New Orleans braces for superspreader event as monkey vaccine remains scarce
Author: Greg Owen As New Orleans braces for a massive influx of LGBTQ community members for the annual Southern Decadence festival in the Crescent City,...
August 6, 2022
Trans cyclist stripped of silver medal in the middle of competition
Author: Greg Owen Leia Genis, a trans cyclist competing in USA Cycling events since June, was unceremoniously stripped of a silver medal last week for...
August 6, 2022
Right-Winger Calls for LGBTQ+ People to Be Put in Camps Over Monkeypox
Author: Trudy Ring A supporter of Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, has called for LGBTQ+ people to be put into camps to...
August 6, 2022
Hate groups are registering as churches now. 40 Congressmembers want the IRS to investigate.
Author: Daniel Villarreal Forty members of Congress have written an open letter asking the IRS and Treasury Department to investigate the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family...
August 6, 2022
Anne Heche Critically Injured in Auto Accident in Los Angeles
Author: Trudy Ring Actress Anne Heche, the former partner of Ellen DeGeneres, was critically injured in a car crash in Los Angeles Friday morning. Heche’s...
August 5, 2022
Florida Medical Board Votes to Ban Kids’ Gender-Affirming Care
Author: Christopher Wiggins The Florida Board of Medicine Friday took a first step toward banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The board voted to “consider”...
August 5, 2022
Angelica Ross to Be First Trans Lead in Broadway’s ‘Chicago’
Author: Isabella A. Lieberman Angelica Ross is making history in her Broadway debut as the first trans lead in the revival of the musical Chicago,...
August 5, 2022
Human Rights Campaign Sues Tennessee Over Anti-Trans Restroom Law
Author: Trudy Ring A transgender girl and her parents have sued to challenge a Tennessee law that bars students and staffers in public schools from...
August 5, 2022
White House Monkeypox Response Team Gives Update to LGBTQ+ Community
Author: Christopher Wiggins President Joe Biden’s newly appointed monkeypox response deputy coordinator, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, held a briefing Friday afternoon during which he addressed concerns...
August 5, 2022
This state attorney was suspended by Ron DeSantis for respecting trans kids. He’s not going quietly
Author: Daniel Villarreal Andrew Warren (D) — the recently suspended state attorney for Hillsborough County, Florida — has accused Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of “trying...
August 5, 2022
Sinema Endorses Biden Spending Bill – Will Other Changes Follow?
Author: Trudy Ring Kyrsten Sinema has agreed to a deal on legislation that addresses climate change and health care after having been the lone Democratic...
August 5, 2022
Hysteria Over LGBTQ+ Books Might Close a Michigan Library Forever
Author: Christopher Wiggins Due to an issue over the availability of LGBTQ+ resources in a western Michigan public library, a dispute arose concerning the facility’s millage...
August 5, 2022
How NBA Legend Bill Russell Helped Rick Welts Come Out
Author: John Casey Throughout his remarkable life, NBA legend and activist Bill Russell was always referred to as a “giant,” not only because of his...
August 5, 2022
‘Looking For Lesbians’ at ONE Archives Explores Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Author: Christine Linnell Lesbian pulp novels are a form of literature that grew from the 1950s and 60s, when the LGBTQ+ community was part of...
August 5, 2022
Superstition isn’t a cure for queer people
Author: Aman Singh Sahil (name changed on request), a 17-year-old gay teenager from Uttar Pradesh, was aware that his family would never accept his queer...
July 31, 2022
Disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard faces new allegations of gay sex abuse & drug use
Author: Greg Owen Evangelist Ted Haggard, who was ex-communicated from his own church in 2006 following allegations he regularly paid for a male escort and...
July 30, 2022
Amelia Earhart statue unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda to represent Kansas
Author: Greg Owen Amelia Earhart has landed. 85 years after the trailblazing aviator and feminist disappeared on the final leg of her circumnavigation of the...
July 30, 2022
Man arrested in shooting death of transgender woman
Author: Daniel Villarreal A 26-year-old Black transgender woman and LGBTQ activist named Keshia Chanel Geter was shot to death in an Augusta, Georgia hotel parking...
July 30, 2022
LGBTQ advocates sue Ghana’s government after human rights workshop raid
Author: John Russell Two lawsuits filed on behalf of attendees of a 2021 LGBTQ human rights training workshop in Ghana offer some hope for the...
July 30, 2022
Low Monkeypox Vaccine Supply Means Some Have Traveled to Canada For It
Author: Trudy Ring Some U.S. residents are traveling to Canada in search of a vaccine for monkeypox, or MPV. With vaccine supplies limited, a Seattle...
July 30, 2022
