Author JK Rowling is facing criticism for posting an upskirt image of a transgender woman last weekend while demanding that the trans woman debate her. Rowling wrote post after post on X on July 11, demanding that trans writer Freda Wallace debate her after Wallace called Rowling...
Vice President J.D. Vance is raising eyebrows with his claims that former President Joe Biden eats ice cream "suggestively." Vance made the claim in his interview with transphobic podcaster Joe Rogan, which was released on July 15. “The thing I couldn’t get over Biden is… the way...
Erika Kirk, the widow of slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, urged members of her young conservatives organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) to fight against transgender people, Muslims, and people who swear. While speaking to members at her organization's Chapter Leadership Summ...
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Layla Taylor is having a transformative summer. It’s been less than three weeks since the reality television show darling came out as bisexual, and she’s already soft-launched her new girlfriend and been photographed by TMZ with the mystery woman...
Right-wingers are freaking out over a relatively tame video from bisexual comedienne Margaret Cho mocking the death of anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was rumored to be a closeted gay man. "Bye Lindsey, bye Lindsey Graham," Cho's video begins. "From the closet to the ...
Drama alert! Leo season (July 22–August 22) is coming in hot with a surge of creative energy — and some cosmic curveballs. As the Sun’s home sign, Leo knows how to command a room. Doechii, Charli XCX, and Madonna are all Leos, to put this fixed fire sign’s star power into perspec...
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters cheerily joked on Thursday that a new Department of Defense policy could lead to more sexual assaults of women. Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new plan to test the testosterone levels of all men in the military over the...
In 1996, after the AIDS epidemic had cast its shadow over the gay community for a decade and a half, the breakthrough finally came: the success of antiretroviral medication turned a fatal disease into a manageable and survivable condition — and suddenly, “queer joy” began to feel...
After Wired published a story earlier this month alleging that Madison Square Garden kept an ongoing database that categorized nearly 100 celebrities as “LGBTQIA,” the venue is now suing the tech outlet as well as the writer, Noah Shachtman, who led the reporting. Madison Square ...
The Comings & Goings column is about sharing the professional successes of our community. We want to recognize those landing new jobs, new clients for their business, joining boards of organizations and other achievements. Please share your successes with us at comingsandgoings@w...
Police officers in Asheville, North Carolina, shot and killed a man who was reportedly firing a gun outside a local gay dive bar early Wednesday morning. In a July 15 press release, the Asheville Police Department said officers responded to a report of a person discharging a fire...
Last week, the outlet Wired published an extensive expose on Madison Square Garden’s management titled Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities. Now, MSG Entertainment is suing Wired, claiming that the website was being misleading. "Wired combed the dark web, obtained...
Being a man in today’s world is a dangerous and sad proposition. There’s a loneliness epidemic to contend with, looksmaxxers are telling you that your jaw is off-kilter by a few degrees from being an isosceles triangle, and now, apparently, eating certain foods in public is a pro...
Whitman Walker Health Center will host a legal services workshop on Tuesday, July 21 at 3 p.m. virtually and in-person at the DC LGBTQ+ Community Center. Attorneys from WWH will give an overview of the free legal services they offer and discuss recent challenges. WWH meets client...
Friday, July 17 Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Social in the City” at 7 p.m. at Hotel Zena. 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. Trans and Genderqueer ...
This story was produced in partnership with hankycode, an LGBTQ+ history publication. Records of trans people date as far back as 218 C.E., with the Roman Empress Elagabalus. And all through U.S. history, transgender figures can be found: sometimes in the shadows, sometimes at th...
Creating a “safe space” looks different for everyone. It might mean being physically protected from harm or knowing that you can share your emotions openly and without judgment. But for LGBTQ+ families, there’s usually one shared quality: knowing you’re free to celebrate your lov...
Veteran news anchor David Shuster isn't worried about the possibility of the Trump administration doctoring the Epstein Files to remove any incriminating references to the president. Now that both chambers of Congress have passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, Shuster wrote ...
During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) spoke out for trans people while slamming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for massive hypocrisy in his views on hormone therapy. "Let me be very clear: Trans people have always and will always exi...
Heartstopper Forever puts the concerns of the transgender community into global perspective in the final chapter of what has largely been an idealistic story.On the page, creator Alice Oseman built Elle an aspirational world. We first meet her shortly after transitioning, as she ...
A judge on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old Brooklyn man Dmitriy Popov for first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime after he stabbed 28-year-old gay dancer O’Shae Sibley to death in a gas station on July 29, 2023. Popov committed the crime when he was 17 and claimed self-defense, ...
Out lesbian U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for allegedly having "weird, intense, homoerotic feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic." In video-recorded comments posted Thursday morning on the X account of the left-leani...
Disgraced gay former drag queen and Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will appear in the fifth season of Fox's jungle survival reality TV competition Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test alongside 14 other contestants, including gender-fluid and lesbian actress Ruby Rose and former Full...
It’s no surprise that sapphics are so into the Professional Women’s Baseball League. The connection between lesbianism and softball feels almost ancient — and baseball? That’s just like baseball except you pitch the ball overhand! (There are other differences, I’m told, but as so...
Kowtowing to the president in his ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ crusade, Republicans in the House of Representatives for a second year in a row stacked the State Department's annual funding appropriation bill with multiple "poison pills" aimed at gay and trans people. The provisions have b...
A remarkable lawsuit relying on Biblical law was filed last week on behalf of a Louisiana man aggrieved over being “unlawfully fired” for “refusing to lie and use false gender pronouns.” Luke Ash was hired by the East Baton Rouge Parish Library in 2025 as a technician, working al...
This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think...
A parent known as JD is speaking out about how he and his daughter Winter felt in June when they received a call from Mount Sinai Health System to inform them that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued a criminal subpoena demanding his trans daughter's private medical record...
A 47-year-old man in Perth, Australia, named Garath Mouncey pleaded guilty on Tuesday to seven charges related to distributing "indecent" and "obscene" anti-LGBTQ+ flyers in people's letterboxes that accused local queer leaders of pedophilia, human trafficking, and drug dealing, ...
The Tennessee home of notoriously unhinged far-right anti-LGBTQ+ pastor Greg Locke was raided recently by federal investigators and local law enforcement. In a statement, the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that deputies helped secure Locke’s home, as well as another loc...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.U.S. Rep. Becca Balint offered a pointed queer critique of President Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new testosterone initiative Thursday, comparing the Pentagon chief’s cultivated “rugged macho man” image to the hype...
The hosts of MS Now's Morning Joe could not contain their laughter while asking Democratic Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico about Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's (R) claim that Talarico is not manly enough to represent the state. Hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough erupted in h...
I like good-troublemakers. As a graduate student in history at the University of Missouri at St. Louis more than thirty years ago, I wrote a paper about Rev. Carol Cureton and the outsized organizing impact of her LGBTQ+-affirming church on St. Louis's LGBTQ+ community. Encourage...
Elliot Page walked the red carpet for the New York City premiere of The Odyssey earlier this week — much to the chagrin of right-wing transphobes sitting at home behind their keyboards. Unsurprisingly, Page enjoyed a seemingly lovely evening with his girlfriend, Overcompensating ...
This story originally appeared on Out.The world of cricket may be unrecognizable to Americans, but the rule against cheating applies on both this continent and in Australia. This week, that's the big story down under: The brief, same-sex marriage of a sports champion and her soci...
A former superintendent was awarded $265,000 last month after suing his former school district, alleging he was fired in 2023 for being gay, according to a settlement agreement obtained by government transparency advocate John Paff. John Berenato sued New Jersey's Manchester Town...
While you might associate looksmaxxing with heterosexuality and incel culture, it turns out that the patron saint of the perfect face movement is actually an out gay actor: Matt Bomer. In a brand-new feature for The Hollywood Reporter, the trade magazine ranked a bevy of leading ...
The Trump administration filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of an insurance company seeking to deny coverage for gender-affirming surgery for minors. A U.S. District Court ruled against Premera Blue Cross last year after two minors sued the company for denying them top su...
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have banned trans people from using restrooms, joining sports teams, or being housed in prisons according to their sex assigned at birth. "This bill is nearly identical to the Senate bill I vetoed last mont...
Out former CNN anchor Don Lemon says he's "serious" about a possible presidential bid and claimed that"people keep asking me if I'm running for president" in a podcast episode that was released yesterday. "I don't know, I might, I'm serious," he said on the Can't Be Censored podc...
Sometimes, within the course of human events, it becomes clear that we are living in nothing but a game of Mad Libs. Names, some of which ring a bell and some of which we thought maybe we’d never hear from again, resurface in strange combinations. Long-ago figures are plucked out...
Uncloseted Media published this article on July 16. By SPENCER MACNAUGHTON | On Sunday, the office of Lindsey Graham reported that the Republican senator and Trump ally from South Carolina died “from a brief and sudden illness.” The office said that the preliminary cause of death...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) pressed Jay Clayton, Donald Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, a Cabinet-level position that would put him in charge of U.S. intelligence, on a simple question: Who won the 2020 presidential election? At his confirmation hearing on Wedne...
People often ask where I am from and I never know how to answer. The factual answer is straightforward enough: I was born in D.C., spent parts of my childhood in Pakistan and India, lived in Moscow, and later in Jordan before eventually settling in the United States. The emotiona...
The U.S. military will begin testing and treating service members with hormone therapy despite banning similar medical care for transgender service members. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that troops ages 30 and older will be subject to annual testosterone screenin...
Kevin Chen’s family tombstone has room for four: him, his parents and his boyfriend. The arrangement might prove to be a little awkward. “My boyfriend is 100% white, and my parents are 100% disappointed,” Chen confessed. Jokes about family traditions and the untraditional ways th...
Former county clerk Kim Davis has asked a second time for the Supreme Court to take her case, with anti-LGBTQ+ advocates hoping it could be the one to lead the justices to overturn marriage equality. Davis, a conservative Christian who has been married four times, refused to prov...
There is really only one clear choice for mayor of Rehoboth Beach, and that is Susan Stewart. She has the experience, knowledge, and clear vision, to successfully lead the city forward. If you want to see in detail what her priorities are, check out her website, www.Stewart4Mayor...
The Hilton Grand Vacations timeshare company announced earlier this week that an employee who allegedly sent a racial slur to WNBA player Chelsea Gray on social media had been fired, as the Associated Press confirmed Wednesday.“The person responsible for posting this information ...
Ohio's lead historical society, the Ohio History Connection (OHC) recently dedicated an official state historical marker to recognize The Rubi Girls, a comedic drag troupe that raised over $3 million for local and region HIV, LGBTQ+, and other community groups over the last 40 ye...
House Republicans feigned ignorance or just outright lied in an Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Tuesday as they pretended not to understand how a transgender man could get pregnant. One indignant representative, freshman Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), called the idea "insan...
The Trump administration ended the “Designated Placement Rule” yesterday. Created by his predecessor Joe Biden, the rule required federally-funded child welfare agencies to receive LGBTQ+ youth competency training; provide access to age-appropriate support services to queer youth...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Pentagon is preparing to test service members for low testosterone and offer replacement therapy when military doctors recommend it, expanding access to the same class of hormone treatment the Trump administration has cited as an...
Foot fetishes are one of the most common — and stigmatized — sexual interests out there. While some might be tickled by the mere thought of having their toes sucked on, many others understand that feet, an extremely sensitive part of the body, actually carry immense potential for...
Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared the design for a new dollar coin featuring the president's scowling face, making him the first living president to have his image imprinted on currency. Bessent said the coin will "honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symb...
The mother of Daisy Davis (not her real name) says the story about her trans daughter masturbating in a stall next to a classmate in the girls' restroom at Boise High School is false, as well as “reckless and irresponsible.” And it refuses to die. Related Federal judge temporaril...
The Wall Street Journal editorial board says Donald Trump may have doomed his presidency by making it possible for Democrats to retake the Senate during the midterm elections. In an op-ed, the board said the situation is due to the president's "uncanny habit of handing his oppone...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video posted Wednesday afternoon that military doctors will now annually screen the testosterone levels of male service members over the age of 30 and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) as a way to keep military men on the “leadi...
Following the Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which ruled that states can exclude trans people from school sports with out violating Title IX—Scott Yenor, a senior fellow of the Heritage Foundation, is calling for Title IX to be rewritten to remove req...
Nonbinary people and their supporters marched through Mexico City on Tuesday, July 14 in observation of International Nonbinary People’s Day, marking the fourth annual march of its kind after the first was held in 2023.“We demand our rights as citizens, like anyone else, and we m...
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