The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender people in federal prisons, preserving access while a legal challenge continues.The policy would have ended surgeries, gradually withdrawn hormone treatment, and eliminated ac
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Donald Trump fawned over Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-OH) body for the second time in a week while speaking at a Tuesday rally in Greenville, North Carolina. “I’m studying his body. I’ve never studied the body of a man before. It’s not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course," Trump t...
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Rhoam Summer was among the shooting deaths at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15, 2026. He was 5 years old. His father, Kelik Summer, posted that night to a Facebook group. “[It was] the worst day of my life. My son Rhoam was killed in a school shooting....
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Uncloseted Media published this story on Oct. 21. This story was reported in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. By HOPE PISONI | Texas’s Senate race has become one of the most-watched elections of the year. MAGA Republican no...
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During a speech at a rally for Democratic Congressional candidates in Virginia, former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg mocked Republicans for trying to take credit for Democratic initiatives. Buttigieg highlighted the investments he made in Virginia while working for t...
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A new pro-Democrat ad skewering the Republican obsession with trans people is making waves across the internet. The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young girl trying to use the bathroom then ...
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Virginia's Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program on Oct. 13 stopped covering gender-affirming care for transgender minors in response to a Trump-Vance administration directive. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in August announced federal funding could no ...
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When Lauren Rowello’s wife came out to them as a trans woman, they "didn’t know where else to find anyone who’d understand.” Rowello and their wife both found their communities in the years that followed, but getting the right support to understand their own narratives was a chal...
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A Trump supporter said that she supported the administration's cuts to foreign aid because it meant that fewer people would get vaccinated. Comedian Jason Selvig talked to a woman wearing a red cap and a T-shirt with a giant picture of Donald Trump. He asked whether she supported...
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Lesbian federal Judge Ana C. Reyes received death threats today after President Donald Trump called her a "crazed lunatic" on social media earlier in the day. Reyes gained the Trump administration's ire by delaying the president's rushed attempt to remove numerous historic featur...
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A recirculated clip of lesbian pop star Renée Rapp has sparked a firestorm of renewed discourse on the sapphic internet. In the clip, pulled from an August 2025 interview with Alex Cooper on her megapopular podcast Call Her Daddy, the host asks Rapp to disclose “the most lesbian ...
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Trump fired Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary last Friday after barely five days on the job. But guess who's eager to fill the now-empty role? None other than disgraced, gay former US Rep. George Santos (R-NY). In an X post published last Friday evening, Santos wrote,...
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Gay Russian journalist Vadim Vaganov fled his home country in 2024, one year after its Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Russia's government now considers him, the media outlet he works for, Parni+, and other LGBTQ+ jo...
