Gender-Policing ‘Jokes’ Are Costing LGBTQ+ Lives
Gender policing? Ever hear of it? Let’s talk about it. I recently got into a social media scuff with an acquaintance over a comedic video...
January 15, 2021
The Failed Coup Robbed Us of Georgia Joy
Monday, January 4, began my first official week as the new executive director of Equality Federation. I was ready to hit the ground running by...
January 15, 2021
Mississippi may ban trans people under 21 from receiving healthcare
In a potential first, Mississippi is attempting to prevent anyone from receiving transition-related healthcare if they are under the age of 21. That would restrict...
January 15, 2021
Gay Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney Was Ready to Fight Off Mob at Capitol
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the gay Democrat who represents a congressional district in New York State’s Hudson Valley, was ready to physically fight back against...
January 15, 2021
Ken Jones, Pioneering Black Gay Activist, Dies at 70
Ken Jones has died at age 70. The pioneering Black gay activist, who worked for decades to desegregate the LGBTQ+ movement, passed from cancer at...
January 15, 2021
Ohm Phanphiroj Photos Show Cigarettes, Motels, and Desire
Ohm Phanphiroj is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, traveler, thinker, lover, loner, inspirer, an provocateur. Ohm creates an atmosphere in his books that is both dangerous...
January 15, 2021
Baby Yors Premieres His New Steamy Video for ‘Like a Gun’
In the sexy video for “Like a Gun,” Baby Yors dances around an empty room like his life depends on it, gyrating, spinning, and leaping...
January 15, 2021
Franklin Graham compares Trump’s impeachment to Jesus dying on the cross
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham threw his support behind Donald Trump throughout his 2016 campaign and ascension to the presidency, and most of the evangelical community...
January 15, 2021
Don’t You Dare Lionize Mike Pence
Let’s say that during both World Wars, respective Vice Presidents Thomas Marshall and Henry Wallace told their bosses that they were too afraid to fight?...
January 14, 2021
The Story Behind Search Party’s Unscripted Three-Way Kiss
Search Party kicked off its fourth season with a flash of polyamory. In the premiere, which debuted Thursday on HBO Max, characters Drew (John Reynolds),...
January 14, 2021
Religious leader claims COVID vaccine turns people gay
A popular rabbi is claiming that the vaccine for COVID-19 “could make you gay.” The haredi Rabbi Daniel Asor said in a rant on social...
January 14, 2021
Hate group leader blames the Capitol riots on a lack of “polite conversation” & God in politics
Tony Perkins, the leader of the SPLC-designated hate group Family Research Council, has officially condemned the riot that led to five dead at the U.S....
January 10, 2021
A Gay Trump supporter crowdfunded his trip to DC & is now bragging about storming the Capitol
Mark Hutt, a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist and creator of the LGBTrump social pages, was present in the attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five...
January 10, 2021
Twitter bans Donald Trump & takes down his account after years of antagonism
Donald Trump has finally received a permanent suspension from Twitter. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them...
January 9, 2021
Tommy Lasorda’s Legacy Includes Silence Over HIV and His Gay Son
I was a rabid baseball fan growing up. I even won baseball trivia contests. I could name every MVP in history, both American and National...
January 8, 2021
Trump Jr. Incited Capitol Mob With Anti-Transgender Rant
At the same rally where his father encouraged supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump Jr. lambasted transgender athletes. Trump Jr. stirred the...
January 8, 2021
Pro Cyclist Comes Out as Gay
Meulebeke, Belgium hosts the Belgian cyclo-cross national championship this weekend, and one contender announced he is gay ahead of the competition. Justin Laevens, one of...
January 8, 2021
How Big Freedia Is Getting Through Lockdown and Losing Her Mom
With the pandemic lockdown stretching into 2021, we’re more in need of inspiration than ever. Fortunately for hip-hop fans — or anyone looking for an...
January 8, 2021
A Look Back at 2020: The Year That Changed Everything
Henry van Ameringen, a gay man who donated millions of dollars to LGBTQ+ and HIV organizations, died September 9 at age 90. Ash Christian, an award-winning...
January 8, 2021
Trump Mob Chases Lindsey Graham From Airport Terminal: ‘Traitor!’
Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who was an ardent critic of Donald Trump until the latter was elected president, was rushed away from...
January 8, 2021
