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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

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. It’s amazing the effect we can have on each other and in our communities. We can make a profound and liberating impact on those around us

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

The conversion therapists met last November at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of a Hampton Inn conference room, a middle-aged woman wearing white stockings and a Virgin Mary blue dress issued a call to arms to the 20-some people in attendance. “In our current culture, in which

CUSCO, PERU: 11/14/2020 : Protestors wave a rainbow flag at Plaza de Armas after Congress removed President Martín Vizcarra from office. Photo: Shutterstock The government of Peru has officially declared transgender people “mentally ill.” The decree, announced last Friday, will reportedly update Peru’s Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS) to officially classify conditions such as “transsexualism,”

The term “trespassing” has several definitions depending on perspective. In one sense, it means “entering a location unlawfully or without permission.” I recently posted a meme on Facebook with the picture of a common camping tent and the caption: “Tents are Non-Violent, Let Them Stand, Let the Protests Continue Non-Violently.” Related: I created and distributed the

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signing the anti-trans sports ban in February. Photo: Screenshot/NBC4 A New York judge overturned a Long Island county’s ban on trans women and girls participating in women’s and girls’ sports. As the Associated Press reported, on Friday Judge Francis Ricigliano ruled that Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) “acted beyond

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. This nice weather has got folks visiting parks, playing sports, traveling around, dining on sidewalks, camping out, and just kicking back to enjoy themselves. Hopefully it’s

Photo: Bil Browning/Shutterstock Earlier this month, trans teenager Jazlynn Johnson, 18, was murdered in Las Vegas. Police had responded to a call from a man who said that his 17-year-old son, Cesar Sandoval, had murdered his friend with a gun earlier that evening, although he did not tell police where the murder had taken place.

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A view of Balzers, Liechtenstein Photo: Shutterstock The parliament of Liechtenstein just passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, making it the 22nd country to do so among Europe’s 37 nations. The bill goes into effect at the start of 2025. The country’s parliament, known as the Landtag, voted nearly unanimously in favor of the historic

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks to the media outside of the James H. Quillen United States Courthouse in Greeneville on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Photo: Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee’s Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) is spearheading a lawsuit for 18 mostly Republican-led states that seeks to block new federal guidelines

A federal appeals court has ruled that religious parents in Maryland can’t opt their kids out of classroom lessons involving LGBTQ+-inclusive books. Three sets of parents – who are Muslim, Jewish, and Christian – sued the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), arguing that the books “contradict their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage, human sexuality,

Nymphia Wind in Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race Photo: MTV screenshot Nymphia Wind, the recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16, has made herstory by performing for Taiwan’s pro-LGBTQ+ President Tsai Ing-wen. Wind, a Taiwanese drag performer, performed on Wednesday alongside five other queens — all clad in individual colors of the rainbow