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This story originally appeared on Out.The sapphernet is going wild with speculation that Black Panther, Wakanda Forever and Avengers Doomsday star Letitia Wright has married a woman known only as Angel-Vicki, based on photos circulating online. This all started following press ni...
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There has been plenty of speculation about Donald Trump’s mental health, from his proud claims that he is regularly acing cognitive tests (which they keep giving him anyway) to experts sounding the alarm about dementia. Now Trump’s gay niece, Mary Trump, is adding to that specula...
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Video captured a MAGA counterprotestor shouting homophobic slur to "No Kings" protestors in Denver, Colorado, shortly before face planting twice on the pavement, causing his face to bleed as other protestors suggest that he leave for his own safety before others possibly cause hi...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Two women who helped kidnap, rape, and torture Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, to death will spend the rest of their lives in prison.Precious Arzuaga pleaded guilty in June to charges including first-degree murder, kidnapping and t...
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On Sunday, September 6, supporters of the brand XX-XY Athletics were asked to leave a National Women’s Soccer League game between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at Portland’s Providence Park after donning apparel that displayed the brand’s logo.The brand, which esp...
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Over the last few years, it seems as though every time a candidate has run on an anti-trans platform, the result is heralded as a referendum on trans acceptance. In a world where we only have so many concrete data points, it’s very tempting to do. Unfortunately, the reality is of...
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The U.S. military is reportedly searching service members’ medical records in its efforts to identify and remove transgender troops. Early last month, trans military advocacy nonprofit SPARTA Pride issued a press release in which executive director Kara Corcoran said the organiza...
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Georgia made history last week when Everton Blair, Jr., was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the state’s first openly LGBTQ member of Congress and the latest LGBTQ addition to the chamber. Blair, who represents Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, was swor...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Defense Department has accessed private medical records belonging to U.S. troops as it tries to drive closeted transgender service members out of the military.Multiple sources told the Federal News Network that the Pentagon is us...
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SANTA ANA, El Salvador — La muerte de Yoisi Villalta, mujer trans y vendedora de tortas en Texistepeque, Santa Ana Norte, ha vuelto a colocar en el centro del debate una realidad que durante años ha acompañado a la población LGBTQ en El Salvador: la violencia no termina con una a...
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An 18-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly stalking a former classmate and saying he "couldn't wait to kill a gay person." The victim, referred to as F.F. by the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office, reportedly attended West...
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Shower sex: Some people can’t get enough of it, while many others have tried and failed to see the appeal. Between the awkward angles, slippery surfaces and the risk of leaving your partner out in the cold (literally), shower sex is a textbook example of something that often look...
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A virulently anti-LGBTQ+ Mobile, Alabama, pastor has dedicated the month of September to spreading anti-trans hate throughout the city. Pastor Travis Johnson spearheaded a project to hang banners through downtown Mobile that declare, "Protect Our Children From Gender Ideology." R...
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New rules that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood in Iceland took effect on Sept. 1. The Iceland Review, an English-language magazine, notes the new regulations the country's Health Ministry approved are gender-neutral. Some restrictions, however, remain in plac...
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One of my most deeply held cinematic pet peeves is the fact that there are still people who do not get that Starship Troopers was a satire. Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 sci-fi action flick certainly doesn’t hide the fact that the film’s “good guys” are, in fact, not so good after all. T...
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Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, who has dedicated her life to trying to ban trans women from women's sports, mocked a recent WNBA game she attended as being filled with "a bunch of disgruntled lesbians." Gaines made the comment during an appearance on Fox News, where she said s...
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Even though the Supreme Court is not in regular session, the right-wing justices on the Court spent last month giving Donald Trump legal cover for his corrupt and authoritarian efforts. Using the shadow docket – the express route for emergency cases – the right-wing keeps letting...
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Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman with stage four rectal cancer, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City after she secretly recorded her surgical team allegedly making transphobic comments about her....
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While technically non-partisan or political, many school boards have been taken over by right-wing majorities and members of so-called "parents' rights" groups, like Moms for Liberty. With elections set for the Forest Lake school board in Wyoming, punk rock musician Claire Luger ...
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Tonya Agnew is a mom of two adult children, a wife, and the Vice President of Communications & Marketing for Family Equality – a national nonprofit that protects and advances freedoms for LGBTQ+ families Pack lunch. Set out the perfect first day outfit. Finish summer reading. Com...
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Just when you thought Dolly Parton couldn't be any more sainted, her death at the age of 80 last week surfaced a story that makes it so. One of the most important staffers among Parton's close circle of supporters was a transgender man. Related Country star & LGBTQ+ ally Dolly Pa...
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Immediately after Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime show performer for the 2026 Super Bowl, right-wingers began trying to "cancel" the cis-het ally by pointing out his refusal to sing in English and his past performances in drag. Bad Bunny — wh...
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While school history textbooks characterize the earliest colonists in the US as Puritan zealots who punished all sinners, dissenters, and non-believers, an early American settler established a small community that held the seeds of LGBTQ+ counter-cultural revolution. The Mayflowe...
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The Washington Blade Foundation will host a fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 12 in Rehoboth Beach featuring remarks from Rehoboth’s Mayor-elect Susan Stewart and Delaware state Rep. Claire Snyder-Hall. The Foundation funds fellowships for aspiring queer journalists and enterprise jo...
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‘Every Inch a Lady’By Audrey Smaltz with Alina Mitchellc.2026, Amistad$27.99/256 pages Snaps, zippers, buttons, ties. Toss that garment on, pull it up, wrap it around, you know what you like and how to wear it. The color is perfect for your skin tone, the fabric enhances your for...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Sept. 9-Oct. 11Round House Theatre4545 East-West HighwayBethesda, MD 20814$50 and upRoundhousetheatre.org Among the Black blues women of the 1920s and 1930s, being “in the life” wasn’t uncommon. Self-supporting and often on the road, they followed the Gr...
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Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) allegedly broke the hand of Brian McGinnis, a decorated Marine officer who protested the Iran war during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Sheehy was assisting Capitol Police officers attempting to eject McGinnis from the hearing. A CB...
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The phone has not been ringing lately for Elliot Page. The trans actor said in an interview earlier this week that he has not been offered any roles since the July release of The Odyssey, a massive box-office summer blockbuster in which Page played the Greek warrior Sinon. “Do yo...
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After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents. The case began when a Bulgarian trans woman moved to Italy and, for ye...
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Donald Trump posted a disturbing message to social media on Saturday that has people wondering if he's going to die soon. The post had no text and was just a video of Frank Sinatra singing "My Way." The song is about a person summing up their life and has lyrics like "And now the...
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As new fathers, Randall Tarpey-Schwed and his husband loved the bedtime ritual of reading stories with their kids, so much so that they ran out of books that contained their favorite themes: acceptance, community, and love in families like theirs. “We read all kinds of children’s...
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There are a lot of queer coming-of-age movies about how hard coming of age can be when you’re queer – and that’s because, for far too many queer young people, coming of age is a very difficult experience. Yet as difficult as it may be, imagine how much more so it is for queer kid...
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This story was originally published in The Buckeye Flame, a newsroom dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles their triumphs, struggles and lived experiences. Finding c...
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MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
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Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Newark, New Jersey duct taped a grey-haired white man to his first-class seat after he began yelling about Jesus and going to hell and then called a Black flight attendant the n-word and "fa**ot" when ...
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LGBTQ+ fans are devastated that the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars canceled their Pride Night for the upcoming season, but right-wingers are celebrating the move as evidence that "not every sport is woke." The anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council (FRC) shared an article in ...
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he's still alive. Noem said that it wasn't her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting...
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LGBTQ+ advocates are sounding the alarm over a new Ecuadorian adoption law explicitly banning LGBTQ+ couples in the South American country from adopting children. The Reform Law of Various Legal Bodies for the Streamlining of Adoption took effect on August 14 after the National A...
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If one listened to Donald Trump’s words and actions in upholding his presidential duties, one would think the people’s top priorities include prosecuting all the malicious vandals whom he has accused of destroying the beautiful work his non-bid contractors did on the Lincoln Memo...
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Tez Anderson decided to get tested for HIV after he moved to San Francisco in 1986 at the age of 25 and began dating his new boyfriend. When the results came back positive two weeks later, the doctor told Anderson he had 18 to 24 months to live. It was two days after his 26th bir...
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Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Just because summer is slowly turning into autumn doesn't mean the sun has stopped shining, no ma'am! Our ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A vigil for two gay men killed in a hate crime outside an Arizona gay bar drew around 1,000 mourners.The Wednesday gathering at Tucson’s Catalina Park honored Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and Cameron Davis Capara, who were fatally shot ...
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An anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing Republican candidate for Missouri state representative is in custody on a charge that he conspired to plant drugs on his opponent in the Republican primary last month. He won the race by 32 votes. Thomas Ross, 37, was booked into Joplin City jail on Tues...
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Actress Raven-Symoné and her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday, have landed in some hot water after several clips from previous interviews with the couple recirculated online, prompting a wave of backlash and TikTok discourse. And wow, is there a lot to dig through here. While some fan...
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This story originally appeared on Out.It wouldn't be Doll Invasion in Fire Island without Kim Petras!For her first time ever in the Pines, the international pop superstar made a special appearance at the Pavilion to mingle with the dolls and sing along to her biggest hits. Throug...
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This story originally appeared on Out.In a world full of a million different kinds of sex toys, the strap-on reigns supreme. It’s simple — some type of harness and a dildo — but serves so many purposes. The most recognizable lesbian sex toy is great for penetrative sapphic sex, p...
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Lesbian comedienne and talk show hostess Rosie O'Donnell posted a video on Thursday of herself and seven survivors of now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein singing Helen Reddy's 1972 feminist power anthem "I Am Woman," to protest the Trump administration's...
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A CNN host was audibly stunned by Donald Trump's latest strange comments about "young, handsome men," so much so that her exasperated one-word comment was picked up by a hot mic and then shared online. CNN was showing live coverage of the first meeting of Trump's Board of Peace (...
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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is stepping down, the league announced on Friday.“After more than seven years at the WNBA and more than 40 total years in business, I have made the decision to retire as WNBA Commissioner,” Engelbert wrote in a press release, adding, “Over the ye...
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Written by Shar Jossell A multidisciplinary creator working across mixed media, installation, and fashion design, The Artist L. Haz is a member of GLAAD's 2026 EMEI cohort, bringing a practice rooted in everyday beauty, community, and the transformative power of adornment. The Ar...
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Everton Blair Jr. (D-GA) made history on Tuesday by being sworn in as Georgia's first-ever out gay U.S. House representative. The 34-year-old Congress member won a special runoff election on August 25 to complete the term of late Rep. David Scott, who died on April 22 at the age ...
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A gay Christian podcaster was arrested this week and charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump. Federal agents took 40-year-old Benjamin Azariah Southworth into custody Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, according to a press release ...
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The camp appeal of Jawbreaker, an iconic entry in the 1990s queer canon, has given it a permanent home among LGBTQ+ cinephiles. But a recent addition to its musical adaptation has made the film’s queer subtext even more visible. Fern Mayo/ Vylette, who was played by Judy Greer in...
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The Pentagon has announced that new clinical guidance will be released establishing mandatory testosterone deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve cisgender male service members ages 30 and older, advancing a policy that expands hormone-related care for cisgender troops....
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Over the past several decades, LGBTQ+-specific overnight camps have sprung up across the country, offering queer youth access to the quintessential summer camp experience in an affirming, inclusive environment designed just for them. About a dozen are currently operating, many se...
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Friday, September 4 Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Community Happy Hour” at 7 p.m. at Freddie’s Beach Bar and Restaurant.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 Event...
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President Donald Trump told Republican candidates in battleground states at a Wednesday Rose Garden event that he plans to campaign heavily for them in the last 30 days before the November 3 midterm elections. The only problem: Many Republicans don't want him. While Trump has a $...
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The Swiss government has said it supports a nationwide ban on so-called conversion therapy. The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation on its website notes the government officially announced its position in a report it published on Wednesday. Neuchâtel in 2023 became the first Swiss can...
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The Dallas Stars may have tried to put their Pride Night plans on ice, but fans won’t let it happen. Tori Copeland, a longtime Dallas Stars fan who has long attended the team’s annual Pride Night celebrations, has decided to address the lack of an LGBTQ-themed night on the ice ho...
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On the first day of Pride Month, Maine congressional candidate Jordan Wood (D) shared the story of a tense encounter he had at a March town hall meeting, which he says is a lesson that "democracy demands." "I’m not intimidated and I’ll never back down from a fight. That is what d...
