Barbara Hammer, the pioneering experimental filmmaker whose visions of life and love channeled a distinctly lesbian point of view, has died at the age of 79. The cause of death was ovarian cancer, with which she was diagnosed in 2006, reports Art News. In her final years, Hammer was an outspoken advocate for people’s right to…
Author and activist Jacob Tobia stopped by The Daily Show Thursday to promote their new memoir and ended up getting Trevor Noah to unleash his inner glam in some dangly earrings, reports Queerty. Tobia, who is vocal about being gender nonconforming, says their book, Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story, is in part intended to take back the historically…
(Photo: Janet Jackson) The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees include female performerswho are allies to the LGBTI community, reports Gay Star News. One such inductee is the legendary Janet Jackson. And what’s more: pansexual music icon Janelle Monáe will be the one inducting Jackson. “In a fabulous display of one generation honoring the…
(Photo: Cesar Marin) A gay man says he was attacked by a mob in Phoenix, Arizona, after a woman flicked a cigarette in his car and used a homophobic slur against him, reports Pink News. Cesar Marin posted on Facebook a picture of his battered face from a hospital bed on Saturday (March 16), describing the alleged…
YouTube star Lilly Singh, a vlogger with over 14 million subscribers on the popular social platform, will be taking over the NBC late-night slot currently held by Carson Daly, reports NBC News. When her show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, debuts in September, she is expected to be the only woman and only LGBTQ…
Lily Tomlin, Kathy Griffin, Jenifer Lewis, Wilson Cruz, Trans Chorus of LA to Participate in All-Day Festivities Commemorating the Intergenerational New Campus LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2019—Two years after breaking ground in Hollywood—and just in time for its 50th anniversary—the Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrates the grand opening of the unprecedented Anita May Rosenstein Campus on Sunday, April…
(Photo: Andrew Rannells) Actor Andrew Rannells has opened up about how, in the year before his graduation, a Catholic priest twice forced open-mouthed kisses on him, reports Gay Star News. The star shares the encounters, as well as his experiences of growing up in the Catholic church in Nebraska, in his new memoir, Too Much…
San Diego Pride announced today that Melissa Etheridge is going to be the headliner for their event this year, reports Gay Star News. Founded in 1974, San Diego Pride held their first event the following year. It was held in honor and celebration of Stonewall Riots of 1969. This year’s theme is Stonewall 50: A Legacy of Liberation.…
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, spoke about his sexuality during a breakfast today hosted by the notoriously homophobic vice president Mike Pence, reports The Guardian. Varadkar, one of the few openly gay world leaders, had brought his partner, Matt Barrett, to the event. Pence has an extensive anti-LGBT record, having repeatedly voted against HIV/Aids prevention…
Christopher Street West (CSW), the 501(c)3 non-profit that produces the annual LA Pride Festival and Parade, has just announced a diverse group of LGBTQ+ and allied performers set to take the stage at the 2019 LA Pride Festival. GRAMMY® Award-winning global superstar Meghan Trainor and British electronic pop trio Years & Years will headline this…
Jussie Smollett just pled not guilty to the 16-count indictment against him, reports TMZ. He was advised he needs to be at every court date going forward, and is set to be back in court in mid-April. In the meantime, he’ll be allowed to travel to L.A. and NY for meetings with his lawyers. READ…
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, who drew national attention and broke fundraising records with his losing campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz last year, announced on Thursday he is running for president in 2020. WATCH:
(Photo: George Pell) Cardinal George Pell has been given a maximum six-year jail sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing two boys in Australia, reports BBC News. The former Vatican treasurer is the most senior Catholic figure ever to be found guilty of sexual offences against children. Pell abused the choir boys in Melbourne in…
(Photo: Bennett Bressman) Nebraska GOP Governor Pete Ricketts‘ re-election campaign statewide field director Bennett Bressman reportedly has made thousands of posts on Discord, a social media platform popular with the alt-right, reports Raw Story. Among his remarks are a “shocking trove” of homophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks, as Talking Points Memo reports. Ricketts on Monday said he was…
Beyoncé and Jay Z will receive the Vanguard Award for being allies to the LGBTQ community at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, reports Rolling Stone. Per a statement, GLAAD’s Vanguard Award is presented to people who “have made a significant difference promoting acceptance of LGBTQ people.” It continued, “Beyoncé and Jay Z are longtime allies and supporters…
(Photo: Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon) Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, a gay man who is the janitor at his father’s church, impressed the judges on American Idol, reports LGBTQ Nation. Harmon talked about growing up in a very religious family, the son of a pastor. He said that he knew he was gay when he was nine-years-old. “I felt…
(Photo: Kamala Harris) The Trump administration appears poised to implement a ban on transgender service members in the U.S. military, following a ruling from a federal court judge giving it the green light, reports Think Progress. “In light of the district court’s decision yesterday to stay the preliminary injunction in Stone v. Trump … there…
