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 ...
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner is now separated from her wife, Cherelle, and wants a divorce, according to court records filed in Atlanta on Thursday and first reported by TMZ.Attorney Cherelle Griner of Atlanta stood by her wife when she was sentenced to nine years in a Russian ...
Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday establishing a "religious liberty commission" at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and present strategies to eliminate "threats to domestic religious liberty." During his comments on the order, Trump said that he doesn...
I’ve been obsessed with the premise of One Night Only since the first time I watched the trailer. Of course, I’ve since been subjected to that trailer approximately 500 times, as has anyone who has been to the movies in the past few months. But I remain seated for what will surel...
Wednesday night was supposed to be a "conversation" about Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton's inexplicable description of transgender girls as "boys," but the meeting between her campaign and LGBTQ+ advocates devolved into nothing short of a disaster. For starters...
President Barack Obama apparently didn't have a very high opinion of Donald Trump Jr, summing up his thoughts on the president's son in three choice words. Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released part of Dr. Anthony Fauci's private diary entries from 2019 to 2022, when ...
As much as I loved The Odyssey, one thing it wasn’t was homoerotic. I would really have to do quite a lot of imaginative labor to write fan fiction about Matt Damon’s Odysseus and Himesh Patel’s Eurylochus being together romantically. Maybe they’d get stranded on an island togeth...
Facing pressure from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to eliminate so-called “woke” policies, Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) eliminated its spaces for gay young people, women, and scouts of color at its National Jamboree. An estimated 15,000 scouts, troop lea...
Donald Trump's lesbian niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, called out how her uncle's "black hole of need" — combined with what she described as his "cognitive, psychological, and physical decline" — has resulted in him facing daily "humiliation." Speaking with journalist Si...
A West Virginia food bank's shelves are bare after refusing supplies from organizations that are allegedly “part of the gay rights movement" because they support LGBTQ+ people. “To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phon...
Spark Social will host “Open Mic Night” on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 8 p.m. Get ready to share your talent or just kick back and enjoy some great performances. This event is a fun, laid-back vibe where everyone’s welcome to take the stage. Sign-ups are first-come, first-served, but yo...
When Cody Daigle-Orians's editor asked if he wanted to write a children's book about asexuality, he knew it would be a big challenge. Despite devoting the past five years to building an online community educating young people on the aromantic-asexual (aroace) spectrum, he wasn't ...
In May, right-wing media blasted a small Trans Period Pride event sponsored by the Massachusetts National Organization for Women (Mass NOW) and the MA Trans Political Coalition aimed at creating community for trans people who menstruate. The backlash was so intense the organizers...
Young conservative activists "furiously" booed anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy offstage after he delivered just 14 minutes of his scheduled 30-minute speech at the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday evening,...
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) had a hard time answering questions about his support for Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who was accused by his ex-wife of severe physical abuse, especially in light of Jordan's recent statements that former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner should have droppe...
Christians are starting men-only gyms in order to supposedly protect gymgoers from lust — and no, that’s not the logline for a niche gay fetish film. This is a real thing. The independent Baptist publication Baptist News Global published an article about the phenomenon last week,...
More than four years after Taiwan began formally studying legislation to overhaul its legal gender recognition system, and despite repeated recommendations from international human rights experts, the government has yet to introduce a bill that would replace decades-old administr...
Administration officials presented a map of Africa where every single highlighted country was mislabeled at a global conference in Brazil this week. The US State Department included the map as part of their presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro to highlight a...
Earlier this year, a group of 47 anti-LGBTQ+ organizations launched a new campaign to end marriage equality in the U.S., demanding that the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. The campaign, called "Greater Than" – a response to the push for equality by claiming that stra...
Friday, July 31 Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Community Happy Hour” at 7 p.m. at DIK Bar. 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. Saturday, August 1 Go G...
Out gay Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener's LGBTQ+ rights record has come under greater scrutiny ever since he launched his campaign to fill the seat of soon-to-be-retiring former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Wiener has a good chance of winning the seat, ha...
Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, "I Love America Better Than You," at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for ...
Eric Conn, an antisemitic far-right Christian nationalist pastor at Refuge Church in Utah, knows what causes "transgenderism," and it's the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In a July 29 post published on X, Conn wrote, "Women's sports are a key propaganda & discipl...
A political candidate in Russia was sentenced yesterday to 10 days in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow flag on it in a video posted to social media. Daniil Neonov, who is running for municipal deputy in Moscow, was arrested earlier this month for posting the video on J...
When I first heard that I Want Your Sex was going to be Gregg Araki’s response to the widely discussed phenomenon of Gen Z’s relative celibacy, I felt equally trepidatious and excited. As a member of that generation (albeit on the older end), I’m always a little wary of any kind ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration came to the world’s largest AIDS conference to explain its approach to global health. Its presentation showed that the U.S. government could not locate the countries whose health systems it was proposing to r...
Award-winning gay Mexican-American author and poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz, perhaps best known for his 2012 gay young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, has died. Sáenz passed away at the age of 71 Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, his longtime home, foll...
Victor Marx is battling demons — including the gay ones — as he runs for governor of Colorado. Republicans nominated Marx, a Marine veteran, culture warrior, and lately, he claims, a mercenary who single-handedly ordered a strike on ISIS, at the end of June. His own Republican ri...
Donald Trump interrupted Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy during a press conference in which Duffy brought up his gay predecessor, Pete Buttigieg. Duffy was speaking about the administration's decision to significantly roll back fuel economy standards established by the Bid...
A Colorado school district is suing the Trump administration over pressure to rescind its trans-inclusive policies. The administration threatened to withhold federal funding for Jeffco Public Schools if it continued to support trans students. In response, the district announced T...
Texas' scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton has worked closely with Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) to launch numerous attacks against the state's LGBTQ+ community, particularly its transgender residents. He has made national headlines in his numerous legal crusades to persecute pro...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Even paper dolls can’t escape the Trump administration’s anti-transgender obsession.Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced an investigation into Minnesota-based MyGender Dolls, saying parents had complained about the possibility...
Billboards featuring Kylie Jenner have popped up across the nation promoting new AI glasses, the latest from Meta’s Big Brother empire. The new collection features frames that are meant to look sleek and fashionable, just like any other pair of sunglasses, making it even harder f...
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten detailed a seismic shift taking place among voters under 50 that spells very good news for Democrats. "We are talking about an absolutely huge shift," Enten said this morning. "A 180 – young voters are fed up, and they're taking their anger out ...
James Dale’s current battle to ensure trans kids are welcome in Scouting America really started 26 years ago, when his soul was crushed after he lost a separate 10-year legal battle for gay equality. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America, as it was calle...
After allegedly taking two transphobes to task, one of the co-owners of the Seattle Storm has been fined and suspended from attending the WNBA team’s next five home games. On Tuesday, anti-trans protestors staged a rally both inside and outside of the Climate Pledge Arena in supp...
Enraged over a trans music teacher at an elementary school in her district, a North Carolina lawmaker suggested it "may be time" to introduce legislation requiring teachers to wear clothing that aligns with the sex assigned at birth while teaching. In a July 27 Facebook post, sta...
Conservative Christian advocacy organization One Million Moms (OMM) is raging over a campaign urging people to educate themselves about the HIV-prevention medication, long-acting injectable PrEP. The ad, produced by ViiV Healthcare, aired on TV Land, which OMM described as "whole...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.If a Black transgender teenager gets shot and killed in Florida and no one reports it, what does that say about the value of their life? It’s a question trans activists are struggling with after the scant attention paid to the killin...
The Trump administration is expanding its campaign to pressure institutions into compliance by threatening federal funding. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took to Fox News this past weekend to announce investigations into school systems that have been allowing trans kids to...
Supporters of Donald Trump are outraged that he endorsed a "Muslim" candidate, who, in reality, is Christian. "It is my Great Honor to endorse Amir Hassan, who is running to represent the fantastic people of Michigan’s 8th Congressional District!" Trump posted to Truth Social on ...
Poland's highest court rejected a ruling from a European court requiring the Catholic-majority nation to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad. The ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal comes after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last November th...
The right has been ginning up hatred against transgender people for years now in order to pass bans on sports and gender-affirming care amid their War on Woke. But now that every state that could pass one of these laws has already done so, they're looking for new targets… and the...
Two members of Congress known for their virulently anti-trans statements had pictures taken in drag in the past that are getting attention today. Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Mike Collins (R-GA) both have scores of "0" on HRC's Congressional Scorecard; they have both made anti-t...
Voters in Rehoboth Beach head to the polls on Aug. 8 to elect a new mayor and the choice couldn’t be more obvious. Susan Stewart is a smart, effective Commissioner with a background in finance who happens to identify as part of the LGBTQ community, which would make her the first ...
Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow on Monday blamed President Donald Trump's defunding of various programs for the recent outbreaks of wildfires, measles, and diarrhea. Maddow noted that Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire transphobe Elon...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in the Netherlands through Aug. 10. They will be covering World Pride in Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM — Madonna on Saturday will perform at World Pride in Amsterdam. She is sched...
President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as wo...
The Department of Defense posted and quickly deleted an image that showed an image of U.S. soldiers and the word "Winning" with the caption, "It's not an option." Numerous social media commenters mocked the Trump administration for the post and connected it with the military's cu...
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the alleged use of "transgender dolls" in schools. However, as LGBTQ Nation explained in an article yesterday, there's no proof as of yet that publi...
Seeing that it’s such a tried-and-true part of most people’s sexual development, how to give a hand job may not have crossed your mind in quite some time. You may not put a lot of thought into how you do it, but like with most things in life, the more experience you have and the ...
When I wrote my review of the first season of “Heartstopper,” I said that if the series could only be summed up in one word, it would be “adorable.” After an additional two seasons and a movie length series finale (which began streaming on Netflix July 17), I’m going to make up a...
Guinness World Records made it official on Tuesday: a drag show at Calgary's annual Cowboys Music Festival earlier this month set the record for largest attendance at a drag artists' performance in history, with 7,423 fans and performers participating in the record-setting event ...
South Dakota is reportedly set to enforce a policy that will make it impossible for trans people in the state to update the gender marker on their driver’s license. However, the policy has not yet been enacted, meaning trans people may still have a small window to update their ge...
Charlie Kirk, the conservative founder and president of Turning Point USA, was shot in the neck and killed during the first stop of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University, according to the president. Two detained suspects have been released, so the shooter remains a...
A group of LGBTQ+ journalists from Russia, indicted as "foreign agents" promoting "LGBT propaganda" at the country's largest LGBTQ+ publication, are speaking out after they were forced into exile this year. The online news and culture site Parni+ was branded an "extremist organiz...
In today’s edition of “dumb stuff that conservatives are mad about for some reason,” the British right-wing is currently losing its collective mind over a digital museum exhibit that suggests a transgender reading of one of the Care Bears. Yes, really. Villiers Revealed: We Have ...
A homophobic billboard campaign denigrating LGBTQ+ families has sparked a counter-campaign celebrating kids who have two moms or two dads. Many Ohioans were enraged after the organization “Them Before Us” – part of the “Greater Than” anti-marriage equality campaign – installed a ...
Rep. Max Miller (R), an Ohio congressman who has supported anti-LGBTQ+ bills, was accused this month of allegedly pouring boiling water on his ex-wife and breaking the collarbone of his daughter. He denies the accusations and accused his ex-wife of trying to “malign his character...
Clear Space Theatre Company was founded in 2004 and has become a huge success in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They present performances all year long, and always have a great summer season when the town grows by the thousands. Not only do they have some great main productions this year, ...
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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, i…
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully pressured Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) end its gender-affi…
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.More than four decades after New York shut down adult saunas during the height of the AIDS ep…
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…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth insulted trans women during his keynote address at this year's Special Operations Forces Week. "Everything…
Fresh on the heels of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham's controversial comments about "biological men" in girls' locker rooms, the anti-trans n…
I often travel around the United States and to other countries giving presentations and workshops on university and high school campuses and…
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's LGBTQ+ stances matter more than ever now that he recently won his state's primary elec…
One musical director gave himself over to absolute … deception?The story of a local Vermont production of The Rocky Horror Show that was can…
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A nonbinary North Carolina school teacher has become the latest target of a harassment campai…
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 ou…
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