Pride Month is a celebration. It is a remembrance. And this year, more than most, it is a call to action. Across the country, legislators are advancing bills designed to strip LGBTQ+ Americans of the rights we have spent decades fighting to secure. Federal funding for HIV treatment and prevention is
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In the wake of Donald Trump's first electoral win in 2016, a friend of mine – a gay progressive who doesn't follow politics too closely – told me, exasperatedly, "The Democrats should get rid of the Electoral College!" I get it: The Electoral College is the reason Trump won in 2016. While I was taug
Pride Month is a celebration. It is a remembrance. And this year, more than most, it is a call to action. Across the country, legislators are advancing bills designed to strip LGBTQ+ Americans of the rights we have spent decades fighting to secure. Federal funding for HIV treatment and prevention is
An official statement from the Swiss city of Bern has expressed apologies to a trans woman who was forcibly removed by law enforcement from a women-only nude beach. “All persons who identify and live as women have access,” the city declared, as reported by The Times, emphasizing that police should n
Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who regularly uses anti-trans slurs and calls herself a "proud transphobe," is getting called "totally befuddled" and accused of "having a sharp mental decline" by many on her side of the aisle. Mace was a fairly middle-of-the-road Republican until last year, when
Video of a couple getting engaged at a Pride-themed race in New York City is warming hearts across social media. Chris Siretz dropped to one knee at the finish line of the annual Front Runners New York LGBTQ+ Pride Run 4-Miler on June 27, proposing to longtime partner Omar Merced while the pair were
Donald Trump has threatened to veto important, and in the current Congress, extremely rare bipartisan legislation, unless Congress passes the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.” The bill would require in-person voting by providing documented proof of U.S. citizenship when regi
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed an anti-trans bathroom bill Friday, after Republicans passed it using a procedure that allowed them to bring the legislation up for a vote without a public hearing. As the Kansas Reflector notes, the version of Senate Bill 244 passed by the state Senate’s Republica
When asked if she was winding down her legendary political career, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said, “We’re not winding down. We’re drilling down. We are working hard to win in the midterms.” Pelosi recently sat down with LGBTQ Nation for an exclusive interview. Despite this being her final year in
‘Transcendent: A Memoir’By Laverne Coxc.2026, Gallery Books$30/238 pages OK, let’s just say it: You’re tired of lies. They come from above, behind, from either shoulder. They’re repeated, laid out in a line, told as if they’re true but they’re not. You wish people would stop lying to you. As in the
Donald Trump's Great American State Fair has been resoundingly mocked on social media for its low turnout, as well as the president's and his sycophants' continued claims that the event is packed with people. One reporter, Slate's Molly Olmstead, decided to visit the fair and see for herself whether
With less than two weeks until director Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey hits theaters, one of the biggest questions around the film remains: Who is Elliot Page really playing? It’s unclear why Nolan and co. have chosen to keep the actor’s role such a closely guarded
MAGA politicians and members of their movement split a friggin’ gut leading up to the impending “No Kings” mass demonstrations proposed and organized in over 2,500 sites throughout the United States in protest of the draconian policies and actions undertaken during the past 10-month period of Presid
Niger, the former French colony in West Africa, is in the midst of a country-wide gay purge, with dozens of high-ranking officials and civilians arrested and imprisoned. Earlier this year, the government officially banned homosexuality in the country, imposing years-long sentences and fines on anyon
The Trump Administration has issued a "suicide note" ending all exposure of Russian influence campaigns, Chinese political manipulation, and Iranian extremist recruitment drives that threaten U.S stability, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum. In September, the U.S. State Departm
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) addressed the Supreme Court's decision on Tuesday upholding state bans on trans student-athletes in Idaho and West Virginia and said that liberals need to stop their "rush to moralize" on transgender issues. "You don't get good policies from the feds," said Gluese
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. A federal judge in California has ruled that the Justice Department likely cannot lawfully obtain confidential medical records identifying transgender minors who received
Donald Trump appeared to not understand what he was saying when he declared that he wanted to have a "threesome" with his two older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, in a speech on Wednesday at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Trump mentioned that father-and-
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The outside observer might not think there’s a lot to know about the Minions. They’re little pill-shaped, bright yellow creatures who talk funny, what else do you need to know? But for the kind of person planning to show up to the premiere of Minions & Monsters in a full suit and tie, there is deep
A version of this first appeared on The Advocate. As many queer kink communities have brought to the forefront, sex is nothing if not play. Adult play should be fun, and as many of us have known our entire lives, nothing makes play more fun than adding a good toy.However, finding the perfect sex toy
This story originally appeared on Out.Kataluna Enriquez, who made history as the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant, was involved in a serious car accident that left her hospitalized for two weeks.The Filipino-American beauty queen opened up on Instagram about her “nea
Between Donald Trump’s low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iran, an affordability crisis, and roughly three million scandals, it seems plausible that the Democrats will retake the White House in 2028. But what would that really look like for trans rights? Would it really lead to trans rights b
The New Jersey General Assembly passed new legislation on Tuesday, the last day of Pride Month, that strengthens the protections around gender-affirming health care, reproductive care, including abortion and IVF, and more. The bill now sits on Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D) desk awaiting her signature, w
A gay couple from Chicago who were living in Mexico City have been found dead in a grave that included two other bodies, per Chicago ABC affiliate WLS.Zafar Padamsee Mawani and Guillermo Jaffet Hidalgo Ortiz had been missing since May, per WLS. The couple had only recently moved to Mexico in October
Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton says there should be “restrictions” around in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., apparently walking back his previously stated support for a method of assisted reproduction commonly used by LGBTQ+ people as well as those who struggl
You might think that a Supreme Court ruling, such as the recent one which gave states the green light to continue banning transgender women and girls from female sports teams, would be the final word on something. But that’s not the case for fifth-place loser Riley Gaines, who still feels that there
Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Europe contestant who participated in the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant when she was in her 20s, says that Trump asked her a disturbing question after he allegedly assaulted her in the 90s: "Have you spoken to Jeff?" Keul is one of dozens of women who have come
The D.C.-based organization SMYAL, which provides services for LGBTQ youth in the D.C. metro area, including housing for homeless LGBTQ youth, announced on June 30 that it received a $25,000 award for its “courageous acts” in support of the community it serves. The award was a monetary grant from Th
“Proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is running for governor of South Carolina on a campaign that focuses heavily on her opposition to trans rights. Now she's claiming that the person who shot rightwing political operative Charlie Kirk – who has not been identified or apprehended – is transgend
Queen Camilla on Tuesday met with JK Rowling. The Royal Family on X said the meeting took place at Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The post included a picture of Camilla and Rowling together. “With a shared passion for books and a deep commitment to children reading for pleasure, The queen and
When one watches movies for a living, it’s as easy to fall into routine as it is with any job. Each movie is different, of course, each with its own characters, its own viewpoint, and its own story – (or at least its own variation on one), but in so many other ways, they have a tendency to be very m
Last month, Center Faith hosted the 43rd annual Pride Interfaith Service titled “In Faith We Exist. Resist. Persist!” at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Amid torrential downpours, queer leaders and people of faith from Muslim, Catholic, Episcopalisn, Unitarian Universalist, Jewish, P
I recognize people come to their opinion of the Democratic Socialists of America Party, a party different from the Democratic Party, usually based on their own backgrounds. I am a progressive Democrat. A first generation American; gay, and Jewish. My parents were refugees from Hitler, my mother from
Victor Willis, the original lead singer for the iconic disco group the Village People, died on Tuesday after "a short but aggressive illness,” according to an announcement posted to the band's social media. He was 74. Willis was recruited as the group's lead singer by gay French music producer Jacqu
Liberals are cheering Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for her response to a question about JD Vance. Outside the Capitol this week, a reporter asked her: "JD Vance just said in an interview that he thinks you are going to be the leading Democratic candidate for president in 2028. What’s your re
A Kentucky church is facing online backlash for subjecting an audience filled with children to a skit that included a tactical military assault in which church staff shot “the devil.” The video, which has been widely circulated and reviewed by Them, shows an audience of children and adults gathered
On Tuesday, plaintiffs in the case seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's ban on trans military servicemembers scored a major victory, with a ruling transforming the case, Talbott v USA, into a class action lawsuit. The ruling for class certification allows plaintiffs to seek to extend protect
Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays.After the Supreme Court dumped its decision allowing states to ban transgender women and girls from female sports teams, and on the final day of Pride Month no less, the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race have been very vocal
Vice President JD Vance suggested this week that transgender people in the U.S. pose a “domestic terrorist threat,” despite a wide body of evidence to the contrary. On Wednesday, Vance appeared on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, where he blamed the September 10 assassination of right-wing Christi
Neon, the studio behind best picture winner Anora, has officially acquired global rights to Luca Guadagnino’s film Artificial, per Deadline. Written by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich, the film tells the story of the abrupt firing and rehiring of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI. The film, which star
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