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Heterosexual actor Shia LaBeouf pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery on Wednesday related to a February incident in which he assaulted two men and called them "fa***ts" during an altercation amid the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana. LaBeouf insinuated that the altercatio
Four months after his prison sentence was commuted by Donald Trump, George Santos went on social media to say that he'd be at the State of the Union (SOTU) address in February to cheer the president on. "I'm going to be there for the State of Union in the gallery, guys," Santos said in a video poste
Transgender teens who received hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are less likely to run away from home, according to a new study. Researchers at Southern Oregon University and Rutgers University examined data from about 1,101 respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey who began receiving HRT be
Patients and parents say federal demands for records from NYU Langone and Stanford Medicine threaten privacy, safety, and access to gender-affirming care.
From kink at Pride to debating who “counts” as queer, there's enough queer discourse for us all.
Todd Starnes, a pundit who has previously appeared on Fox News and Newsmax, said he wants to ask Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and state Rep. James Talarico a bizarre question about his underwear. While speaking on The Todd Starnes Show, Starnes played a clip of Talarico telling a church au
With Pride organizations facing corporate retreat in the wake of President Trump's assault on the LGBTQ+ community and DEI efforts, Phoenix Pride announced on Thursday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The group cited "rising operational costs, economic uncertainty, shifts in sponsorship
A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled that President Donald Trump’s policy banning transgender troops likely violates their constitutional rights. The three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that Trump’s Executive Order 14183, also know
Federal investigators are examining whether the disgraced former congressman profited from bets about his own behavior on Kalshi.
A conservative Christian man is suing Los Angeles County and the L.A. Department of Public Works for making him come to work during Pride Month. Department of Public Works employee Eric Batman claims that having to see a Progress Pride flag flying outside the department’s Alhambra, California, headq
This is going to go triple platinum on Fire Island.
Trans patients and their families filed a federal class action lawsuit this week aimed at preventing hospitals from handing trans kids' medical records over to the Trump administration. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been fighting a nationwide campaign to acquire the medical records from hospit
The city council of Madison Heights, Michigan, voted 4-3 on Monday to cancel a drag queen story time that was slated to be a part of the city's Arts & Pride festival. The vote took place less than a week before the festival was scheduled to take place in the city's Civic Center Park. The council con
LGBTQ Nation will be sharing your pictures of Pride throughout May and June. Submit your own if you want to be included! In the small town of Neenah, along the banks of Lake Winnebago in rural Wisconsin, Pride was alive and thriving one night last year when Jesse Moore and his wife, Joline, attended
While Islam lacks a central governing body to put forth any official stance on homosexuality, those who adhere strictly to the words of the Quran tend to interpret the text similarly to the traditionalist followers of the other Abrahamic religions – as condemning same-sex love. But Nour Tayara doesn
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, made an appearance in the White House press briefing room on Tuesday, where he not only called people "stupid" for disliking Donald Trump, but also claimed the president is going to the doctor so often because he re
“I discovered more about my sexuality through sleeping with my friends because there was a safety in that."
NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper on Monday said LGBTQ Americans and their allies cannot give up in the fight for equality. "We need to band together. We need to stand together, and we need to speak out, and we need to help each other," she told the Washington Blade during an interview after she arrived at Ou
On June 1, the official Sesame Street social media account posted a simple message of acceptance for LGBTQ+ people to honor the start of Pride Month. "Happy #PrideMonth from Sesame Street!" it read. "Join us in celebrating and uplifting the LGBTQIA+ members of our community." Related Red states are
Out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed a new bill aimed at stopping conversion therapy. "Conversion Therapy can be harmful, traumatizes kids, and is a scam to waste people's hard-earned money," Polis posted to social media after signing the bill on June 1 at The Center on Colfax, an LGBTQ+ nonprof
Former congressmember Mike Rogers (R-MI) is running for Senate, and his supporters appear to be employing an unusual strategy: posting AI-generated pictures of him with huge muscles. And he's getting roundly mocked online for his alleged vanity. Related Gay candidate calls out "homophobic" AI-genera
A Gallup poll showed only 5% of Republicans say that gender transition is morally acceptable.
Support for marriage equality and for LGBTQ+ people in general has dropped significantly this decade, according to a new poll from Gallup. Gallup released the results of its yearly Values and Beliefs survey, which asks people, among other things, if they are in favor of same-sex marriages remaining
State officials in California had not called the governor’s race as of Wednesday morning but Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra appear likely to advance to the general election. The race for governor has been scrambled several times after Kamala Harris opted not to run, Rep. Eric Sw
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group founded in 1987 that has become the world’s largest HIV/AIDS organization, has announced it has three million people in care around the world. In a statement released on May 26, the organization, known worldwide as AHF, said the lat
During a town hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, out former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg hilariously mocked the right-wing organization for young conservatives, Turning Point USA. "As a tactical matter, I'll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a
In Columbus, Ohio, police have charged an unnamed 17-year-old with murder and felony assault for lethally stabbing his adoptive father and severely injuring his father's husband. The stabbing occurred on Sunday, May 24, killing 58-year-old Mark Rayburn-Velco and severely injuring his husband, Brent
In a now-deleted X post published Tuesday morning, rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote, "Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family Month." After several Republican politicians called his statement "idiotic" and "insane," Ogles deleted it later that day. He has previous
U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested 10 HIV/AIDS activists who protested Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. The activists from Housing Works, Health GAP, the Treatment Action Group, and ACT UP held signs and chanted “Rubio’s Cuts Kill People with A
Van Reigersberg helped expand what drag could look and sound like in Philadelphia: theatrical, literary, absurd, deeply musical, and emotionally alive.
Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for everything he hates and thinks maybe Adolf Hitler wasn’t so bad after all — said in a May 30 X video that Christian men should smoke tobacco to help restore the nation because marijuana makes men "spiritually gay." "I
On the first day of Pride Month, Maine congressional candidate Jordan Wood (D) shared the story of a tense encounter he had at a March town hall meeting, which he says is a lesson that "democracy demands." "I’m not intimidated and I’ll never back down from a fight. That is what democracy demands, an
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Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterday afternoon while y
Rep. Nancy "proud transphobe" Mace (R) is furious that Donald Trump endorsed her primary opponent in the South Carolina gubernatorial race. Last Friday on Truth Social, Trump endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette (R) to be the state's next governor. His long, effusive paean to Evette covere
Gay conservative influencer Dave Rubin failed to cite a single way in which President Donald Trump has improved the lives of average Americans since taking office during a recent debate with progressives. Rubin was the featured guest on the most recent episode of Jubilee Media’s Surrounded, in which
While many stories show queer people leaving their unaccepting faith communities to maintain their safety, dignity, and mental health, we've found a handful of LGBTQ+ films about religion that depict queer people who stay in their spiritual communities, both to push for greater acceptance and to dee
Antoni Porowski is also weighing in on the drama, but says he's "left with more questions than answers."
Pattie Gonia, the trail-trekking environmental activist drag queen, is fighting back over a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Patagonia, the company whose name resembles her own. The adventure sports and wilderness corporation, well known for investing its profits to support its own environmen
D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George spoke to a crowd of LGBTQ supporters on June 1 at a meet & greet event held at JR.’s on 17th Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. The event, organized by Capital Stonewall Democrats, which has endorsed Lewis George for mayor, with support from a group
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