NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections, betting that struggling GOP candidates can leverage the divisive c…Read MoreContinue Reading
Washington’s foster care agency will hold a public hearing Nov. 10 on proposed licensing rules that would no longer require foster parents to use a child’s pronouns and chosen name. The Department of Children, Youth, and Families filed the proposal Oct. 7, according to its rulemaking notice. The notice saysContinue Reading
A Cook County jury on Oct. 23 found Tremon Hill not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of De’Janay Stanton, a 24-year-old Black transgender woman. “The phone is the entire case the state has,” Hill’s attorney Robyn Haynes told jurors, according to the Chicago Tribune. “They haveContinue Reading
Hundreds of students and supporters walked out at Sonoma Valley High School in Sonoma, Calif., on Oct. 13, five days after the district’s board voted to stop flying the Pride flag every day, the Sonoma Index-Tribune reported. Students left class at 11:50 a.m. The school’s GSA organized it. The nextContinue Reading
The Grand Rapids Pride Center started this year with six months of savings. By Sept. 29 it had two. That’s when executive director Jazz McKinney posted on Facebook that the center was on track to close by Thanksgiving, the Michigan Advance reported Oct. 26. It’s Michigan’s oldest LGBTQ+ community center.Continue Reading
I want to trust Bianca Del Rio on The Traitors, mostly because I like her as an entertainer. But I’m suspicious, too. I have a feeling I’d underestimate her, even knowing I probably shouldn’t. Peacock has confirmed the RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 winner for The Traitors Season 6, dueContinue Reading
My first reaction to Grindr’s AI training policy was surprise. This is a very intimate product. People use it to find a partner, a hookup or a connection with another queer person. That’s a lot of trust to put in an app. Learning that profile photos and taps can alsoContinue Reading
A new scientific paper has pushed the theory that the anus actually began as a sexual organ – a heartbreaking revelation for those that preach sodomy is sinful, and deserving of eternal damnation. The theory was explored in a 2025 unpublished and un-peer reviewed study from the University of BergenContinue Reading
Connor Storrie as a supervillain? Yes, please. The Heated Rivalry star is in talks to play opposite Ryan Gosling in Marvel’s upcoming Ghost Rider movie, according to Variety . If a deal comes together, Storrie would face off against Gosling, who is set to star as the flame-headed Marvel character.Continue Reading
Opinion and analysis. Ballot language and reporting reviewed Oct. 27, 2026. During my 2024 PRIDE interview with Mercury Stardust, she explained why she keeps her medical transition private. After publicly saying she did not want to change her voice, she began considering vocal feminization. People reminded her that her earlierContinue Reading
He wanted me to sit on his face. “But I don’t feel clean,” I told him. “I don’t care. I like it a little dirty.” This author, whose words I devoured, was now greedy to taste me. I got into position, and he gobbled me up. I couldn’t laugh, butContinue Reading
Harry Styles is back on the dance floor, and his latest music video has fans talking about more than his waltz. The singer released the video for “Coming Up Roses” on Oct. 26, bringing the ballad from his fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally , to an old-fashionedContinue Reading
Josh Turek’s latest Senate ad pairs a promise against discrimination with restrictions on trans athletes and health care funding. The Iowa Democrat makes both arguments in a 29-second spot, opening with a childhood photo of himself holding a basketball. The ad went out Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 days before votersContinue Reading