LGBTQ

Transgender activist Sarah McBride won the Democratic nomination for Delaware’s state Senate seat, according to The Hill. By winning the nomination on Tuesday, it brought McBride one step closer to becoming the nation’s highest-ranking transgender elected official. McBride won over 91 percent of the vote for her party’s primary, according to CNN. In a series […]

According to Pink News, Robbie Coltrane, who played Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, said that he stood by J.K. Rowling following the announcement of her new novel, which caused the bestselling author to be accused of transphobia. In the plot of Rowling’s new book, Troubled Blood, a male serial killer dresses as a […]

Nicole Maines is best known for her role as Nia Nal/Dreamer on The CW’s Supergirl, but the actress is also playing a major role as a trans activist off-screen. In a recent interview, Maines took a moment to explain how her definition of Pride has shifted this year, while highlighting her ultimate LGBTQ icon, according […]

Lena Waithe believes Hollywood needs more black, queer creatives to work on its projects. The Chi creator was a part of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter‘s virtual Pride Summit and Prom event. During the event, E! News reports that Waithe and Jonica T. Gibbs, who stars in Waithe’s show, Twenties, had a conversation about representation […]

Actress and activist Rosario Dawson decided to come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community in a recent interview. The Rent star spoke to Bustle and shared that she was a part of the LGBTQ+ community two years after she caused speculation about her sexuality on social media. According to Hollywood Life, Dawson captioned […]

Rick Cosnett, who previously starred in the CW series, The Flash, came out as gay on Valentine’s Day in an Instagram video, reports Entertainment Weekly. The actor filmed himself in a selfie-style video. He started by saying, “Hi everyone. Dramatic pause. I’m gay.” The charming video continued with the Australian actor discussing why he felt […]

Emmy winner Lena Waithe and her wife Alana Mayo are ending their marriage two months after they went public with their union. E! News was the first to report that the Queen and Slim writer, 35 and Mayo, 34 have decided to split after several years together. The outlet reports that both women released a […]

A Tennessee town has canceled a Christmas parade after a planned float spurred threats of violence, The Tennesseean reports. Apparently, some residents took offense to the float’s LGBTQ theme. However, plans are afoot to make the parade happen, possibly on an alternate day. The town of Troy, along the Kentucky border, announced in a Facebook […]

Lena Waithe recently shared with John Legend that she is officially a married woman after secretly tying the knot with her longtime love, Alana Mayo. The actress and writer revealed her news during her appearance on The Ellen Show. According to Essence magazine, Waithe revealed to guest host Legend that she was officially off the […]

Actor Nico Tortorella will be enjoying a queer Thanksgiving dinner with their mother this year, despite being disinvited from family gatherings in the past. According to a report from Us Weekly, the Younger star and their wife, Bethany Meyers, both identify as non-binary individuals and the couple lives a lifestyle that many people — including […]

Proctor & Gamble, the manufacturer of the Always line of feminine hygiene products, will be removing a symbol long associated with women and femininity from its packaging in order to be more inclusive of transgender and nonbinary users, CNN reports. For millennia, the ♀ symbol (a circle with a cross extending) has been associated with […]

Kellogg’s recently partnered with gay-rights advocacy group GLAAD in an effort to combat bullying and raise awareness of LGBTQ issues, releasing a special-edition box in honor of Spirit Day. However, as Yahoo Lifestyle reports, some Twitter users are not pleased with the idea of a breakfast cereal being used as a tool to advocate LGBTQ […]

A middle school girl by the name of Justice Cillo-Smith from New Jersey caused quite a controversy regarding LGBTQ issues recently because of a t-shirt. This particular shirt was inspired by the Broadway musical The Prom, which Cillo-Smith had recently seen. The musical follows several high school students who work to help out a fellow […]

Sade’s son, Izaak Adu, 23, shared a touching post about his mother on Instagram following his reassignment surgery, per The Daily Mail. Izaak shared a recent photo with his mom where they appear to be at a restaurant. Her son has his arm wrapped around the ’80s icon who is smiling in the shot. The […]

Chart-topper Lil Nas X was booked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday. The performer’s appearance alongside the comedian sparked a very candid chat when the host asked the rapper about his decision to come out as gay. This happened when the hitmaker’s song, “Old Town Road,” was dominating the music charts this past summer. […]

A “Straight Pride” parade is in the works for Modesto, California, Yahoo News reports. If it’s approved, the Central California city will join Boston, Massachusetts in hosting such parades. As reported in June by The Inquisitr, a group calling themselves “Super Happy Fun America” applied for permission to have a “Straight Pride” parade in Boston. […]

According to CNN, organizers of a Straight Pride Parade, set to take place in Boston in August, included a Netflix logo on their website regarding potential corporate sponsors, to which Netflix reacted immediately and threatened to pursue legal action if the logo was not removed. “You should know that we’re unafraid of bullies. Our legal […]

Fuller House star and Dancing with the Stars contestant Juan Pablo Di Pace is publicly opening up about his experiences as a gay man for the first time during his own TEDx talk, according to a report from Pop Culture. In the TEDx talk, which was recorded in March and recently uploaded to YouTube, Di […]

Posters of the U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe were vandalized with homophobic slurs at the New York City subway station Monday. According to the New York Post, the vandal wrote on Rapinoe’s face and forehead with a marker on eight posters displayed in the Bryant Park subway station. The degrading remarks on the posters […]

At least three of the organizers of Boston’s upcoming “Straight Pride Parade” called the police after receiving “suspicious” envelopes in the mail, with at least one case leading to a hazmat team shutting down and evacuating an entire block, CNN reports. The packages all contained glitter. Samson Racioppi is a founding member of the group […]

Julianne Hough decided to see Pride Month out with a bang by joining with a dancer she had never met in real life. Jules, as she calls herself, actually first came across Conor Mckenzie on social media. Conor, who considers himself a content creator, flexibility guru, and an optimist, explained their connection on Instagram, “Strutting […]

Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Library has canceled its final Drag Queen Story Hour after threats were made against similar programs, The Pittsburgh Current reports. The final installment of the series, in which men in drag read stories to children, had been scheduled for Friday morning (June 29), after previous installments of the series had gone off without […]

A Florida library has canceled an event aimed at providing a “safe space” for LGBTQ youth after local religious leaders opposed it, and library officials started getting threats, CNN reports. The Jacksonville Public Library had scheduled the Storybook Pride Prom event for Friday (June 28). The event was intended to connect LGBTQ youth, ages 14-18, […]

Taylor Swift’s music video for her new song, “You Need to Calm Down,” is awash in LGBT iconography and in clear support of the community. Swift’s lyrics are highly political — they speak loudly against hate against the LGBT community — and are a huge shift from her usual work. With the line “Why are […]

A Florida woman is outraged after her Homeowners Association (HOA) at the condominium complex where she lives ordered her to take down an LGBTQ pride flag, Yahoo Lifestyle reports. Robin Chipman, a retired commercial interior designer, lives in a beachside condominium complex in St. Petersburg. What’s more, her condo is adjacent to the site of […]

Two Utah high school football players have been suspended indefinitely after they appeared in a video burning an LGBTQ pride flag, which was then posted on social media, Yahoo Lifestyle reports. In the video, someone can be heard laughing and saying, “All gays die.” The video was recorded last week, and then posted to Snapchat. […]

Two thirds of LGBTQ individuals with jobs remain in the closet at work, according to a new survey conducted by Verizon Media. What’s more, as Yahoo Finance reports, male LGBTQ employees are far less likely to be “out” at work than their female counterparts. Legalized Discrimination In The Workplace One of the principal reasons for […]

Tennessee sheriff’s deputy Grayson Fritts is in hot water for allegedly giving a sermon at his church calling for the government to arrest and execute members of the LGBT community. The Knox County Attorney General’s Office announced that it is investigating the sermon from the detective, delivered to All Scripture Baptist Church in Knoxville, where […]

Wisconsin’s government has hoisted the LGBTQ pride flag over the State Capitol Building for the first time ever, CNN reports. The move coincides with a similar one made by the state of New York the same week. On Friday, Governor Tony Evers created an executive order that directs the pride flag to be flown over […]

Some U.S. diplomats have sought to defy or otherwise circumvent a Trump administration directive in which the State Department will reject all requests of embassies seeking to fly rainbow flags during LGBTQ Pride Month this year, The Washington Post reports. Presently, the exterior facades of the U.S. missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are each […]

An Alabama mayor is under fire after incendiary comments that he posted on Facebook directed towards the LGBTQ community, among others, CBS News reports. Mark Chambers, the mayor of Carbon Hill, Alabama, made the comments just as Pride Month kicked off. He has since made a statement to the local newspaper, the Daily Mountain Eagle, […]

A “Straight Pride Parade” has been approved by Boston’s City Council, although the announcement by the man who organized it has largely been met with mockery and derision, Yahoo News reports. June is Pride Month when the LGBTQ community celebrates itself through parades, protests, educational events, and the like. Boston is no exception. As the […]

On Tuesday night, K-Pop Star Sunmi stunned her fans in a moment that immediately went viral. While performing at the Q-Factory in Amsterdam as part of her Warning World Tour, the Southeast Asian idol made an off-the-cuff comment on stage that saw her audience go wild. When talking about different sides of herself, Sunmi said […]

A Tennessee prosecutor told a Christian conference that people in gay relationships aren’t entitled to domestic violence protections, Nashville’s WTVF reports. Craig Northcott said that since he doesn’t believe in gay marriage, there is no need to prosecute domestic violence if the assailant is in a gay marriage. Nashville alternative newspaper The Tennessee Holler produced […]

Pop star Taylor Swift spoke out to raise awareness on LGBTQ rights in advance of this year’s Pride Month, sharing a letter that she wrote to her senator on the topic, People reports. Swift had written the letter to Senator Lamar Alexander urging him to support the Equality Act, which would prevent discrimination based on […]

A South Carolina couple has sued both the Trump administration and their state’s governor after a faith-based adoption agency turned them away because they’re gay, Yahoo News reports. Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers tried to foster a child through Miracle Hill Ministries, a South Carolina adoption and foster-care agency run by evangelical Christians, and with […]

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he would work to protect the rights of LGBTQ Americans, but his actions since taking office seem to tell a different story, Time reports. When the country was engaged in a collective debate about which public restrooms transgender people should use, candidate Trump told Today that […]

A North Carolina junior high school invited drag queens to host an event designed to encourage kids to be themselves, and the response from the community has been “overwhelmingly positive,” CNN reports. Eighth-grade teacher Taylor Schmidt says he noticed that gay kids at Central Park School for Children in Durham were getting bullied, even at […]

Political science valedictorian Matt Easton delivered a commencement ceremony speech that won’t soon be forgotten, taking the opportunity to come out publicly as gay for the first time in the middle of his remarks, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Easton’s speech at the highly religious school was in most ways typical of a graduation ceremony, […]

This post contains minor spoilers about one scene in Avengers: Endgame. Be warned. Early on in Avengers: Endgame, the superhero film that shattered box office records over the weekend, there’s a brief scene in which Captain America (Chris Evans) is in a support group. The group is for survivors of the finger snap by villain […]

A Maryland middle school abruptly canceled its spring play, and parents and kids aren’t satisfied with the answers they’re getting from school officials. It seems some kids and parents think the play was canceled because it contains gay characters. As Washington’s WJLA-TV reports, Hyattsville Middle School was to put on The 25th Annual Putnam County […]

A Kentucky BBQ owner is getting criticism for selling controversial shirts that seemingly subvert the message of the LGBTQ rights movement, equating the letters in the phrase with “Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump and BBQ,” Yahoo News reports. Despite the criticism, the owner says the shirts are selling out. Jamie Smith is the owner of Bell’s […]

Social media is a very powerful tool that can be utilized to spread information, as well as for people to seek support from others, regardless of where in the world they may be. The parents of 1-year-old Callie Shaffer created a Facebook page shortly after their daughter was diagnosed with neuroblastoma back in January of […]

Season 2 of FX’s hit show Pose will release on Sunday, June 9, at 9 p.m. EST. The series sees Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuck, and Janet Mock as producers, and tells the story of New York City’s underground ballroom scene in the 1980s. According to Deadline, the series also delves into the rise of the […]

According to the findings of a survey of more than 40,000 Americans released today, there was a 10 percent drop in support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights for respondents under the age of 30 who identified themselves a Republicans. The New York Times reported that the survey, which was conducted by the Public […]

The San Antonio airport has banned Chik-fil-A from the premises, days after a report indicated that the company is still donating money to causes with anti-LGBTQ sentiments, despite the fast food chain’s claims that they would no longer do so. As WAOI-TV reports, on Thursday, the San Antonio City Council prepared to vote on an […]

Power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z will be honored for their activism and support for the LGBTQ community. The “Drunk in Love” artists will be honored at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in March. According to CNN, Glaad is a media advocacy organization for people who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender, […]

FX series Pose star Billy Porter made gender-fluid history by wearing a floor-length black velvet gown by New York-based designer Christian Siriano to the 91st Academy Awards. Harper’s Bazaar reports that the 49-year-old celebrity was on hand to host Academy Award coverage from the red carpet for ABC Sunday night. Porter, who is known as […]

A transgender woman, who was deported from the United States and sent back to her native El Salvador, was murdered shortly after arriving, a killing that has attracted worldwide attention and criticism for U.S. officials for not heeding the woman’s plea for help. A trans advocacy group in El Salvador announced that the woman, known […]

It was recently announced that The CW had ordered a pilot for a new queer series, with Damon Wayans Jr. expected to serve as an executive producer, according to a report from TV Line. The drama series, Glamorous, will follow “a gender non-conforming high school graduate who lands the gig of a lifetime interning at […]