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A New York City drug dealer was found guilty of providing the fentanyl-laced heroin that killed transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. The man was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Gentili was found dead from a drug overdose in her New York City home on February 6th, 2024. She was 52. Related Pedro
A PBS-affiliated television station in New York has scrubbed its archives of at least three educational programs concerning transgender identities and drag expression. This comes during a time when President Donald Trump is targeting news stations — particularly PBS, NPR, and ABC News — for their allegedly biased criticism of him. Around March, the New
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Transgender allies are criticizing Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) for telling a right-leaning website that it’s “legitimate” for people to worry about the fairness of including transgender student-athletes, and implying that trans athletes threaten the safety of people’s “daughters.” One longtime gay journalist called Gallego’s comments “appalling.” Gallego is now one of five Democrats in Congress
A bar owner in South Carolina reportedly spied on a trans man while he used a women’s restroom stall and then called him anti-trans slurs shortly before police detained and charged the trans man for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. The trans man, who said he was sober and not creating a disturbance on the
Queer designer Prabal Gurung dishes on his work at the fashionable Met Gala and his new memoir, “Walk Like a Girl.” Originally Posted Here
President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to anti-LGBTQ+ former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), who pleaded guilty to felony tax fraud in December 2014 and served eight months in prison. In addition to smearing LGBTQ+ people and allies as pedophiles and child mutilators, he also threatened on live TV to kill a news
Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) has passed a law prohibiting the flying of Pride flags on government property and public schools. However, the law allows “historic flags,” like the Confederate flag, to be flown even though that flag represents support for Black slavery. House Bill 819 allegedly restricts any flags that “represent a political party,
Gay pathological liar and financial fraudster, former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), has deleted his personal X social media account after publishing a post claiming that he’s no longer seeking a presidential pardon for his upcoming 6.5-year prison sentence. Santos claimed he has accepted his fate after his “so called ‘friends’” told him to “go f— myself.” He
A former member of the Clinton administration has broken down why the massive budget bill the Republicans are calling the “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually the “ugliest thing ever seen.” Robert Reich, who served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor and is now a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley,
There will be parades all across the country this Memorial Day commemorating our U.S. service members who died while serving the country. But not all service members will be honored for their acts of service, bravery, and patriotism. Back in the day, LGBTQ+ service members who died in service were either closeted about their sexual
Last weekend, nude sunbathers in Seattle — where public nudity has been officially legal since 1990 — looked up from the lawn at Denny Blaine (a queer beach on the shore of Lake Washington) to find cops staring them down. The cops ordered them to put their clothes on. Related LGBTQ+ activists saved a beloved
Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Mr. Gay Omaha 2024 Craig Singletary. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk!
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
In a series of rushed hearings closed to the public at Apple’s request, a Moscow court on Monday fined the tech giant in three separate cases for violating Russia’s anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda laws. They’re the first cases brought against the company under the latest iteration of laws meant to erase LGBTQ+ identity, which President Vladimir Putin
The results are in, folks: Kids who grew up with two moms are thriving. Data shows that children who grow up in two-mom families fare just as well as other children, though the kids may tell you there was no need for academic to determine what they already knew. Social media has given these kids
A new study from Northeastern University in Boston reveals companies with LGBTQ+ board members outperform their rivals that don’t have the same representation. Fortune 500 companies with LGBTQ+ board members outperform their peers in both financial and non-financial metrics, according to research from Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Related Consumers increasingly support companies that keep their DEI
Amid the close of the second annual Pan-African Conference on Family Values, a gathering of anti-LGBTQ+ groups and politicians held in Nairobi, Kenya last week, two human rights activists are warning anti-LGBTQ+ animus on the continent is being fueled by far-right American organizations with the tacit approval of the Trump administration. Lorna Dias, outgoing executive coordinator
MAGA diehards are speaking out against Dr. Santa Ono, the sole finalist candidate to become the University of Florida, claiming that he’s too ideologically “woke” because he has spoken in favor of diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI) efforts. However, the university’s Board of Trustees is unanimously supporting him — as is Florida’s anti-DEI Gov. Ron
In a defiant show of diversity and inclusiveness, D.C. is painting the town in rainbows as the WorldPride DC 2025 celebration gets underway. “There’s color everywhere!” as Jack Skellington would sing it. Related Trump promised “NO MORE DRAG SHOWS” at Kennedy Center. Their new season is full of drag. At least four plays at the
Gold Diggers Football Club (GDFC), a trans-inclusive soccer team for women, nonbinary, and gender-expansive players in Hackney, England, has announced a pro-trans equality protest tournament for June. The tournament, entitled the Let The Dolls Play Tournament, will be in protest of the Football Association’s (FA) recent ban on transgender athletes competing on women’s teams. Weeks ago, the
Drag activist Pattie Gonia and other trans allies have displayed the largest trans Pride flag ever to be flown in a national park. A 55 x 35 foot flag has been hung from the side of the El Capitan rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park in an act of trans solidarity and a demonstration
A New York City judge has sentenced three men of color to decades in prison for lethally drugging and robbing two gay men they met in local gay bars during spring 2022. The men’s lawyers have all pledged to appeal their convictions. Judge Felicia Mennin sentenced 37-year-old Jayqwan Hamilton and 36-year-old Robert DeMaio for the
Transgender woman Michelle Rosenblum, of Ventura, California, has been planning a family vacation to Hawaii, but recent law changes regarding identification documents have made her wary of travel. After President Donald Trump’s election to a second term last November, Rosenblum had been rushing to get her identification in order as a safety precaution. Related Joel
The Supreme Court has restored the legislative voting rights of Republican Maine state lawmaker Laurel Libby after Democratic legislative leaders stripped her of those rights after she attacked a trans minor in a social media post that posted the trans student-athlete’s before- and after-transition pics, deadnamed her, and misgendered her. The court issued its decision in a brief,
A group of transgender women stood topless outside the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland last Saturday, in protest of the Supreme Court’s recent decision ruling that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s 2010 Equality Act is based on “biological sex” rather than gender identity. After the ruling, the Equality and Human
Kady Grass flew from her hometown of Delavan, Wisconsin to Carpentersville, Illinois to visit her grandparents and see her 13-year-old cousin’s May 13 choir concert. After the concert, she and her cousin visited a local McDonalds fast-food restaurant. But when Grass tried to enter the women’s restroom and found it occupied, two men at a
In a twist that raises more questions than answers, the two men who were convicted last week of felling the Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall in northern England were also arrested — but not charged — over a series of homophobic attacks that occurred around the same time they took down the iconic tree with
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) explained how she came up with the “Trump or Trans” game she used to destroy Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a hearing, a moment that subsequently went viral. “I needed to keep it simple,” she explained, before