After a seventh grader's attempt to start a Gender and Sexuality Alliance was blocked, a Virginia school board rewrote its rules to shut down student clubs, then reversed course weeks before trial. Students say the fight was never really about paperwork.

The OUT Museum, a one-room, volunteer-run space in San Francisco's Chinatown, opened in May as the world's first museum dedicated to Chinese LGBTQ+ history and art. It's already drawing visitors seeking connection across generations and borders.

The BBC says season eight will be the last for RuPaul's Drag Race UK as the show heads to a streaming-only future, a move critics link to a broader retreat from LGBTQ+ storytelling across TV and film.

Mika Brunold beat João Lucas Reis da Silva in the Tulln Challenger final, then thanked him for inspiring his own coming out, a moment marking the first-ever championship match between two openly gay men's pro tennis players.

The 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, held on an unusual Monday night, crowned queer-inclusive hits like Hacks and Pluribus while Heated Rivalry got a surprise shoutout despite being ineligible to compete.

President Trump declared he's barring CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House over their coverage, though reporters from all three outlets remained on the grounds hours later.

King George County Schools revised its student-club policy days after settling a federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Virginia on behalf of two middle schoolers who wanted to start a Genders and Sexualities Alliance.

The 78th Emmy Awards handed trophies to Alan Cumming, Rhea Seehorn and RuPaul's Drag Race even as the ceremony unfolded against a documented 41 percent drop in queer TV characters.

The Very Rev. Micah Cronin, 30, became dean of All Saints' Cathedral in Milwaukee in August, marking the first known transgender dean in the Episcopal Church's history.

The first out trans member of Congress is campaigning for a messaging co-chair role on House Democrats' communications committee, but she has to beat an anti-LGBTQ+ Republican challenger in November to keep her seat.

A representative for Hayden Panettiere is pushing back on a TMZ report claiming the actress died from a fentanyl-laced oxycodone pill, insisting the cause of death is still officially undetermined.

The model, entrepreneur and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover star is set to play photographer Gen in season 2 of the hit gay hockey drama. Fans are hoping her arrival finally brings a sapphic storyline to the show.

At a 30th-anniversary Scream screening, Matthew Lillard admitted he regrets returning for Scream 7 after castmate Melissa Barrera was fired over her comments on Gaza, saying he was 'on the wrong side of history.'

Drag Race star Katya Zamolodchikova has called off her Very Bald and Very Beautiful Tour with Trixie Mattel hours before its Oakland debut, citing new medical complications months after emergency bowel surgery.

Turkish police raided LGBTQ organizations, bars, and a hammam in five cities, arresting at least 116 people and blocking 180 social media accounts as part of a campaign tied to President Erdoğan's push to raise the birth rate.

Fiji's government has declared a national health emergency after new HIV diagnoses surged, with roughly one in 60 adults now living with the virus, up from one in 167 five years ago.

Republican "Dr. Joe" Arminio was removed from a Delaware candidate forum Thursday after twice misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride, drawing boos from the crowd and a call from a rival GOP candidate to drop out of the race.

Pop star Zara Larsson called a White House TikTok 'dehumanizing' after it used her song Midnight Sun to soundtrack footage of ICE arrests, the latest artist to push back against the administration's use of music in immigration enforcement content.

Nine people were arrested after Protect Trans Futures staged a 'care-in' inside Attorney General Andrea Campbell's Boston office, demanding she prosecute hospitals that quietly stopped gender-affirming care for trans minors.

A hearing before Alberta's Human Rights Tribunal is examining whether a Westlock woman's flyer opposing a rainbow crosswalk amounted to discrimination against trans residents, or was simply protected speech.

The Thomas More Society is threatening to sue Wake County Public Schools unless it lets parents pull kids from a required music class taught by a transgender teacher, and bars discipline for misgendering her.

Screenshots and video circulating online suggest Middle East copies of the PS5 game Marvel’s Wolverine have had Mystique’s marriage to crime boss Tyger Tiger edited out, echoing similar cuts made to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in 2024.

NYU Langone Health and UPMC have agreed to pay the Justice Department millions and permanently end gender-affirming care for transgender minors, becoming the latest hospitals to settle rather than fight the Trump administration's nationwide investigation.

A new review finds LGBTQ+ youth are turning to vaping to cope with bullying and unaffirming homes, building on decades of evidence that tobacco companies have long targeted queer communities.

Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman and four other House Republicans sent outgoing WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert a letter demanding the league define “woman” by October 16, even though no trans woman has ever played in the WNBA.

The 22-term Ohio Democrat, once a reliable LGBTQ+ ally, is running ads bragging about voting with Republicans against transgender students and athletes as she fights for a swing seat.

UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland told an interviewer he'd love to fight Elliot Page, mocking the actor's size in a clip that's now racked up millions of views. It's the latest entry in a years-long pattern of anti-LGBTQ+ remarks the UFC has repeatedly declined to punish.

Rep. Lauren Boebert is pushing back on a House ethics complaint accusing her of sexual relationships with three staffers and $200,000 in hush money, denying the claims and her own sexuality in the same breath.

Jay Katari stepped down from LGBTQ media parent company equalpride's board just weeks after his appointment, after reporting revealed his support for President Trump and mocking pronoun jokes.

Morgan Armstrong was barred from her graduation after coming out on Facebook. A year later, her private Christian school has settled her lawsuit, restored her diploma, and agreed to pay her $10,000.

Rep. Sarah McBride, the first out transgender member of Congress, is asking colleagues to back her for co-chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. She's pitching herself as a consensus-builder who can unify the caucus's message ahead of 2027.

The writer and organizer who defined second-wave feminism died Wednesday at her Manhattan home. Her decades-long relationship with LGBTQ+ causes was complicated, but by the end of her life she stood firmly with trans people.

A new Ecuadorian law bars LGBTQ+ people from adopting as single applicants and lets courts strip custody from parents who support their trans children's transitions. Rights groups call it a legislative rollback dressed up as reform.

The Great British Bake Off returns to Channel 4 on 22 September with Nigella Lawson taking her seat as judge for the first time, alongside a season 17 cast that includes drag king contestant Gabe.

The first trailer for Luca Guadagnino's 'Artificial' shows Andrew Garfield playing OpenAI's Sam Altman during his infamous 2023 ouster and reinstatement, with the film already shedding one studio along the way.

Equality Ohio downgraded then re-upgraded its rating of gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton after she called trans girls "boys," while the Human Rights Campaign keeps endorsing candidates who've voted against trans rights. Grassroots activists say both approaches let politicians o…

Rep. Chris Pappas easily won New Hampshire's Democratic Senate primary, setting up a fall matchup with Republican John E. Sununu and a shot at becoming the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate.

The Texas Democrat running for Senate told Fox News he opposes trans athletes in girls' sports "if it endangers safety or fairness," a departure from his 2021 vote against a statewide ban that has advocates and journalists accusing him of caving to political pressure.

A 2024 gym selfie of streamer Hasan Piker turned up in an anti-left attack video at the Republican Party's midterm convention in Dallas, sending searches for him soaring and the internet into gleeful chaos.

In a new interview promoting her book More, Gillian Anderson says she is pansexual, closing a 14-year loop that began with a 2012 disclosure about past relationships with women.

An Indiana prosecutor says the woman behind a false report that briefly separated Pete Buttigieg from his young twins can't be prosecuted because of her documented mental illness. Questions remain about how the claim triggered police action in the first place.

Orville Peck will bring his masked, openly gay take on country music to London's Roundhouse this October, joining Sugababes on the bill for the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards 2026.

The Heated Rivalry breakout will play twin brothers Henry and Logan Park in Yaga, a mystery series adapted from Kat Sandler's 2019 play about Baba Yaga, premiering this October.

Citing Treaty 6 healthcare sovereignty, Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it will create its own law to let doctors provide gender-affirming care to trans and Two-Spirit youth on its land, defying Alberta's ban.

The masked country star bares (almost) all for a historic Playgirl cover and interview, timed to his new album Mule and his Street Fighter movie debut.

Seven ballot initiatives across Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Nebraska and Missouri target transgender people in sports and health care this November, but critics say the real targets are girls' privacy and, in Missouri, abortion rights.

Actor Ruaridh Mollica says he hopes his own bisexuality quietly informs his portrayal of Tommy Maximoff in Marvel's upcoming series VisionQuest, even if the show never states it outright.

Ottawa Charge teammates Emma Greco and Michela Cava announced their engagement this week, joining a growing list of PWHL couples who've gotten engaged this year.

A D.C. judge threw out Richard Grenell's $1 million breach-of-contract suit against jazz drummer Chuck Redd, ruling Redd never signed the contract he was accused of breaking. The case was one front in the fight over Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center.

Tennessee Christian Preparatory School will pay Morgan Armstrong $10,000 after threatening to withhold her diploma when she came out as gay, settling a lawsuit her family filed over the school's response to a private social media post.