Republican lawmakers across the country have introduced legislation targeting transgender Americans, including transgender children — a record number of bills, according to the Human Rights Campaign. In response, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison and LGBTQ+ Caucus Chair Earl Fowlkes released the following joint statement: “The Democratic Party respects and validates transgender people and believes discrimination against…

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, the cities of Tel Aviv, Israel and West Hollywood, California will launch a city-to-city dialogue focused on the prevention of transmission of HIV, hosted online by the Israeli Consulate in LA, Congregation Kol Ami of West Hollywood, the Israeli-American Civic Action Network. The event…

(Jerry Falwell Jr. Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Liberty University is suing  the virulently anti-gay, Christian conservative Jerry Falwell Jr for $10 million, claiming he withheld scandalous information from trustees while negotiating a new contract for himself, reports Pink News. Falwell, a key Trump ally and one of the most powerful…

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill that bans trans student athletes from playing in the sport of the gender and legalizes genital inspections when someone has determined an athelete’s gender is in question, reports Out. The House’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” limits sports at most educational facilities to biological sex, permits genital…

Photo: Tony Hoang  Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, and Equality California Institute announced today that Managing Director Tony Hoang will lead the organization as the next Executive Director when Rick Chavez Zbur steps down at the end of 2021. The organizations’ boards of directors unanimously selected Hoang after an extensive year-long succession…

Colton Underwood – the former NFL player who has appeared on multiple Bachelor series – has come out as gay, reports LGBTQ Nation. “I’ve ran from myself for a long time. I’ve hated myself for a long time,” he told Good Morning America. “And I’m gay. And I came to terms with that earlier this year and have…

Arclight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres will close down, a victim of a global pandemic that brought moviegoing to a standstill. The news comes as things were beginning to look up for the hard-hit exhibition industry and serves as a reminder of the economic devastation wrought by a public health crisis that upended cultural life, reports  Variety. “After shutting…

Photo: Chris Magnus President Joe Biden nominated the chief of the Tucson Arizona Police Department to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the country’s border enforcement agency that is grappling with an increase in the arrival of migrant children and families, reports AZCentral. The White House announced Monday the nomination of Chris Magnus, a critic of…

Lil Nas X’s newest song has become the most-played song in Saudi Arabia, a country in which gay sex can be punished by death, reports Unilad.  The rapper recently dropped the gay themed MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name), which quickly became a hit. It’s being streamed all across the world and dominated the news conversation…

When lawmakers began pushing bills banning transgender athletes from sports in several states, college athletes were taken by surprise — The National Collegate Athletic Association (NCAA) has a decade-old policy permitting transgender athletes to participate in sports on the college level under certain requirements, reports The Hill. After several states enacted these bans, the NCAA issued a statement supporting the participation…

Opposing demonstrators gathered at the Huntington Beach Pier on Sunday, April 11, as Black Lives Matter supporters came out to condemn a planned “white lives matter” demonstration that was promoted in leaflets touting the Ku Klux Klan, reports The Press-Enterprise. At least 300 people gathered in Downtown Huntington Beach, on either side of Pacific Coast…

Two years after opening its flagship Anita May Rosenstein Campus, the Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrates the grand opening of its newest building: the Michaeljohn Horne & Thomas Eugene Jones Youth Housing. Located directly across the street from the revolutionary Campus and next door to the Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza, the nearly 13,000-square-foot,…

The cast of Glee reunited yesterday during the virtual ceremony for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards for a special tribute to the legacy of the late Naya Rivera’s character Santana Lopez. The tribute honors the ten-year anniversary of Santana’s coming out on the GLAAD Media Award-winning series and spotlights the character’s impact on LGBTQ…

President Joe Biden issued the first presidential proclamation recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility – today, March 31, 2021, reports NBC News. The day is dedicated to celebrating transgender people and bringing awareness to the discrimination and violence they face everyday. In his proclamation, Biden said Trans Day of Visibility recognizes the generations of activism by transgender and…

(Photo: Naya Rivera, via Wikipedia Commons) The cast of the hit show Glee will be reuniting at the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards ceremony, the LGBTQ advocacy organization announced this week, reports LGBTQ Nation. They will be honoring their late fellow cast member Naya Rivera. The out actress was 33 when it was announced that she died in…

(Shane Devereaux) Carlsbad police are investigating whether a fight Saturday night is a “possible hate crime,” according to Lt. Kevin Lehan. A GoFundMe page created by friends of Shane Devereaux notes the transgender Marine veteran was out with his girlfriend and was left with serious injuries, reports CBS8.  Friends said the couple were approached by three men…

(Facebook screen grab – (L-R) Lance Bass, named business partner, John Cole and Monte Overstreet) Lance Bass, of NSYNC boyband fame, who is also part owner to Rocco’s WeHo, signed a lease and he has been handed the keys to the former Rage Nightclub space located at 8911 Santa Monica Boulevard, reports WEHO Times. The…

The Bank of England has just released the design for the new £50 bill that features Alan Turing, reports LGBTQ Nation. Turing was a gay mathematician whose theories were highly influential in the development of computer science, and his work during World War II helped Allied forces crack coded Nazi messages and defeat Axis forces,…