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➡️ NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani isn't letting Elon Musk slander his nominee for commissioner of the Fire Department of New York as she makes history as the first gay person chosen for the role. Meanwhile, gay MAGA Republican Richard Grenell is throwing a fit over a musician cancelling his Christmas Eve performance after Trump renamed the Kennedy Center after himself, and a hospital in Seattle is RFK Jr's latest target over gender-affirming care.

2025 is already shaping up to be a big year for queer visibility, with several celebs proudly coming out as LGBTQ+. In June, Modern Family star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (Lily) came out as bisexual in a TikTok using a scene from the show. In May, singer Lola Young casually came out in response to a hate comment, and KATSEYE's Lara Raj and Megan Skiendiel both came out - Lara calling herself a "Brown, queer girl" and Megan confirming she's bisexual on a livestream.

When we first became involved, she even joked that she didn't want me getting mad when it was time for her to visit her friend on girls' trips. A threesome with a bisexual woman has always been my fantasy. She even gave me permission to go online and find a unicorn for us. But when I set up a meeting, she didn't seem to want to follow through with it, so I stopped looking.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has identified his first target following his declaration earlier this month to cut off Medicaid and Medicare funding to any hospital that provides health care to trans youth. Last Friday in a social media post, HHS announced that it was referring Seattle Children's Hospital for investigation for providing gender-affirming care to trans youth. Of course, Kennedy's declaration was simply that-a declaration with no basis in science.

Trans trailblazer Dylan Mulvaney is no stranger to being iconic, and her birthday gives us the perfect excuse to celebrate her. The stage star has gone from strength to strength after she first entered the scene with her now-infamous "Days of Girlhood" social media series documenting her transition. Today (29 December) marks the icon's 29th birthday, and in honour of her role as a trans activist, we've highlighted some of her best moments from this year. Her debut book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, which is a collection of journal entries from her first-year transition, was released on 11 March this year.

History-making Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) star Dónal Óg Cusack has announced his engagement to his long-term boyfriend. Cusack came out as gay in 2009 in his autobiography "Come What May". His coming out saw him become Ireland's first openly gay elite sportsman. Throughout his career Cusack won three All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals and two All-Star awards. The former Irish hurling goalkeeper, who made 54 championship appearances for Cork, more than any other goalkeeper in Ireland's history, has been dating Nathan Adams for more than a decade.

"Holy shit i did not know all that insane shit Ms. Bardot stood for," she posted a day later via an Instagram Story. "obvs I do not condone this. very disappointing to learn."

I loved pretending...I loved creating other people, creating characters,

Sandy Claus and Scott the Elf | Screenshot NBC Palm Springs A "bah humbug Grinch" in the Palm Springs area is getting coal in his stocking after raising a stink about a "gay elf." An NBC Palm Springs viewer recently lodged his displeasure in a letter to the station over the elf's on-air appearance and on-lawns presence in the Coachella Valley for the outlet's "Holiday Lights" special. Together with drag queen Sandy Claus, the Christmas duo led viewers to some of the most spectacular holiday house displays in the gay-friendly desert community.

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.