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This fall, security forces in Belarus — the former Soviet republic and staging ground for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — raided the home of a gay couple in the Belarusian capital of Minsk and brutally beat them, according to reporting by the Associated Press. The university students said the officers were transparent

Every hot sauce fan has their favorite—and there’s a good chance that your favorite is Valentina, one of the most popular hot sauces in Mexico. But Valentina is more than just a great condiment; it’s named for a crossdressing hero of Mexican history, Valentina Ramírez Avitia. Ramírez Avitia sadly died in poverty, but the sauce

A blonde girl in a schoolgirl’s apron writes on the wall several times following “I will not write on the wall”. Stencil graffiti style. A mysterious tag by an anonymous graffiti artist is intriguing students around the campus of UCLA in Westwood, California. The simple, spray-painted message: “I’m gay.” Related: The tag made its first

There’s never been an openly queer Supreme Court Justice, but there’s evidence that Associate Justice William Francis Murphy is the first gay Justice. But that’s not the only reason the LGBTQ+ community should celebrate him: He was also a tireless fighter against prejudice in all forms and the first to use the word “racism” in

A heartwarming new ad from Hyundai Canada depicts married hockey superstars Brianne Jenner and Hayleigh Cudmore driving with one of their children. The sweet ad, affectionately named “Babies on Board,” shows Jenner driving while utilizing the new Hyundai Tucson’s baby mode feature. Jenner drives slowly and cautiously to keep the baby asleep before revealing a

Nowadays, there’s a ton of LGBTQ+ Christmas movies. But that certainly wasn’t always the case. The genre started in the 1970s and then laid dormant until 1995 for Home for the Holidays, a film that’s technically a Thanksgiving movie. There was another drought until 2000, when a slow trickle started with one or two queer

President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act yesterday, which included a provision stripping health care for the trans children of military personnel. The $895 billion bill was primarily focused on funding the military and increasing pay, housing and childcare for military personnel. However, right-wing members of Congress, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, inserted

A creepy masked nun looks for stabby fun in the Christmas horror movie “It’s a Wonderful Knife.” When it comes to Christmas movies, there are two kinds of people: Ones who go for the heartwarming rom-coms, the fun family adventures, the films about togetherness, comfort and joy… and then there are the people who just

An Ohio school district has paid a $450,000 settlement to a teacher who was forced to resign after refusing to address two students by their transgender names and personal pronouns. Vivian Geraghty was an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Stark County from August 2020 until August 26, 2022. Geraghty, a Christian, reportedly

Donald Trump speaks on the last day of Turning Point’s four-day AmericaFest conference on Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. After spending the last several years arguing women’s sports are being ruined by trans swimmers with arms that are “30 feet long” and weightlifters with super-strength, Donald Trump said that what he really wants to do

Actor Lukas Gage is opening up about feeling pressured to come out as gay and expressing sympathy for Kit Connor who he says faced a similar “witch hunt.” The Smile 2 star appears on the cover of the latest issue of Attitude, and in the accompanying profile Gage recalls dealing with the public perception that

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Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA on Monday, April 24, 2023. On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a tremendous loss. I thought I was going to cry.  On November 9, a month before her death,

Kristin Chenowith in 2023 Wicked star Kristin Chenoweth shot back at the conservative Christian group One Million Moms (OMM) for encouraging people to boycott the new film due to its “LGBTQ agenda.” “Everyone knows the ‘one million Moms’ are a mere few hundred. Maybe,” Chenoweth wrote in an Instagram comment on an article covering the

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