“Can someone please explain modern high school boys to me?” asks Claire (Madeline Weinstein), the long-suffering girlfriend of the questioning, titular character of Netflix’s new queer-teen flick, Alex Strangelove. “They are so oversensitive and high strung and selfish and just, like, rude. My mom made me watch this…
Everyone can relax: Jake Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop wants you to know that he does not discriminate, even though he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple and then went all the way to the Supreme Court to appeal his case after the Colorado Civil Rights Division and the Colorado Court of Appeals found…
After Rita Ora released her song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Cardi B, and Bebe Rexha singing about how they wanna kiss other girls after a little wine and weed, the track was immediately criticized for being a “harmful,” stereotypical depiction of lesbian desire. Ora responded to critics by explaining that the…
GLAAD has released its annual Studio Responsibility Index (SRI), which tracks the “quantity, quality, and diversity” of LGBTQ representation in Hollywood. The numbers are not great.
On Tuesday, Variety reported that Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, is tackling the development of its first feature-length documentary: a look at the legacy of legendary lesbian tennis player Martina Navratilova, which will highlight her social and political activism on behalf of women and the…
On Sunday, May 13, the International Day Against Homophobia, an activist under the alias Piaoquanjun distributed rainbow badges outside Beijing’s 798 art district in celebration. It seemed harmless enough—but according to the Guardian, security guards employed by the district told the activist to stop, barring those…
On Friday, Hawaiian lawmakers moved to Make America Gay Again and passed a bill which would make theirs the 12th state to ban gay conversion “therapy” on minors. Hawaii News Now reports that Governor David Ige is expected to sign the ban into law. Maryland lawmakers also passed a ban earlier this month and are waiting…
On Friday, China’s most popular social media platform, Sina Weibo, announced a three month hiatus on content that mentioned homosexuality. Their users were not happy.
A transgender student’s senior photo has been cut out of the yearbook just two weeks before its release, due to a school dress code violation that doesn’t actually exist, ThinkProgress reports.
Mike Pence, a pure man who survives on whole milk and phobia, who has long voted against LGBTQ rights and nary cast a wandering eye at a penis, is now getting a big ol’ LGBTQ blowout courtesy of an 18-year-old girl in his hometown.
A couple of reports conducted by the Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project, and shared with Politico, show that several health resources for lesbian and bisexual women were removed from a Health and Human Services website in the fall.
From the front of Bushwick’s tiny Bizarre bar, the first piano notes of Céline Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” begin to play. The Missy Elliott that was just coming from the speakers has died down, as well as the chatter of young people around the bar ordering absinthe cocktails and burgers. The crowd here…
The sexual preference of Frozen’s Elsa—a fictional character who lives in a land that is not real—has never struck me as a pressing issue, but apparently it has for many others.
On Monday, a Manhattan US Appeals court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects people from discrimination based on their sexual identity as well as their gender. Real kick in the pants day for the Trump administration.
Lena Waithe is working on another television series based on a comedy she wrote in 2009 about a queer black young woman’s coming of age.
The new Charmed reboot will not only be feminist af, it will also be eliminating one more potential male character by refusing to pair every sister with a manly escort. One of the sisters is a lesbian.
Bruce McArthur, a Toronto-area landscaper and part-time mall Santa, has been charged with first-degree murder for the deaths of five men, and police have announced that they anticipate more victims to surface.
File this under “Bonkers shit we missed last week because of the constant shitstorm that is the Trump administration”—a gay couple is suing the State Department because only one of their twin sons who were born minutes apart was granted citizenship.
For the first time in years, tolerance of LGBTQ people has actually decreased, according to a new poll commissioned by GLAAD and released in the Accelerating Acceptance report at the World Economic Forum on Thursday.
On Monday, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report, which documented an alarming spike in hate-related homicides against LGBTQ individuals over the last year.
