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 thing” about her. Ra
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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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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...
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Half the members of a high school girls’ cross-country team in Washington state walked off the field earlier this month rather than run with their transgender teammate. The protest took place amid debate over a proposed trans sports ban in the state and followed weeks of media at...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.An Iowa candidate for Congress is pushing back against anti-transgender attacks in new ads without treating LGBTQ+ people as obstacles to knock down.Christina Bohannan released a digital video of herself on a track in Iowa-branded at...
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An Arizona man is under arrest after stalking a Phoenix-area woman and threatening to drive a U-Haul truck into a Pride parade and open fire. Austin Jay Curtis, 32, was arrested October 12 at his residence in Gilbert, Arizona, one day after nearby Phoenix Pride took over downtown...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Two school boards in Pennsylvania approved policies restricting transgender athletes from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.The Conestoga Valley School District board approved its policy Monday night in a ...
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In a marked contrast to prominent Democrats equivocating in response to Republican political attacks on transgender people, one super PAC is addressing the issue head-on.Progress Action Fund (PAF), a political action committee founded by former Obama administration intern Joe Jac...
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Lindsey Graham, who passed away on July 11 at 71 years old, served in the Senate for 23 years and garnered a reputation for his hawkish views and hardline anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Years before his death, rumors swirled as allegations surfaced about the Republican senator engaging with...
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Arizona is one of five states with measures on the ballot targeting LGBTQ youth. Arizona’s Proposition 318 expands targeting of existing state law that baselessly bans transgender students from school sports and facilities, efforts that endanger all students. Facts: Transgender y...
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Anti-transgender laws and policies are having a devastating impact on military families of trans children — and influencing decisions about career tracks, assignments, and whether to retire early. That’s the message a group of military and veteran spouses who are all parents of t...
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What we need is a separation of state and sex. The state has no business in the private lives of consenting adults. Its job is to protect our fundamental human rights, sexual freedom among them, not to restrict them. There may be legitimate reasons for concerning ourselves with s...
