LGBTQ

Members of the OhioHealth group carry balloons during the 2017 Stonewall Columbus Pride Parade in Columbus, Ohio on June 17, 2017. Photo: Brooke LaValley / USA TODAY NETWORK The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a warning just before Pride Month begins about possible threats from foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). The

Jennifer Lawrence jokingly yells at a former Vice President Mike Pence at the 2024 GLAAD Awards Photo: YouTube screenshot Actress Jennifer Lawrence has blasted former Vice President Mike Pence for his past support of conversion therapy. She made her comment at the GLAAD Awards in New York City on Saturday while introducing the Vito Russo Award

A bill to expand Alabama’s Don’t Say Gay law and ban Pride flags from classrooms has died after the legislative session came to a close without a vote on the bill. State Rep. Mark Butler (R), who sponsored the bill, said that he doesn’t know why his bill didn’t pass other than that it was

Members of Brecksville/Broadview Heights Pride in Ohio at their first Pride Fest in 2023 Photo: Provided In the bucolic, and conservative, small town of Broadview Heights, Ohio — south of Cleveland, north of Akron and right next door to the spectacular Cuyahoga Valley National Park — Jennifer Speer and fellow members of Brecksville/Broadview Heights Pride put

A sense of security on the internet as a queer person has always been hard to find. And with a rapidly changing digital world, things seem to only be getting more complex.  To me, the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) came out of thin air – I knew nothing about the subject, and then my

Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X laid a wreath at Auschwitz and then preceded on to a symposium in Krakow,

Libs of TikTok, a social media account run by anti-LGBTQ+ activist Chaya Raichik, has amassed over three million followers on X (formerly Twitter) by inspiring outrage against LGBTQ+ teachers, all-ages drag performers, gender-affirming medical professionals, and their allies. The account’s posts have increasingly influenced right-wing politicians and anti-LGBTQ+ extremists and have also been connected to

Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light video Photo: Instagram screenshot After the immense backlash Bud Light endured over its tiny partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, it seems the brand has decided the best course of action from here on out is to avoid supporting anyone or anything that could make people angry. Bud Light will now

The Catholic Church has long opposed in-vitro fertilization (IVF), the most common method of assisted reproduction and one which many LGBTQ+ people rely on to build families. But it turns out the Vatican played a key role in the development a breakthrough drug that made the treatment possible in the late 1950s. In a recent Vanity

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Pride Month is just around the corner, but the rainbow is already shining brightly here with great news galore! Though some of us are busy preparing

Last month, the UK’s four-year-long review of medical interventions for transgender youth was published. The Cass Review, named after Hilary Cass, a retired pediatrician appointed by the National Health Service to lead the effort, found that “there is not a reliable evidence base” for gender-affirming medicine. As a result, the report concludes, trans minors should generally not be able

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“I have completely accepted my children, their journeys, their identities, and their preferences,” actress Marcia Gay Harden told LGBTQ Nation a few days ahead of celebrating Mother’s Day with her kids, all of whom identify as queer. “I speak out, and I talk about it in an environment full of hatred, full of canceling, and

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster at a Trump rally in February 2024. Photo: ALEX HICKS JR./STAFF / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN The South Carolina legislature has just passed a ban on gender-affirming care, making it the 25th state to do so. The ban also requires educators to out trans students to their potentially unsupportive

Claudia De la Cruz, 2024 U.S. presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation at a pro-Palestine protest. Photo: Shutterstock Anyone with eyes in their head can see that the American government and media both have a clear pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian bias. Neither one officially recognizes Palestine as a state, and any criticisms against

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in February 2024 Photo: MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK Transphobic Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) finally filed her motion to kick out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday evening. A majority of her House Republican colleagues united with 163 Democrats to help defeat her motion immediately in

He Jiankui Photo: YouTube screenshot Controversial Chinese scientist He Jiankui was punished when, in November 2018, he claimed to have used CRISPR gene editing technology to create a pair of HIV-resistant newborn twins. He now says he’ll use a different technique, called “base editing,” to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disease that affects 55

Out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went to a gay bar with eight drag queens on Monday. The queens visited Washington D.C. to promote the upcoming ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, which premieres on May 17. At the Little Gay Pub, a bar in the district’s Logan Circle neighborhood, the group

Bambie Thug in a trans flag outfit in Eurovision 2024 Photo: X screenshot Nonbinary Irish musician Bambie Thug wore an outfit bearing the colors of the transgender flag during their witchy performance in Eurovision singing contest semi-finals in Malmö, Sweden on Tuesday. Thug is the first nonbinary performer to represent Ireland in Eurovision and said

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Scene from Pride in Paris in 2019 Photo: Shutterstock Across France on Sunday, thousands rallied for trans rights in the wake of calls by right-wing senators to ban hormone therapy and puberty blockers for trans youth. A coalition of LGBTQ+ activists, left-wing members of parliament, trade unionists, and young people joined protests in Paris, Lyon,

Ice hockey fans in Boston stood and cheered last Saturday night as two young women proposed marriage to one another while in the rink. The dual proposal occurred during a sold-out Saturday afternoon match between the Professional Women’s Hockey League of Boston (PWHL Boston) and PWHL Montreal at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photo: Composite via Josh Morgan / USA TODAY NETWORK and Brittany Hosea-Small/Special to USA TODAY / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Patric Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed outrage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t transphobic enough to be the next president of the United States.

Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling Photo: Shutterstock composite Transphobic billionaire Elon Musk told transphobic possible-billionaire J.K. Rowling to try writing something “interesting and positive” this weekend after she shared a 709-word essay explaining her transphobic views on Musk’s social media platform, X. Musk has also repeatedly used X to promote transphobic views to his 182.3

In early 2021, Stephen Miller — former White House senior adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the 45th president’s hopeful second-term mass deportation agenda — announced his next venture: America First Legal (AFL). Paraded as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” AFL fights for Trumpist values in the legal system. And the group is prolific: In its three

Megan Thee Stallion Photo: Shutterstock A former employee is suing Megan Thee Stallion, claiming conduct by the out rapper “created a hostile work environment.” In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles last week, Emilio Garcia claims that the “WAP” rapper’s behavior made “the conditions of his employment intolerable in direct contravention of various statutes and

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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges Photo: Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via iMAGN Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American

The East Frank Superette and Kitchen in Monroe, North Carolina. Photo: Screenshot / WCNC The owners of a North Carolina restaurant that hosts popular drag brunches are striking back after anti-LGBTQ+ protesters sued them late last year. The East Frank Superette and Kitchen in Monroe, North Carolina, has been hosting all-ages drag brunch shows for