BREAKING NEWS: Former Glee star Mark Salling, 35, is dead of an apparent suicide, reports TMZ. From TMZ: We’re told his body was found near a riverbed in Sunland … the area where he lived. We do not yet know the manner of death. Read more
(Photo: Staff Sergeant Patricia King) Representative Joe Kennedy (D-MA) has invited a transgender soldier to the State of the Union Address, as a direct response Donald Trump‘s transphobia, reports LGBTQ Nation. Staff Sergeant Patricia King was invited to Tuesday’s speech before Read more
“Gay re-education” comedy-drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post has won the grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival, the most influential award on the US independent circuit, reports The Guardian. Directed by Desiree Akhavan and starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Read more
Out reports on an upcoming TV show This Close, starring a gay, deaf writer and actor paving a new path. Josh Feldman a queer actor, writer, and producer from Los Angeles, who also happens to be deaf, created the dramedy with his BFF Read more
(Photo: Timothee Chalamet (L), Armie Hammer, “Call Me By Your Name”) Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino aims to tackle HIV and AIDS head-on in what he hopes will become a decades-long ‘Before Sunrise’-like series, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Read more
U.S. Olympic freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy holds a LGBT rainbow pride flag in a TV ad for Head & Shoulders shampoo, which might be a first for a major ad campaign featuring an athlete, reports Outsports. ”My shoulders carry more Read more
(Photo: Daniela Vega in a scene from, “A Fantastic Woman”) Oscar nods for women and minorities drew many of the headlines in Tuesday’s nominations, but this year’s Academy Awards also mark a breakthrough for transgender filmmakers, reports ABC27.com. Yance Ford, the Read more
(Photo: Gus Kenworthy) Having earned a spot Sunday on the U.S. Ski Team, Gus Kenworthy is the second openly gay man who will compete for the United States at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, reports NPR. Kenworthy, 26, Read more
(Photo: Timothée Chalamet) Call Me by Your Name, a film telling the story of a gay romance in the northern Italian countryside, has been nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. The film, based on a novel by Egyptian-American author André Read more
Every year, the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD recognizes and awards a selection of television shows, films, and books that feature powerful portrayals of queer people, reports Gizmodo. This year, a number of Marvel’s comics were recognized for the contributions they’ve Read more
Fourteen aviation cadets at Ulyanovsk Civil Aviation Institute in Russia are facing disciplinary action, including possible expulsion, for shooting a video twerking in their underwear, reports Gay Star News. The video, shot in October but uploaded to YouTube this week, Read more
(Photo: Nancy Pelosi) On Twitter, RuPaul announced that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be a guest judge on season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars, reports LGBTQ Nation. Pelosi’s district includes San Francisco, and she has been Read more
More than 800,000 young people–including nearly 40,000 LGBTQ DACA recipients and their families–are counting on us to stand together and urge Congress to pass a clean #DreamActNow. Nearly 15,000 DACA holders have lost their status already. By March, that Read more
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at how Republicans still face the looming possibility of a government shutdown because President Trump rejected a bipartisan deal to solve an immigration impasse he created. WATCH: https://youtu.be/8b6IQQMRYCA
(Photo: Carl Higbie) Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie resigned Thursday as chief of external affairs for the federal government’s volunteer service organization after a CNN KFile review of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments he made on the radio, reports Read more
Photo: Samuel Woodward (left) and Blaze Bernstein (right) A 20-year-old Southern California man is charged with murder in the stabbing death of a former high school classmate. Nineteen-year-old Ivy League student Blaze Bernstein was reportedly stabbed more than 20 times. His Read more
(Photo: Lorri L. Jean) In response to the Republican Administration’s directive to the Department of Health and Human Services to allow healthcare workers to refuse perform, accommodate, or assist with health-care services based on personal objections, Los Angeles LGBT Read more
(Photo: Viola Davis) Viola Davis, Natalie Portman, and Allison Janney will be among the thousands of men and women participating in the Los Angeles Women’s March in downtown L.A. on Saturday, reports Variety. Elizabeth Banks, Connie Britton, Sarah Hyland, Mila Read more
The Trump administration will announce an overhaul of the HHS civil rights office as part of a broader plan to protect health workers who don’t want to perform abortions, treat transgender patients seeking to transition or provide other services for Read more
(Photo: HRC President Chad Griffin) The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute have released their annual State Equality Index (SEI), a comprehensive state-by-state report detailing statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ people and their families and Read more
