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Baltimore's LGBTQ+ community is reeling after a 27-year-old trans woman was shot and killed Friday morning in the city's Barclay neighborhood. While police have not yet publicly identified the victim, the housing and health organization Baltimore Safe Haven told media outlets her...
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Model Kai Schreiber, 17-year-old daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, made history on Friday at New York Fashion Week as she became the first trans girl to win the Breakthrough Model of the Year statue at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards, per the Daily Mail.“I’ve...
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‘Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton’By Martha Ackmannc.2026, St. Martin’s Press$30/304 pages Not too bright. That’s what people once thought about you. Your language didn’t conform, you had your own sense of style, and you were ignorant about modern things an...
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As the Trump administration continues to outdo itself with absurdities, Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to tell parody from reality. The latest example: a post from the official White House Rapid Response 47 social media account thanking Donald Trump for stopping ...
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Sophie Lee, a Black transgender woman, was shot and killed in Baltimore on Friday morning, per a report in local ABC affiliate WMAR. Police are still looking for a suspect in Lee’s death, as well as a motive, per NBC affiliate WBAL.While initial reports said that Lee had not been...
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The Republican midterm convention, held last week in Dallas, was a dud by any measure. The convention hall was half-empty at best, the event tanked in the ratings, and even Republican strategists admitted that it would do nothing to help the party in the midterms. Basically, the ...
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A psychologist is speaking out about what it means that the president keeps taking cognitive tests, explaining that Donald Trump's doctors are likely past the point of trying to figure out whether he is suffering from dementia and are now just monitoring his decline. Former Johns...
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America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misin...
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Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) may have made a veiled threat to out anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for having sex with men, longtime gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile publicly suggested in his Substack post yesterday. While Moreno angrily swore at former White ...
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A First Nation in Alberta, Canada has declared itself a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care amid the province's crackdown on providing such care to trans kids under 16. “All children, including trans and two-spirit children and their family, will have safety under our tr...
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San Francisco's Chinatown doesn't just have some of the city's most unique markets, eateries, and architecture — it's also home to the OUT Museum, the word's first Chinese LGBTQ+ Museum. Opened in May, the free museum currently has a one-room exhibition space that is only open on...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.For nearly a year, LGBTQ+ students in one rural Virginia county watched the adults overseeing their education move the goalposts.Students at King George Middle School followed the rules to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance. The princ...
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Russia has slapped the international travel site Booking.com with an approximately $70,000 fine (6 million rubles) for violating the country's so-called LGBT propaganda laws. The Tagansky district court of Moscow reportedly handed down two three-million-ruble fines to the company...
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A woman interviewed by a right-winger at a March 28 No Kings protest against the U.S. president has earned the praise of the internet for her responses that seemed to leave the interviewer speechless. Youtuber Nate Friedman claimed to have "exposed" No Kings protestors in New Yor...
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One does not have to be a certified clinical psychologist to witness the clearly obvious flaws of character of Donald John Trump. Even the casual spectator, whether or not a Trump supporter, can see his offensive style of communication, grievances and attacks against anyone and a...
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Hard as it is to believe for those who were around when it happened, “Thelma and Louise” celebrates the 35th anniversary of its release this year. Deeply popular with both critics and audiences at the time, its reputation continues to ride high; it’s a movie that manages to exist...
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The Swiss government says it supports a uniform, national ban on so-called conversion therapy, and it's moving ahead to consider federal legislation to outlaw the discredited practice. A report from the government published last week details a number of current national regulatio...
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Donald Trump had a fairly ironic – and perhaps telling – memory lapse. Talking with New York Magazine, Trump said that his father, Fred Trump, had no health problems except for one. Related Trump's doctors are monitoring "the progress of his dementia and/or strokes," psychologist...
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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. Our Good News Roundup is chock-full of stars this week — celebrities and politicians who are shining brigh...
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This story originally appeared on Out.She's never beating the mother allegations.Lady Gaga has finally made her dream of becoming a real-life mom come true! The Grammy-winning singer has opened up on her desire to have a child of her own one day, so she's now officially entering ...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) hired 25-year-old Stephen Woytek as his campaign's political director in August. Woytek's social media activity shows that he posted an image of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo, follows a group that reenacts Nazi military campaigns, ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.There are glute workouts that will give you the round hockey butt of your dreams and butt facials to make your peach silky smooth, but what if you want everything to look perfect when you bend over and spread your cheeks?Anal bleaching is the...
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This week, Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico pulled a screeching U-turn on his support of trans people, retreating behind the concept of “fairness.” He went on Fox News to say, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness.” H...
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Transgender action and sci-fi director Lilly Wachowski told Variety that fans of the magical kids' fantasy series Harry Potter are "supporting trans genocide" because it helps fund the anti-trans activism of the series' author JK Rowling. "She is funding trans genocide," Wachowsk...
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The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care. In December 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and other members of the United Cons...
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The Trans Filmmakers Summit (TFS) celebrates its fifth year at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, with legendary Beverly Glenn-Copeland, award-winning musician, composer and collaborator of Sam Smith, Blood Orange, Bon Iver, to receive the CMF Barrier Breaker Award. Th...
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Modern Military Association of America will host “Pride in Service: An LGBTQ+ Military Happy Hour” on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 4 p.m. at Tom’s Watch Bar. This in-person gathering is the perfect chance to connect, share stories, and celebrate the diversity within the military communit...
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Friday, September 11 Go Gay DC will host “Out in DC LGBTQ+ Community Social” at 7 p.m. at Hotel Zena.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. Women in t...
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The bus at first looks unassuming, a black trailer you’d see at any old craft fair or farmers market. But like a mysterious wardrobe or rabbit hole, the doors open to something fantastical: lavender shelves, disco balls, brightly colored stickers, and rows and rows of queer books...
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Like clockwork, every time Republicans gather, the joke starts to circulate — and this time was no different. As the Grand Old Party descended on Dallas, Texas for the 2026 Republican National Midterm Convention this week, reports circulated on social media that gay hookup app Gr...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Orville Peck is making history!The handsome country star is the first gay singer to ever grace the cover of Playgirl. It's safe to say, he's giving fans plenty of content to enjoy!In a slew of sexy new photos, along with an accompanying BTS v...
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Lilly Wachowski, acclaimed co-director of films including The Matrix, Bound, and V For Vendetta, said in a new interview that supporting the Harry Potter franchise is akin to supporting genocide against transgender people.In an interview with Variety published today, Wachowski wa...
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Officials with the U.S. State Department have removed a painting by out artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, which they have variously described as “very woke” and as depicting a lesbian picnic. The painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, was...
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As part of its commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, a federally operated program, released information during the past week showing it has awarded more than $18 billion to over 77,000 9/11 victims and th...
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Backed into a rhetorical corner by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s escalating attacks ahead of the November midterm elections, Democrats are being advised to take a middle-of-the-road position on transgender athletes rather than ignore the issue entirely, per a new report in...
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Seattle moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the tenth American city to adopt civil rights protections for polyamorous and other "nontraditional" relationships. A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council's Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee...
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Disgraced ex-gay MAGA provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently said that President Donald Trump faked the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on his life. Queer congressional Democrats largely condemned the shooting, which was carried out by the now-dead 20-year-old shooter Thomas ...
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A GOP convention attendee in Dallas, Texas shouted, "He should be shot!" after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mentioned three pro-LGBTQ+ Democrats in his Thursday night speech. “A simple truth: When people tell you who they are, believe them: When [New York City Mayor] Mamdani says he want...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Twenty-five years after Father Mychal Judge died inside the World Trade Center, the life behind one of the day’s defining images still challenges the Catholic Church’s ideas about who may be holy.In the photograph, almost everything ...
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Gillian Anderson, the 58-year-old American TV and film actress, came out as pansexual in a recent interview with The Australian, though she has previously discussed her past attraction to women. The interview's author Nikki Gemmell wrote “[Anderson] tells me she’s pan, as in pans...
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Layla Taylor is a vision in satin when we sit down for a conversation in the middle of Madison Square Park on a hot, late summer day. Despite sitting directly in the peak afternoon sunlight, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star is seemingly poreless, unfrazzled by humidity, effo...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the right-wing media outlet Newsmax yesterday — from the floor of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, where Republicans are holding their first-ever midterm convention — that the arena's roughly 21,000 seats were "full." "Yeah, it...
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An Indiana prosecutor has declined to file criminal charges against a woman who made a false child welfare complaint against Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary in the Biden-Harris administration, was accused in June of posing a threat to his children v...
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Nicole DeBiase, a lesbian police officer in New Jersey, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the borough of Somerville and Police Chief Dennis Manning for alleged discrimination based on her sexual orientation. The married lesbian (whose sexual orientation was known to her employer ...
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More than 250 protestors congregated outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City this week to challenge the hospital's recent agreement with President Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ). In a move that protestors suggested was “bending the knee,” Mount Sinai agreed to permanen...
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Charlie Kirk believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake," that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness,...
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A remarkable 90% of LGBTQ+ organizations around the world have lost funding since January 2025, according to a new report released on Thursday from the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Outright International. The report, entitled “Breaking Point: the Urgent Need to Invest in Global LGBTIQ M...
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Republican lawmakers, including the president, went all-in on anti-transgender rhetoric on the first night of the party’s first-ever midterm convention — dubbed “Trumpapolooza” by some critics. President Donald Trump closed out day one of the event at the American Airlines Center...
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As Next Gen NYC wraps its eventful season, Brooks Marks is entering an exciting new chapter that extends far beyond the screen. The Bravo reality series follows a new generation of young adults raised in the spotlight as they navigate careers, relationships, friendships and adult...
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A gay UK couple is devastated after their campaign to change surrogacy laws in the country failed to convince Parliament to take action. Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett had their daughter, Leven, through a surrogate in the United States and, upon returning to the UK, faced countles...
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‘Making Gay History, Memoir of a Scholar-Activist’By John D’EmilioDukeupress.edu/making-gay-history “Dear Dr. Kameny,” wrote the earnest graduate history student almost 50 years ago. “As you know, the academic community only rarely deemed the lives of gay men and women to be wort...
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The GOP is being roasted for inexplicably displaying a photo of left-wing commentator Hasan Piker in his underwear on the jumbotron at the party's midterm convention. The photo, described as a "thirst trap" by Meidas Touch, depicts Piker with one arm behind his head, standing in ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Hasan Piker was shocked to discover his bulge was on display for everyone to see at the Republican National Committee's midterm convention.A photo of the left-wing political commentator posing in his underwear was shown on a more than 25-foot...
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Many in the LGBTQ community in the D.C. area and throughout the country were expected to join friends, co-workers, and family members this week in commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and on t...
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American singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Parton died last month. Parton’s death was announced by the family with a tribute video in which her nephew Bryan Seaver noted that her final wish was to rest in a “beautiful bed of plush cotton” so that she could finally be comfortabl...
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Ottawa Charge teammates Emma Greco and Michela Cava announced their engagement on social media on Wednesday, adding another entry to the growing list of sapphic professional women’s hockey players popping the question. “Us forever,” Greco and Cava wrote in a shared Instagram post...
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Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee voted unanimously to further a bill that would extend civil rights protections to people in non-traditional relationship structures at a Wednesday afternoon meeting, council member Alexis Mercedes Rinck confirmed in ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign has apparently decided that James Talarico’s real words are insufficient for its purposes. So it has manufactured new ones.The Republican U.S. Senate nominee released an artificial intelli...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is currently running for reelection, has been called out for photoshopping a trans Pride flag into an ad released by his opponent, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D). The original ad, posted by Hinojosa, involved a video of the candidate spea...
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Transgender model and disavowed daughter of Elon Musk, Vivian Jenna Wilson, is starring in a well-timed campaign for Desigual, the "not the same" Barcelona-based fashion brand. The campaign's tagline: "Born to Disobey." Related "A fighting chance": Trans rights are in the balance...
