This month, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will join gay pride marches in cities big and small. In many cities, pride marches are controversial. In some—like Moscow—they are even banned. But for many people in…
On Wednesday, the Senate voted to confirm Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to a lifetime federal seat, overriding the objections of all the body’s voting Democrats and one Republican, Maine senator Susan Collins. With a 52-46 vote, the 42-year-old Kacsmaryk will head to…
The 2020 Census won’t ask questions about LGBTQ identity, but a group of advocates is fighting to make sure queer and trans people still participate in the survey. Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration made headlines when…
RuPaul is taking to the skies. In honor of Pride Month, JetBlue named one of its new aircraft “Shantay Blue Stay,” inspired by the “Drag Race” host’s famous catchphrase: “Shantay, you stay.” And, in order to honor the new aircraft…
Two high school students have been indefinitely suspended from a Salt Lake City football team for a Snapchat video posted showing an LGBTQ Pride flag being burned, while someone in the video says “all gays die.” “There’s no place for…
An estimated 10,000 LGBTQ youth, ages 13 to 17, have been protected from conversion therapy by living in states that have banned the contentious practice on minors, according to an updated report from UCLA’s Williams Institute. Starting in 2012 with California, 18 states and the…
It’s 11 p.m. at AMO, an underground lesbian nightclub in Chengdu, and 17 women—in androgynous clothing, their hair closely cropped—line up at the front door to welcome party goers. Among them is Yang Yang, 25, who started working at AMO (Esperanto for “love”)…
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