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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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During a town hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, out former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg hilariously mocked the right-wing organization for young conservatives, Turning Point USA. "As a tactical matter, I'll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic c...
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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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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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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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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...
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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today released photographs from the Jeffrey Epstein estate confirming the close ties President Donald Trump had to the late child sex trafficker, and documenting his proximity to the young women who were victimized. Committee Democrats r...
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Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), who’s running for the US Senate, said in a Fox News interview aired on Wednesday evening, "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness." Talarico has previously voted against an anti-trans sports bill, s...
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Gillian Anderson being part of the LGBTQ+ community is not a revelation. As long ago as 2012, the X-Files star told Out magazine that she was once in relationships with other women, and has spoken intermittently about feeling sexually fluid since then. But in a new interview with...
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A new report that Outright International released on Thursday notes 90 percent of LGBTQ and intersex rights groups around the world have lost funding since January 2025. The New York-based global advocacy group surveyed 229 LGBTQ and intersex rights groups in 94 countries. Forty-...
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The annual CAMP Rehoboth fundraiser, SUNFESTIVAL, was held over Labor Day weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Del. The festival included a massive dance party at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center on Sunday. (Washington Blade photos by Daniel Truitt) The post PHOTOS: SUNFESTIVAL appeare...
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Gloria Steinem was an icon, a feminist, a woman of substance and consequence. A rare person who made a difference her entire life; sometimes quietly, sometimes by making noise. She was an incredibly beautiful woman, inside and out. I heard of Gloria Steinem and admired her for al...
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A federal judge ruled last Friday that the ex-wife of bisexual former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)'s former male bodyguard can sue Sinema for “willfully and intentionally” breaking up her marriage of 14 years under North Carolina's homewrecker law. Last week, the Associated Press r...
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MAGA pastor and self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries recently said that uncircumcised people are trying to steal the nation. His comment was part of a bizarre transphobic and Islamophobic statement on the midterm elections. “I am not going to let uncirc...
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Numerous Democratic midterm candidates have previously made anti-trans statements or voted for anti-trans legislation. Trans journalist Erin Reed published a list yesterday of these candidates and advised her followers not to vote for them, lest their victories convince the Democ...
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Grindr has reached a settlement in a UK lawsuit filed in 2024 accusing the dating app of breaking UK privacy laws. It will pay plaintiffs £26 million (~$35 million) over allegations that Grindr shared app users’ sensitive information – including their ethnicity, sexual orientatio...
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Trans and nonbinary Broadway fanatics can all breathe a deep sigh of relief, because the Trans Voices Cabaret is back for another show on Saturday, September 19 at the Caveat in New York City’s Lower East Side, jam-packed with a variety of talented performers that span a range of...
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Nominate your favorites in our Best of LGBTQ DC categories through Sept. 24. The top 5 nominees from each category will become finalists with voting starting Sept. 28. Our 2026 Best of LGBTQ DC winners will be announced at the Best of LGBTQ DC Awards Party on Thursday, Oct. 22 an...
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A National Women’s Soccer League game between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at Portland’s Providence Park last weekend was disrupted when stadium officials ejected a group of attendees for wearing apparel displaying anti-trans iconography. The group was wearing ap...
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A new Justice Department memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the FBI to create a “cash reward system” to incentivize providing information against domestic terrorists. However, it also makes it clear that the targets of such domestic terrorist investigations will be “A...
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NEW YORK — On Tuesday evening, over 250 protestors gathered outside of Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to condemn the hospital system for settling with the Trump administration last week, agreeing to permanently cease providing gender-affirming care to transge...
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An Indiana prosecutor will not press charges against the woman who called in an anonymous false report alleging out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a danger to his young twins. The report led to Buttigieg being temporarily separated from his children while an i...
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The Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention kicks off today in Dallas, Texas with the goal of rallying MAGA voters to the polls this November. But according to CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, the party has completely missed the mark on who it needs to reach. Enten...
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Trans people's rights are a top concern among LGBTQ Nation readers this year. Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026 midterms and what you think they could change. Quite a few people discussed trans rights, which have been under attack for the past seve...
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This story originally appeared on Out.If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Andrew Scott is so hot, I’d let him spit in my mouth,” you’re not alone!People are losing it over the All of Us Strangers star's daddy dom energy in the wild trailer for the upcoming NSFW television show I...
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It goes without saying that Carly Rae Jepsen is a capital-A ally to the queers. From performing at Capital Pride in DC as early as 2015 to donating to The Trevor Project, she’s made it absolutely clear where she stands. And on an artistic level, her perfectly crafted melodic tune...
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Out Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) has secured his party’s nomination to replace retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) after winning Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in New Hampshire. Pappas took home 65% of the vote, defeating progressive challenger Karishma Manzur, a medical scienti...
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I remember how devastated I was in November 2024 when I woke up to find that Donald Trump had won a second term in the White House. I spent that week commiserating with others. I built a life surrounded by people who care about equal rights, peace, democracy, and the planet, only...
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After 20 years in the Army, Master Sergeant Amiah Sale's future hangs in the balance. The Trump administration has made it a mission to purge all transgender service members from the military, but as the trans military ban makes its way through the courts, some service members, l...
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This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Jennifer Sey had been waiting for an athlete like Sophie Cunningham. Related What the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about the state of MAGA Sey, the founder of XX-X...
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Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.24 million) to settle a lawsuit in the UK over allegations it shared users' HIV status and other personal information with third parties. The BBC on Monday reported a lawsuit was filed in the High Court of England and Wales in 2024. A cla...
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy are awarding a total of $10 million in grants in the 2027 fiscal year to nonprofit organizations that work to prevent hate crimes in the state. The funds will be used to support those who feel target...
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When Native American Two-Spirit Hosteen Klah first met transcendental religious scholar Mary Cabot Wheelwright, he likely had no idea their friendship would help establish a museum to preserve his culture for over 100 years. Sadly, he died right before its opening, but its existe...
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South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM). M...
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New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas on Tuesday won the Democratic primary in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in the U.S. Senate. Pappas defeated Karishma Manzur, who was his primary challenger, by a 61.8-36.1 percent margin. The gay congressman w...
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Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for their role as "ringleaders" in the brutal early 2025 torture and killing of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist. During the sentencing, Nordquist's mother and sister spoke, and Arzuaga ...
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Colorado’s second-largest school district, Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), has made history as one of the few local school districts to sue the Trump administration for its threats to cut off federal education funding unless the district drops its policies accommodating...
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A newborn baby died after contracting measles in Pennsylvania last month, and, as if it wasn’t enough grief for his parents, anti-vax activists are trying to track down and harass his family. Apparently, Gov. Josh Shapiro tangled with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his “inaccurate an...
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The Department of Health and Human Services has embraced an unfinished report from a Princeton think tank that it claims shows a link between support for "gender ideology," political violence, and left-wing authoritarianism. It appears officials at the federal agency jumped the g...
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When Ben Shapiro fires verbal shots at Nick Offerman’s masculinity, how does the Parks and Recreation actor respond? Spoiler: he doesn’t. While sitting down with Sam Fragoso of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso for an interview published over Labor Day weekend, the talk show host shared...
