Gina Ortiz Jones The Senate confirmed two LGBTQ women to top military positions on Thursday in historic firsts, reports NBC News. Gina Ortiz Jones will serve as undersecretary of the Air Force — the first out lesbian to serve as undersecretary of a military branch. Shawn Skelly will serve as assistant secretary of defense for…

“Grammy-winning rapper Lil Nas X flips the world of hip-hop on its head with seemingly everything he does. With his record-breaking debut single “Old Town Road,” he pushed the hybrid sound of country rap to the top of the Billboard charts for months,” writes Chris Malone Méndez at Forbes. With “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” the…

Tom Bosworth While the Tokyo Olympics, which opens this weekend, will see a record number of LGBTQ+ athletes taking part, gay Olympian Tom Bosworth believes there are far more LGBTQ+ athletes who are worried to come out, reports gcn. Bosworth, who is an Olympian race walker, is the only openly gay member of the British athletics…

Netflix has released the trailer for Pray Away (executive-produced by Ryan Murphy) a new documentary that investigates the abuse brought on by gay conversion therapy programs — featuring interviews with the program leaders themselves, reports Rolling Stone. The film centers on Exodus International, an Evangelical gay conversion program that began as a Bible study group between five gay men who…

Tommy Dorfman, Instagram Actress Tommy Dorfman has come out as transgender, reports CBSLA. The “13 Reasons Why” star revealed the news in an interview that appeared in Time magazine Thursday. “For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman, a trans woman,” Dorfman told Time. The 29-year-old actress also addressed the…

Video taken by passengers on a Dallas-bound flight shows a woman wearing a mask under her chin and shouting homophobic statements as she and her travel companions are removed from the plane for refusing to wear a mask. The user who posted the video (below) said that the woman and her children were forcefully removed…

Sharon Stone Actress Sharon Stone, has spoken up once again regarding the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality, this time urging the Vatican  to listen to what, in her view, is Pope Francis’ push for the inclusion of LGBTQ Catholics, reports Religion News Service. “On gay marriage, on adoptions for singles, on various fronts, I want…

A group of transgender rights activists Tuesday announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department for its handling of recent protests outside Wi Spa in Koreatown, reports CBSLA. The lawsuit stems from two separate violent clashes over the spa’s policy regarding transgender customers. “This has to stop,” Humberto Guizar, attorney with the Justice X…

Transgender model and actress Leyna Bloom on Monday weighed in on her history-making move as one of the three cover stars of this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, explaining that she and other members of the trans community “deserve this moment,” reports The Hill. Bloom wrote in a lengthy Instagram post showing her cover image as both…

Photo: gayemagazine via Instagram Disturbing video shows a 12-year-old boy with the word “gay” shaved into his hair being verbally and physically abused by three adults, reports the New York  Post. The footage, posted to Instagram last month, shows a young boy, identified in reports only as Tyler, cowering on the porch of an Atlanta home…

Mat George, via Instagram Mat George, best known as the cohost of the hit podcast She Rates Dogs, died Saturday as the result of a hit-and-run accident in Los Angeles, reported The Advocate. George became a favorite voice in the podcasting world for sharing his experiences dating as a gay man, as well as his takes on pop…

Los Angeles police on Saturday declared an unlawful assembly after a protest of a local area spa over its acceptance of transgender customers turned violent, reports Newsweek. Police ordered the area around the business, Wi Spa, to be cleared and said that anyone remaining would be arrested. Alleged members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group were said…

Gov. Gavin Newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, approved a final state budget on Monday that includes $3 million for LGBTQ cultural competency training for public school teachers, reports NBC News. That makes the state the first in the country to allocate funding in this specific way, according to Equality California, an LGBTQ advocacy…

Michael Henderson (R), Instagram Murrieta Valley High School fired Michael Henderson, head coach of cheer and stunt program, after he served three years in that job, reports Patch. The coach, 31, believes he was fired because he is gay. He filed a wrongful termination lawsuit alleging that the process leading to his dismissal was “flawed.”…

A federal judge has ruled against an Indiana teacher who said he was forced to resign after refusing to call transgender students by their chosen names, reports East Bay Times. The judge on Monday rejected former music teacher John Kluge’s allegations of religious discrimination and retaliation by the Brownsburg Community School Corporation. In May 2017,…

Justin Wicker A gay, male resident of Glendale, California remains hospitalized in critical condition following an altercation with an unidentified man on the street of Palm Springs over the weekend, reports Queerty. Justin Wicker and a friend had stopped on Arenas Road in the early morning hours of July 9 to stop and talk to a…

Mj Rodriguez. Photo: TheKalenAllen “Pose” co-star Mj Rodriguez made Emmy history Tuesday by becoming the first transgender performer to be nominated for a leading-performance Emmy Award in a primetime series, reports CBSLA. The nomination marked the third time a transgender performer has received an Emmy nomination. Previously, Laverne Cox received multiple nominations for “Orange is…

A bar in Wyoming is selling a shirt that says “We have a cure for AIDS.” The supposed “cure” is, according to the shirt, “We shoot fuck’n faggots,” reports LGBTQ Nation. The words are written around a drawing of a man, wearing a biker jacket with a skull on the lapel, pointing a revolver. The…

AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2021 is officially off and walking! APLA Health opens registration and fundraising for AIDS Walk LA at aidswalkla.org APLA Health has partnered with Ongina to host their new weekly online video talk show, The Walk Show. Every week Ongina will “walk” participants through weekly challenges, community stories, fundraising tips and much…

Samuel Luiz, RIP Spanish police have arrested three people in connection with the killing of a young gay man whose death in a brutal homophobic attack over the weekend shocked the country and sparked nationwide protests, reports The Guardian. Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was out with friends in the Galician city of A Coruña…