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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fulfilled her longtime dream of performing on Broadway when she recently made a special one-night-only appearance in the very queer musical & Juliet. On December 14, the Biden appointee — and the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — took the stage at the Stephen Sondheim

The anti-LGBTQ+ organization Catholic League put up a billboard in Wisconsin claiming ownership over the season of winter and specifically calling out “atheists” as well as people who celebrate Winter Solstice, a holiday that has been celebrated since the Stone Age. That is, since well before Christianity existed. “Atheists strike out at Christmas,” the billboard

18-year-old transgender woman Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson An 18-year-old Black transgender woman named Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson was shot to death in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Monday. Police have arrested an unnamed underage suspect and charged him with murder as an adult. Thompson’s family suspects her murder was a hate crime, and police suspect it may

KATHMANDU, NEPAL – August 12, 2022: LGBTQ+ advocates perform in a parade during the Gai Jatra festival for equality, rights and identity in Kathmandu. Two trans women have made history in Nepal for running in local elections. Despite neither one winning her race, the LGBTQ+ community is still celebrating the moment as a leap for

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill imposes a prison sentence of up to five years for the “willful promotion, sponsorship, or support of LGBTQ+ activities.” The

A Montana judge has issued a preliminary injunction on a policy banning trans people from changing the sex markers on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates. District Judge Mike Menahan wrote in his order on Monday that “if the challenged state actions discriminate against transgender individuals on the basis of their transgender status, they also

Fearing a backlash from parents, Disney has cut a transgender storyline from Pixar’s upcoming original animated sports series Win or Lose, a show about a co-ed middle school softball team. Pixar employees have previously accused Disney of censoring LGBTQ+ content from its animated projects. LGBTQ Nation contacted Disney and Pixar for comment and will update

Voters in Odessa, Texas, have overwhelmingly rebuked the city’s anti-trans reputation by replacing the three city council members who supported its infamous bathroom ban – and also by electing Odessa’s first-ever gay council member. Craig Stoker, executive director for the local Meals on Wheels, campaigned on improving the city’s infrastructure, while his opponent – incumbent

New York City Council member Chi Ossé Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos. Ossé, an anti-police brutality activist who

Oct 18, 2023; Washington, DC: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) nominates Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for Speaker of the House Fox Host Sean Hannity and anti-trans activist Riley Gaines railed against a new Google Shopping ad featuring a nonbinary influencer, claiming the company is sure to lose money the way Bud Light did for working with

This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. —  it then appeared on Mother Jones and has been republished with the publication’s permission. A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What remains is

LGBTQ+ parents are reportedly scrambling to secure their parental rights before Donald Trump takes the oath of office. Attorney Meghan Alexander told Advocate she usually receives about three calls a week from LGBTQ+ parents seeking second-parent adoptions. The week Trump won, she fielded 26 calls. Since then, they have just kept coming. Related: Project 2025,

Uproar Lounge in Washington, DC A neighborhood leather bar in Washington, DC is struggling in the aftermath of a massive insurance rate hike, and they’re asking for help from the community. Uproar, a bar for bears, their admirers and the leather community located on Florida Ave. in Northwest DC, has been a fixture in the

R&B singer and LGBTQ+ ally Tank is challenging the perception that a so-called “gay agenda” is an attack on Black masculinity. On the December 3 episode of the Holdin Court podcast, the singer – who made headlines in 2019 for saying that same-sex experimentation doesn’t necessarily make men gay – explained why he thinks the

“How many of you have been in group therapy?” That was the first question writer and filmmaker John Waters asked when he sat down recently with a group of superfans in Brookline, Massachusetts. He had just received a prestigious industry honor called the Coolidge Award and concluded an onstage ‘conversation’ with arts journalist Jared Bowen

In his run for the Wisconsin State Assembly this year, 31-year-old Christian Phelps identified with a political tradition that predates the young, gay candidate by over a hundred years: Progressivism, a reform movement born on college campuses in his home state at the height of the Gilded Age. It was an economic and political era

Congressman Chris Pappas speaks at the ribbon-cutting of Apple Ridge Apartments in Rochester on Thursday, August 18, 2022. Out gay Rep. Chris Pappas was one of 81 Democrats who voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday, a $895.2 billion military bill that included a provision restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Pappas

California Senator Laphonza Butler speaks at an event before Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage on June 24, 2024, in Phoenix. Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) was one of three out LGBTQ+ senators until last week. Butler, who was appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to the Senate to complete the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s

With a record number of social and political stressors facing young LGBTQ+ people, the Trevor Project has released a collection of advice given by young queers to their peers. The responses were taken from the organization’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People which made the following open-ended request to

A gay Spanish teacher has won $90,000 after suing her school district for allegedly punishing her for supporting LGBTQ+ students. Eileen Brennock filed a lawsuit claiming she was subject to a hostile work environment at Oregon’s Mountain View Middle School in the Newberg school district because she spoke out against Principal Terry McElligot, who she

The Vatican is organizing its first-ever pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Christians, their relatives and allies during its 2025 celebration of Jubilee, a Holy Year that only occurs every 50 years. The historic event is just the latest in numerous recent pro-LGBTQ+ overtures made by Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church. The pilgrimage — which is

Governor Phil Murphy attends the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemoration Launch at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in Manalapan, NJ Friday, November 1, 2024. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed the Freedom to Read Act into law on Monday, banning libraries and public schools from banning books. “Across the nation, we have seen

New court testimony casts doubt on 65-year-old Gerald Declan Radford’s claim that he fatally shot 52-year-old gay dog owner John Walter Lay in a Tampa area park on February 2 in self-defense. Radford is facing second-degree murder charges with possible hate crime enhancements. Radford reportedly testified that Lay had “completely” overpowered him and repeatedly hit

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) walks to a Republican members conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 as House lawmakers seek to elect a new speaker in Washington. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claims that she tried to have transphobic wrapping paper made but that the vendors she contacted refused to make it

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. After contemplating a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors Wednesday, the Supreme Court appears likely to greenlight the prohibition on the theory that nine humble justices are not the best arbiters of complex medical questions. It’s a theory of a

U.S. Republican Presidential former President Donald Trump speaks to attendees in a rally at the Bojangles Coliseum on July 24, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina With President-elect Donald Trump just weeks away from taking office again, same-sex couples are rushing to get married and start families before Inauguration Day. Legal experts say fears that marriage

For Joy Wright, “not being a mother was not an option.” But by the time she reached 34, she was, as she described in an essay for Buzzfeed, “single, lesbian and feeling desperate.” Related: “The path to parenthood as a queer person can be a marathon ― it takes stamina and determination,” she wrote. “Just

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. It seems like every week brings a few new instances of people making LGBTQ+ history. This week’s collection includes the world’s largest quilt, an award-winning trans

JULY 13, 2019: Munich rainbow refugees attending the Gay Pride parade also known as Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Munich, Germany. The Kenyan government is standing in the way of LGBTQ+ refugees seeking asylum in countries that are offering it, according to reporting from The Toronto Star. “It’s not a right as far as the

Nancy Mace at the 2024 Republican National Convention Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who has a long history of anti-trans politics, used a slur to refer to transgender people in a video she posted to social media. Last month, in response to the first transgender person getting elected to Congress – Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) –