LGBTQ

R’Bonney Gabriel of Texas is crowned as Miss USA 2022. Photo: Reno Gazette Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Leaked audio from a Miss Universe board meeting recorded one of the international beauty pageant’s co-owners saying that “women from nontraditional backgrounds” — including transgender women — can be included in the competition but “cannot win.” The

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey talks with the News-leader at his off in Springfield on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo: Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader / USA TODAY NETWORK Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is continuing his crusade against gender-affirming care for trans youth, now targeting social workers and therapists who work with LGBTQ+ youth for investigation. According

An intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag Photo: Shutterstock The residents of Williamstown, Massachusetts voted 175-90 to pass a bylaw allowing the Progress Pride flag to be flown on town flag poles. The vote occurred at a city board meeting and comes at a time when other cities have banned rainbow-colored Pride flags being flown from government

Gay hookup app Grindr Photo: File photo A new report details a wave of attacks on gay men in France carried out by young perpetrators using hook-up apps to lure their victims before assaulting and robbing them. The report from the Fondation Jean Jaurès adds to data collected in a survey last year by French

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem discusses what she describes as a drug cartel presence in the state’s tribal lands on Friday, May 17, 2024, at the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre, South Dakota. Photo: Samantha Laurey / Argus Leader / USA TODAY NETWORK Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, are University of

Minnesota has banned book bans. On May 17, Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation that stops libraries in the state from removing books “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” Related: To that end, House Bill HF3782 mandates library collections be managed by “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with

A 2016 protest in Yogyakarta, Indonesia against the existance of LGBTQ people. Photo: Shutterstock In Indonesia, a new proposal in Parliament would ban LGBTQ+ content from broadcast in Indonesia, including online streaming platforms. The far-reaching legislation includes a prohibition on investigative journalism and a ban on content displaying violence, mysticism, and “negative behavior or lifestyles

Kat Bailey hands out candy during the Pride Parade on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Photo: Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK Following warnings from the federal government, Pride Houston 365 has announced they will work closely with more than 27 safety and security agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security,

Three Louisiana residents who have resisted book bans are suing their parish council over the removal of books from the St. Tammany Library Board of Control earlier this month. For over a year, the far-right St. Tammany Library Accountability Project has been trying to get books that they have deemed “sexually explicit” removed from the

Peggy Moore and Hope Wood, two political activists based in Northern California, died in a car crash on May 10. Moore was 60 and Wood 48. The collision took place on California Highway 76 in unincorporated San Diego County when the Jeep Gladiator they were traveling in hit a Chrysler sedan, according to The Bay

Nintendo — the video game development company behind Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda — revealed that a remake of their 2004 video game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is slated to revive a character’s transgender identity. The remake has the character Vivian explicitly discuss her gender identity in dialogue with Mario, stating

Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas, called in Kansas City Chiefs star kicker Harrison Butker to give the commencement speech to the eager graduates of the Class of 2024 and friends and family on the sidelines. While most commentators heard the speech as landing far outside of bounds, those present heard it as a

March 2, 2019 in Sydney, Australia the annual Mardi Gras Festival. Photo: Shutterstock The Australian city of Sydney will be delivering first-of-its-kind affordable housing tailored specifically to transgender women. In partnership with the transfeminine All Nations housing co-operative and the Sydney city council, Common Equity NSW will be purchasing seven properties at a discount, directing

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Scene from the video Photo: Screenshot Hush, a gay nightclub in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, removed its security team after a video emerged of a client being beaten by the staff. “We are investigating exactly what took place and the cause of it. It’s obviously not something we would ever expect.

Bridget Ziegler celebrates her victory for school board at a GOP party on Tuesday August, 23, 2022 Photo: THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK/IMAGN As the 2024 election cycle heats up, the scowls at Moms for Liberty (M4L) are leveraging their outsized right-wing influence to finger-point and scold their way into what they hope will

The National Park Service (NPS) has confirmed that it is banning rangers from wearing their uniforms to attend or march in Pride events. NPS rangers have marched in Pride Parades such as those in New York, Seattle, and San Francisco in the past. While the uniform guidelines are already in place, a memo sent on

Family members and associates of former President Donald Trump are increasingly associating with Tim Thompson, a Southern California pastor who bullies LGBTQ+ teachers, calls public education “Satan’s playground,” and is using his Inland Empire Family political action committee (PAC) to unite Christian conservatives against public education. Thompson, who leads the 412 Church Temecula Valley, uses

The pride flag flies outside the US Supreme Court Photo: Scott Drake The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by three Maryland parents who accused the Montgomery Country School District of helping transgender kids transition without parental knowledge. The court ruled the parents lacked legal standing to challenge the district’s pro-trans policies

Tyra Sanchez from the Season 2 promo Photo: Screenshot In 2023, James Ross, also known as Tyra Sanchez, the drag queen who won season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, was arrested under false circumstances in Starke, Florida. Now, the department of the arresting officer has been disbanded. Ross was arrested after being involved in a

Herbert Baumeister Photo: WXIN screenshot Police in Indianapolis have identified a 12th body buried on the estate of now-deceased wealthy Republican businessman Herbert Baumeister, a closeted gay man who is believed to have murdered over 20 men and boys that he met in Indianapolis gay bars during the mid-1980s and ’90s. DNA and forensic genetic

GLAAD has just released its annual Social Media Safety Index report, finding that X (formerly Twitter) scored the lowest out of any social media site. Every social media site graded in GLAAD’s index failed the assessment, with most grades falling below 60%. The highest grade, 67%, went to TikTok, which reportedly made improvements in the

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Royce White in 2013 Photo: Howard Smith-USA TODAY Sports via IMAGN The Minnesota Republican Party has endorsed Royce White — a former NBA player who has used anti-LGBTQ+ slurs on social media — as their preferred candidate in the GOP’s bid to take the state’s Senate seat from pro-LGBTQ+ Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar. White, a

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz speaking with attendees at the 2022 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Photo: Gage Skidmore Radical anti-choice Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) is sponsoring federal legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF), presumably for all prospective parents including LGBTQ+ people. The bill is

Activists from the National Center for Transgender Equality, partner organizations and their supporters hold a ‘We Will Not Be Erased’ rally in front of the White House October 22, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Matthew Donnellan, chief of staff to Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV), is the subject of a complaint with

Microplastic particles on fingers under a magnifying glass. Photo: Shutterstock Since the 2010s, conspiracy theorists have pointed to lab animal studies as “proof” that hormone-disrupting chemicals in water are “feminizing” humans and causing more people to identify as LGBTQ+. The claim hasn’t been substantiated by medical research, but a recent medical study has found microplastics

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), one of the largest LGBTQ+ rights groups in the country, has pledged tI spend $15 million in swing states to re-elect President Joe Biden. The push to get the vote out will be targeting 75 million “equality voters,” those focused on LGBTQ+ rights as their primary issue in this election.

The first official Dyke March — now an annual fixture at Pride celebrations across the country — took place the evening before the March on Washington in April 1993, when thousands of lesbians organized and marched with a manifesto from DuPont Circle past the White House and to the National Mall, led by a massive vagina

In recent years, LGBTQ+ romance movies have moved from niche indie showcases to major blockbuster releases. This shift is not just a win for diversity but also a testament to the universal appeal of these stories, proving that the themes of love, identity, and resilience resonate across all audiences. This curated list of gay romance