Sue Dunlap, President & CEO Planned Parenthood LA, on how shame and stigma can affect all of us in both subtle and significant ways. When I walk into the office each day, I know I have an important job to do. I have the honor of leading Read more
Upstate New York couple Lissette Gutierrez and Shirley Figueroa donated “Shelby,” the 72-foot-tall, 12-ton Norway spruce that’s now on display in Rockefeller Center, reports NBC News. Lissette Gutierrez did not want to part with the 72-foot-tall, 12-ton Norway spruce in Read more
(Photo:Eric Bauman) Eric Bauman, the leader of the California Democratic Party, the first gay person to lead the state’s party, has resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct — the latest politician forced to step down in the #MeToo era, reports Vox. Allegations Read more
LGBTQ asylum-seekers in Europe are subjected to stereotyping and humiliation, according to a report by NBC News. Navid Jafartash fled Iran in 2014 because he feared for his life: He is gay, and homosexuality is illegal in Iran and in Read more
(Photo: Jake Borelli) Grey’s Anatomy Jake Borelli came out as gay in an inspirational message on Instagram three weeks ago, reports Gay Star News. The actor announced his sexuality right after his character on the show, Dr. Levi Schmitt, started a romance Read more
Kristen Stewart is in talks to star in TriStar Pictures’ “Happiest Season,” reports Variety. Stewart will play a young woman who plans to propose to her girlfriend at her family’s annual holiday party only to have those plans foiled when she Read more
Senator Dianne Feinstein got a serious bomb threat a month before pipe bombs started showing up at the homes and offices of other prominent politicians … TMZ reports. According to court docs … an intern at the California Senator’s field office Read more
(Photo: Roxsana Hernández Rodriguez, Courtesy Transgender Law Center) A transgender woman who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being held in a privately operated detention center was likely physically abused there, according an autopsy report released Monday, and Read more
On Instagram over the weekend, RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Ross Mathews announced he and his partner of a decade, Salvador Camarena, have decided to break up, reports NewNowNext. “After nearly ten years together, Salvador and I have decided that the Read more
(Image: Adam Gerrard / Sunday Mirror) A father forced his 11-year-old son to have sex with his stepmother in a twisted attempt to “cure” the child from being gay, reports The Sunday Mirror. Young Daniel Dowling, from Berkshire in England, Read more
(Photo: Harvey Milk) Colorado this month elected the country’s first openly gay governor. And voters nationwide sent a record number of LGBT candidates to offices at all levels of government, reports NPR. This all comes 40 years after the assassination Read more
(Photo: Danni Askini) Danni Askini is a trans activist from Seattle, seeking asylum in Sweden, reports Gay Star News. Askini has long been a LGBTI activist and outspoken critic of the Trump Administration. In Seattle, she spearheaded a lawsuit against Trump’s proposed Read more
Ben & Jerry’s: “We cannot ignore the Trump administration’s attacks on our values, our environment, and our very humanity. We cannot stand silent while disenfranchised groups are silenced and ignored. We must act, we must resist. Introducing Pecan Resist, a Read more
Fantastic Beasts stars Ezra Miller and Eddie Redmayne sat down with Teen Vogue to participate in their Compliment Battle, reports Gay Star News. Miller, who is queer, recently came out as non-binary. Redmayne is an outspoken ally of the LGBTI Read more
(Photo: Linda Harvey) Linda Harvey, the anti-LGBTQ activist who leads the group Mission America, called for a boycott of Macy’s after it allowed a same-sex kiss in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, reports Towleroad. Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla, lead actors Read more
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up three cases challenging the administration’s repeated efforts to bar transgender people from serving in the military, reports Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed News. The effort to reverse Obama-era policies allowing for Read more
(Photo: Danny Roberts) If you were a gay teen in the early 2000s you probably remember Danny Roberts, the out housemate on The Real World: New Orleans. Now in an exclusive new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Roberts has come out as Read more
(Photo: Kim Cattrall) Last year, Kim Cattrall said she didn’t want to return as her most famous character Samantha Jones for the third instalment of Sex and the City – the movie, reports Gay Times. Shortly after, she admitted of Read more
In Note to Self, we hear from Olympian and U.S. national figure skating champion Adam Rippon. The 29-year-old tells CBS News he will no longer skate competitively. WATCH: https://youtu.be/M29gJK5G7lk
John Oliver discusses the growing number of authoritarian leaders around the world. WATCH:
