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Early one morning in April, John Weiser checked his email, worried that a colleague at the Division of HIV Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was on the list for another round of firings. That's when he found his own termination notice. Weiser, a 14-year CDC veteran who ran the agency's Medical Monitoring Project, a surveillance system that's the sole source of nationally representative data on people with HIV, had been suffering along with everyone else at the health agency due to Elon Musk's DOGE cuts.

As the oldest of three sisters who grew up with two nurturing parents and involved grandparents nearby, my home and family mean everything to me. My family has always been my rock: from attending my first Pride parade with me when I came out as queer in high school to having my entire family drive six hours each way to move me in when I went to college.

Discussions were prompted after Nosferatu star Lily-Rose Depp described her female partner - rapper singer Danielle Balbuena who goes by the stage name 070 Shake and uses she/her pronouns - as her "boyfriend". "I have a locket of my boyfriend's hair," Depp told MTV in an interview promoting Robert Eggers remake of the 1922 film when asked about romantic gestures from the past that should come back. "I like lockets," she explained, adding: "I think they're very romantic."

Anyone who has watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas will know that before he became the OG king of Bah Humbug and Whoville's most irascible resident, The Grinch was raised as part of a loving family. The beloved anti-hero, played by Jim Carrey, arrives outside the house of Clair Nella Who (Mindy Sterling) and Rose Who (Rachel Winfree) via Dr. Suess invention the pumbersella, getting caught up in the tree growing beside it.

Following an attack on a 57-year-old gay man in October that left him in a coma, and an admission by police that they can't increase patrols in Sacramento's LGBTQ+ gayborhood, residents in California's capital city's Lavender Heights district are reviving a citizen patrol they call the Lavender Angels. Alvin Prasad was attacked outside the Badlands nightclub as he exited the bar with his daughter on Halloween night.

Soon after Ireland passed its Gender Recognition Act in 2015, Kevin Humphreys, a Labour politician, visited a residential home for senior citizens where an older woman thanked him for the new law. It was Humphreys who, as the minister of state for social protection 10 years ago, guided through the legislation that has meant transgender people in Ireland can apply to have their lived gender legally recognised by the state through a simple self-certification process.

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U.S. Marshals, who assisted in relocating the escaped fugitives, revealed that Charles arranged for someone to pick up the three inmates in a vehicle and transport them to the house of one of their girlfriends. She reportedly arranged a rideshare service to take the inmates to Florida from there. Police discovered the men in Broward County, Florida, where they were then arrested and returned to prison.

When she asked us where we were going, I panicked, and I told her we were invited to go skiing with friends at their chalet. (We do not know anyone with a chalet.) My dad called to tell me my mother was more upset than she let on and asked if we could "visit that damn chalet" some other time.

A Texas judge is asking a federal court to overturn marriage equality in the U.S., arguing in a lawsuit filed on Friday that marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional because it was legalized in a decision that "subordinat[ed] state law to the policy preferences of unelected judges." The case involves Judge Dianne Hensley of Waco, Texas, who has been involved in years of legal proceedings to try to win the right to not perform marriages for same-sex couples while still performing them for opposite-sex couples.

"The bedtime stories of mermaids, vampires, and fairies that many of us grew up loving were often created - or contain monsters and characters that were inspired by people who had similar lives and loves to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people living today," Coward writes in his book's intro. "To truly understand who queer people are today involves an adventure into the fantastical stories of our past."

It's impossible to say how many firsts were had within the walls of G-A-Y Bar on Old Compton Street. An innumerable number of LGBTQ+ people, young and old, will have flocked there from far and wide over the years to have perhaps their first experience of a gay bar, maybe even their first alcoholic drink, as well as their first taste of a different, brighter, queerer life.

Desperate to focus on anything other than competently running a railroad, Amtrak made news this fall by arresting a couple hundred men for "public lewdness" in Penn Station, the implication being that they were cruising the bathrooms there for sex. This caused a minor uproar. New York's Rep. Jerry Nadler sent a letter demanding Amtrak, "Cease ... targeting members of the LGBTQ community ... on the basis of their perceived sexual orientation."

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Fifty-seven-year-old Alvin Prasad exited the Badlands nightclub with his adult daughter and friends, enjoying a Halloween night out in Lavender Heights, Sacramento's LGBTQ+ district. But as they walked towards their car, a man approached Prasad and insulted his flamboyant costume. "He calls my dad weird," Prasad's daughter Andrea told KXTV. "He says it in a very rude, aggressive way... like he wants to hurt my dad."

Peter Gamez, the openly gay President & CEO of Visit Oakland, already has a full calendar of events in the works for 2026. He shared just a few: Super Bowl Watch Parties - Super Bowl LX (the 60th Super Bowl) is just a few months away and will be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara on February 8. Gamez says some of the region's best watch parties will be held in Oakland and have been in the works for months.

The Progress Pride Flag,, adds a chevron on one side of the classic rainbow Pride Flag, to celebrate transgender people, people who died of AIDS and (with a brown stripe) people of color. While the Bay Area served as the setting for the genesis of much of the gay rights movement, Los Gatos has a solid contingent of older, more conservative, residents, people from a variety of faith traditions and Republican voters

Carr, who recently announced a huge new tour, left nothing to the imagination when he sat down to chat with Love Island's Olivia Atwood. During an appearance on the podcast Olivia's House, Carr, joined by his close friend, comedian Lee Peart, shared an eye-opening insight into his wild side. Speaking about stamina and partying, Carr shared: "I've got good stamina. "I still feel young, so I went to (famous LGBTQ+-disco and house music event) Glitterbox... and that was a f*****g kick in the c**t."

Posting on his Instagram account last week, Rogers shared a video skit of his 2025 self "explaining the last 5 years" to his 2020 self. The eerily poignant video was overlaid with Sombr's viral hit "Back To Friends", with Rogers reflecting on his career in the video's caption. "Frankly I'd still do it all again... with some changes haha," he wrote. In the comment section, Rogers' fans remarked on his heartbreaking last video, with one writing: "This is such a sad final post."

When I got to the pool, I did have the "how do you sit in a lounge chair naked without looking or feeling like you're at the gynecologist" conversation with myself. But I soon squared that away by stretching my legs out along the length of the chair and crossing one over the other. I felt strangely comfortable. That feeling of not just calm but contentedness never left me while I was at the resort.

Having starred in previous gay holiday romcoms for Lifetime and Hallmark, husbands Taylor Frey and Kyle Dean Massey return with T he Holiday Exchange, which captures their version of the festive experience. The film charts Wilde (Frey) shaking up the holidays by swapping houses with Oliver (Rick Cosnett) which in turn leads them to meeting locals who turn their lives around.