This story originally appeared on The Advocate.House Republicans tried to turn President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service into something harder to undo. They failed narrowly, and not before approving two measures targeting transgender troops and their families.A...
Former Lt. Gov. and failed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (R) announced last week that she'll be traveling across her state to campaign against marriage equality and reproductive rights. On her "Life and Marriage Tour," Earle-Sears will work to convince Virg...
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) sent a legal threat to a local library for hosting a "Rainbow Story Time" event this past Saturday, suggesting that pornography would be shown at the event even though there was no reason to believe that it would be. The Daniel Boon...
A man drove a van into Berlin Pride festivities on Saturday night, killing one Pride-goer and injuring 16 others. Police confirmed yesterday that the suspect died in a shoot-out with officers. Pride in Germany's capital came to an early end on Saturday after 21-year-old Abdul Bal...
Gary A. Sutton, a longtime resident of College Park, Md., who was an active member of several D.C. area LGBTQ social organizations before and after his retirement as a federal government worker, died on July 17. He was 62. His partner of 35 years, Edward Leddy, said the cause of ...
"Stop the Steal" national organizer Ali Alexander – who has been accused of asking teen boys for nude pictures – demanded that Donald Trump "use state power to tell civil libertarians to shut up" and that "500,000 people need to be arrested, tried, and possibly killed" in respons...
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney publicly responded to President Donald Trump's mentions of her during his Friday night speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump compared Mulvaney to CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins, who, before his speech, won an award for he...
When airfare costs more than your monthly utility bill and a weekend road trip requires a second mortgage just to fill the gas tank, many homeowners are discovering an unexpected luxury: the staycation. A staycation isn't settling for less—it's reaping the benefits of one of the ...
From late-night museum visits and outdoor jazz concerts to free movie screenings and America250 exhibitions, Washington's summer calendar is packed with events that don’t charge admission. Here's a look at some of the free activities happening across the District through Septembe...
Staycation doesn’t preclude time travel. For instance, Happenstance Theater’s production of “Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly” now playing at Round House Theatre in Bethesda invites audiences to go somewhere familiar but far from home. A timely piece of theater, “Adrift” takes pl...
Ohio middle school teacher Erica Putro was shocked to discover how many of her colleagues didn't know about the state laws legislators have enacted to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ students. She worried that a lack of knowledge on the subject would make it much harder for teacher...
Gay comedian Rosie O'Donnell said she has PTSD from being Donald Trump's target for so many years. “It’s like a post-traumatic stress disorder for me," she told People in an interview published Wednesday, "considering it’s been 20 years of him using me as a punchline." Related LG...
Far-right Infowars host Owen Shroyer appeared fairly upbeat about a church shooting in Minnesota yesterday that resulted in the deaths of two children. "God bless Infowars," he said. "Unbelievable victory today." Related Conservatives aren't mad at male cheerleaders. They're mad ...
In the wake of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death, there’s been a renewed push of a sort of giggling schoolyard gossiping about Republicans being gay. But as much as figures on the right might well be closeted self-hating LGBTQ+ people who do untold harm to our community, mocking them f...
An animal rights activist accidentally recorded a cop degrading a trans woman after her bodycam was confiscated during a protest. Three years later, she has shared the recording online. In 2023, Gemma Barnes was protesting outside the police station in the U.K. city of Norwich, l...
Out MS Now anchor Rachel Maddow eviscerated the Trump Administration's flailing logic for its invasion of Venezuela and suggested a much simpler reason the president decided to arrest Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores: Because he can. Maddow opened her...
Democrats defeat Lauren Boebert's attempt to write the trans military ban into law How the vote shook out: All House Democrats voted against Boebert's amendment to the 2027 NDAA that would have banned trans people from serving in the military. The amendment said that trans people...
At least one person died on Saturday when a van drove into a crowd at Berlin’s annual Pride march. The incident took place shortly before 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) in Tiergarten park. Authorities say a 21-year-old German man of Lebanese descent who tried to join the Islamic ...
At least one person died on Saturday when a van drove into a crowd at Berlin’s annual Pride march. German media reports indicate the incident took place shortly before 10 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET) in Tiergarten park. Berlin police say “the driver of a white vehicle … struck sev...
“Nothing disgusts me more than a f**got on the sideline.” So said the Rev. Ray Broshears, the collar-clad leader of the Lavender Panthers, a gay vigilante group enlisted by Broshears to combat attacks on gay and trans people in San Francisco during the 1970s. Related Stonewall ve...
Organizers are calling it the “World’s Largest All-Girl Wedding & Renewal Ceremony” (aka. Bride Pride), a massive wedding vows ceremony planned for St. Petersburg Pride next February. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will not be on the guest list. Related Chloë Grace Moretz & Kate H...
Transphobic billionaire author J.K. Rowling has encouraged random people in the United Kingdom to photograph people in women's restrooms just in case they are transgender. Her advice is likely to result in the public harassment of cisgender women who don't fit people's preconceiv...
I recently learned the literal translation for the two-part Latin term, “homo sapiens.” I knew “homo” in Latin means “man,” representing “humans” more generally. I also knew that in Greek, “homo” has the different meaning of “same” as in homosexuality (same sex), a dual language ...
What if they released the LGBTQ-themed action movie we’ve all been waiting for and they didn’t bother to tell us? It’s a rhetorical question, really, because we already know the answer, and it can be found between the lines in the distribution-and-release history of “In the Grey,...
A gay couple in the U.K. is shedding light on the challenges of having a child through surrogacy in the country. Jules Von Hep and Mark Beverlo began their journey to parenthood in 2020 and have still not had success. Von Hep told The Guardian the process has been “incredibly pai...
President Donald Trump made hateful comments about transgender people during his Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney — whose child Sasha Carney, is nonbinary — sat silently on video during Trump's comments; and it's not the first time Trum...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night to target two prominent gay journalists, mock transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney and deliver a sprawling rally-style address befo...
Melissa Chaudhry, a self-identified progressive Democratic candidate for Congress in Washington State, is facing backlash and calls to rescind her endorsements after she equivocated on support for the LGBTQ+ community and admitted she'll drop Democrats for the Green Party if she'...
This discussion contains extensive spoilers for The Odyssey.Much like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is a blockbuster about morality. That’s a rare combination. So often, we treat popcorn cinema as a time to set aside ethical nuance: good guys fight bad guys, good g...
A new poll from Emerson College that was released yesterday shows out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg leading the pack of potential 2028 candidates. The poll, conducted from July 19 to July 20, found that 19% of likely Democratic voters support Buttigieg to be thei...
GLAAD, the LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, has analyzed public comments submitted to the FCC in response to the Trump administration’s push to flag the “promotion” of “controversial gender identity issues” on TV shows with warning labels. The comments reveal Americans overwhe...
Caitlyn Jenner appeared on Tomi Lahren's Fox Nation podcast this week to "break her silence" with an hour of slurred rambling. During the interview, she mentioned that, due to Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders, her passport now says she's male, curtailing her ability to ...
The WNBA All-Star Game and skills competition will keep everyone glued to their screens this weekend, but the fun has already started for fans watching the StudBudz capture the chaos and viral moments among the players on their 72-hour livestream of the event.Besties Courtney Wil...
ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith has come out in support of rising WNBA player Sophie Cunningham after she started saying that transgender women should be excluded from women’s sports. Smith lauded her for speaking out and agreed that her views are “common sense.” “I can’...
Less than a year after losing Virginia's gubernatorial race, former Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is campaigning across the state against constitutional amendments that would protect marriage equality and reproductive freedom. She is launching a statewide "Life and Marriage Tour" ...
Friday, July 24 The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center hosts Trans Discussion Group from 7-9 p.m. via Zoom. The Trans Discussion Group is intended to provide an emotionally and physically safe space for trans people and those who may be questioning their gender identity/expression to joi...
Last week, the Secretary of Defense posted a video to announce what he called the "High-T Department of War." In it, Pete Hegseth ordered annual testosterone screening for every service member over 30 and offered testosterone therapy to those who want it, all in the name of keepi...
Vandals put severed pig heads and entrails at the entrance of the G×Bar beauty salon in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, July 21, at 6:17 a.m — the same day as the city's Equality March for LGBTQ+ rights, Suspline Media reported. The vandals also doused the salon's doorstep with blood....
The Dinah has finally announced its main headliner for the famous sapphic music festival weekend in Palm Springs and it’s the second coming of Lesbian Jesus. In an exclusive announcement to Them, organizers confirmed Hayley Kiyoko will headline at this year's Dinah. “We are so th...
She called it the Underworld. In 1890s Manhattan, Jennie June, a twentysomething self-described “androgyne,” found a home within a vast, covert network of gender and sexual misfits, whose mutual existence proved to one another that they weren’t flukes of nature or medical odditie...
The Trump administration’s devastating cuts to U.S. foreign aid funding and its shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have led many transgender former aid workers in Nepal to turn to survival sex work. “Because legal work for openly transgende...
Uncloseted Media published this article on July 23. By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON | Earlier this month, hundreds of people filled a conference room in San Diego. These included Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Brian Christine, OpenAI executive Dea...
The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's epic about Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca who embarks on a perilous journey home following the Trojan War. And he brought what feels like half of Holly...
Filming Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was quite a grueling experience. Star Matt Damon recently described it as “more like an expedition than a movie,” saying that everyone on the cast was “pushed to kind of the limit of what they could do.”Everyone, apparently, except for Elli...
Donald Trump tried to make fun of Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) by comparing him to Peewee Herman, but it turns out that Trump couldn't even remember Peewee Herman's name. "Your terrible senator, Jon Ossoff, he's terrible," Trump said at a rally in Marietta, Georgia, as the MAGA crowd d...
A police captain in Connecticut is accused of using an anti-gay slur earlier this month in front of his colleagues. Captain Lonnie Blackwell of Bridgeport is accusing fellow Captain Kevin Gilleran of using a curse word and then calling Captain John Cummings an anti-gay slur on Ju...
A 29-year-old man has been released from jail after being arrested for rubbing chalk on his shoe as part of a protest against Florida's crackdown on rainbow crosswalks. On Friday night, Orestes Sebastian Suarez and his wife visited the Orlando crosswalk that, until recently, was ...
On June 24, 2026, as cities and towns across the United States celebrated LGBTQ+ pride, Sens. Jim Banks (R-IN), James Lankford (R-ID), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced S. 4925, the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.” The proposed law, which focuses on children under t...
A new policy paper delivered by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the influential Democratic think tank, has advice for Democratic Party candidates ahead of the midterm elections: leave the issue of transgender participation in school sports to local schools and sports grou...
French Sen. François-Noël Buffet, a member of the right-wing Les Républicains party, was nominated last month to the position of Defender of Rights (DDD) and was approved by parliament in a 43-39 vote on Tuesday. Buffet's nomination drew criticism because he opposes marriage equa...
In a sequence of events that feels classically sapphic, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor seemingly confirmed the identity of her mystery girlfriend less than a month after coming out as bisexual. I’ve got to say, the sapphic reality TV connoisseurs here at Them love...
A federal judge overseeing one of the cases against Donald Trump’s second trans military ban has questioned inconsistencies between the ban and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the military will be testing male servicemembers' testosterone levels and offering ho...
President Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, recently noted that his most loyal and sycophantic high-profile supporters — like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly — are starting to question his fitness to lead the country. But while Mary Trump hopes ...
At long last, WNBA players are making bank. Thanks to the 2026 collective bargaining agreement, which will extend through 2032, players can now earn a one-year supermax salary of $1.4 million with a regular annual max of $1.19 million. These represent percentages of a $7 million ...
The 2026 International AIDS Conference will take place next week in Rio de Janeiro. Francisco Ruiz, the former director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima are among those scheduled to speak at the conference that will ...
Outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who recently tanked in her bid to become South Carolina's next governor, said on Wednesday that a display of RuPaul and two RuPaul's Drag Race queens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History "sexualizes" children visiting the museu...
Tammy Slaton, best known for appearing in the TLC show 1,000-lb Sisters, opened up about her 2025 engagement to Andrea Dalton — and exactly how her girlfriend of three years asked Slaton to be her wife last year.During a dreamy date ripped straight from a romance movie, Dalton sa...
An Oregon education specialist who sued his school district after he was ordered to remove anti-trans children’s books from his office lost his appeal this week. In its 2-1 decision on Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a previ...
Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) skewered the Trump administration for its war in Iran and the effect it has had on the American people. Reporter Scott MacFarlane asked McBride if she feels the administration is keeping Congress in the dark on Iran or actively lying to the lawmake...
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