LGBTQ

Disney Parks have long been known to host magical pride events that celebrate the LGBT community, attracting guests from all over the country for unofficial “Gay Days,” and other various pride celebrations. Now, one of the parks is inviting folks from all around the world to celebrate the first, official, sprawling event that will celebrate […]

New York has become the 15th state (plus the District of Columbia) to ban so-called “gay conversion therapy,” a controversial practice that critics say seeks to unnaturally overturn a child’s innate sexual orientation and is tantamount to torture. As the New York Times reports, New York was comparatively slow in coming to ban the practice. […]

The city of Denver has decided that conversion therapy for LGBT youth will no longer be allowed. Last week, the city’s council voted unanimously, 13-0, to ban the treatment, according to a report by Fox News. It was the Safety, Housing, Education and Homeless Committee that decided to advance the proposal, with Mayor Michael Hancock […]

The Drag Queen Story Hour will go on at a Houston public library, after a judge rejected a lawsuit that claimed the program is an attempt to indoctrinate kids into a religion, in violation of the First Amendment. As KHOU-TV reports, the Heights Branch of the Houston Public Library system has, for some time now, […]

A teacher in West Point, Virginia, just 40 miles to the east of the state’s capital city, was fired by the school district he teaches in this week because he refused to acknowledge the preferred pronouns of a transgender student in his class. Peter Vlaming, who taught French at West Point High School up until […]

In June, Angela Ponce was named Miss Spain 2018 after outshining 22 other Spanish beauty contestants to earn the coveted title. After her momentous win, the model and activist will now move on to represent her country as the first openly transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe pageant, which will be held in […]

A video showing a woman breaking into a bathroom stall as a transgender student is sitting on the toilet with her pants down was recently posted on social media and is provoking criticism of Osseo Senior High School in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The student took the video with her phone, which shows a school administrator […]

The president of popular gay dating app Grindr, Scott Chen, recently declared his personal feelings and opinions about marriage in a Facebook post. His comments, in which he declares, “marriage is a holy matrimony between a man and a woman,” has sparked a backlash within the company, reported the Guardian. Scott Chen became president of […]

A gay man who was recently profiled with his husband about being Trump supporters attacked critics on social media by saying “we will gas you” and using other inflammatory language that has alarmed and outraged the LGBT community. The Trump supporter, Bryan Eure, was profiled in the New York Times along with his husband Bill […]

The GOP holds a 31-29 seat advantage over Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives. As a result, Republicans were able to select the next speaker of the House, and they chose Russell “Rusty” Bowers. Rep. Bowers has been an off-and-on high-ranking political figure since 1993, when he was first elected to serve as an […]

A college in New Jersey provided its students with a chance to select which new restaurant they’d like to have on campus — but they deliberately decided to exclude Chick-fil-A from the list. In the spring of this year, students at Rider University were given an option to vote for their top choice of restaurant […]

Transgender people 14-years-old and older in Chile will now be legally allowed to change their gender marker on official documents thanks to a bill signed into law by President Sebastian Pinera today. Chilean activists have been fighting for nearly five years to pass such a law, which human rights groups are praising as “historic,” according […]

A group of around 100 asylum-seekers made it to the United States border ahead of the rest of the thousands of people traveling in the caravan, Rolling Stone is reporting. This group separated from the majority of the group to form their own caravan within a caravan — a group for people in the LGBTQ […]

Over the years, the LGBTQ+ community has faced its share of setbacks in the fight for inclusion and proper representation in media, but it seems things might finally be looking up. According to an annual report published by GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer characters […]

Two female U.S. Army veterans who are married to one another say that Phoenix landlord Gary Faulkinbury refused to rent to them, telling them to come back once Trump is out of office, Yahoo! News is reporting. Faulkinbury has since apologized. Alyssa Gillaspy and her wife, Kara Gillaspy, both served in the U.S. Army. Alyssa […]

It has been four years since Tim Cook made history by becoming the first head of a Fortune 500 company to announce that he is gay, and when addressing his sexuality today, the Apple CEO rehashed the same metaphor that he used to express his liberation then. “I’m very proud of it. To me, it […]

Caitlyn Jenner has supported President Donald Trump in the past, but has announced she changed her mind, USA Today is reporting. Jenner wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post that was published on Thursday, October 25, denouncing the president. Recently, a memo was leaked to the press that showed the administration was attempting to alter […]

A drag queen spoke to Colorado middle school students about performing in drag as part of the school’s Career Day, and some parents are less than happy about it. As KCNC-TV (Denver) reports, Rocky Top Middle School, in Thornton, invited a variety of adults to speak to the 6th- through 8th-graders about their career options. […]

The Trump administration has issued new restrictions on the civil rights of transgender and non-binary people. Rolling Stone reports that the administration is considering restricting the definition of gender to be based on a person’s genitalia at birth. The New York Times obtained a memo that stated that the Department of Health and Human Services […]

The New Zealand government has lifted the cap on gender reassignment surgery after building up a 30-year waiting list and plans to dramatically increase the number of surgeries available to transgender patients, reports the Guardian. The number of publicly funded surgeries was previously capped at three male-to-female surgeries and one female-to-male every two years, resulting […]

According to the Huffington Post, this election season is unprecedented for the LGBTQ community, with 244 candidates who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer running for office. One of the most predominate game-changers is Christine Hallquist, who “won the Democratic primary in Vermont and became the nation’s first openly transgender candidate for governor […]

According to Vice Magazine, Khalid Abdel-Hadi, an openly gay Muslim man who started the magazine, My.Kali, when he struggled to find representations of himself and his friends in a part of the world that is still unaccepting of his identity and community. This was not Abdel-Hadi’s original intended route into the magazine world, but when […]

A gay teenager asked the straight captain of the high school football team to be his homecoming date, and as LGBTQ classmates and allies cheered and wiped away tears, he said yes. As Yahoo Lifestyle reports, last Thursday, October 11, was National Coming Out Day (October is LGBTQ History Month). Alexander Duarte, who is gay, […]

The legendary winner from this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race is proving that she is a force to be reckoned with. Aquaria (whose out-of-drag name is Giovanni Palandrani) shared photos on her Instagram of her newest endeavor — a clothing line. It’s not just any clothing line either, Aquaria is collaborating with the legendary Moschino […]

Matthew Shepard, whose death 20 years ago shocked a nation and led to national hate crime legislation, will have his ashes interred at the Washington National Cathedral after a service remembering him, WRC-TV reported. Shepard’s parents decided on the National Cathedral as his resting place because their son felt welcomed in the Episcopal church that […]

Kaycee Clark walked away from Wednesday night’s finale of Big Brother $500,000 richer. The pro-footballer won Season 20 by just a single jury vote over fan-favorite Tyler Crispen — who was celebrated by viewers for his amazing gameplay. However, fans are also celebrating Kaycee’s win for another reason. Kaycee is the first openly lesbian winner […]

Four years ago, a 14-year-old in Britain was found hanged after allegedly reporting to friends that she was afraid she wouldn’t be accepted by her church or her parents for exploring her sexuality. Manchester Evening News reports that the girl, Lizzie Lowe, had been questioning whether or not she was a lesbian. Apparently, the girl […]

The Los Angeles Lakers announced that the organization will host its first-ever Pride Night on Oct. 4, the team announced on Friday in a statement. The celebration will take place during a preseason game against the Sacramento Kings at the Staples Center. The night will “celebrate diversity, inclusion, and unity by hosting members and supporters […]

Until just recently, the Kenyan romantic drama Rafiki was banned in its home country. This was due to the ruling that the film “promoted” homosexuality, which is still technically illegal in the east African country. While Rafiki flourished as the first selected Kenyan film at the Cannes Film Festival, Kenyan citizens were not allowed to […]

September 23 marks the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day. Also referred to as International Celebrate Bisexuality Day, this LGBTQ holiday was founded in 1999 to shed light on biphobia and help individuals learn more about the bisexual community. This day also kicks off Bisexual Awareness Week which runs until September 30. It was during […]

Bert & Ernie aren’t gay after all. Mark Saltzman, the Sesame Street writer who this week seemingly suggested that he intended the pair to be a gay couple, is now walking back those remarks, saying they were “misinterpreted.” As previously reported by the Inquisitr, on Tuesday Saltzman reportedly revealed that the beloved characters, who share […]

A writer from the beloved children’s television show Sesame Street has revealed that puppets Bert and Ernie, who shared an apartment on the show, are a same-sex couple, reports The Sun. The true nature of Bert and Ernie’s friendship has been long-debated since the show first aired in 1969 and the speculation can now finally […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration and its supporters during a recent speech at the Human Rights Campaign annual LGBTQ dinner, per Newsweek. Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden spoke alongside other progressive politicians like Virginia state delegate Danica Roem, former Attorney General Eric Holder, and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams […]

Trixie Mattel has already made drag queen “herstory” this year. The 29-year-old Milwaukee native has topped the Billboard Charts with two albums and a Christmas EP, starred in her own show alongside Katya Zamalodchikova on Viceland, and was crowned the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 3. Now she has officially just released a […]

In an exclusive for People, RuPaul was featured in a clip from the upcoming documentary Susanne Bartsch: On Top. The documentary plans to honor Susanne Bartsch, who was known as a party icon in the 1980s and a champion of LGBTQ+ rights. The documentary is set to open in Los Angeles on September 7 with […]

Two Malaysian women, aged 22 and 32, were convicted under Islamic law of attempting to have sex and were publicly caned as punishment, reports The Guardian. The incident took place at the Sharia High Court in Malaysia’s conservative northeastern state of Terengganu on Monday. Two female prison officers gave each woman six strokes of a […]

Advocates for intersex children have been fighting against so-called ‘corrective’ surgeries for decades and California just made history by becoming the first U.S. state to denounce these surgeries. California State Legislature passed a resolution on Tuesday which took a firm stand against medically unnecessary procedures on children who were born with intersex conditions. The resolution […]

The U.K.’s LGBTQ homeless community will be getting its first permanent crisis shelter to address the growing number of people sleeping on the street, reports NBC. The U.K. is facing a growing epidemic as homelessness increases at an alarming rate — a recent government report marked homelessness as a “national crisis.” Between 2010 and 2016, […]

In a shocking discovery by the Telegraph, Facebook was caught running ads that were discriminatory and predatory towards LGBT youth. The company took the ads down after the publication exposed the advertisements, but it wasn’t before many people were targeted for the “gay cure” messaging that has been slammed for being “aggressive and manipulative.” One […]

When Daniel Murphy takes the field, teams know that they are going to see a guy that can hit.300, drive in some runs, and provide defensive flexibility in the infield. Off the field, whoever he plays for knows that they are going to have to deal with questions from the press regarding his anti-LGBT beliefs. […]

The mayor of a Louisiana city is trying to shut down a proposed “Drag Queen Story Hour” at the library, USA Today is reporting. Delta Lambda Phi, a national social fraternity for gay men founded in 1986, scheduled the event for the Lafayette Public Library in Lafayette, a city of about 130,000 people, 120 or […]

NBC News reported on Friday that a new report has determined that strict voter ID laws can actually end up disenfranchising transgender voters. According to a recent report from the Williams Institute, poll workers are fully responsible for deciding “whether a voter’s identification accurately identifies the voter and matches the information listed in the voter […]

An immigration official in Austria rejected the asylum bid of an Afghan teenager because he did not exhibit stereotypical gay behavior, a report that has been brought to light by TIME said. According to an official, the teenager had no fear of facing homophobia and therefore did not need to seek asylum in Austria. His […]

Alleging religious persecution, the Colorado baker who became a national figure after he refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple and won at the Supreme Court level is suing the state once again. This time, he refused to bake a cake for a transgender woman who is celebrating her transition. Jack Phillips, […]

Christine Hallquist beat three other candidates to become the first transgender candidate for governor nominated by a major party, according to The New York Times. Hallquist won the Democratic party nomination for governor of Vermont. She is running on a progressive platform that is focused on social and economic issues, including a $15 minimum wage […]

Classes were cancelled at an Oklahoma school in the town of Achille for two days after parents of students at said school hurled threats at a 12-year-old transgender student. The outpouring of violent threats began after parents at the school discovered that the student, whose name is withheld to protect her privacy and safety, used […]

According to NBC News, former Vice President Joe Biden launched a new campaign through his foundation on Tuesday to help raise awareness about the importance of family acceptance and support for LGBTQ+ youth. Titled “As You Are,” the campaign has vowed to research and pinpoint the various damages that being rejected by one’s family can […]

An Ohio postal worker is accused of calling two gay men a homophobic slur and refusing to deliver their mail, WBNS-TV (Columbus) is reporting. Michael Coward and his fiance, Michael Vaughn, say the dispute began when the postal worker, who has not been identified as of this writing, got upset with Coward for trying to […]

Over 400,000 people gathered in Brighton for the city’s annual Pride celebration on Saturday, with superstar Britney Spears headlining the concert. The seaside city hosted fans and supporters dressed in rainbow colors and elaborate costumes for the largest Pride celebration to date. Police cars and fire engines were decorated with rainbow colors as well, drawing […]

Russian police have arrested 25 gay activists who took part in a pride rally in the city of Saint Petersburg, The Independent reports. A few dozen activists gathered at an unsanctioned pride rally in the second-largest Russian city Saturday afternoon, in an effort to protest a ban on the rally imposed by Vladimir Putin’s government. […]