Each year, the City of West Hollywood celebrates the artistic contributions of the LGBTQ community with its vibrant One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival. The festival runs for 40 days, through Sunday, June 30, 2019, which marks the end of Pride month.  With the theme of “Love is Love,” this year’s One City One…

Taylor Swift dropped a new song, You Need To Calm Down, celebrating Pride. This is the second song from her upcoming album “Lover,” reports USA Today. “Why are you mad when you could be GLAAD?” Swift sings on the new song, releasing an accompanying lyric video that makes it clear she’s name-dropping GLAAD, short for the powerful Gay &…

(Photo: Robert Oscar Lopez) “Ex-gay” activist and professor Robert Oscar Lopez has offered 10 bizarre tips for those wishing to avoid the “temptation” of homosexuality during Pride month, reports Pink News. The tips include the obvious “stay away from Gay Pride events” and “pray a lot,” but also some more obscure ideas. The second tip…

(Photo: Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers) While the Trump administration is working furiously to essentially re-implement “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for transgender military personnel, it’s refreshing to see the California National Guard take a different tack, reports Times Standard. One of the highest ranking members of the state’s National Guard, Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, is a…

(Photo: Patrick Boyle) A group of anti-LGBTQ preachers will be hosting a “Make America Straight Again” conference this weekend in Florida, three years after the Pulse nightclub shooting, reports LGBTQ Nation. The preachers, associated with the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Church, put together the conference in Orlando as a way to dishonor those who died…

Norm Langer says he doesn’t have a problem with gay couples at his Los Angeles deli, but he does have a problem with customers — of any sexual orientation — making out in his dining room, reports The LA Times. Langer, whose father opened the legendary deli in the 1940s, spoke with The Times on…

Ecuador’s highest court has ruled to recognize same-sex marriage, marking a watershed moment for LGBTQ rights in the Catholic-majority country, reports CNN. Judges on Quito’s constitutional court ruled five-to-four on Wednesday to overhaul the country’s laws, arguing that its current marriage legislation was discriminatory and unconstitutional, and that same-sex couples should be allowed equal rights.…

The California government is on the verge of shutting down a small Christian school following a BuzzFeed News investigation detailing accusations that officials failed to report abuse and punished kids who expressed they were gay or bisexual, reports BuzzFeed News. River View Christian Academy is located in a remote area of the mountains outside of Redding…

A bride-to-be has been accused of trying to put her future husband’s gay son “back in the closet” so she can have the “perfect wedding,” reports UK’s Mirror. The woman has told the 22-year-old that she doesn’t want him to bring his boyfriend of four years as his date to the celebrations as she’s worried…

In the days ahead of the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida lawmakers have proposed plans to designate the nightclub a national memorial, reports CNN. U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy, both from Central Florida, announced their plan to declare Pulse a federal landmark at a service in…

The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, released a report Tuesday on the mental health of queer young adults. The results are pretty horrifying, reports The Huffington Post. Nearly 1 in 5 LGBTQ people ages 13 to 24, and 1 in 3 transgender and nonbinary young people in the…

(Photo: Justice Michael Leburu) Botswana’s High Court has overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in a landmark victory for Africa’s LGBTQ movements, reports CNN. The court in the southern African country unanimously ruled on Tuesday that the legislation was discriminatory, unconstitutional and against the public interest.   “A democratic society is one that…

The Vatican issued an official document this week rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies, reports Time. The document, published during LGBT Pride Month, was immediately denounced by LGBT Catholics as contributing to bigotry and violence against gay…

Franklin Graham spent one of the biggest gay pride weekends attacking LGBT people, and now he’s getting totally destroyed on social media, reports  Raw Story. Praising the news that the U.S. State Dept. under President Donald Trump is now banning gay pride flags from flying at American embassies around the world, Graham took to Twitter…

A straight man from rural Oklahoma is receiving praise for his message of support during Pride, reports Gay Star News. On 6 June, Cody Barlow shared a picture of his newly-decorated pickup truck to Facebook. “Found a way to show my support for Pride month,” Barlow wrote. “This is important to me, not only because…

Several U.S. embassies and diplomatic missions around the world have been spotted hoisting rainbow flags in honor of Pride Month, despite a string of rejections from the Trump administration of requests to fly the iconic flag, reports The Daily Grind. Diplomatic missions in Seoul, Korea and Chennai, India sent out a press release and a…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s State Department has banned the LGBT Pride flag from being flown from flagpoles outside all U.S. embassies, reports Raw Story. The Trump administration has quietly been waging war against the LGBTQ community, including just this week announcing it is axing federal funding of HIV treatment testing research. Under the Obama administration…