Carl Nassib, the first openly gay NFL player, flexes while smiling before a game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Denver Broncos on 15 November 2020. (Getty/Ethan Miller) Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr says Carl Nassib, the first active gay NFL player, hasn’t been treated differently since he came out earlier this year.
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Former president Donald Trump brands US women’s football team ‘leftist maniacs’ and targets Megan Rapinoe’s purple hair in a rant. (Getty/Brandon Bell/Laurence Griffiths) Former president Donald Trump tried to burn Megan Rapinoe and the “wokesters” on the US women’s soccer team after they won bronze at the Olympics – and it failed so bad. Trump
A giant trans flag unfurled outside the US Supreme Court. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) Two trans children and their parents have sued the state of Tennessee over its reviled bathroom bill. The legislation, signed in May by Republican governor Bill Lee, allows students and parents to sue if a trans person is allowed to
DaBaby performs on stage during Rolling Loud at Hard Rock Stadium on 25 July 2021 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Getty/Rich Fury) DaBaby has issued a limp apology after his ugly “homophobic” rant about gay people and those living with HIV that led to several festivals dropping him. The rapper apologised in a lengthy statement Monday
Kathy Griffin attends The Queerties 2020 Awards Reception on 25 February 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) Comedian and actor Kathy Griffin has announced that she is having surgery after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The 60-year-old opened up about her diagnosis in a message posted across her social media platforms.
Daniel Smith (L) has been arrested in suspicion of the murder of trans woman Shai Loftin. (Facebook/Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office) Shai Loftin, a 23-year-old Black trans woman with a “heart of gold”, was slain in a tragic shooting while defended her “love” in Trenton, New Jersey. Described by those who knew her as a “super
Supporters of the #FreeBritney movement flew to Los Angeles from across the US to protest. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Britney Spears fans are furiously trying to have her former attorney Samuel Ingham investigated by the state bar amid her turbulent conservatorship battle. Ingham served as Britney’s probate lawyer for 13 years before resigning following the singer’s
(L-R) Dylan Welch, Jesse Pawlowski and Billy Phillips. (Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office A teenager, his boyfriend, his mother and her girlfriend were slain when a Grindr hook-up slipped into chaos when three men tried to steal a gun from him in Texas, police claimed. Jesse Pawlowski, 20, Billy Phillips, 37, and Dylan Welch, 21, have
A Drag Queen Story Time event. (Facebook/Drag Queen Storytime) The Alaska Department of Law has removed the state’s assistant attorney general over allegations he ran a secret social media account filled with anti-LGBT+, racist and antisemitic hate. According to an investigation by The Guardian newspaper, Matthias Cicotte allegedly mounted a Twitter account in a fake
A giant trans flag unfurled outside the US Supreme Court. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) West Virginia must pause enforcement of a new law that prohibits trans women and girls from participating in sports after a trans youth challenged the vile law. The West Virginia ban was “proudly” signed into law by Republican
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the assembly’s general secretary, resigned on 20 July 2021 amid “impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior”. (YouTube/United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) A top administrator for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has resigned after an investigation claimed to have tracked him using
Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old Black woman. (Twitter) Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old Black woman, was shot to death Saturday (17 July) in Maryland, US, in the latest transphobic killing that has left activists alarmed. Slain in her Suitland-Silver Hill apartment in Prince George’s County, Ashton, was found by law enforcement suffering from a gunshot wound. Ashton,
Aidelen Evans. (Port Arthur Police Department) Police are finally investigating the death of Aidelen Evans, a 24-year-old Black trans woman, as a homicide after she was found dead in March. Evans, described by family as a fun-loving woman, was found dead in a canal running adjacent to Motiva, the nation’s largest oil refinery, in the
Isaiah Brown was shot multiple times by a police officer who allegedly mistook his phone for a gun (Screenshot: YouTube/WUSA9) A grand jury has indicted Virginia deputy David Matthew Turbyfill for the April shooting of an unarmed gay Black man. Isiah Brown was on the phone with 911 when he was shot multiple times by
Trans kids have been targeted with a wave of Republican-backed laws in the US. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/ Getty) One mum’s response to a wave of anti-trans sports bans that could affect kids like her’s truly puts the meaning into the phrase “devoted parent”. Katie and her daughter, Maddie Jenifer, live in North Carolina – one of
Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer (L), Brittney Monique Mills (C) and Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo (R) were arrested over the shocking video. (Atlanta Police Department) Three people have been arrested on child cruelty charges after video footage was circulated online showing a 12-year-old boy being abused for doing “gay s**t”. Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, 18, Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, 19,
Tomi Lahren and Caitlyn Jenner. (Getty/ Michael S Schwartz and Getty/ Paul Archuleta) Anti-trans Fox News host and Donald Trump fanatic Tomi Lahren has surprising leapt to defend Caitlyn Jenner from “despicable” transphobia. Jenner, who is currently running as a conservative candidate for governor of California, was targeted with vile transphobic abuse when she attended the Conservative Political
Close-up of sign for an All Gender restroom against a wooden wall with yellow doorframe visible, San Ramon, California, 28 November 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) A federal judge has blocked a Tennessee law requiring businesses to post a notice if they allow trans people to use bathrooms that match their gender identity. The
White House press secretary Jen Psaki roasts former president Donald Trump for the time he spent “obsessing over social media” at 8 July 2021 press conference. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images/Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) White House press secretary Jen Psaki has epically burned former president Donald Trump over his troubling ‘obsession’ with social media. During a
“A Message From the Gay Community,” performed by the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus (YouTube) A gay men’s chorus released a hilarious video about “converting your children,” and conservatives lost their minds because they couldn’t comprehend the concept of satire. “A Message From the Gay Community” performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC)
Chantale Wong. (Facebook) Chantale Wong is set to become the first ever out lesbian appointed to an ambassador-level post after Joe Biden announced her nomination. The president announced that he was nominating Wong as United States Director of the Asian Development Bank with the rank of ambassador on Friday (2 July). Writing on Facebook, Chantale
After an Arkansas mother put up a Progress Pride flag on her home, she received an adorable note from a queer youth. (Stephanie Robertson/Instagram) A mother has received an adorable handwritten note from an LGBT+ youth all for hanging a Progress Pride flag outside her home in Paris, Arkansas all Pride Month-long. At a time
Britney Spears. (James Devaney/WireImage) Britney Spears reportedly dialled 911 to “report herself as a victim of conservatorship abuse”, according to an explosive The New Yorker investigation. In the latest dizzying twist in the saga of Britney’s conservatorship, the 39-year-old singer is understood to have phoned the police the day before her bombshell court testimony. Since 2008
Britney Spears (L) and Jamie Lynn Spears (R). (Getty Images) Jamie Lynn Spears has asked fans to “stop with the death threats” towards her and her family following Britney’s bombshell court hearing. Jamie Lynn, 30, has faced off against days-long backlash from fans of the “Toxic” hitmaker for not speaking out over her sister’s 13-year-long
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed the anti-trans sports bill into law. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) The parents of a 13-year-old girl have launched a federal lawsuit to challenge Florida’s reviled ban on trans girls taking part in school sports. Mounted by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest LGBT+ advocacy groups in the US,
Kataluna Enriquez. (Instagram) A trans woman has been crowned Miss Nevada USA for the first time in the pageant’s 69-year-long history. At the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas on Sunday (27 June), Kataluna Enriquez became the first openly trans Miss Nevada winner, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The 27-year-old had
Joe Biden delivered an empowering message of hope to LGBT+ youth in a message for the It Gets better Project. (YouTube) Joe Biden has delivered a powerful, urgent message of positivity and hope to America’s embattled LGBT+ youth. The president of the United States recorded a message for the It Gets Better Project, which shared
Britney Spears attends the 4th Hollywood Beauty Awards on 25 February 2018 in Hollywood, California.(Photo by JB Lacroix/WireImage) Britney Spears in an incendiary, impassioned and exactingly prepared speech to the courts Wednesday afternoon (23 June) has called for an end to her “abusive” conservatorship for good. Shattering her years-long silence regarding the complex legal arrangement that
A USA Pride flag. (Getty/ ISI photos/ Brad Smith) The most dangerous states for LGBT+ people in the whole of the United States have been ranked. A research team at home security and personal safety company Safe Home used data from over a dozen sources, including the FBI, the UCLA School of Law and the US
Protestors are calling for the Chicago police department to be defunded and for more support for trans rights and Black Lives Matter. (Twitter/@NoWarNoRacism) The second-ever Drag March for Change, in Chicago, saw hundreds take to the streets to demand support for Black Lives Matter and trans rights. Protestors met at Belmont Avenue and Halsted Street
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