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, ...
Richard Bruce Nugent spent much of his life creating art that refused easy definitions. He wrote fiction, painted, illustrated books, designed costumes, acted on stage, and moved through the creative circles that transformed Harlem into the center of Black artistic life during th...
People perceived to be transgender or gender nonconforming are more likely to be searched and arrested during encounters with police in California than those perceived to be cisgender, according to a new study. Researchers with the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and the...
Go anti-woke, go broke. A planned anti-trans rally outside of a WNBA game in Seattle, of all places, appears to have been a major flop. The “rally” took place outside the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game. Even calling it a rally is generous th...
A Democratic candidate for judge in Kansas's Wyandotte County who has apologized after using an anti-gay slur in a Facebook post. "I apologize, bad day," Reggie Davis told KMBC. "It's just a combination of things where the water just boiled over." Related Same-sex couple sues ant...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is being raked over the coals after what many have characterized as a blatantly tone deaf statement about corrupt government leaders. While bashing communists – and Russian leader Vladimir Putin – during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News, Cruz seemed to have n...
The Trump administration will install temporary warning signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History after releasing a report accusing the museum of promoting what it calls "radical" gender ideology and other politically biased content. According to the Exe...
Last month’s Pride celebration in D.C. was so fun. Walking around my first Capital Pride with a $15 lemonade I was loving the madness and the color. Artists and small businesses battling banks you’ve never heard of collecting your personal information so you can spin a wheel to s...
Conservatives are outraged that an organization in Scotland is hosting a short meeting once a week to help LGBTQ+ parents breastfeed their children. The organization LGBT Health and Wellbeing in the UK was founded in 2003 and offers numerous services related to LGBTQ+ people's he...
Donald Trump, who spent much of the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) fighting his own sleepiness, strayed from the speech prepared for him to insult the deceased. “Virtually everyone—Republican or Democrat—liked Lindsey,” Trump said while delivering his eulogy. “Well, not ev...
As Rehoboth Beach voters prepare to elect a new mayor on Aug. 8, some city officials and local residents are raising new concerns about the behavior of City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Suzanne Goode. In addition to a history of troubling emails in which she has used homoph...
After speculation that she would be running for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia, anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced earlier this week that she would not seek the Senate seat. Now she is lashing out at rumors that she decided not to run because Donald Trump t...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International News Editor Michael K. Lavers is participating in a course at Leiden University in the Netherlands that examines the role that international law plays in the LGBTQ and intersex rights movement. The course — Sexual Orientation and Gender Iden...
HIV/AIDS activists on Sunday protested a Trump-Vance administration official at the 2026 International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell and others disrupted U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Jeff Graham, who is leading the Trump-Vance admin...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | Allies of transgender children are urging state education officials to fight back against the Trump-Vance administration, which has threatened to punish a growing number of Maryland school districts over local policies that affirm students’ gender identities...
Actor François Arnaud made a splash as gay hockey player Scott Hunter in “Heated Rivalry.” Now the Under Armour athletic apparel company is counting on the actor to make a splash promoting its HeatGear sportswear line. The Baltimore-based company announced on July 23 that it has ...
A former employee of PepsiCo sued the company on July 24, alleging that the company fired her after she returned from family leave following a period of repeated anti-gay harassment that they failed to stop, Human Resources Direction reported. Her lawsuit was filed in the US Dist...
Funding for HIV services is the likely victim of a longtime Republican goal of devolving power to the states. The Trump administration notified the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) last month that it would cease a years-long community grant program funding local organizations th...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Before Twitter became X, before Elon Musk stripped away protections for transgender users and before the platform earned the lowest LGBTQ+ safety score among major social networks, there was Adm. Rachel Levine, the trailblazing docto...
Recent arrests in Singapore implicate two young men, one just 14 years old, in planned attacks to kill LGBTQ+ students as signs of allegiance to the ISIS, an Islamic extremist terrorist organization. An 19-year-old named Tan Jun Jie was one of the three teenagers detained by Sing...
An anti-trans activist in Australia has lost her appeal on an unlawful vilification ruling, so now she has to pay $95,000 in damages and issue a public apology to the two trans women she targeted. Kirralie Smith, CEO of the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Binary Australia, posted pictur...
For all the talk of six-seven, its older sibling, 69, is still the reigning number in our world of popular culture. When it comes to sex positions, it represents the ultimate equal exchange of pleasure: Visually, it's yin and yang. Energetically, it's a continuous loop of giving ...
President Donald Trump admitted on Tuesday that Democrats will take over Congress and the presidency unless Senate Republicans help him pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (the SAVE America Act), which would effectively disenranchise millions of American voters, inc...
A new lawsuit filed this month accuses former county clerk Kim Davis of deliberately transferring over $400,000 of land to family members to avoid paying over $565,000 awarded to a same-sex couple, David Ermold and David Moore, for illegally denying marriage licenses to same-sex ...
CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins was a guest on The Daily Show with host Jon Stewart Monday night to discuss the president insulting her during his speech at Friday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner. "I was not surprised when he insulted me," Collins said. "That happens pret...
After President Donald Trump compared Kaitlan Collins to Dylan Mulvaney, the CNN anchor has responded, all while keeping it classy in the face of what was, frankly, playground bully behavior. The journalist appeared on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, during which host Jon Ste...
An unpublished, semi-autobiographical short story by influential gay mathematician Alan Turing has been studied in depth for the first time, shedding new light on the man whose work was instrumental in winning World War II. Sarah Dillon, a professor of English literature at the U...
If you haven’t swum across at least one Great Lake, what are you doing with your life?Transgender athlete Lev Goldberg is already on his second, with a planned swim across Lake Huron scheduled for the first week of August, according to Now Toronto. Last September, Goldberg — whos...
Transphobes are planning a rally in Seattle in support of anti-trans WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, following her comments against trans women in sports. The rally is slated to take place tonight at the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever game. It is...
A decision by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the request of the Trump administration to discontinue direct federal funding of community-based organizations and clinics that provide HIV prevention services has raised concern among community health advocates, inc...
A right-wing think tank wants to gut Title IX—the U.S. law that opened school sports to girls 50 years ago. Its claim: feminism – specifically, French feminist philosopher and author of The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir – pushed women into aggressive sports like wrestling, away f...
Right-wing media is outraged that an LGBTQ+ exhibition in England posits that one of the beloved Care Bear characters could be considered transgender. The Villiers Revealed: ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition explores how certain historical figures might be seen today as LGBTQ...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a take on classic paper dolls to help kids understand gender and all of its diversity. But the right has come out swinging with misinformation claiming that this is a taxpayer-funded campaign to force kids in schools...
A trans woman is suing NBCUniversal and Universal Studios, claiming she was punished after reporting sexual harassment by her supervisor and has since suffered both financial and emotional distress. Nikki Campus worked for the company as a crafts service worker starting in 2010, ...
Cameron Esposito hosting a season of King of Drag with Ginger Minj and Yvie Oddly as guest judges sounds like a dream I had once. Except this one is really happening, as Variety confirmed earlier this week.Because the gospel of this show still needs to be spread, a brief recap is...
Donald Trump is under scrutiny for his response to a heckler who called him a "pedophile protector." Trump was speaking in Milford, Michigan, on Monday when someone started chanting "pedophile protector" at him, likely a reference to how his administration refuses to release docu...
Child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein allegedly arranged a same-sex marriage between his girlfriend and one of the many women he victimized in order to get his girlfriend U.S. residency and then citizenship, a Congressional report details. Dr. Karyna Shuliak, by all appearances, w...
On Saturday, during Berlin’s Christopher Street Day, one of Europe’s biggest LGBTQ Pride events, a 21-year-old religious extremist drove a van into the crowd and then used a knife to stab multiple people. One person died and 29 others were injured. When I saw this news on social ...
Republicans opposed to the Senate campaign of Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) have repeatedly criticized him for allegedly saying that there are “six genders.” The attacks over this and his other comments on gender have inspired Republicans to attack his masculinity and to pa...
Speaking at the Museum of the Bible earlier today, Donald Trump appeared to minimize the severity of domestic violence, complaining that it is a crime "if a man has a little fight with the wife." He was saying that crime has decreased since his federal takeover of D.C., claiming ...
Donald Trump's main political base is conservative Christians. As president, Trump has done everything he can to cater to their wishes, from attacking health care for trans youth to having the Department of Justice focus on "anti-Christian bias." He has given Christian nationalis...
The Trump administration on Monday threatened legal action and the end of federal education funding against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly withholding information about a child's gender identity from their parents, The Baltimore Banner re...
A heckler interrupted President Donald Trump's speech at the General Motors Milford Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan on Monday by yelling "pedophile protector." Video captured the interaction. The man can be heard repeatedly yelling as Trump increases his volume. Eventually, t...
Michigan and Indiana State Police are considering possible charges against an unnamed “mentally unstable woman” who made a “vague and unsubstantiated” accusation that out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was abusing his young twin children. The woman's claim led to ...
Cinema is inherently a place that people turn to seek representation. Watching a movie by yourself can be a quiet place for self-reflection and self-exploration and watching one in a group often leads to a discussion, so movies naturally are a place people turn to for affirmation...
By JESSICA CALEFATI | The Trump-Vance administration on Monday threatened to punish Anne Arundel County’s school system with legal action or the loss of federal funding for allegedly withholding information about a student’s gender identity and transition from the child’s parents...
Delegates at the United Nations 70th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) overwhelmingly voted against considering a proposal by the U.S. to adopt an anti-trans definition of “gender.” On March 19, the final day of the nine-day conference, the U.S. introduced a resoluti...
After a completely nonsensical MAGA meltdown over a supposedly “woke” rebrand last year, the current CEO of Cracker Barrel is being replaced.The American restaurant and gift shop company announced on July 27 that current CEO and director Julie Masino, who led the controversial re...
James Talarico is a Texas state representative, former public school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. His opponent is Ken Paxton, Texas’s rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ attorney general, in a race where LGBTQ+ rights, especiall...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed legislation this month ending enhanced criminal penalties for people living with HIV. Senate Bill 45, among more than a dozen bills signed by Shapiro on July 20, removes HIV from the state’s criminal code, which previously allowed those c...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going viral for posting videos to TikTok in which she phones churches to ask if a registered child sex offender would be welcome at their Sunday family services. The key...
On Sunday, Donald Trump doubled down on the transphobic joke he made during Friday's White House Correspondents' Dinner, following up with a Truth Social post. While mocking CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, the president made a bizarre joke connecting her to trans activist and perfo...
The third annual Front Royal Pride was held at the Main Street Gazebo in Front Royal, Va. on Saturday, July 25. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) The post PHOTOS: Front Royal Pride appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A woman was killed, and 29 people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebration, in what German officials are investigating as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.Authorities were sea...
As if people didn’t hate the DMV enough, a Texas femboy and car enthusiast is sounding the alarm about the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles apparently declaring war on yaoi, so to speak.Content creator aSpicyCow, known only as Amber, posted a video to his social media profiles ...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Republicans' latest justification for going to war with Iran during an appearance on Fox News this past Friday. Buttigieg was talking about the Iran War with America Reports host Sandra Smith, who said that military experts w...
Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in Amsterdam from Aug. 5-10. Queen Máxima on July 25 participated in this year’s World Pride opening ceremony in Amsterdam. The Dutch monarch joined Amsterdam Mayor Femke...
Donald Trump's speech at the Friday night White House Correspondents’ Dinner was chock-full of homophobic and transphobic jokes, including a jab at out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's sexuality. "I like Anderson, actually, because he's covered me well for many years," the president ...
Remember 2023? The year when transgender influencer and Broadway actress Dylan Mulvaney held up a single can of Bud Light in a video and the right promptly lost its mind, causing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev to lose billions of dollars in market cap? Donald Trump certainly...
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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…
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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…
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