Democratic Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton is starting off her term on the right foot. One of her first orders of business was to hang a trans flag outsider her office door. Wexton, who is the aunt of a transgender child, is the first Congressperson to hang the flag. “The trans community has been under attack,” Wexton told…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – People who were born in New York City and do not identify as male or female can now opt for a third gender category of X on their birth certificates. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the provision into a law on Tuesday, making New York City the fifth place to do…
Cynthia Nixon’s 30-point loss to Andrew Cuomo last night is nonetheless being touted as a win — for elevating critical issues of racial and economic justice in New York and ousting a clique of Republican-enabling Democrats from the state’s senate. But there’s another accomplishment she can point to, and that’s bringing the reality of nonbinary and gender nonconforming people…
Christine Hallquist is a former energy executive who has stepped out from behind the CEO desk to step into the Vermont governor’s race. She’s married, and a parent. She’s a long-time Democrat running to unseat a Republican governor in a state where that party has held the seat since 1963. She’s also a transgender woman…
June 18, 2018 – It was just a month ago that Pope Francis told a man that God had made him gay and that God loved him. But now the pope says that gay couples can’t be considered as families. In unscripted remarks Saturday to the Forum delle Famiglie, an Italian lay movement representing Catholic…
May 22, 2018 – A new study led by a Belgian neurologist found that brain activity in transgender people resembles that found in cisgender people of their gender more than their sex assigned at birth. Julie Bakker of the University of Liege led the research, which involved MRI scans of 160 transgender people diagnosed with…
May 21, 2018 – Jennifer Aniston has been tapped to play America’s first lesbian president on the upcoming Netflix film First Ladies.
May 21, 2018 – Pope Francis reportedly told a gay man that God made him gay.
April 24, 2018 – Disney Parks just released rainbow Mickey Mouse ears, just in time for Pride Month.
April 30, 2018 – A survivor of “conversion therapy” tries to find a church that doesn’t just tolerate, but embraces. The church service was exactly how I remembered it as a child. I raised my hands in praise as the worship team sang songs I had heard on the radio every day of my childhood….
April 23, 2018 – Christie Elan-Cane may get a step closer to that goal this week. CHELTENHAM, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a 25-year battle to have the identity of genderless people recognized in British passports, Christie Elan-Cane fought depression and unemployment. The campaigner, who was born female but identifies as neither male nor…
April 11, 2018 – 10 Louisiana Republicans voted to keep bestiality legal & anal sex against the law The Louisiana state senate passed a bill yesterday to outlaw bestiality. The proposed law would separate the offense from the state’s sodomy law that was ruled unconstitutional in 2003.
April 2, 2018 – The gay hookup app Grindr is in damage control mode after a Norwegian nonprofit exposed that the company is sharing users’ HIV status and other personal information with two other corporations. Buzzfeed News independently confirmed the allegations by the researchers. Apptimize and Localytics, companies that help “optimize” apps, are being sent Grindr users’…
April 2, 2018 – Pete Buttigieg is a rising star in the Democratic party. A Harvard grad, Rhodes scholar and Afghanistan war veteran, he has a sterling resume. As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg also brings the heartland touch that the Democrats frequently lack. Buttigieg also happens to be gay and engaged to…
July 3, 2014 – A photograph of two shirtless fathers holding their newborn baby boy for the first time has quickly gone viral online. Baby Milo was born during WorldPride last Friday to fathers Frank Nelson, 44, and BJ Barone, 34, both teachers with the Toronto District School Board. “I remember being in pure joy,”…
March 15, 2017 – Rick Grenell, an openly-gay man and ‘gay Christian’ advocate, has been chosen by President Donald Trump to be the United States Ambassador to NATO. Though widely reported, the appointment has yet to be confirmed by the White House and will make Grenell the highest-ranking openly-gay member of the current administration. Read…
March 16, 2017 – Disney’s remake of its classic children’s film “Beauty and the Beast” is attracting headlines, not so much for production quality, although movie critics seem to be mostly on board, but for the controversy surrounding the studio’s decision to include its first “exclusively gay moment” in a scene between villain Gaston and…
March 16 2017 by Diana Chandler, Baptist Press A gay plot twist in Disney’s upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast continues to stir discontent among Christians, with an online poll at Faith Driven Consumer (FDC) among the latest to voice displeasure. The poll reports 95 percent of 6,700 consumers said they are less likely to…
March 17, 2017 – For about a week now rumors and reports have circulated that Richard Grenell, an openly gay man, is set to become the next U.S. Ambassador to NATO. The White House has yet to confirm the appointment, although news outlets ranging from Breitbart to Bloomberg are reporting sources say it’s a sure…
March 18, 2017 – They met on OkCupid. At the time, Constantino Khalaf, now 37, lived in New York City, and David Khalaf, now 39, lived in Los Angeles. But the distance didn’t faze them. The couple, now married, had found two shared traits in each other: They were both Christian, and they were both…
March 22, 2017 – Pop singer Katy Perry, who is famous for the 2008 hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” said that she tried to “pray the gay away at Jesus camps” during her teenage years. During her speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Los Angeles gala dinner at JW Marriott L.A. Live in…
March 24, 2017 – In the year that led up to naming my queerness, I drifted away from church. It wasn’t deliberate, but after a lifetime of subtle messages about the church and homosexuality (and by proxy bisexuality), I needed to step back to figure out if I could be a bisexual Christian — if…
March 27, 2017 – For gay men, life outside the closet can be brutal, and not only due to homophobia. A recent longform article by Michael Hobbes on the Huffington Post went into detail about “The epidemic of gay loneliness.” In it, Hobbes describes a toxic environment that leaves many gay men feeling isolated, even…
April 6, 2017 – The Rise and Fall of the Ex-Gay Movement A little over a century ago, the nascent science of psychology took an interest in the origin of same-sex desire. Up until that point homosexual sex was seen as a vice to which a person might be habituated for any number of reasons….
April 7, 2017 – For decades the evangelical church has struggled to deal with the reality of same-sex relationships, attraction and disagreement within their congregations. Along with women’s role in leadership, sexuality has become the issue in danger of defining the western Church’s identity. And it shows little sign of being conveniently swept under the…
May 17, 2017 – While missing an opportunity to clearly state his position on the issue of same-sex marriage, Junior Minister of Tourism Archibald Christian has used the House of Assembly to note a major ‘same-sex’ development in Bermuda, which is also a British Overseas Territory. This month, a Supreme Court judge made a landmark…
May 18 2017 – “I’m sorry I’m running late, church got out late,” Chris Weaver, also known as drag queen Nedra Belle, said as he entered the gay bar. He came straight from performing in two church services with the praise team to the gay bar for his weekly show Sermon. “But you know black…
May 21, 2017 – Scotland is moving towards being the country in the UK with most liberal Christian practice on gay marriage with the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church both taking steps in this direction in the near future. On Thursday the Church of Scotland is expected to back same-sex marriage in…
May 26, 2017 – The Church of England will be asked to denounce gay conversion, consider special services for transgender people and re-examine its teaching on marriage as between one man and one women in a raft of measures to be debated at its forthcoming General Synod meeting in July. In its first meeting since…
May 23, 2017 – My daughter, Lauren, has had a baby girl for two new dads. She wanted to do something really special for someone for her 45th birthday, and 45 yo is the cutoff for being accepted as a surrogate, so she went through all the psychological counselling, genetic testing, surrogacy camps, and within…
May 27, 2017 – ROCKVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — For Erryca Robicheaux of Rockville, walking into the right church should feel like coming home. A place where you’re not only welcomed but you’re also celebrated. Recently ABC7 News went to Rockville United Church in Montgomery County to talk with Robicheaux about an inspiring faith journey that…
Controversial Christian rock star Vicky Beeching, who in 2014 came out as a lesbian and argued that God loves her “just the way I am,” has received an award by the head of the Anglican Communion for her contributions to worship music. Beeching, who is also a theologian and media commentator, hit back against online…
Fertility doctors in the U.K. are reportedly working on womb transplant procedures that would allow transgender people born as males, and also other men, to have babies. Moreover, National Health Service doctors told The Mail on Sunday that taxpayers should fund such transplants, citing “equality enshrined in law.” Dr. Amel Alghrani of Liverpool University said…
July 13, 2017 – “I decided to take one for the team and represent well.” When televised dating show Love Connection returns this summer on Fox, it brings an updated format and new, queer-friendly twists. In addition to Emmy-winning, out host Andy Cohen, who now helms the reformated one-hour classic, it will feature its first…
November 15, 2017 by Jeff Taylor The former captains of the United States and Canadian hockey teams have just had a baby daughter together and the photos are adorable. Caroline Ouellette and Julie Chu shared the happy news on Monday, introducing the world to Liv Chu-Ouellette. “I feel truly blessed to experience this incredible adventure with…