Bisexuals are too often underrepresented in LGBTQ+ gift guides or excluded altogether so here’s a bisexual-specific gift guide to support and love on the bisexual people in your life this holiday season. As a bisexual person, here’s some gifts I would love to receive that not only validate my sexuality, but make me feel loved […]
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Lesbian, transgender women across Africa forced into heterosexual marriages
Lesbian, queer and transgender women across Africa are still forced into heterosexual marriages, and many of them have to keep their sexual orientation and/or gender identity a secret because they are afraid of being victimized or even killed. Guadalupe Dansokho, a lesbian woman from Senegal, was forced to marry a man. The couple divorced in […]
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News is Out’s LGBTQ+ international roundup
The LGBTQ+ community stretches far and wide and it’s important to know what’s happening beyond our own borders. Here are some important developments happening with the international LGBTQ+ community.
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News is Good: Sundance’s LGBTQ+ slate, queer Golden Globe nods and more
News is Good is a weekly column featuring positive news about the LGBTQ+ community. Too much of what we see in mainstream media coverage focuses on the challenges we face and not the celebrations. Here are five things we’re excited about this week. Sundance Film Festival to include 19 films with LGBTQ+ stories. The famed […]
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Li makes history as BART board president
BART Director Janice Li made history Thursday when she became the first queer woman of color to be elected president of the regional transit agency’s board.
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As the first out LGBTQ generation ages, can their challenges be met?
Part one of a three-part series. At 69, Aviva Rosen says she is getting old. “That 70 milestone is just months away, and leaving my 60s and heading into my 70s feels like a real sea-change,” Rosen said. “I’m not sure I’m ready. I’m not ready to retire and I’m not ready to not-retire. Money […]
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Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law. “Today’s a good day,” said Biden during a signing ceremony that took place on the White House’s South Lawn. “Today America takes a big step towards equality.” The ceremony took place five days after the Respect for Marriage Act passed in the […]
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Brave Space Alliance to offer name change clinic for queer, trans people
CHICAGO, IL — December 13, 2022 — In its continual efforts of creating and protecting “brave spaces” for transgender and queer Black people to affirm their dignity, Brave Space Alliance (BSA) is providing a free name
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Staying sober during the holiday season in the LGBTQ+ community
The holidays are supposed to be a time of celebration and good cheer for everyone. It’s also a time when people tend to enjoy festive drinks, wine, champagne, and other alcoholic beverages. During the holidays, when so many people are drinking as part of their celebrations, it can be difficult to navigate certain spaces and […]
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Barbados’ colonial-era sodomy law struck down
The Barbados High Court on Monday struck down a colonial-era law that criminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations. The ruling specifically struck down Sections 9 and 12 of the Barbados Sexual Offenses Act. Men who were found guilty of engaging in consensual same-sex sexual relations under Section 9 could have faced up to life in prison. […]
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Survivors of Club Q, Pulse massacres to testify before Congressional committee
Survivors of last month’s mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a survivor of the 2016 massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla., are set to testify before the House Oversight Committee this Wednesday. The hearing is slated to address the escalating violence and threats against LGBTQ people, which led to […]
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Criminalization of sex work not only violates human rights; it adds to HIV and LGBTQ+ stigma
I have accomplished many goals in my life that fill me with pride. I am an international advocate for Aidsfonds in the Netherlands — promoting the work of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. I am active in politics, with a focus on advocating for the LGBTQ+ community and the destigmatization for people with […]
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News is Good: Brittney Griner is home, Respect for Marriage act passes
News is Good is a weekly column featuring positive news about the LGBTQ+ community. Too much of what we see in mainstream media coverage focuses on the challenges we face and not the celebrations. Here are five things we’re excited about this week. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1600841306560937986 WNBA star Brittney Griner is released from Russian prison. After a […]
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Congress passes Respect for Marriage Act, sends to President Biden for signature
(New York, NY – December 8, 2022) — GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act in the U.S.
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Analysis: Did domestic terrorism groups target a North Carolina drag show?
The rumor started swift and unrelenting Saturday night when domestic terrorists shot out two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina, some 90 miles outside Charlotte. Had the power outage been fueled by white nationalists determined to stop a drag show in the area? Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields has said a motive for the […]
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Chicago activist Jeff Berry discusses advocacy for aging persons living with HIV
For longtime Chicago activist Jeff Berry, becoming the first executive director of the Reunion Project a national alliance centering aging persons living with HIV, which Berry co-founded in 2015 was a significant
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WNBA star Brittney Griner released
Russian authorities have released WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was released in exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. Griner is serving a nine-year prison sentence after a Russian court convicted her on the importation of illegal drugs after Russian customs officials found vape […]
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Update on 2022 LGBTQ+ midterm candidates
As of Dec. 7, 2022, there are 436 LGBTQ+ winning candidates, 332 of whom picked up endorsements by Victory Fund. LGBTQ+ candidates will fill offices of all kinds, from local school boards to the national stage, in the coming weeks and months. Here is an update on who has won, including those we have profiled […]
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LGBTQ contingent to join National Vigil for gun violence victims in D.C.
As many as several dozen LGBTQ activists wearing white robes and carrying photos of victims of gun violence were planning a procession along city streets from the As You Are LGBTQ bar on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 7, to the nearby St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. The church, located at 301 A St., S.E., […]
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Warnock’s win marks major victory for LGBTQ+ equality
GEORGIA Georgians re-elected U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock to a full six-year term this evening, repudiating months of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and millions of dollars in anti-LGBTQ+ advertising from his opponent, Herschel Walker, that sought to attack