The U.S. Department of Education has opened a civil-rights investigation into how LGBTQ students are disciplined at Brigham Young University, a private religious school. The complaint under investigation came after the school said it would still enforce a ban on…
Ronald Gay — a 75-year-old former Marine who killed one man and injured six others in his September 2000 shooting of the Backstreet Cafe gay bar in Roanoke, Virginia — has died of natural causes as a prisoner in a hospital. He was 75…
Gus Kenworthy, one of the most visible and well-known out gay athletes in the world, will compete at the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing after all. Kenworthy will represent Team Great Britain in the freeski halfpipe, a discipline of…
A “nasty and spineless” scammer targeted vulnerable men on Grindr to blackmail hundreds of pounds has been jailed for five years. Anouar Sabbar, a 28-year-old from the south London neighbourhood Southwark, swindled at least £2,360 between April 2019 and June 2021 from dating…
For decades, cinema has influenced society’s perception on many social issues from social class to gender. Queerness has not been the exception. For much of the early 20th century, filmmakers were reluctant to portray queer characters in explicit terms due…
A Republican majority Florida House Education & Employment Committee passed HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill, colloquially referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill advancing the measure to the full House. HB 1557 and its companion Senate bill SB 1834, would…
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th President of the United States. Between working to undo his predecessor’s bigotry and fighting the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Biden has also made numerous strides to uplift the LGBTQ…
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