In this year of sparse and lackluster LGBTQ History Month programming, the future of LGBTQ history concerns me. I am troubled by the state of the LGBTQ community, both in a global context and specifically in Washington, D.C. Much of what bothers me comes down to what I perceive as a lack of camarade
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It’s rare for a movie that was made over a half-century before to somehow become one of the most anticipated film releases of the year, but thanks to Ken Russell’s “The Devils,” we know that it does happen. It’s true that Russell’s legendarily controversial 1971 period horror dra...
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During the 2024 election cycle, a multimillion-dollar deluge of Donald Trump- and GOP-fueled anti-trans campaign ads flooded the airwaves. Those ads peeled away some support for trans people, but in researching their efficacy, the Transgender Law Center and its communications and...
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At a White House military Mother’s Day event on May 6, First Lady Melania Trump stated that while many know her husband, President Donald Trump, as a "strong commander-in-chief," she believes he is a caring leader who "constantly remembers each and every American soldier is someo...
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Hunter Schafer was recently in London for the wedding of her Euphoria co-star Zendaya, who married actor Tom Holland. She found time for a night out with close friends at a nightclub. “We were dancing incredibly hard. There were no cameras out, which was great, so everybody was r...
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Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is having a hard time defending President Donald Trump's chaotic economic policies. And now he just threatened a journalist for questioning Trump's management of the economy. Bessent appeared on NBC's Meet the Press this past Sunday, where hos...
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Donald Trump has never cared about the people of the United States. He has always concerned himself with the richest of the rich, the upper 1% on the financial scale. He has given massive tax and regulatory breaks and other favors to the tech oligarchs and relegated the rest of t...
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“Queer zine, N. A sexy, subversive and explicit publication devoted to enlarging and examining our cultural assumptions.” That's a definition of queer zines unearthed by the Queer Zine Archive Project, or QZAP, an online archive dedicated to the preservation and promotion of quee...
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Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) may have made a veiled threat to out anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for having sex with men, longtime gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile publicly suggested in his Substack post yesterday. While Moreno angrily swore at former White ...
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The Washington Blade held a celebration for the 25th annual Best of LGBTQ D.C. Awards at Long View Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 22. Ashley Darby of "The Real Housewives of Potomac" was the emcee at the "Murder on the Dance Floor" costume party. Performers included Elextra G, Druex S...
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Review boards tasked with expelling trans troops from the U.S. military aren't performing as expected. The boards, composed of everyday uniformed service members, are voting to keep their trans colleagues. Related Trans service members challenging military ban score major victory...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Republican district attorney has launched a criminal investigation into the mailers sent to thousands of Texas voters posing as guides from a transgender rights organization, all while a company is taking initial steps to end its r...
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The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) filed a petition in state court Thursday seeking authorization to begin taking depositions as part of its effort to determine who has been impersonating the organization in text messages and mailers sent to Texas voters ahead of t...
