LGBTQ+

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The Austrian Constitutional Court has strengthened the rights of nonbinary people—and at the same time given politicians a rebuke. Nonbinary individuals have, according to this ruling, the right to an adequate designation of their gender in the civil status register and to the complete deletion of the gender entry, the LGBTI organization Rechtskomitee Lambda reported over the weekend.

The Washington, D.C.-based couple’s lives were torn apart on December 10 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Perez-Zuazo during what was expected to be a routine annual check-in at an ICE facility in Chantilly, Virginia.

Over more than three hours of oral arguments on Tuesday, justices grappled with questions about sex and gender as the Supreme Court heard cases on whether bans in Idaho and West Virginia are violating transgender athletes’ rights to compete in organized sports.

To say Billie Jean Sweeney’s had a storied career in journalism would be an understatement. Over more than two decades of experience in the field the longtime journalist, editor and press freedom advocate has worked at the Hartford Courant, the Associated Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists and, most recently, as a volunteer editor at Assigned Media.

You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.

Overall, 2025 has been a strange year for LGBTQ+ culture, but thankfully it has been a somewhat banner year for queer and trans literature. We’ve been blessed with new releases from beloved LGBTQ+ authors like Torrey Peters, Bryan Washington, Ocean Vuong, and more — not to mention many exciting debuts that herald the arrival of some exciting new voices, many of them trans. In fact, there have been so many great LGBTQ+ books released this year that some of your faves are, inevitably, missing — but that’s an amazing problem to have, if you ask us.

October was LGBTQ History month thanks to a history teacher from rural Missouri. Rodney Wilson made history in 1994 when he came out as gay to his St. Louis high school classroom, not far from where he grew up in rural Potosi, Missouri.

Nightlife is, for many, an escape from reality, a place to commune and dream outside the confines of the chained-to-capitalism ultramodern lifestyle. For others, stepping into a warehouse at night and re-emerging into a cold sunrise is an entire life: an art, a practice, an income, a career. And while nightlife continues to thrive in major metro areas like New York City, the people making these hot, sweaty outings possible — artists, bouncers, bartenders, technicians, the list goes on — are often left out of the social guardrails and services made available to the 9-to-5 crowd, especially if they’re queer. In a 2018 study by NYC’s Office of Nightlife, more than half of respondents cited a lack of benefits as a major obstacle to working in nightlife; this number jumps to 80% for artists and entertainers.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), also known as the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, has been observed annually from its inception on November 20, 1999, to memorialize those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. Source: Wikipedia

Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming cis women in their top 100 list.

Actually shocking….guess it won’t happen with this bench. But we know from Dobbs that this doesn’t mean a future bench won’t reopen the issue, and this is why we need Supreme Court reform YESTERDAY!

Salt Lake City’s oldest and longest-running LGBTQ+ bar has closed, with workers claiming the shuttering was a “stunt” to prevent unionization.

TIL Nancy Pelosi seriously went to bat for gay people during the AIDS epidemic, despite it being a near universally unpopular position in the 80s. Threw hands with the Regan administration for being dicks as well.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.

When Ceyenne Doroshow first began raising money to buy a building that would provide safe housing for transgender women in New York City, she recalls, “people were coming out of the woodwork trying to offer us the equivalent of crack buildings, in bad neighborhoods, with horrible policing,” just because those buildings were cheaper. But Doroshow found this unacceptable. Her organization, GLITS Inc. (Gays and Lesbians Living in Transgender Society), primarily serves Black trans women. Doroshow says after facing so much harassment and discrimination in the rest of their lives, they deserve a chance to live in stable housing in a peaceful neighborhood.

There’s a running joke online that gay people just make better coffee. It usually boils down to someone crossing their fingers that their barista has they/them pronouns, so their cold brew is actually drinkable. “I’ve definitely heard the joke and there’s a lot of truth to it,” says Kent Collins, owner of the Flying M Coffeehouse in Boise, Idaho. “Queer people are a huge part of coffeehouse culture—they always have been.”

today is intersex awareness day

What they found is that, after mere months of HRT, trans women’s bodies may change down to the molecular level.

Even as the number of youths who identify as LGBTQ rises, so has the number of state-level bills seeking to curtail their rights, a new analysis finds.

I know, I know … ew, Reddit. But this is actually one of those stories that gives a little hope that we aren’t completely fucked.

concerns center on the funding source, and specifically on the potential for the research to be misused to harm trans youth and to deny gender-affirming care. Prompted by these concerns, the authors of the systematic reviews have shared the following:

Gutted to see California isn’t on the list, but it’s good to see someone fighting back.

In the imagination of the far-right, bisexuality is a symptom of the so-called sexual degeneracy of Western women, and functions as a gateway into other “progressive” or “anti-family” beliefs. On forums, in Telegram or Signal channels, private Facebook groups and on Instagram pages, bisexuality is discussed far less frequently than trans people (discussions about trans people are almost incessant in far-right spaces, given the current culture war around trans identity. These discussions feed both into and off of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans rights), but mentions were still present enough to surprise me during my research.

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It’s not uncommon for transgender people to get a negative reaction from their parents when they come out. But parental support is particularly crucial in China, where trans people need parental consent to undergo gender-affirming surgery and change their legal gender — even as adults. (If their parents are deceased, trans people must prove that to authorities.) These hurdles often make it harder for trans people to obtain care.

For most, getting ready for a night out at The Rocky Horror Picture Show might involve a trip to the dollar store for toilet paper, toast and playing cards, or a few last-minute costume and makeup flourishes. For some disabled fans, it also involves a thorough investigation of the venue.

Zack Polanski tells the Canary that "transphobia will absolutely not be tolerated under my leadership" in exclusive interview

Prosecution tells hearing Father Ted writer’s posts about Sophia Brooks, 18, were ‘oppressive and unacceptable’

We on the revolutionary left in the United States are inclined to interpret history through icons. Che, Assata, George Jackson, Fred Hampton, Malcolm, Marx: one look at their familiar images and we know what time it is.

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Queerly Quilled offers a rare third place, away from school or home, for LGBTQ2S+ youth to connect and express themselves freely. Safe spaces for queer and trans people are already scarce and diminishing. But for those too young to get into the bars and nightclubs that have historically served as LGBTQ2S+ safe havens, they are even harder to come by.

In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

I spent so much of my life trying to shout my truth loud enough that no one could take it from me. I thought if I didn’t fight for every inch of who I am, the world would snatch it back while I slept. Maybe I wasn’t wrong. Maybe that fight was needed for me. But him? He doesn’t shout. He doesn’t bargain with the world for permission.

A battalion of transportation workers armed with cans of black paint has been deployed to open a new front in Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”, while young students trying to make their schools safer have joined the LGBTQ+ community as targets of Florida’s Republican governor.

As even the most saccharine queer representation comes under attack, and porn bans proliferate across the U.S., some queer people have rightfully sanitized their presence online and IRL; but others—sex party promoters, kink community leaders and educators alike—have refused to shy away from the more explicit aspects of the queer experience.

[...]According to the national non-profit Community-Based Research Centre’s Sex Now survey, the largest health survey of queer and trans people in Canada, more than three quarters of 2024 respondents say they’ve engaged with substances in the past six months.

From the very beginning of DeviantArt’s history, a blend of erotic poetry, roleplaying, kink, and fan art formed the foundation of the niche platform’s original content. The community spawned several notable memes and, more importantly, entire careers for artists who have gone on to work for such established institutions like The Simpsons and DC Comics. But alongside the proliferation of more heteronormative art, DeviantArt also flourished as a virtual home for queer, trans, and nonbinary teens and young adults seeking an online haven.

There was no policy prohibiting the display of flags on El Capitan until the day after Joslin and their team hung the trans flag, when the NPS issued a new rule banning the hanging of large flags in wilderness areas. Yosemite leadership updated the 2024 Superintendent’s Compendium to include the update.

Exclusive: Victoria McCloud says court undermined her rights to a fair trial when it refused to hear her evidence

To be human is to be uncertain, conflicted, divided, and yet we grow up in a world that tells us we should feel whole, certain of our sexual desires. Encouraged to see love through the starry-eyed cliches of social media and celebrity news, we’re diverted from asking ourselves the awkward questions: what is my desire? Why is my sexual self as it is?

Local leaders are speaking out, condemning the unidentified people who’ve thrown dozens of bags of dog poop at an LGBTQ+ youth center in the city of Bell recently.