LGBTQ

When Welsh drag performer James Lee Williams appeared on the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019 as The Vivienne, they made history and wowed fans by becoming the reality competition spinoff’s first-crowned champion. But when the 32-year-old performer unexpectedly died on January 5, many wondered about the cause of death. On Monday,

On Friday night, a gay bar in Indianapolis was the scene of a heated exchange between Donald Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats and bar staff who say they abused them. The bar staff threw them out. Related: “A group of individuals visited Chatterbox and intentionally misgendered and harassed a Chatterbox employee, resulting in them being

“I’m a dyke. I don’t wear lipgloss or anything like that,” my coworker said at lunch one day. She is a decade older than me. Her lesbian world and its definitions are lightyears away from mine.  “What’s that supposed to mean?” I ask.  Related Queer women candidates have been smashing glass ceilings across the US.

Washington, DC, USA, 8.23.24 – The front exterior of Bernard P McDonough Hall at Georgetown Law. A note sent to Georgetown Law Center by interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, declared it “unacceptable” that the school “continues to teach and promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion].” Martin demanded the school eliminate

President Donald J. Trump arrives at Trump International Golf Club, Sunday, February 3, 2019. President Trump was hosting his annual Super Bowl watch party at his golf club in West Palm Beach. Amid reports that Donald Trump’s frequent golf trips have cost American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, Lara Trump claims the president doesn’t

Kids gather for the West Allis Pride event’s “Drag Queen Story Hour,” to hear Princess Janelza read three children’s books. Can the state of a city’s drag community be an indicator of its economic vitality? Urbanist and author Nicholas Lalla thinks so. In a recent HuffPost op-ed, Lalla argues that the conservative moral panic around

The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey (R), signed a bill defining “man” and “woman” based on reproductive biology and erasing nonbinary and trans identities into law. “West Virginia will not bow down to radical gender ideology,” Morrisey said in signing the bill. Related: The bill, S.B. 456, made national headlines for a provision that

A parents’ rights activist, seated prominently between First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance at President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week, has lost her appeal over forced outing in Florida. A federal appeals court this week upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by January

Texas state Rep. Stan Gerdes (R) Texas legislator Rep. Stan Gerdes (R) has introduced The FURRIES Act, legislation to punish students who act like non-human animals in schools and penalize schools who allow this behavior. Anti-transgender Republicans claim that schools have been forced to accommodate students who identify as house pet “furries.” However, educators have

An annual shot to protect against HIV infection has successfully passed an early safety trial, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. The drug lenacapavir passed a critical Phase I testing trial and now may become a highly-effective and convenient form of HIV prevention. Related 11 HIV activists arrested after saying Trump USAID official has

Protesters raised the transgender flag outside the White House in July, 2017, to denounce Trump’s transgender military ban. A group of so-called “detransitioners” sponsored by groups including Moms for Liberty and funded by the federal government assembled on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to push the Trump administration’s false narrative that there are only two “immutable”

Comedian and former daytime talk show host Rosie O’Donnell has moved out of the U.S. to Ireland with her nonbinary child Clay following the re-election of President Donald Trump. She’s at least the second high-profile lesbian comedienne to do so, following Ellen DeGeneres. In a nine-minute TikTok video, O’Donnell reveal that she moved to Ireland

Rep. Lauren Boebert, (R-CO) at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) has introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for her “racist” and “ableist” comment criticizing Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for interrupting President Donald Trump’s congressional address last week. During her Friday appearance with the right-wing media broadcaster Real America’s Voice,

The creator of a women’s gym that has not yet opened in London originally promised that her business would be trans-inclusive, but has now walked back her promise with a message that implies that trans women are likely to sexually assault cis women, which is false. Fitness influencer Natalee Barnett has been talking about her

Protestors unfurl a 200-foot rainbow banner while dressed in pink and rainbow-colored accessories outside of the Utah state capitol building. Demonstrators unfurled a 200-foot rainbow banner in front of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday in protest of a H.B. 77, bill that would ban rainbow and transgender Pride flags as

Memos from the administration of President Donald Trump, revealed last Friday by the New York Times (NYT), have flagged over 100 words that government agencies should limit or avoid. The Times compiled a full list of the terms from government memos, official and unofficial agency guidances, and other documents.    The list contains mostly inoffensive phrases

Brandi Carlile/Elton John At a time when the world seems a lot scarier for LGBTQ+ youth, Elton John and Brandi Carlile are bringing a little hope to the table. On Wednesday, March 5, the duo released “Swing for the Fences,” the latest single from their upcoming collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels? According to Carlile,

Outspoken Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) did not mince words when speaking to a reporter about Donald Trump’s recent (and many would say, dystopian) address to Congress. “This is not what we should be doing,” she declared. “I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. Why are we fighting with Greenland? We’re fighting with Canada, we’re

TikTokers around the world are in tears after a New Yorker shared the emotional love story of his fiancé’s life and loss. In a series of pics taken at Hudson River Park in Manhattan, Jack Ciapciak recounted his surprise proposal at the riverside idyll in 2022. Related: Ciapciak led his soon-to-be fiancé, Jack Lorentzen, to

Suddenly the [police]wagon arrived and the mood of the crowd changed. Three of the more blatant queens—in full drag—were loaded inside, along with the bartender and doorman, to a chorus of catcalls and boos from the crowd. A cry went up to push the [police]wagon over, but it drove away before anything could happen… The

The Weekend co-hosts Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels Amid cratering ratings following the election of Donald Trump in November, MSNBC is revamping its lineup to include two out gay Black men on a new version of The Weekend. MSNBC vet Jonathan Capehart and newly named MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels join Jackie Alemany, the

LGBTQ rights activists protest SB14 at the Capitol of Texas Tuesday, May 2, 2023. SB14 would ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender children Tx Lege Trans Protest Mlc 00701 A Texas state representative has introduced legislation that would make being trans in Texas a “fraud” punishable by two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against a North Carolina school board after it shut down a student-led trivia game about prominent LGBTQ+ figures, claiming the game was “indecent.” The suit, filed Wednesday on behalf of one of the student organizers in the U.S. Court for the Western District of North Carolina, alleges the Cleveland

Protesters at the Cannon House Office Building demonstrating against cuts to USAID and PEPFAR. U.S. Capitol police arrested 11 HIV activists and charged them with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding” for protesting outside of a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday. The protestors targeted Peter Marocco, deputy administrator-designate for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),

Researchers have charted cultures as falling along a continuum with several variables, including individualism versus collectivism, which includes the degree of support for and emphasis on individual goals versus common or collective goals. Most of these same researchers place the U.S. and many other Western nations on the “individual” side of the continuum. “My philosophy, in essence, is

Donald Trump signs an executive order on Inauguration Day 2025. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s emergency request to withhold billions of dollars in foreign aid already approved by Congress.  Recipients and other nonprofit groups filed two lawsuits challenging the freeze as an unconstitutional overreach of presidential power that thwarted congressional appropriations for USAID,

President Donald Trump’s 99-minute address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday night focused mostly on economic and international issues. The event had few surprises apart from some protests from Democratic Congress members, one of whom had to be escorted from the chamber after interrupting Trump’s speech early into the event. While Trump attacked

President Donald J. Trump arrives at Trump International Golf Club, Sunday, February 3, 2019. President Trump was hosting his annual Super Bowl watch party at his golf club in West Palm Beach. The United States has withdrawn from the United Nations LGBTI Core Group, a collection of countries actively supporting the rights of LGBTQ+ and

Cassandra Peterson points at her (now-former) “Elon Sux” Tesla car after brandishing a chainsaw in a video she posted on her Instagram account. Cassandra Peterson — the sexually fluid actress who has played the gothic horror character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, since the early 1980s — recently posted Instagram videos mocking Elon Musk, the

In a court filing on Saturday, the Trump administration admitted that it can’t provide the data to prove trans service members are a threat to “honesty, humility, and integrity” in the U.S. military. The Justice Department lawyers said they don’t even know how many trans people are serving. Related: Trump’s executive order, “Prioritizing Military Excellence