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A dead dog draped over their mailbox. A tampon shot through with a bullet. Gunshots in the night, and shouts of "Damn queers!" from passing cars. Those were some of the greetings Wanda and Brenda Henson earned when they opened Camp Sister Spirit in Jones County, Mississippi, in 1...
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Trump administration created secret, rigged trials to kick trans people out of the military A defense lawyer astonished: "Going in, I had hoped I was paranoid, and boards’ outcomes were not predetermined. It turned out to be much worse than I thought," said Army Reserve lawyer Pr...
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Mary Trump, the president's lesbian niece and a clinical psychologist, summed up her uncle's reaction to Charlie Kirk's death in seven sarcastic words. "This is quite the display of grief." Related Trump's lesbian niece explains how his upbringing caused him to want Qatar's luxur...
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The 2026 World Pride March was held on Saturday, Aug. 8 in Amsterdam. Tens of thousands of participants marched from Martin Luther Kingpark to the grounds of the Pride Village at Museumplein. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads...
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AMSTERDAM — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday participated in the World Pride March in Amsterdam. Outright International Executive Director Maria Sjödin and Paolo Rondelli, who in 2022 became the world’s first openly gay head of state when he became Captain Regent of San Ma...
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Actor Geno Segers will no longer be the next star in the Broadway production of Hadestown after videos of him making transphobic comments resurfaced last week. The producers confirmed in a statement that they have "mutually agreed" to part ways with Segers only days after announc...
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“No man can put a chain about the ankle of another man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” These poignant words from Frederick Douglass, a man who escaped enslavement and became a social activist for the cause of liberation and freedom, were delive...
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The government agency Health Canada announced last week it has ended its restrictions on gay and bisexual sperm donors. Aziz M. told CBC he has "had a wonderful experience" as a sperm donor, with one child conceived with his sperm remaining an active part of his life. But when he...
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A library board in Tennessee voted on Monday to fire library director Luanne James for refusing to shield over 100 books – many with LGBTQ+ content – from young readers. The following day, her supporters began a crowdfunding campaign that has since raised nearly $100,000 to suppo...
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Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. This week's Good News Roundup has lots of examples of LGBTQ+ trailblazers bravely finding their space and ...
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The weekly drag show "Daddy Issues" was held at Kiki on Wednesday, Aug. 5. Performers included Evry Pleasure, Indiana Bones and Tiara Missou-Sidora. (Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford) The post PHOTOS: Daddy Issues at Kiki appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ New...
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‘When Memory Fades’By Nathaniel Chin, MDc.2026, St. Martin’s Essentials$30/422 pages Mom called you in a panic the other day. She’d lost her keys and by the time you arrived to help, she’d found them. In the refrigerator. These kinds of things keep happening, not often but often ...
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‘Qtopia: A Memoir of Love, Land and Liberation’2026, University of Wisconsin PressBy Juda Bennett Duffel packed, the new high school graduate could not fall asleep. “On the night before my departure, I stared at the duffel bag as if it were a body bag. We lived close to Dover, wh...
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Psychology Today published a fascinating article up on why straight guys have sex with other men a while back. I've said it repeatedly on Bilerico, but if it weren't for straight guys I wouldn't have had as much sex when I was younger. A good 50% of my experiences have been with ...
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The dystopian future climate scientists predicted decades ago is here. The wildfires that spread across Ontario and Canada’s Northwest Territories in July decimated millions of acres, disproportionately tearing through First Nations communities. Meanwhile, Europe’s unprecedented ...
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Numerous internet commenters pointed out that when President Donald Trump gave a rally speech in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday night, he seemed to have a "dramatically fuller, fluffier, and suspiciously youthful head of blond hair," the feminist cultural site Jezebel noted. Nume...
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New York City police arrested 47-year-old psychotherapist Remington Yhap on July 29 for allegedly raping a 16-year-old transgender boy who was his client at Yhap's practice, Liberation Psychotherapy in Midtown Manhattan, on June 15. Yhap reportedly began counseling the teen in Se...
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People are bewildered by Donald Trump's latest claim that a judge declared sports "unconstitutional." He was ranting about trans athletes on Thursday this week while addressing a celebration for the athletes who represented the United States at the Winter Olympics and Paralympic ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Connecticut hospital has agreed to Trump administration demands to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors, leaving transgender youth and their families scrambling amid concerns about continuity of care.The Justice Departmen...
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U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), a Trump-endorsed ally since his first run for Congress in 2022, lost his primary in Tennessee on Tuesday to a well-funded Republican challenger, according to projections. Ogles, a diehard MAGA loyalist, is notorious for attacking LGBTQ+ people, Muslim...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called for cisgender gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to stand in solidarity with transgender people, who are facing numerous attacks from Republicans all over the country. "I think everybody else has to stick up for them," he said....
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Transparent Action, a parent-led initiative in the UK, sent the government a report detailing how kids were faring in school under different policies regarding trans students. The group urged the government to use 2026’s Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance (which ...
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The Human Rights Campaign is slamming the White House — and the Department of Education — following their removal of some LGBTQ bullying data from federal data collection. The Civil Rights Data Collection is a mandated survey of all public school districts that collects figures o...
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Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in Amsterdam until Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten on Friday said more needs to be done to defend transgender people and their rights. “Everywhere in...
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Conservatives have identified their latest target for transphobic vitriol amid their ongoing attacks on transgender participation in women’s sports: beloved Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu’s teenage sibling. The anti-trans news site Reduxx identified and allegedly outed Liu’s 16-...
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Out gay Olympian and silver medalist freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy announced his engagement to fashion executive Andrew Rigby on Tuesday via Instagram, with pics showing the couple embracing on lla de sa Torre, an archipelago off the southwest coast of the Spanish Mediterranean i...
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This essay contains spoilers for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.Jack Haven utters no words in the film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Their performance is still the most affecting of them all — at least for trans viewers like me who grew up being taught that the bodi...
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A patient at a Hudson Valley, New York, physical therapy office recorded staff and other patients laughing at offensive gay jokes and using anti-gay slurs. The recording, shared with Hudson Valley’s News 12 by the 20-year-old patient’s mother, captures nearly 40 seconds of the co...
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Get ready for a fresh, cathartic take on horror with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, arriving in theatres this Friday, August 7. Directed by visionary filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbiner alongside Gillian Anderson. The film follows an ambitious young quee...
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Likely 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is being praised for recent comments defending his push for “big swing” goals, acknowledging that they could take 10 or more years to achieve. He’s right, of course: we need long-term plans, and Project 2025 didn’t happen overnigh...
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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nonprofit sister organization to the largest LGBTQ human rights lobbying and advocacy organization in the U.S., along with law firms Correia & Puth and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, filed a class action lawsuit against the government as ...
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Forty years after state health regulations were used to shut down New York City’s gay bathhouses, two out lawmakers are working to get those regulations repealed. This week, New York state Sen. Erik Bottcher (D) introduced Senate Bill S10673, the Public Health Modernization Act, ...
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The name on every disgraced politician’s lips is gonna be … Mamdani. In a nonsensical rant worthy of an IRL “alright, grandpa, let’s get you to bed,” former New York City mayor and flop presidential also-ran Rudy Giuliani used his soap box (also known as his web show America’s Ma...
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Written by Thomas Z. Seffernic Since birth and from the creation of society, men are embedded in gender expectations that are routinely instilled throughout their lifetime. While some of these are inherited from past generations, there are always new variations of these “norms” t...
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WNBA player Gabby Williams, who is currently a power forward for the Golden State Valkyries, said that she would welcome transgender players onto her team or any other in the league, adding a peaceful note to a contentious conversation around inclusion in professional sports. The...
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Former New York City Mayor and lawyer to Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, is now saying that expanding pre-K programs will turn kids transgender. Giuliani was attacking a new program from Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to expand the city's pre-K program to include...
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A Florida woman is suing the city council that suspended her after her history of obscene, racist and homophobic tweets was uncovered and published in a local paper. The councilwoman, Judi Fike, was appointed to her seat in Groveland, Florida last year and is running for a full t...
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Fans were shocked to witness former celebrity blogger Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton's, epic crashout on social media. While on TikTok Live, he was harming himself with what appears to be a metal chef-grade spreader. There was blood, gore, and a cry for help that broke the 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, beer and wine; plentiful throwback hors d’oeuvres, three live bands and a cocktail attire red carpet. Tickets start at $50 and can be purc...
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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, make new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Eventbrite. ...
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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 early low-budget groundbreakers like “The Living End” (1992) through his “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy” (1993-97) and beyond, his films have subvert...
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Pregnant workers in the LGBTQ+ community often encounter greater barriers than their cisgender or heterosexual counterparts, particularly when accessing company-sponsored health insurance. The challenges for pregnant workers are especially prevalent in obtaining fertility care, s...
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A 54-year-old woman named Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi confessed on Tuesday to lethally stabbing her 49-year-old wife Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, in their Ramona, California home on February 17. Marodi was a lesbian captain for California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Ca...
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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully pressured Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) end its gender-affirming care programs for minors, including puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy, in a settlement the DOJ announced Wednesday. GLA...
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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 epidemic, state lawmakers are seeking to replace what they describe as an emergency-era policy with a modern regulatory framework built around...
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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 woman, of kissing a male escort. He also accused Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) of being gay. Neither Hawley nor Moreno have not responded to th...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth insulted trans women during his keynote address at this year's Special Operations Forces Week. "Everything starts and ends with warriors, from training to the battlefield," he said. "We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns. ...
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Bravo is celebrating two decades of ‘The Real Housewives’ franchise with ‘The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th’, bringing Housewives from across the franchise together for a star-studded premiere celebration at The Lobster Club in New York City. GLAAD’s Yolanda L...
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Fresh on the heels of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham's controversial comments about "biological men" in girls' locker rooms, the anti-trans news site Reduxx recently outed Olympic skater Alysa Liu's sister, Jaylin Liu, as transgender. Jaylin Liu, 16, competes in girls' sports at h...
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I often travel around the United States and to other countries giving presentations and workshops on university and high school campuses and at professional conventions on topics around social justice issues. I remember giving a presentation on heterosexism at an East Coast unive...
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's LGBTQ+ stances matter more than ever now that he recently won his state's primary election. Unlike other Senate candidates, El-Sayed has never held elected office. Though he helped coordinate his state's largest health office ...
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One musical director gave himself over to absolute … deception?The story of a local Vermont production of The Rocky Horror Show that was cancelled after members of the cast and crew received threatening text messages has reached an unexpected second act: According to the Essex Po...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A nonbinary North Carolina school teacher has become the latest target of a harassment campaign by far-right extremist Libs of TikTok and other conservative influencers.A post showing a picture of the teacher has been viewed more tha...
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This story originally appeared on Out.When Rosie O'Donnell sits in for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on ABC stations later this month, the out lesbian said she isn't about to suspend her almost 20-year feud with President Donald Trump.Despite what happened to Kimmel last September...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Parents in Washington state have pulled their children out of school after learning that a teacher showed students a video about Pride Month. It’s the latest indication that some opponents of LGBTQ+ topics in schools object not simpl...
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Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) admonished the crowd at a Trump rally at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas yesterday for booing the mention of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty. "So I know Pastor Teis spoke about Officer Abdelnabi a few moments ago-" Lombardo said at th...
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A gay man in Bulgaria was beaten to death in what investigators believe may have been a hate crime after security camera footage showed a mob of teens beating him in a park. Parents picking up their kids from daycare found Georgi Kuzev injured this past Tuesday at 5:20 p.m. near ...
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Elliot Page is taking press victory lap after playing Sinon in Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster The Odyssey, and like any victor worth his salt would, he is using the spotlight to gush about his girlfriend, comedian and actress Julia Shiplett. In his August 5 interview on T...
