Sesame Street continues its run of excellent, empathetic new muppets to help kids deal with a changing world: after introducing muppets experiencing homelessness, living with autism, and explaining marriage without recourse to gender norms, the show has intro…
Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David is addressing the criticism that the HRC/CNN town hall on LGBTQ issues last Thursday gave insufficient visibility to Black transgender women. Several trans protesters interrupted the Los Angeles event which fea…
A Florida real estate agency is under fire after an attempt to warn against showing homes to transgender homebuyers. RE/MAX Downtown Fort Myers has since apologized for a since-deleted Facebook post. The original message, according to the Fort Myers News-Pr…
From Ida B. Wells, Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Malala Yousafzai, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Elle Hearns, to Raquel Willis, the evolution of the fight for women’s rights is way more nuanced than what you see on the surface. There are other intersections to co…
Image copyrightJoseph SinclairImage caption Adam Lambert: “The act of declaring your sexuality publicly, is an act of defiance.” It’s four years since Adam Lambert last released an album – but it wasn’t touring with Queen that put the brakes on his solo ca…
A tribunal accepted sexually explicit photos from a man seeking refugee protection from persecution over his homosexuality, then rejected them as staged and ruled he had fabricated his claim of being gay. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) also ruled …
Ashton Kutcher is keeping his mouth shut when it comes to ex-wife Demi Moore’s upcoming memoir at least to some degree. Even as Moore has been talking about “Inside Out” including its revelations about Kutcher’s infidelity, the former couple’s threesomes, a …
Lin-Manuel Miranda portrayed Democratic hopeful Julian Castro and Woody Harrelson returned as Joe Biden in a Saturday Night Live cold open sketch that tackled this week’s CNN Equality Town Hall. With Pose star Billy Porter serving as emcee, the candidates – …
Another day, another auteur picks his or her side in the streaming wars. This week it was Alfonso Cuarón, the Netflix golden boy who switched allegiances after “Roma” and signed an exclusive TV deal with Apple. It was for a lot of money, and he joins a growin…
Needless to say, those are not his pronouns. Cuomo, a well-known face for the TV network, is a cisgender man who has indicated he goes by he, him and his. While the journalist later apologized for the comment, it drew a loud and immediate response from criti…
This week, the Supreme Court took on three landmark cases that will determine whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and otherwise queer people have certain rights at work. Currently, there are no federal laws in the U.S. against discrimination on the…
EXCLUSIVE:Alexandra Grey is set to recur on Fox’s Empire as Melody Barnes for the musical drama’s sixth and final season. Grey will make her Empire debut on tonight’s episode as Melody who is described as “a badass singer/songwriter/producer with a quick mou…
