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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, and this

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 think you know one

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the city of Denton for hosting the “Big Gay Swim Day,” a private Pride month pool event scheduled for June 7 at the city’s Civic Center. Paxton alleged that the event’s changing rooms will violate the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The state law requires publicly-funded sex-segregated spaces — like

Chicago, Illinois. Oct. 3, 2025. Gregory Bovino visits with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at the ICE facility in Chicago to observe enforcement operations | Shutterstock Gregory Bovino — the now-former tactical commander-at-large for U.S. Border Patrol official who oversaw the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaigns in U.S. cities before Trump removed him last

State Sen. Scott Wiener (D) of California, a gay and Jewish candidate for Congress from San Francisco, is speaking out over a decision by organizers of Rome Pride to bar a major Jewish LGBTQ+ organization from the event because it “failed to distance itself from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.” “This is straight up antisemitic

The Southern United States’ first out lesbian Episcopal bishop was officially installed as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina last Saturday. The Rev. Sarah Fisher, 54, was elected last November by a simple majority on the third ballot, the Christian Post reports. In her response to essay questions provided to the

Folks online are delighted by Spice Girl Mel C’s response to a question on speculation around her sexuality in the nineties, when the Spice Girls were at the height of their fame. The exchange took place on the Mitch Churi Chat Show podcast earlier this month. Churi, who is gay, asked Mel, whose full name

Blood donations in England are way up, as the National Health Service benefits from eligibility changes that have brought more gay and bisexual men to their local donation sites. A recent survey found that 7.5% of male blood donors now report that they’re bisexual, gay, pansexual, queer, bicurious, or sexually fluid, SceneMag reports. That number

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld yesterday defended maggots being fed to detainees at the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. A majority of the detainees there have not been convicted of any crimes but are being held as part of a “civil” legal process. During an installment of

A British evangelical Christian man who sued the U.K. government for “religious discrimination” after his government employer refused to accommodate his discomfort of LGBTQ+ symbols had his lawsuit dismissed by a tribunal, according to a Daily Mail article published yesterday. Mark Jennings accepted a job with U.K. Department for Work and Pensions in June 2024,

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, speaks after losing the Republican Primary Election against Ed Gallrein at his election party in Hebron, Kentucky, on Tuesday May 19, 2026. | Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK This article is offered exclusively to members, those who contribute monthly or annually to LGBTQ Nation. Already a member? Log in.

Bari Weiss, the transphobic lesbian editor-in-chief of CBS News, was notably absent last night at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards in Manhattan, where a scholarship recipient told the audience that Weiss’ leadership at the news network “stains the legacy” of one of its most famous journalists. The day after, Weiss tore apart the veteran

Washington Dc, United States, May 4 2025: President Trump returns to the White House and speaks to the press after spending the weekend in Mar-a-lago. | Shutterstock Following President Donald Trump’s third hospital visit in 13 months, physician and MS NOW medical analyst Vin Gupta told the media outlet Zeteo on Wednesday that one of

Community members surrounding the White County High School of Cleveland, Georgia are standing up to those upset over the fact that students elected transgender student Willow Polangco-Kenney as their prom king last month. Polangco-Kenney herself has spoken out, noting that people’s hatred has overlooked the prom queen’s beauty and the student body’s love and support.

(L-R) Bettina Anderson and Donald Trump, Jr arrive ahead of President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025. | © Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding to model Bettina Anderson occurred on a small private island

Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ruled on Tuesday that Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine, an anti-transgender campaign, submitted invalid and forged signatures in its bid for a November ballot measure that sought to ban trans students from school sports and restrooms. As a result, the measure will not appear on the voting ballot this

Quakers, like most Protestant denominations, hold differing views of homosexuality within their ranks. But no other mainstream Protestant religion has embraced LGBTQ+ identity like the Quakers, known officially as the Religious Society of Friends. The clearest example is a text promulgated over seven years in meetings by a group of Quaker writers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and

Gay actor Colman Domingo recently opened up about the way his family embraced him after he came out to them in the 1990s. In an interview with Men’s Health, Domingo spoke about his touching experience coming out to his older brother Derek, the first person he told. Derek had taken him to a strip club,

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is shaping up to be the biggest movie of the year, and right-wing voices are furious at it.  “Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey,” wrote Elon Musk on X. Musk, alongside hundreds of right-wing culture warriors algorithmically boosted on his platform, have spent the past few weeks fuming over the

A district court judge has rejected Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s bid to force plaintiffs in a lawsuit over alleged sexual abuse to identify themselves publicly. Judge James K. Bredar ruled earlier this month that the men can each continue to be known publicly as “John Doe” during the pretrial phase of their lawsuit against McMahon

Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden spoke directly to mothers of queer children during a speech at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s A Place We Call Home gala on May 16. “The people I need to talk to tonight are old, staunch, stubborn families,” said Harden, according to Variety. “Families who don’t accept the queer community, and

Married couple Whitney LaMora and Zoe Schor are working to make Chicago history. The couple is in the midst of building the city’s first lesbian-owned hospitality group with an exclusive focus on opening more queer spaces. Friend of Dorothy Bars, as the group is called, currently includes the lesbian cocktail lounge Dorothy Downstairs in the

Republican members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced H.R. 8705 on Thursday. The bill would ban federally funded civics and history programs from promoting “radical indoctrination” or “gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology,” scare words that refer to transgender identities and anti-racist education. The bill — the Civics and History Advancement

Rhode Island Hospital has started sending records related to trans youth patients getting gender-affirming care to the court of federal Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas, in order to comply with his recent order for the documents. The Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded the records even though there is no formal investigation into the hospital, and

Senate Republicans left Congress today for a month-long recess, following an explosive meeting in which 25 of them told acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that they opposed President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion slush fund to compensate alleged victims targeted by “political weaponization” from former-President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. These so-called “victims” would include

Right-wingers are falsely claiming that the two teenagers accused of lethally shooting three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, May 18 are transgender and dating. There is absolutely no evidence that the suspects — 17-year-old Cain Clark or 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez — are either trans or dating, PolitiFact reported. Most notably,

AAPI Heritage Month is a chance to celebrate the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities that shape culture in ways both obvious and overlooked. That includes the queer founders, artists, drag performers, and entrepreneurs building brands that feel personal, specific, and very much worth knowing about. Some of the businesses below are rooted directly in AANHPI

The meme that landed Larry Bushart in jail for 37 days. | Larry Bushart’s Facebook page Taxpayers in Perry County, Tennessee will pay a $835,000 to 61-year-old former police officer Larry Bushart to settle his lawsuit after the county sheriff imprisoned him for 37 days just for posting a meme. The settlement was announced Wednesday.

Colorado Police last Thursday arrested Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old now-former chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, for allegedly trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a child. Rivera resigned immediately following his arrest. Agents from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office posed online as minors offering sexual acts for sale. Investigators charged Rivera with soliciting

Brooklyn police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez for allegedly stabbing his 41-year-old transgender fiancee Eryka Caldwell to death in her Bushwick, New York apartment on Sunday morning. Caldwell had reportedly tried to kick Fernandez out of the apartment before the slaying, The New York Post reported. Fernandez’s lawyer is now claiming that she attacked him with