it an edge. From ear…
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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…
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