(Photo: Nigel Shelby. RIP) An Alabama sheriff’s deputy is on leave after making anti-LGBTQ comments on a Facebook post about a 15-year-old who died by suicide, reports AL.com. Madison County Deputy Jeff Graves wrote the comments on a post shared by a Huntsville TV station to raise awareness about bullying of LGBTQ people. The post…
CNN moderator Anderson Cooper hosted hour-long townhalls with five of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates last night. In the segment with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Cooper asked the gay candidate to respond to recent remarks by Richard Grenell, the gay U.S. ambassador to Germany, regarding Mayor Pete’s criticism of Vice President’s Mike Pence‘s homophobic views. Grenell,…
The Supreme Court will decide whether the main federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination applies to LGBT people. WATCH:
(Photo: Taron Egerton) Watch as the team behind the film discusses Elton John’s journey from prodigy to icon in this special look at Rocketman, in theatres May 31. WATCH:
In a bizarre new video, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr complained about how she “can’t” use the word “fag” outside the house, and also said that she’s queer, reports LGBTQ Nation. It does not appear to be a coming out message. Roseanne posted the video over the weekend to her YouTube channel, which she uses…
(Photo: Nigel Shelby) Nigel Shelby, a 15-year-old student has died by suicide after alleged homophobic bullying, reports Gay Star News. Shelby took his own life on this past Friday in Hunstville, Alabama. The 9th grade student faced the alleged bullying at his school, Huntsville High School. Huntsville is also known as “Rocket City” because it…
In 2013, Mina Gerges began posting recreations he’d made of iconic celebrity photos to Instagram, featuring everyone from Kim Kardashian and Rhianna to Beyoncé, Megan Fox, Nicki Minaj, and many more, writes Willa Bennettat them.us. For the young Egyptian-Canadian student, the photos were a low-budget, low-pressure, often intentionally humorous way to stan his favorite divas while highlighting the extremes to which they…
(Photo: Muhlaysia Booker) For the first time, the transgender woman who was violently beaten in Dallas, Texas earlier this month is speaking publicly about what happened, reports www.nbcdfw.com. The attack on 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker is being investigated as a hate crime. Saturday, she tearfully thanked supporters and demanded justice at a rally and press conference. “This time…
(Photo: Pete Buttigieg, who served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying for the War in Afghanistan in 2014.) Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg found himself in the crosshairs of a firebrand pastor this week, who claimed the openly-gay politician would crack down on Christianity if elected in 2020, and that…
(Photo: Map Pesqueira) Try telling Map Pesqueira that the transgender troop ban is not a ban, reports The Daily Beast. The University of Texas at Austin freshman revealed this week that he had lost his military scholarship because he is a transgender man, as The Daily Texan first reported. His is the first known case of a person losing such a…
Pete Buttigieg has risen to third place in a new national poll on Democratic presidential contenders, reports the Advocate. Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is expected to announce his presidential campaign next week, came in first in the Change Research poll of more than 2,500 likely Democratic primary voters, with the support of 21 percent. U.S.…
Harry’s shaving company just released a new ad and won over a whole new swath of customers by casually featuring a trans man in their ad over the narration, “You can shave to feel like you,” reports Towleroad. WATCH:
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg calmly shut down anti-gay hecklers at two Iowa campaign events on Tuesday, reports the Huffington Post. In his first visit to the state since he officially declared his 2020 candidacy, Buttigieg, an observant Christian who is openly gay, used humor to deflect the bigoted remarks. “Remember Sodom and Gomorrah!” an…
When Pete Buttigieg officially announced his campaign for president over the weekend, more than a few showbiz personalities weighed in to comment on the history being made, reports Variety. The interest in Buttigieg is driven in part by his personal story, as the first credible openly gay candidate for the Democratic nomination, and as a veteran of…
Rachel Maddow and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Democratic candidate for president in 2020, share their coming out stories. Maddow: “I think it would have killed me to be closeted for that long.” WATCH:
Wulfpak’s Aaron Dolson on the cannabis industry, gender identity and bringing the power back to the Radical Faeries. BY BRENDEN SHUCART | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM BEGINNINGS Aaron Dolson got into cannabis when he met the legendary Dennis Peron at Rainbow Gathering in 1998. “Dennis encouraged me to come out to California to the medical…
The Bay Area Drag Festival is Coming Back to Oakland! From Friday April 26th to Sunday April 28th, over one hundred drag kings, queens, and queer performers from the Bay Area and beyond will come together for the second annual Oaklash Drag Festival. Organized by Beatrix LaHaine and Mama Celeste, Oaklash is a weekend-long festival…
Our community has been affected by the trauma of societal and familiar homophobia. BY COLIN STACK-TROOST, MA, AMFT The first time that I made the connection between trauma the queer experience was in the title of a book: Alan Downs’ The Velvet Rage: Overcoming The Pain Of Growing Up In A Straight Man’s World. Downs…
“If you can bake a fierce pie, if you can do fierce drag, if you can dig a ditch or cut a potato generally into cubes, you can be a Faerie.” BY PHILIP HUANG “I know your type,” my therapist said, pointing her cigarette at me. I had just told her that, despite my feelings about…
There are numerous examples of LGBTQ activists and leaders in the psychedelic movement, such as Dennis Peron, who, beginning with the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, led the fight for the medical use of cannabis. BY GREGORY WELLS, PHD Queer people have long been part of both the modern world of psychedelics as well as…
After weeks of mysterious social media promotion, Madonna has finally released a trailer for her new album – which we now know will be called Madame X and will see the pop superstar take on a whole new persona, reports gcn NEWS. “Madame X is a secret agent, travelling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom,…
As you must already know – Mayor Pete Buttigieg ceremonially announced his campaign yesterday in the rain in South Bend, Indiana. At the end of his speech he and his husband Chasten Buttigieg kissed, getting a thunderous round of applause, reports LGBTQ Nation. Buttigieg is the first LGBTQ candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, and…
