The fund, which was set up as a collaboration between the "House Tour" singer and non-profit PLUS1 in 2024, raises money to support a range of causes including animal welfare and mental health. A large portion of the fund is dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ causes, with charities Rainbow Railroad and the LGBT National Help Center having benefited from the fund. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket sold for Carpenter's ongoing Short n' Sweet Tour is added to her charitable fund.
Video captured a MAGA counterprotestor shouting homophobic slur to "No Kings" protestors in Denver, Colorado, shortly before face planting twice on the pavement, causing his face to bleed as other protestors suggest that he leave for his own safety before others possibly cause him more harm. The video begins with him and other silver-haired white men shouting "Let's go ICE," a reference to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have been arresting American citizens and brown-skinned people to satisfy the president's goal of mass deportations. The men then chant, "God bless Trump," as the man points his middle fingers at others.
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That means as of October 12, airlines will no longer be able to submit an alternative gender. The change also makes clear if airlines submit a male or female designation that is different than anything submitted on the original travel document, the carrier won't face any type of penalties. Airlines who face questions must call up CBP offices in Honolulu, Miami or New York, depending on the region.
Long before borders and scripture, this place told stories where thunder desired and love remade the world. By the Bronze Age, in what became ancient Canaan-whose Indigenous culture is most remembered in the early history of Palestine and the Levant-queerness was divine. Melqart, the storm god of the sea, embodied beauty and power. His beloved Eshmun, a mortal healer, became immortal when he died and was reborn through Melqart's grief. Each spring's return marked their reunion.
The lavender marriage that administrative convenience and PR fiction of golden age Hollywood is back. The Washington Post recently covered its reinvention, meeting Jacob Hoff, who's gay, and Samantha Greenstone, who's straight, a blissfully married couple with a baby on the way (they birds'd and bees'd Greenstone explained for the pruriently curious). The Post also spoke to friends April Lexi Lee and Sheree Wong, both on the asexual spectrum, who say they bestied so hard we got married platonically.
Earlier this year, IAC Chairman Barry Diller came out as gay in his memoir, Who Knew. Now, is he the first big, fancy businessman to be gay? Certainly not. But because Diller has been married to Diane von Fürstenberg since 2001, the admission generated a fair amount of discourse and made some people (read: me) very jealous. It all started in May, when New York magazine published a touching essay by Diller titled: "Barry & Diane: The truth about us, after all these years."
The Trevor Project is the leading LGBTQ+-centered suicide prevention and crisis intervention nonprofit in the United States. Their new study, Project SPARK (Studying Protective And RisK factors), is their first ever longitudinal study, meaning that it is set to collect data over years. Much of the data that currently exists on LGBTQ+ mental health, the researchers note, is based on data collected at a single point for each individual, rather than being able to track their progress over time.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died at the age of 78. She was a Black trans elder who has been fighting for the community for decades and was a veteran of the Stonewall Riots. She worked for the Mattachine Midwest gay rights' organization, started Miss Major's Angels of Care to take care of gay men dying of AIDS in the 1980s, was the executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, and built a safe haven for trans people called tilfi.
Born in 1925, Lansbury made a name for herself as an MGM actor in the 1940s before she dominated the stage in Mame and other musicals. Throughout her life, Lansbury firmly cemented her status as a gay icon. She was a tireless AIDS activist who raised millions for the cause, and brought to life some of the most iconic roles in film, television and Broadway history.
Police in Arlington, Texas have arrested a suspect in the 2021 murder of a local Black transgender woman, Kier Soloman. Arthur Morris Jr, 25, has been charged with aggravated robbery and one count of murder after a four-years-long investigation, the Arlington Police Department announced in a statement Wednesday. Morris is already in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, serving a seven-year prison sentence for an unrelated aggravated robbery conviction.
At a time when LGBTQ+ journalism is more crucial than ever, NBC has laid off teams of journalists covering marginalized communities, including NBC Out. Meanwhile, a clinic in Boston has been pressured into cutting gender-affirming care for patients under 19, and a trans fencer is suing USA Fencing and the U.S. Olympic Committee. We also have Pete Buttigieg hitting the campaign trail with Virginia's Abigail Spanberger, and more bad news for right-wing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.
Trapped under pressure from the presidential administration, the city council for Arlington, Texas, is struggling to find a way to avoid rolling back LGBTQ+ protections without losing vital federal grants. Last night, they bought themselves more time. Pointing to pressure from the current administration, Arlington's city council took a vote in September to suspend the anti-discrimination section of the city code, pending review.
"If you really wanted to, could you get pregnant or no?" Jenny questioned while they were sat on the house sofas together. "It's unlikely. I don't have periods," Zelah answered. "But it's not necessarily impossible, and if I were to stop taking testosterone, yeah, I could. "But something that I might look into is getting my eggs taken out so [his partner] Francesca can then carry my egg, and then our baby will have 50 per cent [of] my DNA but she gets to carry it. That's what she [wants]. She really wants to do it that way."
