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Todd Haynes has long been one of the great American filmmakers, delivering lush melodrama in Far From Heaven, an experimental biopic of Bob Dylan in I’m Not Here, and an all-time lesbian classic in Carol. But before these films, Haynes broke out as a major voice in the New Queer Cinema movement of the early

Jack Hibbs giving the House’s opening prayer on January 30, 2024 Photo: Screenshot Four LGBTQ+ congresspeople and 22 other Democratic federal legislators have written a letter blasting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for recently inviting anti-LGBTQ+ Pastor Jack Hibbs to deliver a prayer in the House. “Pastor Hibbs is a radical Christian Nationalist who helped

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In 2012, Charlie Kirk deferred his acceptance to Baylor University to found Turning Point USA and establish himself as a young conservative whisperer who could convince his peers of the wonders of capitalism. In early 2016, the organization’s website argued that through “non-partisan debate, dialogue, and discussion, Turning Point USA believes that every young person can be enlightened

A lesbian mom who used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to start a family with her wife recently opened up about the complex feelings and decisions that accompany LGBTQ+ family building, as well as what it feels like to be the non-birthing mother. Lotte Jeffs wrote in Women’s Health that it first occurred to her that

A California couple – Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez – agreed to a plea deal where they will have to pay $1,789,972 in restitution after their 2020 gender reveal party resulted in a wildfire that destroyed 23,000 acres of land and 20 buildings and also killed one person. Jail time and community

Another hate preacher affiliated with the wildly anti-LGBTQ+ New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement, or New IFB Church, has called for the public execution of gay people. “That’s what fa**ots deserve, is the death penalty!” railed “Brother” Robert Larson in a sermon at the Bible Believers Baptist Church in Union Gap, WA last week. “And they

Donald Trump Photo: Shutterstock It’s only mid-February and Donald Trump is already on an expensive losing streak with the courts. In a civil case in New York state court, Judge Arthur Engorgon fined Trump more than $350 million for inflating his net worth to get better terms on loans from lenders. Engoron also barred the

Welcome to the weekly 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 quiz without looking

A Texas high school science teacher has been placed on probation after Chaya Raichik, who goes by Libs of TikTok online, shared images of him wearing drag at school events. However, his students are rallying to his defense against the anti-LGBTQ+ troll. On Valentine’s Day, Raichik posted several images of Rachmad Tjachyadi, an Indonesian-born teacher

The women kissing Photo: Screenshot U.S. Sun A pair of young women, 19 and 24, were hunted down by Russian police after a video they shot and posted to TikTok and Instagram showed them kissing passionately in a pizzeria just down the road from one of Vladimir Putin’s official residences. The women were rounded up

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An 18-year-old transgender man in Colorado filed a lawsuit against Children’s Hospital Colorado, alleging that the hospital is discriminating against transgender patients by refusing to perform surgeries for trans patients that it offers to cisgender patients. The plaintiff, identified in court documents with the alias Caden Kent, says that he was supposed to receive top

Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) Photo: YouTube screenshot Anti-trans Christian Michigan state representative Josh Schriver (R) has been stripped of his office staff, office budget, and House committee assignments after sharing a social media post pushing a racist and antisemitic conspiracy theory known as “The Great Replacement.” On February 6, Schriver used his X

Haley’s imagined Valentine’s Day card from Trump to North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Photo: Nikki Haley campaign Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is celebrating Valentine’s Day with former President Donald Trump… but not in a way that he’ll love. She created fake Valentine’s cards from him to some of the most notorious anti-LGBTQ+

A scene from Volkswagen’s 2024 Super Bowl ad. Photo: Screenshot Ads that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl LVIII telecast on CBS featured more LGBTQ+ representation than last year’s, according to GLAAD. The LGBTQ+ advocacy organization noted 10 ads featuring depictions of queer characters or celebrities this year, up from only four that aired during the

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Republicans must have known that they were facing an uphill battle in the special Congressional election to replace serial liar George Santos. When the worst snowstorm in two years hit the New York metropolitan area on election morning, the party hired snowplows to clear the streets in areas where they expected favorable turnout. It didn’t

With the prospect of legal same-sex marriage closer than ever in Greece, far-right groups — including the Greek Orthodox Church and the most conservative members of the right-wing majority party — are in desperation mode. On Sunday, ultra-orthodox religious groups sponsored a rally at the Greek Parliament protesting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ legislation to legalize

Steven Miles (aka as “Sergeant Miles”) Photo: video screenshot A federal judge has sentenced Proud Boy member and gay adult film actor Steven Miles, who performs under the name Sergeant Miles, to two years in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Miles must also pay $2,000

Genesse Ivonne Moreno in April 2022 Photo: Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office Right-wingers are falsely claiming that a transgender woman conducted a Sunday shooting at the Houston megachurch of homophobic celebrity pastor Joel Osteen, even though local police have definitively said that she wasn’t trans. The right-wing claims originate from reports that the 36-year-old shooter,

Felicity Huffman in “Transamerica” Photo: Screenshot Felicity Huffman says she “wouldn’t be able to” play the lead role in Transamerica if it were offered to her today. Huffman earned a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination for her role in the 2005 film, in which she played a transgender woman who goes on a

Months after Japan’s Supreme Court struck down part of a law requiring transgender people to undergo surgery to have their gender legally recognized, a court in the western part of the country has ruled that a trans man can update his gender on official documents without undergoing surgical sterilization. Okayama family court’s Tsuyama branch handed

It was a sweet ad for most people that showed people giving gifts of jewelry to loved ones, but some conservative Christians are outraged that a lesbian couple appeared in the ad. “Unfortunately, Pandora also blatantly throws homosexuality in the viewer’s face with the lesbian couple’s intimate embrace,” the website for One Million Moms (OMM)

A landmark ruling by a Pennsylvania court could set crucial precedent for child custody decisions when LGBTQ+ couples separate or divorce. Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover went through the entire IVF process together, splitting the massive costs to help Glover get pregnant, co-signing contracts, and establishing Junior as the intended co-parent, according to a report

A central Oregon community has rallied around a team of queer journalists after a local coffee shop threatened to use their magazine as “kindling” if they didn’t remove it from the store. Ruth Vernotico, the publisher of Sisters, Oregon’s non-profit LGBTQ+ magazine SUS, had spoken to Sisters Coffee Company about displaying upcoming issues – a

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The Old Wooden Barn Photo: Screenshot / WOOD8 A Michigan LGBTQ+ organization has filed a formal complaint against a wedding venue it says discriminates against the LGBTQ+ community in violation of state law. In a letter to the state’s Department of Civil Rights and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, the Surfus Foundation, an LGBTQ+ policy