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Almost two-thirds of LGBTQ+ people who were raised Christian have left the faith, studies have shown. They’re acting on the Church’s mostly unwelcoming appeals against gay believers. There are exceptions, like the Universalist Unitarians, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, and Episcopalians, still around after conservative Anglicans broke away from that denomination, unhappy with women’s ordination

The leader of a conservative Muslim party in Indonesia threw the government into turmoil last week when he uploaded a video to YouTube accusing a close aide to President Prabowo Subianto of being gay and becoming “personally closer” to the head of state. Amien Rais of the Unmat Party called Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya

A first-of-its-kind Christian cell phone network purports to block users from both pornography and LGBTQ+ content. But critics say the project’s size and subjective nature will give the company’s founder too much control over what users can see. Launched on Tuesday, Radiant Mobile aims to create a “Jesus-centric” environment, founder Paul Fisher told the MIT

President Donald Trump experienced his third assassination attempt on April 25 during his appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, an annual event sponsored by the White House Correspondents’ Association. The suspect in that shooting, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is alleged to have wanted to assassinate Trump, along with senior members of his

A judge in Russia has ruled that a man “committed propaganda of non-traditional sexual preferences” for posting a favorable review of a mini skirt with purported pictures of him modeling the dress. He was ordered to be deported, Mediazona reports. Gulomova Islomzhona Numonzhon was found guilty of posting “information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual attitudes,

Our former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed the president’s “extraordinary weakness” on May 5, after the current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and gay Treasury Secretary blamed the recent shutdown of Spirit Airlines on Buttigieg and former President Joe Biden. “Look, when you are this deep into your second year, if your reflex is to still

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed H.B. 754/S.B. 676 into law on Thursday. It requires all healthcare providers who receive state funding to provide information about their trans patients to the state for a publicly available database, or else face . While the individual patients won’t be identified by name, LGBTQ+ and privacy advocates worry

The British Medical Association (BMA) – the trade union for doctors and medical students in the United Kingdom – has voiced its support for the controversial Cass Review of gender-affirming care, formally dropping its previous opposition to the review and to Cass’ recommendations. “[Dr. Hilary Cass] has been vindicated in the way she approached the

A gay man moved into an apartment temporarily after he’d broken up with his ex and ended up walking into a nightmare, prosecutors in Germany say. Three days later, he was dead. The 44-year-old was stabbed to death by his roommate last November, authorities say, in a ritualistic killing based on the perpetrator’s extreme anti-gay

Dave Chappelle is once again claiming that critics have misinterpreted his anti-trans jokes. The comedian joined former First Lady Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, for an episode of their podcast, IMO, which dropped May 6. At one point, Obama asked Chappelle to describe what it is like for him when his comedy “doesn’t

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, policies, and political rhetoric are a significant driver of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among LGBTQ+ youth, according to The Trevor Project’s annual survey on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people. One in ten LGBTQ+ youth attempted suicide in 2025, according to the authors. Related The survey findings cover the first year

Melania Trump | Screenshot/Twitter Attendees at a White House event burst into laughter on Wednesday after First Lady Melania Trump praised her husband’s “empathy.” Her husband is known for regularly insulting and bullying U.S. allied leaders and political opponents, as well as lying about his own repeated failures, but not for his empathy. “Most know

LGBTQ+ destination Key West will no longer receive state funding for its Pride events beginning next year. In a letter to the Key West Business Guild, a senior assistant county attorney for Monroe County specifically cited the state’s S.B. 1134, an anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last month,

Education agencies in Vermont have paid more than half a million dollars in damages and legal fees to a Christian school in the state that was barred from competition after it refused to play a basketball team with a transgender student-athlete, Fox News reports. Mid Vermont Christian School took the knee before a game with

Today marks the launch of Radiant Mobile, a Christian cell phone network that automatically blocks all pornographic, “satanic,” and “cult” content. The service, which buys its bandwidth from T-Mobile’s national tower network, will also reportedly roll out a filter that blocks all LGBTQ+ content, including web material related to gender and trans issues, according to

Sam Greene / USA TODAY NETWORK Donald Trump is being severely mocked for randomly sharing a series of posts last night praising his State of the Union (SOTU) address that took place in February. Trump shared the praise on Truth Social with no explanation – just a series of screenshots calling his speech “historic,” “cathartic,”

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten | YouTube screenshot CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Monday that the president is losing a very important demographic, and that loss could spell doom for Republicans running in swing districts nationwide. Enten pointed out that at this point during the president’s first term, his support among

On May 1, transgender actress Tommy Dorfman shared Instagram photos of transphobic text messages sent by a man who was seated next to her in first class during a recent flight. The man apparently sent the exact same hateful messages to at least seven people on his smartphone. Dorman referred to him as an “alt

President Donald Trump is claiming credit for the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” reaching No. 1 on the charts in 2024. During a May 1 speaking engagement at The Villages, a massive Central Florida retirement community that was the subject of the 2020 documentary Some Kind of Heaven, the president went off on one of his characteristic

A federal judge on Friday ordered the City of St. George, Utah, to pay $350,000 in attorneys’ fees for the group Southern Utah Drag Stars, after a long-running lawsuit was settled in their favor last year. The suit, filed in 2023, cited a “flagrant and ongoing violation” of the group’s “free speech, due process, and

House Republicans are reportedly at their wits’ end with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). A report in NOTUS quotes several House Republicans who feel his leadership is a mess and that he has completely lost control of the chamber. Many House Republicans who spoke to the publication chose to remain anonymous. They described Johnson as “f**ked”

In an attention-grabbing act of political and social media theatre, a transgender woman in Ghana has claimed that she’s the lover of a parliament member who supports anti-LGBTQ+ legislation moving through the country’s Parliament. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill not only increases penalties for same-sex acts to up to five years in

Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney recently opened up about her experience staring in Broadway’s Six: The Musical for the past two months. “I’m having the time of my damn life,” she told viewers on social media while putting on makeup for her upcoming performance. Related Mulvaney plays Anne Boleyn, the second, ultimately beheaded wife of English

New York police say the suspect in a brutal hate crime committed at a subway station in January was identified last week after he tried to evade paying a subway fare. According to police sources, 41-year-old Yeshayahu Carraway of the Bronx was later matched with the suspect in the January 17 incident, when a rider

This week, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, delivering a fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act. That decision shows just how broken the Court is, as its decision was undoubtedly political. But more than that, it is also enabling redistricting that might prevent Democrats from ever getting a chance

A homophobic attack in Bristol, England during the early morning hours of April 24 left an unnamed 30-year-old man unconscious and hospitalized in critical condition with serious facial injuries, according to PinkNews. Ambulance workers who arrived near 3:15 a.m. called police to the scene. A second victim, who reportedly sustained minor injuries with no need

Christian nationalist hate pastor Joel Webbon — a man who thinks maybe Adolf Hitler and fascism weren’t so bad after all — has blamed Jewish influencers for turning the United States into “a very gay nation” filled with transgender people, abortion, low wages, and “the LGBTQ.” If this makes no sense to you, it’s because

In the wake of Donald Trump’s first electoral win in 2016, a friend of mine – a gay progressive who doesn’t follow politics too closely – told me, exasperatedly, “The Democrats should get rid of the Electoral College!” I get it: The Electoral College is the reason Trump won in 2016. While I was taught

Longtime Trump supporter Tucker Carlson told President Donald Trump, “You have failed,” during the Wednesday edition of The Tucker Carlson Show. In his rant, Carlson said the president has abandoned everyday Americans and has contempt for them, Mediaite reported. “You certainly hate them because they are a reminder of how you have failed,” Carlson said. “You

A 197-page report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias said that pro-LGBTQ+ policies pursued by former President Joe Biden are anti-Christian. Biden is Roman Catholic, and numerous Christian groups support LGBTQ+-inclusive social policies. “The Biden administration’s policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious