Amid calls for Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop out of the race after a sexual assault allegation, one Republican's take on the matter has sent social media into a frenzy. During an appearance on Fox News, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) declare...
If you’re sapphic and love cinema, this is not a drill: Maya Hawke and Victoria Pedretti starred in a steamy sapphic short film together and it’ll soon be available for streaming.The Non-Actor, which garnered high praise during its festival run in 2025, is an 18-minute short duri...
Uncloseted Media published this interview on July 7. By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON, ISABEL STOKES, and BELLA SAYEGH | After appearing on the 11th season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the first season of “Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World,” the sixth season of “RuPaul’s All Stars” and ...
During a livestream on Sunday, YouTuber and artist DDG spoke about feeling unable to watch Love Island alone because he is single. “I haven’t watched Love Island,” he said. “You know why? Cuz I don’t have anybody to watch it with.” He continued, “I think it’s gay to watch Love Is...
A gay activist who lost a landmark 2000 Supreme Court case has penned a moving letter to the 16-year-old trans plaintiff at the center of the Court's recent ruling that schools can exclude trans girls from playing on teams for “biological females.” On June 30, the Court released ...
Madonna isn’t just back, she’s ubiquitous. From a Times Square takeover to Graham Norton’s couch, the pop legend is busy promoting her new album, “Confessions II,” a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” that is earning rave reviews. “Madonna’s back in peak form with a...
Amid a widespread crackdown on homosexuality, the National Assembly of Senegal amended the country's Constitution to officially ban same-sex marriage and define the institution as "the union between a man and a woman." The assembly made the decision in a unanimous vote on June 29...
While the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. continues to dominate headlines about transgender rights, three recent federal court cases produced significant rulings that limited or temporarily blocked Trump-Vance administration policies attacking trans Ameri...
This story was originally published on The 19th.The United States is using the full power of the federal government to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The American Psychological Association has accused the Trump administration of ignoring science and undermi...
If you’re a fan of the audacious, award-winning film The People’s Joker, then buckle up. Director Vera Drew, who helmed the aforementioned satirical trans Batman parody film despite facing legal threats over rights to the character, has been announced as the first recipient of th...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth joined forces with one of social media's most vitriolic anti-trans campaigners last week to drum a Navy Commander out of the service over her support for transgender healthcare. It was a one-two punch from Hegseth in service of the president's cr...
Turkish authorities have refused to allow a gay cruise to dock in the country. The Scarlet Lady, a Virgin Voyages ship that Atlantis Events chartered, departed Athens on Sunday. The 10-day cruise is scheduled to end in Trieste, Italy, on July 15. The ship had been scheduled to do...
In a recent press briefing, Donald Trump was speaking about the war in Iran when he mentioned the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil shipping waterway that Iran has used as a bargaining chip in retaliation for the U.S. attacks, sparking a massive disruption in the global oil supply...
A 37-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly beat a 12-year-old boy in a Manhattan playground while calling the kid a "gay fa***t." According to New York Police, the alleged crime occurred on April 29, when Kevin Maxwell of Brooklyn confronted the tween victim outs...
A picture of Donald Trump's hands with makeup on both of them is getting attention online from people alarmed by his allegedly poor health. "Yikes! Both of Trump's hands are discolored today, and one of them appears bruised as well," wrote independent journalist Aaron Rupar, shar...
Patrons enjoyed a night out at the popular LGBTQ venue Crush Dance Bar on Friday, July 3. (Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford) The post PHOTOS: Crush Dance Bar appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
Over two months after police said a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a 12-year old boy on Manhattan’s Lower East side before striking him with a belt, a suspect has been taken into custody and charged with hate crimes.On Sunday, the NYPD arrested 37-year-old Brooklyn resident Kevin ...
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) signed a new law last week that will force trans inmates under state care to detransition. H.B. 2009 is a comprehensive appropriations bill for the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC). The 20-page legislation focuses mostly on standard programs,...
The DOJ has subpoenaed the Maine Department of Corrections for information that would include a trans inmate’s private and confidential medical records. Maine’s Attorney General’s office has now filed a motion refusing to turn over the records without a court order. Since the sta...
As the United States of America acknowledges her 250th birthday, too many Americans are partying with fewer family and friends because their wallets and their patriotic hearts just aren’t in it. Meanwhile, the president is using taxpayer dollars to finance ugly pet projects, and ...
Apparently, the damn phones really are paying attention to everything, including the innermost thoughts you have yet to unpack yourself. A new study found that the TikTok algorithm might know you’re queer before you even come to that realization yourself.Recently published in the...
Authorities in Turkey blocked a gay cruise from docking in the country this past Thursday, claiming that it would violate the region's "moral values." This sparked the ire of Tony-winning Broadway legend Patti LuPone, who is scheduled to perform on board. The cruise, operated by ...
Pennsylvania state Rep. Eric Davanzo (R) is making national noise over Pennsylvania House of Representatives Speaker Joanna McClinton (D) asking him to change his American flag-themed outfit because it could be considered a costume, in violation of the dress code. Last Monday, Da...
If you live by the sword, you die by the sword — and that was certainly the case for (a past closeted version of) Millie Bobby Brown. While speaking to Capital Buzz for the release of her new film Enola Holmes 3, the Stranger Things alumna shared that she believed in past lives a...
A federal judge issued a scathing ruling against the Trump administration as it tried to get Stanford University's hospital to turn over the private medical records of transgender minors. "The disclosure of such information would also ‘out’ provisional class members as transgende...
You might think we’d left the 2010s behind, but there’s still an unfortunate lingering tendency to grasp pearls when Lena Dunham opens her mouth. The Girls creator grabbed headlines this weekend for reportedly making a joke about gay porn while delivering a speech at the wedding ...
Donald Trump misquoted the Declaration of Independence while speaking at a July 4 celebration of America's 250th anniversary, completely botching a line in a possible attempt to change its meaning. "And as our Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of ...
Because everything Trump touches turns to lead, it's no surprise that the celebration that he organized for the nation's 250th birthday was such a dud, with low turnout and third-rate displays. Compared to the celebration 50 years ago, the D.C. festivities were alternately embarr...
CNN polling analyst Harry Enten recently boiled down Donald Trump's current favor with the American people to one word: "awful." At this point in his presidency, Trump has a plus-one net approval rating, and Enten explained that the only president in history who has had a worse n...
There are moments when an incident stops being merely a local story and begins to reveal something much deeper. What happened on June 28 outside One Church, in Comerío, Puerto Rico, belongs in that category. I do not know who painted the rainbow colors on the asphalt and on a roa...
Look, we love Rehoboth. We will always love Rehoboth. Queer folks have been flocking there since the 1940s, and with scores of LGBTQ-owned businesses and a Pride calendar packed tighter than the boardwalk in July, "Rehomo" earned its crown fair and square. But let's be honest wit...
‘My Favorite Sociopath’Contemporary American Theater FestivalJuly 10-Aug. 2Shepherdstown, W.Va.Catf.org Discernment. It’s a thing some people have, explains playwright Aurin Squire, especially when you’re gay or Black in America (Squire is both). “You instinctively know when the ...
A U.S. Appeals Court with three Donald Trump appointees decided on Wednesday to overturn a decision by a lower court throwing out a suit by two Alaska Airlines employees who sued the company over charges of religious discrimination, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs claim that they...
Vehemently anti-trans Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) went on a bizarre and inaccurate rant about trans representation on Netflix during an antitrust hearing about the company's potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets. Hawley peppered Netflix Co-CEO ...
The day Barney Frank came out, he didn't strategize with his staff or hold a press conference. When a Boston Globe reporter asked whether he was gay in 1987, he answered simply: "Yes. So what?" No carefully crafted statement. No crisis communications team. Just Barney being Barne...
Reports have suggested that Steam’s digital storefront is blocking LGBTQ+ content in accordance with Chinda’s “local laws and regulations.” Given the country’s policies around LGBTQ+ people and content, that might not be surprising, especially as Steam has agreed to censorship be...
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...
Supreme Court rules in favor of trans sports bans in 6-3 decision What the ruling says: Two trans athletes challenged their states' bans on trans sports participation on Title IX (equality in education) and 14th Amendment (Equal Protection) grounds. The six-judge conservative maj...
In the small town of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, a city council member accused staff at the public library of grooming kids with a Pride Month display in the children's section, which librarians titled "Love is Love." The councilman may have broken the law in his crusade to have i...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Idaho v. Hecox, which allow states to exclude trans girls from girls’ team sports, we’ve been seeing renewed calls for Supreme Court reform. We absolutely need to reform the court and restore the balance of ...
In front of a group of Christian conservatives who are part of the so-called Faith and Freedom Coalition, Donald Trump strawman condemned the landslide victories of two New York City Democratic Socialists and one from California in their recent primaries. “It’s ironic we’re celeb...
In the wake of Donald Trump's first electoral win in 2016, a friend of mine – a gay progressive who doesn't follow politics too closely – told me, exasperatedly, "The Democrats should get rid of the Electoral College!" I get it: The Electoral College is the reason Trump won in 20...
Pride Month is a celebration. It is a remembrance. And this year, more than most, it is a call to action. Across the country, legislators are advancing bills designed to strip LGBTQ+ Americans of the rights we have spent decades fighting to secure. Federal funding for HIV treatme...
An official statement from the Swiss city of Bern has expressed apologies to a trans woman who was forcibly removed by law enforcement from a women-only nude beach. “All persons who identify and live as women have access,” the city declared, as reported by The Times, emphasizing ...
Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who regularly uses anti-trans slurs and calls herself a "proud transphobe," is getting called "totally befuddled" and accused of "having a sharp mental decline" by many on her side of the aisle. Mace was a fairly middle-of-the-road Republican un...
Video of a couple getting engaged at a Pride-themed race in New York City is warming hearts across social media. Chris Siretz dropped to one knee at the finish line of the annual Front Runners New York LGBTQ+ Pride Run 4-Miler on June 27, proposing to longtime partner Omar Merced...
Donald Trump has threatened to veto important, and in the current Congress, extremely rare bipartisan legislation, unless Congress passes the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.” The bill would require in-person voting by providing documented proof of U.S. c...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed an anti-trans bathroom bill Friday, after Republicans passed it using a procedure that allowed them to bring the legislation up for a vote without a public hearing. As the Kansas Reflector notes, the version of Senate Bill 244 passed by the stat...
When asked if she was winding down her legendary political career, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said, “We’re not winding down. We’re drilling down. We are working hard to win in the midterms.” Pelosi recently sat down with LGBTQ Nation for an exclusive interview. Despite this bei...
‘Transcendent: A Memoir’By Laverne Coxc.2026, Gallery Books$30/238 pages OK, let’s just say it: You’re tired of lies. They come from above, behind, from either shoulder. They’re repeated, laid out in a line, told as if they’re true but they’re not. You wish people would stop lyin...
Donald Trump's Great American State Fair has been resoundingly mocked on social media for its low turnout, as well as the president's and his sycophants' continued claims that the event is packed with people. One reporter, Slate's Molly Olmstead, decided to visit the fair and see...
With less than two weeks until director Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey hits theaters, one of the biggest questions around the film remains: Who is Elliot Page really playing? It’s unclear why Nolan and co. have chosen to keep the actor’s role suc...
MAGA politicians and members of their movement split a friggin’ gut leading up to the impending “No Kings” mass demonstrations proposed and organized in over 2,500 sites throughout the United States in protest of the draconian policies and actions undertaken during the past 10-mo...
Niger, the former French colony in West Africa, is in the midst of a country-wide gay purge, with dozens of high-ranking officials and civilians arrested and imprisoned. Earlier this year, the government officially banned homosexuality in the country, imposing years-long sentence...
The Trump Administration has issued a "suicide note" ending all exposure of Russian influence campaigns, Chinese political manipulation, and Iranian extremist recruitment drives that threaten U.S stability, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum. In September, th...
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) addressed the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday upholding state bans on trans student-athletes in Idaho and West Virginia and said that liberals need to stop their "rush to moralize" on transgender issues. "You don't get good policies from th...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. A federal judge in California has ruled that the Justice Department likely cannot lawfully obtain confidential medical records identifying transgender ...
Donald Trump appeared to not understand what he was saying when he declared that he wanted to have a "threesome" with his two older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, in a speech on Wednesday at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Trump mentio...
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The outside observer might not think there’s a lot to know about the Minions. They’re little pill-shaped, bright yellow creatures who talk funny, what else do you need to know? But for the kind of person planning to show up to the premiere of Minions & Monsters in a full suit and...
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