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Two German tourists in Miami Beach were arrested on Monday afternoon after police spotted them vandalizing a rainbow bench with a swastika and the words, “Adolf was here.” Gunther Jekschtat, 62, and Christoph Rehak, 58, were taken into custody and charged with criminal mischief. As of Tuesday night, Jekschtat remained at Metro West Detention Center in

Colorado Police last Thursday arrested Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old now-former chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, for allegedly trying to arrange a sexual encounter with a child. Rivera resigned immediately following his arrest. Agents from the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office posed online as minors offering sexual acts for sale. Investigators charged Rivera with soliciting

Brooklyn police arrested 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez for allegedly stabbing his 41-year-old transgender fiancee Eryka Caldwell to death in her Bushwick, New York apartment on Sunday morning. Caldwell had reportedly tried to kick Fernandez out of the apartment before the slaying, The New York Post reported. Fernandez’s lawyer is now claiming that she attacked him with

Pete Buttigieg has been getting a lot of barbs in against Vice President J.D. Vance at various speaking events and interviews recently. Just this past weekend, while appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, he joked about Vance’s ill-fated trip to Hungary. Related “Unfortunately, this is not my grandmother’s Democrat Party, right? This is not

JD Vance speaks during a rally with former President Donald Trump at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. | Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN images Vice President J.D. Vance told voters during a Monday speech at Milbank Manufacturing in Kansas City, Missouri that if they want to rebuild the American Dream, they should

Waymo, a ride service that uses self-driving “robotaxis,” recently changed its user policies after San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ rights activist Dr. Nasser Mohamed sued the service’s parent company, Alphabet. Waymo had banned and denied him service for years because his name resembled other Middle Eastern names on a government terrorist watchlist. When Mohamed registered his Waymo

The Trump administration plans to end support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs in most countries starting later this year. Global health experts say the move represents the final blow in the administration’s efforts to effectively dismantle PEPFAR, which, since its launch

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has rejected the demands of Democrats to reverse its anti-trans policies. In a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and BOP director William K. Marshal III, three Democratic senators asked the BOP to reverse, among other rules, a new policy banning gender-affirming care for BOP inmates even if they use private

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) laughed along with a social media user who mocked him earlier this month for a pair of shorts he’s wearing in a famous 1993 photo at a Pride parade. In the photo, Pritzker is marching down the street holding a sign that says, “Fighting for your rights in Illinois.” He

When the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence first emerged in San Francisco in 1979, the group of queer drag nuns arose in opposition to the so-called Moral Majority of conservatives who pushed anti-LGBTQ+ measures nationwide. However, as the AIDS epidemic devastated thousands throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the Sisters forged a stronger bond with the kink

A gay bar in Minneapolis that was already suffering the effects of President Trump’s immigration crackdown earlier this year was dealt another setback when thieves made off with the business’s safe early Friday morning in a lightning-fast burglary. The safe at Lush Lounge & Theater in Northeast Minneapolis contained about a week’s worth of earnings and

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