A version of this first appeared on The Advocate. As many queer kink communities have brought to the forefront, sex is nothing if not play. Adult play should be fun, and as many of us have known our entire lives, nothing makes play more fun than adding a good toy.However, finding...
This story originally appeared on Out.Kataluna Enriquez, who made history as the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant, was involved in a serious car accident that left her hospitalized for two weeks.The Filipino-American beauty queen opened up on Inst...
Between Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iran, an affordability crisis, and roughly three million scandals, it seems plausible that the Democrats will retake the White House in 2028. But what would that really look like for trans rights? Would it really le...
The New Jersey General Assembly passed new legislation on Tuesday, the last day of Pride Month, that strengthens the protections around gender-affirming health care, reproductive care, including abortion and IVF, and more. The bill now sits on Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) desk await...
A gay couple from Chicago who were living in Mexico City have been found dead in a grave that included two other bodies, per Chicago ABC affiliate WLS.Zafar Padamsee Mawani and Guillermo Jaffet Hidalgo Ortiz had been missing since May, per WLS. The couple had only recently moved ...
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton says there should be “restrictions” around in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., apparently walking back his previously stated support for a method of assisted reproduction commonly used by LGBTQ+ people as well ...
You might think that a Supreme Court ruling, such as the recent one which gave states the green light to continue banning transgender women and girls from female sports teams, would be the final word on something. But that’s not the case for fifth-place loser Riley Gaines, who st...
Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Europe contestant who participated in the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant when she was in her 20s, says that Trump asked her a disturbing question after he allegedly assaulted her in the 90s: "Have you spoken to Jeff?" Keul is one of dozens of ...
The D.C.-based organization SMYAL, which provides services for LGBTQ youth in the D.C. metro area, including housing for homeless LGBTQ youth, announced on June 30 that it received a $25,000 award for its “courageous acts” in support of the community it serves. The award was a mo...
“Proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is running for governor of South Carolina on a campaign that focuses heavily on her opposition to trans rights. Now she's claiming that the person who shot rightwing political operative Charlie Kirk – who has not been identified or appreh...
Queen Camilla on Tuesday met with JK Rowling. The Royal Family on X said the meeting took place at Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The post included a picture of Camilla and Rowling together. “With a shared passion for books and a deep commitment to children reading for ple...
When one watches movies for a living, it’s as easy to fall into routine as it is with any job. Each movie is different, of course, each with its own characters, its own viewpoint, and its own story – (or at least its own variation on one), but in so many other ways, they have a t...
Last month, Center Faith hosted the 43rd annual Pride Interfaith Service titled “In Faith We Exist. Resist. Persist!” at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Amid torrential downpours, queer leaders and people of faith from Muslim, Catholic, Episcopalisn, Unitarian Uni...
I recognize people come to their opinion of the Democratic Socialists of America Party, a party different from the Democratic Party, usually based on their own backgrounds. I am a progressive Democrat. A first generation American; gay, and Jewish. My parents were refugees from Hi...
Victor Willis, the original lead singer for the iconic disco group the Village People, died on Tuesday after "a short but aggressive illness,” according to an announcement posted to the band's social media. He was 74. Willis was recruited as the group's lead singer by gay French ...
Liberals are cheering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for her response to a question about JD Vance. Outside the Capitol this week, a reporter asked her: "JD Vance just said in an interview that he thinks you are going to be the leading Democratic candidate for president in ...
A Kentucky church is facing online backlash for subjecting an audience filled with children to a skit that included a tactical military assault in which church staff shot “the devil.” The video, which has been widely circulated and reviewed by Them, shows an audience of children ...
On Tuesday, plaintiffs in the case seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's ban on trans military servicemembers scored a major victory, with a ruling transforming the case, Talbott v USA, into a class action lawsuit. The ruling for class certification allows plaintiffs to se...
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays.After the Supreme Court dumped its decision allowing states to ban transgender women and girls from female sports teams, and on the final day of Pride Month no less, the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race h...
Vice President JD Vance suggested this week that transgender people in the U.S. pose a “domestic terrorist threat,” despite a wide body of evidence to the contrary. On Wednesday, Vance appeared on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, where he blamed the September 10 assassination o...
Neon, the studio behind best picture winner Anora, has officially acquired global rights to Luca Guadagnino’s film Artificial, per Deadline. Written by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich, the film tells the story of the abrupt firing and rehiring of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI. ...
The administration is restoring the federal program that provides emergency crisis support for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of suicide, but it may end up excluding the organization that established the program in the first place. The Trevor Project, the nation's leading nonprofit focused...
The Royal Family posted a photo on Tuesday featuring anti-trans Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Queen Consort Camilla of the U.K., touting their "shared passion for books and a deep commitment to children reading for pleasure." "Her Majesty and Ms Rowling discussed the impor...
Yesterday, on the last day of Pride month, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Matthew Vines where he argued that the push to identify as "queer" is a contributing factor to modern backlash to LGBTQ+ rights. In the piece, he argues that "being gay is not a rebellion ...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court once again limited trans rights, ruling that states may exclude trans students from playing sports consistent with their gender identity. In the wake of the ruling, trans politicians, activists, and more spoke up about the court’s decision to once aga...
At Flags for Good, there's no month like Pride Month. “Our year is built around Pride,” founder Michael Green tells LGBTQ Nation. “That’s our Christmas.” The company, which donates one dollar to related charities for every flag, pin, or patch sold, launched in 2020 to sell exclus...
Agents with the FBI’s field office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, have arrested a man on charges related to multiple threats of committing anti-LGBTQ+ mass violence and possession of child sexual abuse material. According to a June 26 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for ...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lashed out at a Fox Digital reporter with a homophobic dig about gay porn after being asked to comment on recent allegations from someone claiming to be his ex-girlfriend. Former congressional aide Cynthia West reportedly said Massie helped get her a job...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador— Alrededor de las 2 de la tarde del 27 de junio, centenares de personas comenzaron a reunirse en el redondel Masferrer para participar en la tradicional Marcha del Orgullo LGBTQ de El Salvador, una movilización que año con año busca visibilizar las lucha...
The StudBudz are thinking more about the future. Just a year ago, the former Minnesota Lynx teammates and viral livestreaming sensations competed in a league with a maximum salary of $249,244. Now, thanks to the WNBA’s latest collective bargaining agreement, players are signing m...
Washington Mystics Rookie Lauren Betts was on yet another TikTok livestream recently with former and current teammates Charliese Leger-Walker, Angela Dugalić, and Cotie McMahon. “I saw a comment that said Ang should try women,” Betts blurted out to the group. “I said, ‘I agree.’”...
Not long ago, social media content about women’s basketball was primarily composed of clips from games and a handful of commentators dedicated to the space. Compare that to today when you can find fan edits of players and couples, crispy screenrecorded clips from hilariously impr...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an entire opinion just to express his contempt for transgender people in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox cases yesterday, an opinion that has been panned as "particularly nasty." The Supreme Court ruled in the cases that...
The Delaware General Assembly passed Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100 on the last day of the legislative session on Tuesday after being rescinded last week. Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100 (SB-100) passed with 28 ‘yes’ votes, meeting the two-thirds threshold requir...
The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold state laws barring transgender girls from competing on girls' school sports teams represents a setback for transgender rights, but attorneys who argued the case say the ruling is considerably narrower than many initial reactions sugg...
First Lady Melania Trump celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling in the West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox cases yesterday, where the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX and the Constitution don't prohibit states from banning trans kids from school sports. In the same post, ...
A gay couple from the U.S. is among the four people found dead in a mass grave in Mexico last month. The Associated Press reported Zafar Mawani and Guillermo Hidalgo Ortiz disappeared on May 20. The couple was last seen in Mexico City’s Isidro Fabela neighborhood. Media reports i...
Renowned political scientist Norman Ornstein expressed his complete shock at a recent underhanded move by GOP Senators that led to the simultaneous confirmation of 107 judges nominated by the president. In September, Senate Republicans employed a tactic that many call the "nuclea...
Fanni Fajth, an 18-year-old student in Budapest, summed up the mood in the Hungarian capital on Saturday, as tens of thousands of marchers turned out for the first Pride celebration in the country since authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán was deposed in April after 16 years in offi...
More than 100,000 people participated in the 26th Pride March in Santiago, Chile, one of the largest demonstrations by the LGBTQ movement in the South American country, on June 27. The event, organized by the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation and Fundación Iguale...
The man accused of stabbing a trans college student to death in Seattle in May has been found incompetent to stand trial. Christopher Leahy, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Juniper Blessing, a student at the University of Washington who was fou...
Tefi Pessoa is a mentor, a walking pop-culture encyclopedia, and now — along with Ciara Miller — one of the hosts of Love Island’s official after show, Aftersun. In a world that is increasingly afraid to be candid, she has made a name for herself opening her heart to her over 2.3...
Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explained in three words why the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday was so terrible. "Weakest performance ever," Buttigieg said on CNN after the speech, noting that the speech received low approval ratings from voters, mu...
Them Superlatives are awards for our favorite people made up by our favorite people.To honor Gillian Anderson, the resplendent star of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, as our “Mother of the Year” we asked none other than her screen partner, Hannah Einbinder, to pen a tribute...
The 13th annual Frederick Pride Festival was held at Carroll Creek Park in Frederick, Md. on Saturday, June 27. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) View on Threads The post PHOTOS: Frederick Pride Festival appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Right...
MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
Police in Istanbul detained at least 50 people during an LGBTQ+ Pride event in Turkey’s largest city over the weekend. Authorities had banned the event, with police increasing security and erecting barriers around key rallying points, such as Istanbul’s Taksim Square, and restric...
Fox News continues to celebrate the "thousands" of people attending the president's Great American State Fair in D.C., despite numerous photos and videos showing that the fairgrounds have been mostly empty since the event kicked off on Thursday. And two Democratic lawmakers did n...
Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the Trump-Vance administration to take urgent action to defend LGBTQ people across the globe, including in countries that are violating international human rights protections for LG...
One morning in the late nineties, Monica Helms woke up with the design idea for the Transgender Pride Flag. Since then, the blue, pink, and white emblem has exploded in popularity. Trans people have adopted it as a symbol around which to rally across the globe. While monumental, ...
The Supreme Court ruled against trans student athletes earlier today, declaring that schools can exclude trans girls from playing on teams for “biological females.” The ruling is in response to two cases that have been consolidated into one decision. “The question is whether Titl...
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays.Amid Paramount Skydance’s pending purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper reportedly isn’t happy at the prospect of being in a newsroom led by controversial CBS News editor-in-...
The 38-year-old woman identified as the ringleader in the torture and murder of a 24-year-old trans man pleaded guilty to all charges on Friday and is expected to be sentenced to life in prison. According to ABC affiliate WHAM, the charges against Precious Arzuaga for the murder ...
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays.This article describes the violent killing of a transgender woman.Christopher Michael Leahy, the man charged with first-degree murder over the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old transgender University of ...
Longtime Washington Blade employee Stephen Rutgers announced he is stepping down after 14 years to focus on other ventures, including his part ownership of the popular Crush Dance Bar. Rutgers was hired by the Blade in 2012 to help plan Pride festivities and over the years was pr...
The Supreme Court added six cases to its 2026-2027 docket this week, including a case that could affect minors' access to gender-affirming care. International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc. v. Ferguson asks the court to determine the constitutionality of the three Washington law...
Two women identified as a couple who have been wanted by Montgomery County, Md. police for allegedly killing the mother of one of them in her Silver Spring home on May 22 were arrested on June 10 in Ohio, according to a police statement The little-noticed statement released on Ju...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on transgender girls and women competing in girls’ and women’s school sports, delivering a major victory to Republican-led states and a devastating defeat to trans students who had ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws that ban transgender athletes from school sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. The justices in January heard oral arguments in two cases — Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. — that challenged laws in...
Vyacheslav Khasanov, the 37-year-old owner of the Pose club in Orenburg, Russia, was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay a 1 million ruble (about $13,000) fine on charges connected to organizing and participating in LGBTQ+ events. Manager Diana Kamilyanova, 30, ...
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