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Kevin Spacey in 2017 Photo: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports via IMAGN Gay actor Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexual assault by nine additional men who will appear in a forthcoming two-part documentary entitled Spacey Unmasked, which will air in the U.S. next week. Spacey has denied the allegations and accused the documentary’s creators of

In a historic win for the LGBTQ+ community, Aetna reached a settlement today with a group of plaintiffs alleging medical discrimination in their fertility coverage. The insurance company is paying out $2 million to the members of the class action lawsuit, as well as restructuring how they cover fertility for queer couples moving forward. This

Sophia Hutchins, left, and Caitlyn Jenner in 2018 Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic via IMAGN Sophia Hutchins, the rumored girlfriend of right-wing trans conservative Caitlyn Jenner, recently denied the rumors while misgendering and deadnaming Jenner to her 246,000 Instagram followers. Hutchins also recently worked for the transphobic right-wing media outlet Fox News and is a board member

As the pro-Palestinian campus protests heat up, so do the electoral politics around it. For months, the drumbeat of dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s support for Israel has been growing, even as the president has been ramping up pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change his scorched-earth policy in Gaza. With civilian casualties topping

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) Photo: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY via IMAGN When Christian Nationalist Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) visited George Washington University (GW) yesterday to complain about a pro-Palestinian encampment there, students repeatedly shouted “Beetlejuice!” at her. The jeer referenced the time she was kicked out of a theatre during a performance of Beetlejuice: The Musical

Rodney Wilson, the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month, is setting the record straight about how LGBTQ+ identities are depicted in the Bible. After a historic vote yesterday by the United Methodist Church to end its ban on LGBTQ+ clergy, Wilson penned an essay for Advocate directed at the religious leaders around the world who still

A student carries a University of North Florida pride flag to protest the LGBTQ+ Center’s closure. Photo: Bob Self/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN The University of North Florida (UNF) has shut down its LGBTQ+, intercultural, interfaith, and women’s centers to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) 2023 law banning publicly-funded universities from

Rep. Greene (R-GA) speaks on May 1, 2024. Photo: Josh Morgan-USA TODAY via IMAGN Congressional Republicans are “sick and tired” of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and they plan to help defeat her resolution to kick out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), which she promised to formally introduce “next week, absolutely.” The defeat would help

The United Methodist Church voted today to repeal its ban on LGBTQ+ clergy, with an overwhelming majority of delegates voting in favor of inclusivity. The decision took place at the church’s General Conference, where the delegates voted 692-51 to remove the ban, as reported by the Associated Press. When the vote was announced, folks applauded

A drag queen performance at an Albuquerque, New Mexico high school prom has resulted in the performer receiving death threats and the school’s principal being placed on leave amid transphobic complaints from social media commenters. Dylan Payan, who performs in drag under the name Mythica Sahreen, was captured on video performing on April 20 in

Harmonica Sunbeam reads books to kids at a 2023 event Photo: Anne-Marie Caruso/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Jersey City drag queen Harmonica Sunbeam had planned on reading books, singing songs, coloring pictures, and taking pictures with kids as part of Brookdale Community College’s “Bring Your Child to Work Day” event for employees. But

Fox News host Jesse Watters continues to impress with his imbecilic takes on gender, anything gay, trans issues — and now what he’s mischaracterizing as “gender season.” In a recent Fox News segment which Watters calls “DEI Thursday,” the one-time “funny” Fox contributor and now pale imitation to Tucker Carlson twisted a nuanced personal video

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the primary federal agency that enforces laws against employment discrimination, has updated federal workplace guidelines to protect transgender workers from transphobic harassment like misgendering or denial of bathroom access. The new guidelines — the first issued from the EEOC in 25 years — define such harassment as a

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April 7, 2018 : The first Pride March in Jeonju, South Korea Photo: Shutterstock In South Korea this month, the conservative People’s Power party suffered big losses as a rejuvenated liberal opposition took a majority of seats in the legislature. The shift in South Korea’s balance of power could signal progress for the country’s embattled

Within the patriarchal, Christian, white supremacist structure that has perennially held power in the United States since colonial times, the issues that hold the highest sway among dominant group members in the 2024 election – even more than “it’s the economy stupid” – center on the so-called “cultural war” issues of God, Gays, Gates, and Guns

Chaya Raichik Photo: Screenshot Planet Fitness locations across the country have continued to receive bomb threats in the wake of an anti-transgender boycott campaign spearheaded by anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik’s Libs of TikTok social media accounts. Media Matter reports that at least 53 Planet Fitness locations in 20 states have now reported receiving bomb

Aug 27, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Sophia bush looks on during the game between OL Reign and Angel City FC at BMO Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports Actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer at age 41 after rumors of a relationship between her and soccer

The organizers of a Russian poetry competition have banned entries from transgender people. Rules posted online for this year’s Andrei Dementyev All-Russian Poetry Prize specify that while the competition will accept entries from poets “regardless of citizenship, nationality, profession, and place of residence,” entries from “citizens who have changed their gender” will not be considered,

Eli. Underwood likes the experience of voting in person, but they now have to vote by mail. Underwood went to a Detroit church to cast a ballot in the 2022 general elections, but chronic health conditions meant the two flights of stairs to the basement taxed them badly; living with Long Covid as well, Underwood was frustrated by

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) Photo: Screenshot Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has agreed to drop his pursuit of information on transgender patients who have been treated at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The agreement comes as part of a settlement announced Monday between Paxton’s office and the Washington state hospital, the Texas Tribune reports.

March 16, 2024; Dayton, Ohio: Gov. Kristi Noem made an appearance ahead of former President Donald Trump at a campaign stop Photo: Barbara Perenic/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK South Dakota Gov. and VP hopeful Kristi Noem (R) tried to build her national brand two years ago on the back of her attacks on transgender

Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the

Marchers carry a rainbow flag to the Alabama Capital during the 2019 Pride March and Rally Photo: Mickey Welsh / Advertiser/ via IMAGN Alabama’s legislature is advancing two censorious anti-LGBTQ bills: H.B. 130 would ban LGBTQ+ flags in classrooms and expand the state’s “Don’t say gay” law to include grades 6-8; H.B. 385 would jail

A woman receiving a facial injection Photo: Shutterstock The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have said that “vampire facials” conducted in an unlicensed New Mexico spa caused multiple women to contract HIV. It’s the first time that the cosmetic procedure has been linked to an HIV outbreak. The facials, also known as platelet-rich

Lori Gimelshteyn, executive director of the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network. Photo: KUSA screenshot Colorado’s Supreme Court has said that an anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group may start collecting signatures to approve Ballot Measure 142, a proposed law that would require schools to out transgender students to their potentially unsupportive parents. The group now has until August

Crystal, aka Colin Seymour Photo: Screenshot Laurence Fox, a prominent right-wing activist and former actor in the United Kingdom, has been told to pay £180,000 ($225,242) to two LGBTQ+ men, former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Crystal, following comments Fox made on X (formerly Twitter) falsely referring to them as

Malcolm Kenyatta Photo: Malcolm for PA Out gay Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D) won his primary race against Mark Pinsley for the role of auditor general, an administrative position overseeing the state’s accounting and financial functions. Kenyatta’s victory makes him the first out gay man to be selected by a major party for a

Shangela at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2019 Photo: Dan MacMedan-USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN A former production assistant (PA) on HBO’s docuseries We’re Here has dropped his rape lawsuit against Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce, a former RuPaul’s Drag Race competitor better known as Shangela. Pierce still faces sexual assault allegations from five