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Navigating Big Brother is as much about social acceptance as it is strategy. For Jason De Puy, the house’s sole out LGBTQ representative, that journey exposed a subtle, quiet isolation. Jason experienced an environment where implicit biases left him feeling “othered” and an outca...
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Grab your Stetson and polish those boots, country music fans! The queer country supergroup, The Cowgays, featuring powerhouses Brooke Eden, Chris Housman, and Adam Mac, has teamed up with GLAAD to premiere the ultimate feel-good music video for their track, “Been Done Did That.” ...
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By JESSICA CALEFATI | Under pressure from the Trump-Vance administration, Anne Arundel County Public Schools Supt. Mark Bedell announced Wednesday the district had updated a regulation intended to protect transgender students’ right to be called by their chosen name. The revised ...
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Fox News and Republicans are apparently scandalized that out bisexual San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who is running for one of California's U.S House seats, held an August 13 fundraiser at a San Diego, California, lesbian bar called Gossip Grill. The right-wing m...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appointed Michael Allen Caruso last August to serve as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller. Caruso was arrested yesterday on charges of molestation, kidnapping, luring and enticing a child, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and child ab...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A decade ago, Giovonni Santiago asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for something groundbreaking: a place where transgender veterans, like him, could see doctors who understood them.The government listened. Now, Santiago says, i...
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Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona testified in court today about the moment she understood the wife of her bodyguard knew that the pair was having an affair. Months into the adulterous relationship, the bisexual then-congresswoman sent her bodyguard lover, Matthew Ammel, a...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.An appellate court said the Justice Department can continue investigating QueerDoc, a telehealth service providing care to transgender people across the country.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court had wrongly blocke...
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A lot has changed since 2024 in America, especially when it comes to LGBTQ+ people's lives. Can the 2026 midterms turn that around? The September Issue of LGBTQ Nation will be about the stakes of the midterm elections. While the media will spend a lot of time reporting on the hor...
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There’s no use crying over spilled milk — or, misinterpreted song lyrics. David Kushner, the songwriter behind the viral track “Daylight,” has posted several videos seemingly upset that “atheists” have glommed onto the track, which has gained quite a following on TikTok for sound...
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been the talk of the town recently. His social media trolling of Donald Trump has captured national attention and has skyrocketed his popularity among Democrats both in his home state and around the country. With many wondering if this social ...
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A Russian publisher censored passages about LGBTQ+ issues contained in Hope, the recently released autobiography of now-deceased Pope Francis, TVP World reported Monday. An image posted by Christians Against War — a group of regional Christians who oppose Russia's four-year, ongo...
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Following Tuesday’s primaries, the race to succeed Florida’s anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is set up to be a contest between former U.S. Rep. David Jolly (D) and Trump endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Byron Donalds (R). Both candidates were considered frontrunners, and each won his ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Just weeks after launching a new gay dating app billed as "social-first" and "anti-algorithm," Derek Chadwick has revealed he quit Goose last week over a conflict of "vision for where this should go and the direction the company is going."Wha...
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Actress Gillian Anderson recently opened up about being in a same-sex relationship as a teenager while speaking about her new queer film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. In an interview with The Times, Anderson – known for her roles in The X-Files, Sex Education, and The Cr...
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WNBA lesbians, this is not a drill. Run, don’t walk, to your television, because Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers are offering a rare look at their relationship. In The Dynasty: UConn Huskies, a three-part documentary series available to stream on Apple TV beginning August 21, Fudd a...
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Donald Trump has a long history of berating and insulting female reporters for asking him basic questions, and a recent interaction makes it clear he has gotten more comfortable than ever doing so. "Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet," Trump sneered at CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after s...
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A Kansas judge has issued an order to temporarily reinstate the driver's license of one trans woman. The ruling states that she is likely to succeed in her case against the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) and that KDOR violated due process by invalidating the license. "Plaint...
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Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key were on assignment in the Netherlands from July 28-Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — The first openly gay man elected to the Thai Senate says the law that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Th...
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LGBTQ+ advocacy groups are outraged after Ohio's Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) abruptly stopped accepting the official form long used by trans people in the state to update the gender marker on their IDs. Equality Ohio and TransOhio told The Toledo Blade that the change occurred...
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Philadelphia’s Washington Square West neighborhood — which is home to the city’s Gayborhood — was awarded a historic designation in 2024. While many LGBTQ+ Philadelphians were excited by news of preserving approximately 1,500 residences, religious spaces and business properties s...
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Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was appointed to replace her late brother for the last few months of his term and immediately announced her own Senate campaign. And now her lack of basic preparation for the job is getting attention after she delivered "one of the worst respons...
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Update: In response to a request for comment on the nature of Dez and Dot’s relationship, a spokesperson for the Toronto Tempo said they are “besties.”Original Article: A new butch snapping turtle icon has entered the chat (with a femme rabbit, as well).The Toronto Tempo unveiled...
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A Las Vegas resident is going viral for her speech calling out a Moms for Liberty-aligned school board trustee for wearing a transphobic T-shirt to a board meeting. "A dangerous message is sent: 'You do not belong here. Your safety is not our priority,'" resident Amanda Nuchols s...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blasted the Trump administration's attempt to blame him and former President Joe Biden for all of their problems, and he pithily summed up his criticism of them. Buttigieg appeared on Jen Psaki's MS NOW show last night to discuss Don...
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A Germantown, Md., man arrested by D.C. police on a charge of simple assault with a hate crime designation for allegedly assaulting a gay man while using “homophobic slurs” has agreed to an offer by prosecutors to plead guilty to simple assault without the hate crime designation ...
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While Michael Jackson is the uncontested King of Pop, Madonna can easily be considered its queen. She has managed to maintain relevancy throughout the decades and borrowed from different genres and even cultures. There was Puerto Rican freestyle-inspired early Madonna, the "Evita...
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A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits....
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An unknown vandal spray-painted graffiti and smashed a window displaying pro-LGBTQ+ signs at Corner Drug, a family-owned pharmacy in Woodland, California early Monday morning. The signs expressed support for Woodland Pride and LGBTQ+ residents, with one sign stating, "Hate has no...
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A Ring home security camera captured footage of anti-LGBTQ+ U.S. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) looking through a voter's mailbox while canvassing for votes last Sunday around 4:55 p.m., Fine confirmed to the celebrity gossip website TMZ. The video shows Fine ringing the house's front do...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced last week that federal funding could no longer be used to pay for gender-affirming care through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The rule prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from covering puberty blockers...
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Lesbian comedian Rosie O'Donnell briefly mocked the president and mentioned her recent life in Dublin, Ireland, with her 13-year-old child (who is nonbinary) while guest-hosting the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday. "They said you can't come home again, but here I...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have prevented some gender-affirming care from being treated as an essential health benefit under the Affordable Care Act.Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gor...
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just handed the Trump administration a win, upholding a Department of Justice (DOJ) administrative subpoena seeking the personal and confidential health records of trans youth. The ruling cedes authority to the executive branch while making part...
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Oh, the limits of the transgender imagination know no bounds, and I think that’s beautiful. The latest trans headcanon? Everyone’s favorite spider-bitten superhero: Peter Parker, who is actually, in fact, Petra Parker, at least according to trans stans of the Marvel franchise. Re...
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Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears has announced her campaign against efforts to enshrine marriage equality and reproductive rights in the state constitution will make several stops in Northern Virginia. Her “Life and Marriage Tour” will include stops in Manassas, Winch...
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Citing risk to both clients and staff, the Russian LGBT Network, the country's largest LGBTQ+ rights group, announced on Monday it is shutting down. “We made this decision after carefully assessing the risks. We cannot control the repressive environment, but we can do everything ...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-trans slur at a public appearance in Iowa yesterday. "At the Department of War, we do training, not tr***ies," he said at the Iowa State Fair yesterday, referring to the Department of Defense as the "Department of War," even though only...
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A female police officer in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is facing an internal affairs investigation after being accused of using Flock cameras to track an ex-girlfriend. In an affidavit for an abuse prevention order filed last week, the ex-girlfriend alleged that after she ended t...
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Years of scientific research have repeatedly debunked the conservative myth that transgender children are too young to have a solid understanding of their identity, showing that trans and cisgender kids actually develop their internal sense of gender at the same age. The consensu...
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What Uncloseted's Investigation Found: Strength in Weakness (SIW) says it does not practice conversion therapy. But 24 former participants and people close to the ministry described teachings centered on suppressing LGBTQ identity and behavior through celibacy, heterosexual relat...
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Earlier this year, out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and MAGA conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to years in prison for tampering with voting machines. And new evidence shows that the White House held a "brai...
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We all have those memories of our awkward teenage years and our first high school queer crush. And by “we all,” I of course include icon Gillian Anderson who had her own tumultuous experience with a sapphic relationship early in her life. While speaking about her childhood with T...
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The WNBA has reversed course after security guards asked fans wearing both pro-trans and anti-trans shirts to cover up the messaging on their apparel at a recent game. At Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream, which took place at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena...
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the frontrunner in the race to become Florida's next governor, attacked the Democratic frontrunner repeatedly for his support of some trans rights. Arguing that Democratic frontrunner and former Rep. David Jolly isn't "a cultural fit for our state," Don...
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As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research bri...
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In Jane Schoenbrun’s filmography to date, characters have touched screens more than each other.In both We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow, the hazy specter of computer monitors and boxy CRTs serve as fantastical portals with the capacity to both trap and tr...
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A Russian LGBTQ advocacy group on Monday announced it will shut down after a court declared it an "extremist" organization. A St. Petersburg court in April in response to a Russian Justice Ministry lawsuit made the declaration against the Russian LGBT Network. "For many years, Ru...
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Video taken late Saturday night shows Atlanta, Georgia police arresting Jen-Chase Daniels, co-owner of the lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, for a noise violation that she says actually came from Blackjack, a nearby bar with outdoor speakers. "We did nothing wrong tonight. We did not...
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The left-leaning media outlet The Kansas Reflector mocked state Republican gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson for viewing drag queens as the state's "greatest threat ever," despite the fact that, during his time as a state senator, he allegedly helped kill an anti-drag bill. Th...
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Transgender CIA agent Julia Curlee spent two decades in the agency, serving four presidents through three wars and travelling to 35 countries. She provided daily intelligence briefs to Vice President Mike Pence during President Donald Trump's first term, and worked for the first ...
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Companies that maintained their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives performed better than those that removed them in the face of anti-DEI threats from the Trump administration, according to new research reported by The Guardian last Friday. The research's findings ...
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Jen-Chase Daniels, the co-owner of Atlanta lesbian bar My Sister’s Room, said she was arrested on Saturday night for alleged noise violations that she says did not come from the business. According to testimony in an incident report by arresting Atlanta Police Department officer ...
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A Wisconsin educator is suing his former school district for discrimination, alleging that several members of the district's board worked with anti-LGBTQ+ activists to fabricate a pretext to fire him because he is gay, going so far as to allegedly write an "anonymous" letter fals...
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Fox News was caught lying about gas prices last year to make it seem like they had actually gone down this year. A graphic shown on Fox claimed that the average price of gas today, according to AAA, is $4.06, but one year ago it was $4.13, implying that gas prices have actually c...
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At the end of the school year, a Catholic high school removed all of its Pride flags. Now the school is back at the beginning of a new academic year with a Pride symbol that they think will work for the school since they came up with it themselves. It seems everyone has an opinio...
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Ready to get your life together? Virgo season (August 23–September 23) is nearly here, and it’s exactly the cosmic cleanup we need after a hectic end to Leo season.Ruled by Mercury, the planet of mental processes, this practical earth sign notices everything. Its mental sharpness...
