Friday, June 26 Trans Discussion Group will be at 7 p.m. on Zoom. This event is intended to provide an emotionally and physically safe space for trans people and those who may be questioning their gender identity/expression to join together in community and learn from one another...
Since Elliot Hefty came out as a trans man in 2020, he has lost his job, been evicted, and received KKK flyers at his front door – all because of his gender identity. He was also a victim of sexual assault in a men's bathroom and thinks his gender identity is what caused the perp...
The Baltimore Orioles will take on the Washington Nationals on Friday, June 26 at 7 p.m. for Pride Night at Oriole Park. The first 15,000 fans will receive an exclusive Pride Night Orioles jersey. The Washington Blade is a media sponsor of this event. To purchase tickets, visit O...
Dear Michael, I’ve been dating Mark for three years, living together for two, and I’m not sure he’s for me. We get along great but I’m questioning how attracted I am to him. I was never crazy about him physically but he was such a sweet and smart guy that I wanted to date him. Se...
On April 30, 1997, students at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams invited me to give a presentation I called "Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price," based on my 1992 book of the same title. They chose this specific day on this specific topic because that eve...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Fox News Host Jesse Watters hurled insults at bisexual women during a segment about the movie Supergirl, which opens in theaters today. Watters was reacting to an assertion from the film's star, Milly Alcock, that her character could be bisexual. And as the chyron dec...
It started with a swipe. "In November of 2023, my friend took my phone out of my hands, downloaded the Her app, and created my online profile," says Jennelle Kariotis, a fortysomething assistant professor of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston. The mother of two, twic...
When the Washington Blade first reported the story of Jonathan David Muir Burgos, the news centered on a 16-year-old Cuban teenager who had been sent to prison after taking part in a public protest in Morón, Ciego de Ávila. At the time, the facts were straightforward. A minor had...
With everything happening in the world — an affordability crisis, an ongoing conflict in Iran — it stands to reason that the top priority at Fox News this week was to … talk trash about bisexual women? While discussing the reviews for the new Supergirl film, The Five hosts, devia...
Books for Pride by various authorsc.2026, various publishers$18.95 – $29.00 How many times have you marched so far this month? Seems like there’s always a reason to gather and walk during Pride, but save some time for yourself, too. You’ll want to reflect, rest, and read these gr...
While numerous brands have cautiously rolled back their Pride Month involvement in recent years, fearing right-wing blowback for any association with the LGBTQ+ community, a handful of big companies haven't backed away — in the case of Mastercard and Target, they have even increa...
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays.EXCLUSIVE: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expanding access to gender-affirming care for transgender people across New York City, as the Trump administration moves to limit transition-related treatment for m...
The biennial convention of the Texas Republican Party convened last month, resulting in the release of a new official platform that includes a host of anti-LGBTQ+ provisions, including a ban on trans teachers and the characterization of homosexuality as "an abnormal lifestyle cho...
After two decades, the U.S. will end a life-saving HIV-prevention and treatment program in South Africa, a country where over 8 million people live with the virus (about 12% of its population). The Trump administration said it is stopping the funding because South Africa hasn't d...
Eswatini's Supreme Court has ordered the government to allow an LGBTQ rights group to legally register. The Registrar of Companies in 2019 denied Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities' request to register. The advocacy group in 2020 petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the case. ...
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Maine's U.S. Senate seat, had twin events demonstrating his strong support among the LGBTQ+ community this week. The candidate is facing off against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November, with control of the Senate at stake....
It turns out, after the Right-wingers like Elon Musk absolutely freaked out under the guide of “historical accuracy” following fan theories that Elliot Page would play Achilles (a mythical person, by the way) in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, he might actually be ...
In 2002, Sue Wicks became the first WNBA player to publicly come out. At the time, she was making a championship run with the New York Liberty, the only team she had ever played for throughout her five-year career in the then-relatively new professional women’s basketball league....
Interior design is often a balancing act between taste, personality, and restraint. Sometimes, however, restraint leaves the building entirely. Such is the case when the colorful exuberance of gay Pride-inspired decorating collides with the famously excessive decorating style ass...
“Just shy of” 6,000 people purchased tickets for the Wednesday, June 24, 21st annual Pride Night Out at the Washington Nationals baseball stadium, which the Nationals said is the longest running LGBTQ Pride event in Major League Baseball, according to a Nationals spokesperson. Th...
A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prevent the DOJ from pursuing the private medical records of transgender youth receiving gender-affirming healthcare in New York City. The judge also granted the request for provi...
Amidst Idaho's ban on rainbow flags flying on government property, residents of the capital city of Boise are doing everything they can to show their pride. A grassroots group called Pride North End has come together to distribute as many flags and yard signs as possible to folks...
A trans woman in Kansas accused of operating a motor vehicle without a valid license learned on Tuesday that charges against her have been dropped, Transitic News reports. Kris Ripper had been threatened with jail time after a traffic stop last month, despite following rules mand...
The U.K. Government has published a draft of a bill to ban anti-LGBTQ+ conversion therapy. The bill, introduced to Parliament this morning, defines conversion therapy as "abusive practices that aim to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity," and focuses on physica...
Anti-trans activist and fifth-place swimmer Riley Gaines is getting attention on social media after she made a video complaining that her dream of going to dentistry school was ruined by pro-trans university officials. In a video produced by the anti-trans clothing brand XX-XY, G...
WNBA legend Angel McCoughtry is not having UFC President Dana White’s casual homophobia this Pride Month. The former Minnesota Lynx forward told TMZ that White’s excuse — namely that they just “don’t talk about that” in the UFC — is actively harmful. In an interview with Tomi Lah...
President Donald Trump has refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill until Congress passes the SAVE America Act – legislation critics say would likely disenfranchise many transgender Americans. Earlier this week, the “21st Century Road to Housing Act” passed with bipartisan suppo...
More than ten years after I first watched Hayley Kiyoko’s “Girls Like Girls” music video — a groundbreaking moment for all young sapphics who were on Tumblr in 2015 — I cried sitting in a dark movie theater finally watching Coley and Sonya’s love story unfold on the big screen. T...
The Trump-Vance administration will end PEPFAR funding for South Africa. A State Department spokesperson on Wednesday told the Washington Blade the State Department “will begin a phased drawdown of PEPFAR programming in South Africa, with most programs ending by Sept. 30, 2026, a...
As former President Barack Obama opened the new Obama Presidential Center in the South Side of Chicago on Juneteenth, I thought back to the eight years of hope and dignity, stability and pride his administration brought to the people under its jurisdiction. The Obama Administrati...
There’s no doubt that Heated Rivalry has been a massive success that has launched the careers of multiple actors, including Connor Storrie, Hudson Williams, and François Arnaud. But while Hollywood usually loves to capitalize on a hit with a cavalcade of copycats, that doesn’t ex...
Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for all social evils, blames teachers for causing men to be gay, blames marijuana for making men “spiritually gay,” and thinks Adolf Hitler wasn’t so bad after all — has encouraged anti-LGBTQ+ politici...
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) insinuated yesterday that the president has a terminal illness because he canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing. "Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him t...
Haddonfield, New Jersey Mayor Dave Siedell did not hide his ire for the person who stole and damaged nine Pride flags from the borough's business district on Monday. In a social media post on Tuesday, Siedell called the vandal a "black hearted, thin skinned, broflake" and asked a...
Woah Vicky, an internet creator known for her unique use of language and for feuding with rapper Bhad Bhabie, has recently made a series of posts that includes homophobic and serophobic language aimed at queer people and people with HIV.On Wednesday, the creator, who has over nin...
A proposed amendment to enshrine same-sex and interracial marriage protections into the Delaware Constitution failed in the state House on Tuesday. The amendment had passed the state Senate earlier this month, but lost by four votes in the House, where a 2/3 majority of 28 votes ...
In an October 11th post on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote, in all caps of course, that "THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6." "If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!!" Related "Disgu...
The Washington Blade announced this week that its longtime publisher, Lynne Brown, who has worked at the publication for nearly 40 years, is retiring from her day-to-day duties. Blade co-owner and longtime advertising executive Brian Pitts will assume the role of publisher effect...
The Washington Writers’ Publishing House (WWPH), the nation’s longest continuously operating cooperative nonprofit literary press, will present the inaugural “Capital Love LitFest” on Sunday, June 28 at 10 a.m. at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md. Designed as a full-day litera...
Pride month was first celebrated in June 1970, one year after the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Pride month commemorates the Stonewall Riots, which occurred on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The first organized Pride marches were held on June...
I’m a gay man, I’m a graduate student, here is why I’m afraid of what the Trump administration is doing with the Office of Civil Rights. I consider myself lucky to have grown up as a gay man in the time that I did. As a millennial, I came of age at the tail end of when it was sti...
Whether you’re mourning the end of Euphoria, The Boys, or Hacks, you’re dying for another hit of Heated Rivalry or just need something new to watch, The Vampire Lestat has you covered. Whether it’s the cutting witty dialogue, supernatural action, or the maudlin adventures of prob...
James Fishback, a racist and antisemitic Republican running to become Florida's next governor, will hold a rally on Saturday, June 27 with Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for all social evils, blames teachers for causing men to be ga...
President Donald Trump spent $16.4 million dollars on a no-bid contract to paint the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, painting it "American flag blue" for the July 4 celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding. However, when algae blooms turned the pool br...
The order protects patients of NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and other New York City providers while their constitutional challenge proceeds.
A damning and exhaustive investigation by a trans civil rights attorney lays a big portion of blame for the current crusade against the transgender community squarely at the feet of The New York Times. "Measured across the entirety of the corpus of analyzed and classified article...
The Delaware General Assembly on Tuesday failed to pass Senate Bill 100 (SB-100), an amendment that would add protections for same-sex and interracial marriage to the Delaware Constitution. In order for the bill to pass, 28 out of 41 members needed to vote ‘yes,’ meaning all 27 D...
Gay and bisexual male students in Australia who migrated from anti-LGBTQ+ countries are being targeted by men on gay dating apps who then assault and extort them with threats of outing them in their home countries, The Guardian reported today. Similar attacks are occurring in the...
While speaking on CNBC on Wednesday about the need for AI regulations, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that "AI doesn't get to engage in a bunch of funky, hinky bookkeeping so that investors can't tell what's going on and keep pumping up our economy." But the person in charge...
The Trump administration's zealous pursuit to remove transgender athletes from girls' sports teams has snared an embarrassing catch in Colorado: boy mascots. Last June, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched an investigation of Colorado public s...
FBI director Kash Patel reportedly spent $75,000 in taxpayer money to fly to Milan, Italy, and drink beer with the U.S. men's hockey team (under the guise of providing security at the Winter Olympics). When asked about it, his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins tried to change the subject...
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted a request from multiple transgender people for a temporary restraining order, blocking the disclosure of plaintiffs' and class members' medical information to the Justice Department. Judge Kathe...
Out rapper Lil Nas X shared with fans that he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has been undergoing treatment since his very public arrest last year. In an emotional video on social media, Nas acknowledged that sharing the information felt "really awkward," but said he...
Anti-trans crusader J.K. Rowling is calling for a boycott of iconic British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) following an outcry over a transgender employee who was just doing her job. On Monday, August 4, U.K. outlet The Telegraph reported that M&S apologized to a woman whose teen...
President Donald Trump is refusing to sign a new bipartisan housing bill unless his SAVE Act is approved by the legislative branch. The bill being prevented from being enacted into law is the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act." The legislation is an attempt by Congress to make bu...
Transgender women incarcerated in Scottish prisons must be housed in men’s facilities, following a judge’s ruling last week. Judge Lady Ross’s June 19 opinion came in response to a challenge brought by anti-trans group For Women Scotland (FWS) to the Scottish Prison Service’s Pol...
Religion and spirituality continue to shape the lives of billions of people around the world. Whether expressed through organized faith traditions, personal beliefs, cultural practices, or philosophical reflection, they remain powerful influences on how people understand themselv...
The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has withdrawn its previously agreed remedies against a counselor who allegedly violated their code of ethics by refusing to validate a client’s same-sex relationship. The appeal against the board’s decision was a...
The GOP senator claimed the league “admitted they were wrong” to enforce its policy, which isn’t what happened.
As they were welcomed into their local soccer community with a colorful cascade of Pride flags – a visible rainbow in the supporters section of Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders – Dana Reinhart knew they had found a home. “It was a symbol to me as a queer person that people ...
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