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Salem-Keizer Volcanoes first baseman Bryan Ruby, 25, publicly announced in September that he is gay, making him the lone active professional baseball player...

Afternoon | Photo by Cole Saladino for ThrillistAfternoon | Photo by Cole Saladino for ThrillistIt’s most likely that Squid Game is on...

James Bond fans can now rejoice. No Time to Die finally has its worldwide premiere Thursday after being delayed for more than a year and...

Courtesy of Chili'sLet's be honest. The scariest thing about Halloween is the November 1 hangover. Not that it's going to stop us from partaking....

Throughout the less-than-pleasant past year and a half, one thing has kept me steady: my dog, Oli. The love, the loyalty, the cuddles––we truly...

President Joe Biden called out anti-LGBTQ nations as he laid out the United States' vision for the future at the United Nations General Assembly....

Despite former President Donald Trump's reelection defeat last year, in recent times, we have seen the manifestation of Trumpism as his political allies across...

Richard Sherman, who is mired in legal trouble stemming from an arrest this summer and five misdemeanor charges, including two for domestic violence, has...

Tommy Kirk, one of Disney’s major young stars of the 1950s and early ’60s with performances in generational touchstone films such as Old Yeller,...

The HIV pandemic hit the LGBTQI+ community particularly early: people who were already stigmatized. This stigmatization prevented the lessons of the HIV pandemic from...

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Downtown Iowa City will be the site of an important celebration Friday and Saturday, one that is both a reflection of the city’s history...

Let’s begin with this: yes, this place is really, truly on Earth.It’s no secret that Mother Nature loves to get weird, and man, we...

“Bars and nightclubs have been really important to the LGBTQ community over the years,” said David Gwynn. “Historically, their function has been somewhat...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Utah Jazz will broadcast a team practice over Zoom for 50,000 fans on Saturday in preparation for their preseason...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., has finally come out — as a supporter of gay rights.During an interview Sunday on “60 Minutes,” the conservative politician...

As New York pushes forward with some of the toughest and farthest-reaching vaccine mandates in the nation, thousands of health care workers in the...

He was wildly ambitious and competitive. He loved to cook and could have been a chef. He loved cars. He loved his family, passionately....

Edward Burlando, called Sir Edward to his former students, moved to North Carolina for an affair of the heart.“Now that I’m out of...

The 36th annual AIDS Walk and Run Boston took place at Carson Beach on Sunday.  Over $360,000 was raised in support of HIV/AIDS treatment and...

Francesca Street, CNN Ignacio Nieto Carvajal and Miguel Piñas Rodríguez met by chance in a gay bar in Madrid, not long after Nieto Carvajal...

I WAS curious about Ian Kirkwood's recent piece and interested enough to read it through. The writer's aim, apparently, was to show us another...

Blake Lynch says he’ll never forget the first time he tried to give blood. It was 2013, and Lynch was a nursing student. He...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Even in a city like Houston, named in 2021 as the most diverse city in America, we know that inequality...

WEST CHESTER — The Pennsylvania Downtown Center (PDC) named the West Chester Business Improvement District a Townie award recipient for the Gay Street Open...

No Time to Die is the fifth and final outing for Daniel Craig’s James Bond. His casting news was originally met with criticism, but...

web_adv1116_fea_sports_glenn-burke_credit-john-storey-getty-images.jpgBaseball fans who grew up in the 1970s remember the Los Angeles Dodgers of that era being among the greatest teams in Major League...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - NOVEMBER 22: Linebacker Willie Gay Jr. #50 of the Kansas City Chiefs warms up before the NFL game against the...

Gay Bowl XXI, this year’s championship tournament of the National Gay Flag Football League, takes place this weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, and according to...

Kansas City Chiefs second-year linebacker Willie Gay Jr. is eligible to be activated from injured reserve this week, but there is no telling right...

Pensioners from across Merseyside say a Liverpool bar gives them the opportunity to 'eat, sing and boogie' as the community comes out...

Following a recommendation by the Gay Head Lighthouse advisory board, the Aquinnah select board appointed Chris Manning as the Gay Head Lighthouse keeper and...

A gay Iranian rape survivor has explained why regressive laws – and the threat of being outed – stopped him from reporting his attacker. Saeed, a...

As Daniel Craig’s tenure as the iconic British spy, James Bond, is finally coming to a close after five films under his Savile Row...