India's Supreme Court is expected to issue a closely watched constitutional ruling that could shape the future of LGBTQ rights litigation. The decision will determine whether courts can continue to rely on the doctrine of constitutional morality, a principle that has underpinned ...
A political attack ad claiming Arizona Democrat Amish Shah supported a law that would allow minors in the state to be subjected to so-called “conversion therapy” is misleading, according to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that helped craft the legislation. The ad, funded by super PAC P...
A 22-year-old gay man died from complications after donating a kidney to his homophobic father. Gabriel Barros of Pernambuco, Brazil, was kicked out of his home when he was 16 years old, according to Brazilian publication Area VIP. Despite remaining estranged from his father, Bar...
The breakout character of House of the Dragon’s third season isn’t any of the people the show spent all of last season hyping up. No, it’s a dragon who looks like he’s been through some stuff. Sheepstealer has a pronounced underbite, ragged wings, and plenty of other deformities....
“The gays hate us,” said the young trans woman of color on the other end of the phone. She was calling to ask for help starting her own organization. Then she added, “They steal our words, our culture, but don’t want to help us when we’re literally fighting for our lives.” We at ...
Advocacy groups have joined the relief efforts in Venezuela after two back-to-back earthquakes devastated large swaths of the country on June 24. The magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes caused widespread damage in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, and elsewhere in the country. Offic...
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters blurted out on Fox News last night that he has not had a vasectomy, even though no one even asked him. He then insisted that getting a vasectomy makes someone "less of a man." On Fox's The Five, Watters ranted about how he opposes policies to make co...
It’s long been a stereotype that lesbians report higher rates of orgasm from partnered sex and overall sexual satisfaction than straight people — and the science continues to back it up. A new study in the journal Psychology & Sexuality found that lesbian women masturbate alone l...
Pride in Rehoboth Beach is kicking off this week on Friday, July 17, with events happening throughout the weekend. "Rehoboth Beach Pride is more than a festival — it is a vital space for community, healing, and connection," said David Mariner, director of Sussex Pride, which orga...
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten shared surprising data showing that Democrats have an even greater chance of ousting incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) now that Graham Platner is out of the race. Enten showed that on July 2, about a week before Platner dropped out and also be...
Aqua Bar & Grill in Rehoboth Beach will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Sunday, July 19 from 2-7 p.m. DJ Biff will entertain the crowd; there will be complimentary birthday cake and surprise guests. The event marks the culmination of Pride weekend in Rehoboth Beach, which runs ...
In an interview with MS Now's Jen Psaki this week, Pete Buttigieg opened up about what he has referred to as the "darkest hours" of his life, when he was temporarily separated from his children after an anonymous false report alleging he was a danger to his young twins. Psaki ask...
Seemingly unhappy with a group of women deciding to make rules for membership in their own organization, Virginia Republican Ben Cline has introduced legislation to force the Daughters of the American Revolution to ban transgender women. The bill comes less than a month after the...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters in Iowa on Monday that he won't rule out a 2028 presidential bid. The exchange comes after months of signs that Buttigieg is planning to run for president again. Buttigieg was in Iowa this week to campaign on behalf of...
When longtime Maryland state Del. Bonnie Cullison (D-Montgomery County) announced she would retire, Christa Tichy immediately saw an opportunity. The queer Democrat advanced from the June primary and will appear on the November ballot, hoping to succeed one of Maryland's first op...
Attorney General Pam Bondi responded with a deafening silence when asked about whether the FBI found compromising photos of Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein's safe. During an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi attempted to evade the question from Sen. Sheldon ...
A gay New York City couple who spent years handing out over 180,000 backpacks filled with essentials to houseless people both died near the end of June and start of July. Jayson Conner, age 48, died on June 28 from a heart attack at their Manhattan home. His partner, Jeffrey Newm...
Pro-Trump Italian artist Sergio Furnari announced that his statue of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk will appear in New York City's Times Square on September 10, one year after his murder. Instagram commenters on the artist's page say it'll be "destroyed and vandalized within second...
Two men were turned in by their younger brother decades after they ambushed a man that they thought was gay and bragged about "queer bashing" him. The victim died alone late at night on May 1, 1984, in a deserted London alley after being struck twice in the head with a heavy obje...
Lesbian MS NOW commentator Rachel Maddow blasted Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during her Monday broadcast for failing to secure as a crime scene the place where an ICE officer killed a 26-year-old Colombian man, identified as Sebastian Guerrer...
Amnesty International UK has apologized for a report it now says was published prematurely, which identified over a hundred organizations as "anti-rights," including a women's domestic abuse center founded by gender-critical activist and author JK Rowling. The Harry Potter creato...
Pete Buttigieg zoomed out on Saturday on the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's teardown of the East Wing of the White House, saying he's not as concerned about historic preservation as he is about Americans suffering the effects of historic price hikes for health insurance, ...
Free speech organizations are sounding the alarm over a recent decision by Comraine, Michigan's District Library Board of Trustees to circumvent its own review process and move dozens of LGBTQ+ books from the children's section to the adult section without first assessing them. I...
Mexico’s first openly gay mayor was killed last week. Media reports indicate former Fresnillo Mayor Benjamín Medrano was shot to death on July 7 inside an ice cream store in Guadalajara, the country’s second-largest city that is located in Jalisco state. Fresnillo is a city in Za...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A flood of public opposition helped stop one of the Trump administration’s most extreme attempts to force hospitals nationwide to abandon gender-affirming care for transgender young people, offering a rare and instructive victory aga...
At last, there is a novel about Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn’s director and friend, George Cukor, would hate it, as would Hepburn herself, who would despise it with her trademark imperious finality. Readers, especially gays and lesbians who love their Turner Film Classics, will sav...
West Miami police arrested 38-year-old Luis Alberto Negrin on June 28 for choking, beating, and holding his male partner at gunpoint after "a revolting act during a sexual encounter," WPLG reported. Police received a report of a man “crying and bleeding in the middle of the roadw...
Out soccer star Megan Rapinoe slammed the movement to ban transgender girls from sports as a "witch hunt" and "manufactured issue" over which "women and girls will suffer the most." In an op-ed for Marie Claire, the longtime trans rights advocate shared that a brand fired her fro...
After months of refusing to cooperate with state officials in Minnesota, the U.S. Department of Justice finally began turning over key evidence regarding the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) earlier this month. Over the p...
“I think there were a lot of LGBTQ people who felt they didn't have a place with a religious identity. And so, when we came along, they felt naturally that this is what Satanism clearly can allow for, because, unfortunately, Christian nationalism has defined itself, at least part...
Cara Delevingne is Playboy’s first out lesbian print cover star.Appearing nude in a full pictorial photographed by Zoey Grossman, with a profile written by My Year of Rest and Relaxation author Ottessa Moshfegh, Delevingne is also making history as the first supermodel to wear th...
During an appearance on Real America's Voice, Sen. Ron Johnson (R- WI) commented on the bizarre "proof of life" photo released by the office of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has not been seen in public since his neighbors saw him being rushed to the hospital a month ago. Many ...
These trans handypeople are going Tool 4 Tool. A new home repair company, owned by two transgender construction professionals, has opened in Atlanta, per local LGBTQ+ publication Georgia Voice. The two professionals behind the nonprofit, who go by Nicky and Sam, formerly worked a...
Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this week, the director responded to the backlash the film has received based on its casting and trailers. Complaints have included issues with the costuming, the us of modern language, and the casting of Lupita Nyong’o and ...
Uncloseted Media published this article on July 14. By HOPE PISONI | Jordan Korgood has come a long way. In 2023, she ran into financial difficulties while studying at Northeastern University in Boston and ended up unhoused. Ordinary shelters are hotbeds of discrimination and mis...
Daveigh Chase, the actress best known for being the voice of Lilo in Disney's Lilo & Stitch and the creepy girl in the 2002 blockbuster, The Ring, passed away last month at age 35 from complications related to AIDS. The LA County Medical Examiner's office announced in June that C...
After an historic and expensive July 4th fireworks display capped Donald Trump’s self-indulgent commemoration of America’s 250th birthday, voters are now watching state races explode into political pyrotechnics as Democrats fight to win majorities in Congress and Republicans plan...
Conservative Christian pastor Martin Sedra of Echo Church (which is located in Sydney, Australia) ranted about how Americans made Jesus "gay" and "effeminate." Instead, Sedra argued that Jesus was actually "the most ripped guy" who "had six packs." “Americans created this gay, ef...
(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a three-part series profiling the candidates for mayor of Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Commissioners Suzanne Goode, Susan Stewart, and Craig Thier; a fourth candidate, William Raak, filed to join the race but has not responded to Blade i...
Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe has long been an advocate for transgender inclusion in sports — and neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor AI-driven censorship can stop her.In a July 13 op-ed for Marie Claire condemning anti-trans legislation passed under the guise of “protecting g...
Ward 1 D.C. Council candidate Aparna Raj, who describes herself on her campaign website as a “renter, union member and queer woman of color,” emerged as the winner in the city’s June 16 Democratic primary. She won in a five-candidate race with 52 percent of the vote in the fourth...
The Trump administration is backing off an attempt to force hospitals across the country – even those in blue states – to stop providing gender-affirming care to trans minors in a victory for trans rights and for the medical associations that opposed the proposed rule. In Decembe...
Donald Trump is getting mocked for, according to some people, transparently making up a Democrat who wants "men playing women's sports" in order to dodge a question about the economy during an interview that aired this weekend on 60 Minutes. "Can I ask you about the economy?" rep...
Cats is heading to the Heaviside Layer. Despite winning multiple Tony Awards and garnering a devoted following, the reimagined revival Cats: The Jellicle Ball will close its Broadway run on Saturday, August 8, per an announcement made across the show’s social media accounts on Mo...
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump's "carnival of corruption" during his speech at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Liberty & Justice dinner last Sunday. The speech ramped up expectations that Buttigieg may run for president in 2028. “...
An LGBTQ+ community leader in Florida was arrested last Monday for allegedly misusing a nonprofit organization's funds. Greater Fort Lauderdale LGBT Chamber of Commerce's former director, Jason Nunez, is accused of spending $11,097 of the organization's funds on Uber rides, gas, ...
Two religious parents filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly "socially transitioning" their child with a masculine name and pronouns without notifying them. The parents, identified in court documents only as J...
A community in East Toronto has come together to support the LGBTQ+ community after a student-created pride display at an elementary school was set on fire earlier this month. Hundreds of students from RH McGregor Elementary School helped create an intersex-inclusive Progress Pri...
I entered Club Confessions through a pussy — or rather, an opening in a giant inflatable Mistr-branded pair of legs flanked by a greeting committee of lithe gay guys clad in skimpy bodysuits. If anyone else had been DJing Saturday night, the visual would be unforgivably gauche. B...
Former Trump Administration Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly divorcing her husband, Bryon Noem, following tabloid reports of his alleged crossdressing and “bimbofication” fetishes earlier this year. In a recent interview with The Daily Mai...
This story originally appeared on Out.The unexpected popularity of Heated Rivalry thrust its stars into the limelight almost overnight, but with their rise to fame came a loss of privacy that Hudson Williams is now acutely aware of.Williams is currently being escorted by a bodygu...
Social media is eviscerating anti-trans activist Riley Gaines after she tried to compare the moment Kamala Harris made a moving speech to a WNBA team to the time FBI Director Kash Patel partied in the locker room with the USA Men's Hockey Team in Italy. "I haven't yet seen that v...
Lawsuits in Arizona and New Hampshire challenging the states’ anti-trans sports bans are being dismissed following the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which upheld such bans. While attorneys for both cases suggested their suits could continue after June 30, pla...
After a month of radio silence from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) since neighbors saw him being rushed to the hospital, his office released a photo of him holding a newspaper in what is perhaps an attempt to show that he's still alive. The image, posted to his congressional webpage...
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, widely seen as a coded gay film, a bickering pair of urbanites try to keep a terrible secret during a tense dinner party. Slowly, a third party — in the form of an inquisitive Jimmy Stewart — begins to unravel them.Olivia Wilde’s masterful The Invite i...
One night in the early 1930s, the great Jean Malin, hungry and tired, decided to stop by a cafeteria as he headed home from winning first prize at a drag ball. Still clad head to toe in drag, his flamboyance angered a group of four men inside. They threw a pitcher of hot water on...
‘Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex’By Perrin Roosevelt Irelandc.2026, W.W. Norton$29.99 241 pages Birds do it. According to Cole Porter, bees do, too, but it’s not exactly what he imagined. Wild and tame, avians, insects, and mammals all have sex – although not ...
As the Trump administration celebrates America's historic semiquincentennial – the two and a half centuries that have passed since the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence – it's important to note that the president and his political party have spent the past several y...
Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has died, and what he has left behind is a power vacuum for his U.S. Senate seat — and within the Republican Party. The South Carolina senator had been a major part of Republican politics up until his Saturday death at his home in Wash...
Mexico's first out gay mayor was shot to death on July 7 while exiting an ice cream shop in the city of Guadalajara. 59-year-old Benjamín Medrano Quezada served as mayor of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, from 2013 to 2015 and subsequently served as a federal deputy in the Mexican Congress...
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