‘An out gay woman’: Karine Jean-Pierre hopes to empower LGBTQ youth as White House...

Karine Jean-Pierre: New White House press secretary a gay role modelNews Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel OpinionKarine Jean-Pierre makes history as first openly LGBTQ person and first woman of color...

River Valley not apologizing for anti-gay graduation speech – Marion Star

Despite pleas from students and parents, River Valley school officials on Monday said they will not apologize for an anti-gay graduation speech that garnered national media attention.River Valley Local Schools explained...

Best LGBTQ Anthems of All Time: 60 Queer Song Classics – Billboard

How does a song become a gay anthem? Like the LGBTQ+ community itself, our soundtrack is vast and diverse. We have recorded our history and contribution to the culture through music,...

‘Pride and Prejudice,’ but make it gay: A chat with Joel Kim Booster –...

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Utah’s only openly gay legislator will push for Utah to codify marriage equality –...

Democratic Sen. Derek Kitchen was in his early 20s when he and his partner wanted to get married. But as a same-gender couple living in Utah, they couldn’t. So, they filed...

What Words Can I Say to Declare That I’m Gay? – Harper’s BAZAAR

Gay. Gay. Gay. I’ve never wanted to say it more. Florida’s infuriating “Don’t Say Gay” law has given new power to an old word. Just look at the T-shirts and protest...

After ‘anti-gay’ speech at Ohio high school graduation, LGBT students demand apology – Ohio...

The following article was originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published in the Ohio Capital Journal under a content-sharing agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free republication...

New in Paperback: ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘Afterparties’ – The New York Times

GAY BAR: Why We Went Out, by Jeremy Atherton Lin. (Back Bay, 320 pp., $17.99.) According to our reviewer, Hugh Ryan, Atherton Lin “has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing...

Hollywood’s First Gay Teenager and His Two Tragic Endings – Vanity Fair

Early in Rebel Without a Cause, Sal Mineo’s Plato spots James Dean’s Jim in the school hallway, the morning after they’ve had a chance encounter while being booked at the local...

Fire Island Is a Trip to Gay Heaven—or Is It Hell? – Vanity Fair

My last trip to Fire Island was in 2019, a buggy, fraught week during which I felt woefully alienated from my housemates (by my own doing, not theirs) and altogether lonely...

I was gay and Jewish under apartheid. LGBTQ rights are slipping away in the...

Last month, the world lost a transformational giant in the LGBTQ rights movement. Urvashi Vaid was a pioneering social justice activist, attorney and award-winning author. She was also one of my great human...

A Beginner’s Guide to Going Gay This Pride Month – Vogue

Here in LGBTQ+ Town, we get to party until we’re in our mid-sixties, at which point we’re held up as community icons. We get to wear leather without looking try-hard, we...

How Do You ‘Say Gay’ Every Day? – Playbill.com

As Pride month approached, Playbill reached out to a host of LGBTQIA+ artists, asking, "How do you 'say gay' (celebrate Pride) every day?"  Read a wonderful mix of insightful, humorous, and moving...

‘ I felt like crying.’ River Valley alumni’s anti-gay commencement speech sparks outrage –...

Public outrage ensued following the River Valley graduation ceremony after alumni speaker Jim McGuire condemned homosexual relationships Friday in his commencement speech.McGuire, a River Valley graduate who now is the owner...

What Made Washington, D.C., the “Gayest and Most Antigay City in America” – The...

In March, 1950, Roy Blick, a lieutenant of the Washington, D.C., police force and the director of its Morals Division, appeared before a two-person subcommittee for what was then considered one...

Jim Grimsley writes the gay love story he wished for in his teens –...

“It’s written for the YA market, but I hope older readers of all backgrounds will respond to the storytelling and recognize those heady feelings of first love,” Grimsley says in a...

Large study indicates disgust sensitivity is linked to prejudice toward gay men and lesbian...

Individuals who are more sensitive to disgust are more likely to hold negative attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women, according to new cross-cultural research published in the journal Group Processes...

99 Jerseys in 99 Days: Day 97 – Block U

Remember that time when a soccer player living under BYU’s daunting shadow became one of the greatest kickers in Utes history? Of course you do, because it wasn’t that long ago,...

Dear Straight People founder Sean Foo on creating gay web drama series ahead of...

Singapore LGBTQ+ platform Dear Straight People has launched its first web drama, Getaway. Sean Foo, founder of Dear Straight People, told MARKETING-INTERACTIVE that since starting the platform in 2015, he has...

Jif In A Jam, Dont Say Gay At Graduation, Baby Food Frets: FL News...

FLORIDA — As Floridians host prayer vigils and debate Florida's gun control laws in the wake of the massacre at a Texas school, Gov. Ron DeSantis signs legislation tightening inspection requirements...

Ross Mathews Claps Back After Being Accused of Using Fake ‘Gay Voice’ – Just...

Ross Mathews has no time for haters. On Saturday (May 28), the 42-year-old comedian and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge clapped back at a troll accusing him of speaking in a fake “gay...

Quiz: What Gay Bruce Springsteen Song Are You? – www.autostraddle.com

Everybody’s got a hungry heart, and so many gays have a preferred Springsteen song. Somehow simultaneously the straightest man alive and the old butch at a...

‘Ellen’ Final Episode: I Couldn’t Say Gay — Best TV Quotes – TVLine

The return of a Grey’s Anatomy fan favorite, a memorable Chicago Fire bridal shower and Ellen DeGeneres’ final talk show monologue all scored a spot in our latest Quotes of the...

Scott D. Pierce: ‘Tom Swift’ is super gay. Mike Lee will hate it. (Great!)...

The CW’s new series “Tom Swift” almost seems like a deliberate slap in the face to Utah Sen. Mike Lee. It’s not, but it’s also pretty clear that Lee will hate...

On This Gay Day: Musician Melissa Etheridge was born – OUTinPerth

Melissa Etheridge was born on this day in 1961  Musician Melissa Etheridge celebrates her birthday today. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas she went on to study music at Berklee College of Music and...

Is Stranger Things’ Will gay? It’s complicated – Digital Spy

Stranger Things season 4 part 1 spoilers follow.The very first episode of Stranger Things was called 'The Vanishing of Will Byers', but in the four seasons that have followed, Will himself...

Under guise of ‘date’, gay men targeted by crooks on online dating apps in...

MUMBAI: In what appears to be a new trend in cybercrime, crooks have started logging into dating apps made for the LGBTQ+ community, befriending unsuspecting gay men and mugging them while...

Eric Adams condemns exclusion of NYPD cops from NYC Gay Pride Parade – New...

Mayor Eric Adams condemned the planned exclusion of NYPD cops marching in next month’s Gay Pride Parade — but stopped short of saying he would skip the event if...

Poll finds Floridians divided over new ‘parental rights,’ ‘don’t say gay’ law – South...

Floridians are roughly evenly divided over the new state law restricting lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to results of a Florida Atlantic University poll.Debate over the law, formally...

5 Things to Know: NC GOP Introduces New Don’t Say Gay Bill – qcnerve.com

This week, Republican lawmakers introduced what has been called North Carolina’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Pictured: Members of the local LGBTQ equality organization Campus Pride held a rally in support of...

Gay Men Need a Specific Warning About Monkeypox – The Atlantic

A disproportionate number of cases in the recent monkeypox outbreak have shown up among gay and bisexual men. And as public-health authorities investigate possible links to sexual or other close physical...

Early gay liberation/ Anti-racist solidarity – Workers World

Part 76 of Feinberg’s Lavender & Red series on the intersection of LGBTQ2S+ and socialist history appeared Oct. 7, 2006, in Workers World newspaper, which published the 120-installment series between 2004-2008.One...

Pastor Jonathan Shelley shows up at Texas city council meeting to say gay people...

And yet another hate-filled gentleman posing as an outraged Christian pastor reared his bigoted head on Tuesday when he showed up at an Arlington City Council meeting in Texas. Pastor...

Scranton Fringe Fest celebrates Pride Month with Big Gay StorySlam at Radisson Hotel on...

 Added on 05/27/2022  NEPA Scene Staff  LGBTQ , New York , Radisson , Scranton , Scranton Fringe Festival , Scranton StorySlam From a press release: The Scranton StorySlam has...

Dating app to ‘shout gay’ at Dallas Pride parade in Fair Park – Lake...

Photo courtesy of Match A dating app company with headquarters in our neighborhood will “shout gay” in protest of Forida’s “don’t say gay” law. Match, located on North Central Expressway, sponsored a...