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Milo Yiannopoulos | YouTube screenshot Disgraced ex-gay MAGA provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently said that President Donald Trump faked the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on his life. Queer congressional Democrats largely condemned the shooting, which was carried out by the now-dead 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican who once gave $15 to progressive Democrats.

California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) says he was “verbally and physically” harassed while trying to attend San Francisco’s annual Trans March by a group of people he claims misrepresented his stance on Israel and Gaza. In a statement posted to Instagram on Saturday, the gay Jewish lawmaker said he was on his way to

Anti-trans Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) issued a public apology on Thursday after reportedly mistaking a cisgender woman in a U.S. Capitol restroom for out transgender Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE). She allegedly told the woman, “You shouldn’t be here,” an anonymous Republican representative told The Daily Beast. Boebert then alerted arch-transphobe Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) about

The government of Malaysia is urging the public to discontinue use of the term “LGBT” to avoid “normalizing” LGBTQ+ people and the broader community. In its place, the Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs, Marhamah Rosli, says the public should now use the term “budaya songsang,” or “perverted/deviant culture,” to describe all things LGBTQ+. Related “The

LGBTQ+ consumers spend about $1.4 trillion in the U.S. annually and $3.9 trillion globally, but about 70% are spending their money with businesses that they see supporting the community — and an almost equal amount are avoiding companies they see as reducing their inclusion commitments — according to a new report released on Tuesday by

On Father’s Day, a trans dad published a beautiful tribute to the relationship he has built with his daughter, one in which “gender was never complicated,” as he explains it. In a series of cartoons for the New York Times (illustrated by Hannah Jacons), Zach Ellams says that he has been living as a trans

To photographer Mel Porter, one of the clearest examples of the Trump administration’s antipathy for the LGBTQ+ community isn’t what it’s done, but what it has stopped doing. “I actually do work for the Veterans Hospital in Buffalo,” Porter said. “And one of the things that’s been noticeable is, the last two years, we haven’t

It was the summer of 1956, and Michael Lloyd Gregory was seated on the front porch of his home in Wichita, Kansas, posing for a photo taken by his father. He was two years old at the time. “My mom ‘styled’ me that day,” he recalls. Related “My dad wore athletic shirts around the house,”

An unlikely pair of countries, Iran and Egypt, are competing Friday night in what’s been billed as the 2026 World Cup “Pride Match” in Seattle. Neither nation’s government recognizes LGBTQ+ rights. And FIFA, the World Cup’s governing body, is denying there’s a “Pride Match” at all. Related “First of all, I must clarify that there

Former Secretary of Transportation and likely 2028 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg was briefly separated from his children after an anonymous false report alleging he was a danger to his young twins.  Buttigieg detailed the ordeal firsthand in a post on Substack, titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family.” He said he was “furious” that

A state representative in Louisiana is speaking out over new legislation signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) granting employees in the state a right to deadname trans colleagues. The legislation describes the disrespect as “constitutionally protected speech.” Related Act 579 prohibits employers from taking adverse actions against employees based on that claim. The

Pete Buttigieg zoomed out on Saturday on the controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s teardown of the East Wing of the White House, saying he’s not as concerned about historic preservation as he is about Americans suffering the effects of historic price hikes for health insurance, all while Trump builds a ballroom to party with his billionaire

After two decades, the U.S. will end a life-saving HIV-prevention and treatment program in South Africa, a country where over 8 million people live with the virus (about 12% of its population). The Trump administration said it is stopping the funding because South Africa hasn’t done enough to meet the U.S. president’s policy requests, including

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order against the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prevent the DOJ from pursuing the private medical records of transgender youth receiving gender-affirming healthcare in New York City. The judge also granted the request for provisional certification of a class so that the order benefits not just the

In an October 11th post on Truth Social, Donald Trump wrote, in all caps of course, that “THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6.” “If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!!” Related There’s

James Fishback, a racist and antisemitic Republican running to become Florida’s next governor, will hold a rally on Saturday, June 27 with Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who blames Jewish people for all social evils, blames teachers for causing men to be gay, blames marijuana for making men “spiritually gay,” and thinks Adolf Hitler wasn’t

Gay and bisexual male students in Australia who migrated from anti-LGBTQ+ countries are being targeted by men on gay dating apps who then assault and extort them with threats of outing them in their home countries, The Guardian reported today. Similar attacks are occurring in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., one Australian LGBTQ+ advocate

The State Commission on Judicial Conduct in Texas was overruled last week after it disciplined a justice of the peace in Waco for refusing to marry same-sex couples on religious grounds. A Texas county judge ruled the commission cannot investigate, sanction, or discipline McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley for refusing to officiate

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has joined a lawsuit filed by an extremist religious freedom organization on behalf of nuns at a Catholic hospice in New York, challenging a state law requiring nursing facilities to affirm their patients’ gender identities. The suit was filed in April by Colorado law firm First & Fourteenth, which is

An appellate court ruled on Thursday that California cannot enforce its law banning schools from forcibly outing students to their families while a lawsuit against the legislation continues. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled in favor of a temporary block on the bill, a decision that the United States Supreme Court later

A gay makeup artist has the internet in hysterics after pointing out that a far-right troll used an image of him for a meme trying to celebrate conventional masculinity. “Some of you will remember the idiotic far right stole an image of me to make a meme for them,” Anthony Gordon recently wrote on Threads.

A record number of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. are fleeing the president’s anti-transgender policies by seeking asylum in other countries, according to a report released last Saturday by the LGBTQ+ asylum relocation assistance group Rainbow Railroad. Simultaneously, fewer LGBTQ+ refugees from other anti-queer countries are seeking asylum in the U.S., a result of the

Self-described “proud transphobe” and failed gubernatorial candidate Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed on X on June 18 that American taxpayers are spending money on experiments to turn mice transgender. The network’s community notes and journalism disproved her claim. “Animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments. This is not science. This is ideological cruelty

With each passing day, Donald Trump further affirms his quest to become an authoritarian leader, this time by threatening to arrest a sitting governor amid clashes between the state and the federal government. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been speaking out against the Trump administration’s utilization of the National Guard at immigration protests in

Donald Trump invaded Venezuela and arrested the Latin American strongman Nicolas Maduro on January 3 in an operation that resulted in at least 80 people’s deaths. Trump then said that the U.S. is now “in charge” of the country. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg summed up the reason why Trump invaded Venezuela in one word:

A popular, longtime destination for the gay community in Mobile, Alabama, was forced to close ahead of Pride celebrations in the Gulf Coast city, after an ownership transfer revealed irregularities in the bar’s liquor licensing. The three-story B-Bob’s Bar in downtown Mobile shuttered with little warning and canceled planned events for Pride Month, including a

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the administration sending a gay man to a prison camp in El Salvador and not even knowing if he’s still alive. Noem said that it wasn’t her problem. Noem, who has bragged in the past about shooting her dog to death, appeared before the

A teacher hired by a Florida school was forced by the superintendent to either resign or be fired (with no reason given) after only three weeks. Now, Shepherd Scalf is filing a discrimination complaint with the ACLU, alleging that the district thought he was trans because he’s intersex. “Receiving this ultimatum was confusing and overwhelming.