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An HIV expert at the University of California, San Francisco, presented evidence this week of a major advance in the search for a “functional cure” for HIV infection “It is inspiration and a potential road map to get to where we need to go,” said Dr. Steve Deeks, who leads a team of researchers at

The Church of Latter-Day Saints (aka. the Mormon Church) has filed a lawsuit against a podcast whose host interviews LGBTQ+ Mormons. The church is accusing the podcasters of trademark infringement, claiming that the branding around the podcast Mormon Stories deliberately misleads people into thinking the podcast and its content are affiliated with the church. The

Popular Irish folk singer Tommy Fleming has come out as gay. Fleming, 55, revealed the news in an interview with Irish podcast The Hard Shoulder after a week of speculation following his attempt to take his own life and Fleming’s break-up with his wife, Tina Mitchell, after 20 years together. Related “I’d been living a

Briel Adams-Wheatley, a transgender social media beauty influencer born with no limbs, spoke directly on Tuesday to trolls who like to mock her online: They can try and bring her down, but they’re helping raise her views — and her bank account! Adams-Wheatley spoke with award-winning daytime talk show journalist Tamron Hall this week and

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, locked in a tight race with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) for the Republican nomination for Senate, is burnishing his MAGA bona fides with an unusual settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital over claims of fraudulent billing and other violations of Texas’ ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth. A so-called

Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has invited to repeatedly pray at the Pentagon, offered a bizarre explanation on Thursday for UFO sightings — namely, they’re caused by the devil to trick and deceive people. “These UFO manifestations are too well-attested for all of them to be dismissed as hoaxes,” he

In real time, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) eviscerated a Republican Congressman’s claim that the president’s approval rating is “soaring.” During a House DOGE Subcommittee hearing chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Crocket slammed MAGA lawmakers for “abdicating their duties and abdicating the very people that put them into office.” Related She blasted Republicans for allowing

A gay bar in Nashville, Tennessee was vandalized twice over two days with graffiti targeting the LGBTQ+ community, according to the bar’s owner and Metropolitan Nashville Police. Steven Kiss, owner of Trax bar in the city’s Wedgewood-Houston (WeHo) neighborhood, said staff discovered graffiti spray-painted across the back of the building just after 1:30 a.m. on

An Arizona congresswoman is furious after House Republicans denied funding for basic repairs for a library in her district because it hosted two drag storytime events over the last several years. “It is outrageous, it is petty, and it is a complete abuse of the appropriations process,” U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said in a statement

Self-proclaimed “proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is currently polling fourth place in the six-way Republican primary to become South Carolina’s new governor. A new poll of 1,089 likely Republican primary voters, conducted by The Trafalgar Group from May 2 to 5, shows Mace snagging just 15.2% of respondents’ support, behind U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman

GLAAD’s annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) has always warned of the dangers major social media platforms pose to LGBTQ+ people. But the organization’s 2026 report highlights that things have worsened across the board, with only TikTok holding firm at its rating of 56. And yes, that’s out of 100. “Looking at these dismal scores,

More details are emerging about what led a suspect identified as a transgender woman to shoot two women at an LGBTQ+ community center in Memphis last week. Aljon Tyler, 30, who police say is known as “Jewell,” faces several charges, including three counts of attempted second-degree murder. Tyler was identified in a lineup by a

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that his government would quickly work to follow recent court rulings requiring Poland to legally recognize same-sex marriages conducted in other European Union (EU) member nations. Recent rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) both require Poland to recognize foreign same-sex

For years, people across the political spectrum have wondered, “Is Lindsay Graham gay?” It makes sense: The now 70-year-old Republican South Carolina senator has never married, has no kids, has never been seen with any sort of romantic partner in public, and has been the subject of unverified gay rumors for years. Graham himself has

Sir Alec Guinness, the actor who portrayed Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in the three original Star Wars films, allegedly discouraged gay actor Ian McKellen from publicly campaigning for LGBTQ+ civil rights, McKellen recently told The Guardian. When asked the worst piece of advice he’d ever been given, McKellen said that Guinness – who he described

As of last Friday, J.K. Rowling — the anti-transgender billionaire author behind the Harry Potter book series — has a transgender politician representing her in Scotland’s Parliament. Dr. Q Manivannan, the newly elected member of Scottish Parliament (MSP), will represent Edinburgh and Lothians East electoral region, where Rowling lives, Them reported. Manivannan joined Iris Duane

A Florida lesbian couple is suing the city of Key West after officials threatened to fine them for painting part of their picket fence rainbow to protest the city’s removal of Pride crosswalks. Nicole “Coley” Sohn and Linda Bagley-Sohn painted 12 pickets of the fence in rainbow colors after the city complied with Gov. Ron

Robert’s Lafitte, the legendary Galveston dive bar which is also the oldest gay bar in Texas, is days away from its final last call, staffers say. A long list of deferred maintenance and other financial issues plaguing the 61-year-old institution mean a last-minute cash infusion is the bar’s only hope of getting it back up

A same-sex couple fighting for a legal marriage in South Korea has the staunch support of two very loving parents behind them. Park Yeo-jin and Hwang Hee-yeon committed to each other for life in a 2020 wedding ceremony, but have been unable to register their marriage legally, since South Korea doesn’t recognize marriage between two

Almost two-thirds of LGBTQ+ people who were raised Christian have left the faith, studies have shown. They’re acting on the Church’s mostly unwelcoming appeals against gay believers. There are exceptions, like the Universalist Unitarians, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, and Episcopalians, still around after conservative Anglicans broke away from that denomination, unhappy with women’s ordination

The leader of a conservative Muslim party in Indonesia threw the government into turmoil last week when he uploaded a video to YouTube accusing a close aide to President Prabowo Subianto of being gay and becoming “personally closer” to the head of state. Amien Rais of the Unmat Party called Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya

A first-of-its-kind Christian cell phone network purports to block users from both pornography and LGBTQ+ content. But critics say the project’s size and subjective nature will give the company’s founder too much control over what users can see. Launched on Tuesday, Radiant Mobile aims to create a “Jesus-centric” environment, founder Paul Fisher told the MIT

President Donald Trump experienced his third assassination attempt on April 25 during his appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, an annual event sponsored by the White House Correspondents’ Association. The suspect in that shooting, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is alleged to have wanted to assassinate Trump, along with senior members of his

A judge in Russia has ruled that a man “committed propaganda of non-traditional sexual preferences” for posting a favorable review of a mini skirt with purported pictures of him modeling the dress. He was ordered to be deported, Mediazona reports. Gulomova Islomzhona Numonzhon was found guilty of posting “information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual attitudes,

Our former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the president’s “extraordinary weakness” on May 5, after the current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and gay Treasury Secretary blamed the recent shutdown of Spirit Airlines on Buttigieg and former President Joe Biden. “Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed H.B. 754/S.B. 676 into law on Thursday. It requires all healthcare providers who receive state funding to provide information about their trans patients to the state for a publicly available database, or else face . While the individual patients won’t be identified by name, LGBTQ+ and privacy advocates worry

The British Medical Association (BMA) – the trade union for doctors and medical students in the United Kingdom – has voiced its support for the controversial Cass Review of gender-affirming care, formally dropping its previous opposition to the review and to Cass’ recommendations. “[Dr. Hilary Cass] has been vindicated in the way she approached the

A gay man moved into an apartment temporarily after he’d broken up with his ex and ended up walking into a nightmare, prosecutors in Germany say. Three days later, he was dead. The 44-year-old was stabbed to death by his roommate last November, authorities say, in a ritualistic killing based on the perpetrator’s extreme anti-gay

Dave Chappelle is once again claiming that critics have misinterpreted his anti-trans jokes. The comedian joined former First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, for an episode of their podcast, IMO, which dropped May 6. At one point, Obama asked Chappelle to describe what it is like for him when his comedy “doesn’t

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, policies, and political rhetoric are a significant driver of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among LGBTQ+ youth, according to The Trevor Project’s annual survey on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people. One in ten LGBTQ+ youth attempted suicide in 2025, according to the authors. Related The survey findings cover the first year