Catholic Archdiocese Tells Schools to Reject Openly Trans Students
Transgender students who have taken any steps toward gender affirmation may be excluded from Catholic schools in central and southern Indiana under a new policy...
June 26, 2020
Nico Tortorella Helps Raise Funds for Equality on Stonewall Day
Today, June 6, is the third annual Stonewall Day, a global campaign created by Pride Live to help “elevate awareness and support for the Stonewall...
June 26, 2020
‘Transparent’ Creator Joey Soloway Corrects Interviewer on Pronouns
Even Joey Soloway gets pronouns wrong sometimes. In a new podcast interview with Prime Video Presents host Tim Kash, the nonbinary Transparent creator — who now...
June 26, 2020
Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season Cast Pose Together for Joyful Pride Pic
The holidays can’t come soon enough with Clea DuVall’s queer-themed holiday rom-com dropping in theaters in November. While there were plenty of cast updates about Happiest...
June 26, 2020
How Vegas’ New Gay Lounge The Garden Opened During a Health Crisis
Opening an LGBTQ+ business is never easy — especially in the middle of a health crisis.However, Eduardo Cordova (pictured) managed to do just that. His...
June 26, 2020
‘Drag Race’ Alum Gia Gunn Calls Pandemic a Hoax, Then Backtracks
RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Gia Gunn, who competed on season 6 of the show before appearing on season 4 of All Stars, called COVID-19 “a...
June 26, 2020
30 Images of Marriage Equality on the Day It Became Legal 5 Years Ago
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision that legalized marriage for same-sex couples throughout the United...
June 26, 2020
LGBTQ+ Activists, Allies Raise Funds for Black Trans Lives
Pride Live, a social advocacy and community engagement organization for the LGBTQ+ community, held its third annual Stonewall Day today. In partnership with Pride Media,...
June 26, 2020
8 LGBTQ+ Cannabis Leaders Tell Us Who Gives Them Pride
It’s unlikely we would have a legal cannabis industry in California (or anywhere) without the work of many trailblazing LGBTQ+ advocates. Cannabis has been used...
June 26, 2020
Gabon could be the next country to legalize homosexuality
Lawmakers in the African nation of Gabon voted earlier this week to decriminalize homosexuality. The National Assembly of the Christian-majority country voted earlier this week...
June 26, 2020
Taxpayer funded Catholic schools given secret edict to ban kids who don’t conform to gender norms
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is one of the most viciously anti-LGBTQ in the nation, and new leaked internal documents show that its using its Catholic...
June 26, 2020
After a man ripped down a small town’s Pride flag, the residents took to the streets
After a man ripped down the Pride flag flying in front of Watertown, New York city hall and dumped it into a city drop box,...
June 25, 2020
Republican slings transphobic insult at top COVID doctor because he doesn’t want to wear a mask
A local Republican official is refusing to apologize for deadnaming and misgendering Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine, who is leading the state’s fight against...
June 25, 2020
Bisexual People Were Erased From Coverage of the SCOTUS Ruling
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that Title VII protects LGBTQ+ employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. This ruling...
June 21, 2020
44 Famous Gay Dads for Father’s Day
Colm O’Gorman, the executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, and spouse Paul are raising their children to be activists. In 2015, his teenage daughter, Safia,...
June 21, 2020
Father’s Day: 4 Stories of Gay Dads and Their Foster Families
For Father’s Day, The Advocate teamed up with Extraordinary Families, a Los Angeles-based foster and adoption agency, to highlight LGBTQ+ dads showing the world that love...
June 20, 2020
Clea DuVall Says ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ Helped Her Come Out
Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Jamie Babbitt’s satirical conversion therapy movie But I’m a Cheerleader. In response, Clea DuVall, who...
June 20, 2020
Join Gia Gunn & Laganja for a ‘Drag Queen Mukbang’ With Jack Daniel’s
Bring an appetite, because Jack Daniel’s is serving up a “Drag Queen Mukbang!” The Tennessee whiskey brand has partnered with some of America’s top drag...
June 20, 2020
Key West just upgraded their rainbow crosswalks in a major way
On Monday, the city of Key West, Florida installed four permanent rainbow crosswalks in the heart of their LGBTQ entertainment district. In doing so, the...
June 20, 2020
Twenties’s Jonica ‘Jojo’ Gibbs on Black Queer Visibility in Hollywood
In Lena Waithe’s Twenties, which premiered earlier this year on BET, Jonica “Jojo” Gibbs plays Hattie, an aspiring TV writer who lands a plum job...
June 19, 2020
