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James Cleveland Photo: Amazon Screenshot Every Black History  Month, there is a tribute to the Black Church and its gospel music. The contribution of LGBTQ+ singers to the canon of gospel music, however,  is never front and center in the celebration of its history. Every churchgoer – straight and gay –  knows the inimitable style

Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) has once again banned transgender people from updating the gender on their birth certificates. In a press release, DPHHS said that “the sex of a registrant on a birth certificate may only be corrected if the sex of an individual was listed incorrectly on the original

The Columbia, Missouri City Council declared the city a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people this past Monday in a 6-1 vote. The city council meeting was packed with supporters for the measure. “We literally heard from every ward in Columbia,” said councilmember Roy Lovelady. Related: Families sue to stop Missouri’s trans health care ban from

An image from “America Lives” Photo: YouTube screenshot A drag queen dressed in a red mohawk and rainbow-colored skirt reads to elementary school kids. An androgynous blonde child in a pink dress listens closely. Hung on the classroom wall are a rainbow flag, a portrait of Communist philosopher Karl Marx and two handwritten signs that

Crew members aboard a recent easyJet international flight had to restrain a drunk British male passenger after he allegedly tried to forcibly kiss another man on the lips. A video of the incident shows him angrily swearing at the stewards and threatening to punch them while they held him down. The incident occurred during a

It’s hard to miss Alethea Crimmins. With over two million followers on social media, she’s everywhere online. Whether she’s popping up in celebrities’ TikToks and Instagram reels, appearing on TV, or her viral videos are being fed to you directly, the influencer’s positive messages are teaching the internet that “You are a bad bitch!” Related:

Librarians, museum workers, and school educators could all be thrown in jail if West Virginia passes a new bill that would punish them for giving “obscene” materials to minors. On Friday, the West Virginia House of Delegates voted 85-12 in favor of House Bill 4654. The bill would allow a pre-existing law, State Code 61-8A-2,

The Supreme Court has refused to hear a lawsuit brought by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) against fines she received for ignoring a mandatory masking rule at the Capitol during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Greene — a notorious anti-vaxxer and COVID “truther” (that is, one who peddles conspiracy theories against COVID-19 vaccinations) —

Photo: Trump Sneaker Website Former President Donald Trump was booed during his appearance at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia on Saturday. At the event, Trump unveiled his personally branded $400 golden sneakers that gay journalist Anderson Cooper called “cheap looking.” “Sneakerheads, you’re sneakerheads, right? Does everybody in the room consider themselves a sneakerhead?” Trump said during

Nex Benedict Photo: GoFundMe Nex Benedict — a nonbinary, Native American, 16-year-old sophomore — was reportedly beaten to death on February 7 by three older female students in the bathroom of Owasso High School in Oklahoma. The school refused to call an ambulance for the injured teen and didn’t inform police of the attack until

The first-ever, limited edition Rainbow OREO packs. Photo: OREO An Oreo Super Bowl commercial has prompted a right-wing organization to lash out at the cookie brand for the “gender ideology indoctrination of kids.” The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is a watchdog organization that purports to promote “ethics in public life through research, investigation,

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