Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a bill on Monday that would prohibit transgender members of Congress and other government employees from using Capitol Hill facilities that match their gender identity. The resolution arrives just over a week after Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.)became the first openly transgender person to be elected …
Read More »How Democrats Can Defeat Republicans' Anti-Trans Bullying
In his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump debuted the turducken of dog whistles: the claim that Harris would funnel taxpayer money to surgeries for transgender immigrants in prison. Since then, Republicans have put $60 million over two weeks into airing anti-trans ads heaped atop their public speaking …
Read More »Jesse & Joy Hope New Ballad 'Inspires' Closeted Fans to Be 'Honest With Themselves'
Few Latin artists know how to sing a power ballad like Jesse & Joy. On Friday, the sibling duo released a sweet love song called “Cuando Estamos Solas” about Joy’s love story with Diana Atri in time for National Coming Out Day. “Today I give you ‘Cuando Estamos Solas,’ a …
Read More »Can Sade, Sam Smith, and Hunter Schafer Open People's Minds About Trans Rights?
It’s a sunny day in July, and the scene inside Gary’s Electric, a Brooklyn recording studio, is just as bright. Half a dozen musicians who all contributed to the upcoming compilation album Transa — an expansive celebration of trans people put together by the longtime music and healthcare nonprofit Red …
Read More »The 1975 Deny Responsibility for Malaysian Festival Cancellation After Onstage Kiss
The 1975 tried to place the blame for the cancelation of the 2023 Good Vibes festival in Malaysia on festival organizers in an ongoing legal battle over an onstage kiss between Matty Healy and bassist Ross MacDonald that prompted the Malaysian government to end the festival early. The English band …
Read More »Chris Housman's Queer Country Music Journey
Chris Housman was raised on country music, playing guitar and fiddle in a family band in small-town Kansas. Right out of high school, he made the move to Nashville to pursue a career in music, one that was likely destined to be behind the scenes: As a gay man, Housman …
Read More »Omar Apollo Reveals He Has a Sex Scene With Daniel Craig in 'Queer'
Luca Guadagnino‘s upcoming film Queer is going to have at least one steamy sex scene featuring two (very different) heartthrobs. In a new Interview Magazine conversation with fellow Queer star Drew Starkey, Omar Apollo revealed that he filmed a sex scene with Daniel Craig. “I had to get on the …
Read More »Conservatives Are Already Working to Enact Their Project 2025 Agenda
With former President Donald Trump actively running away from Project 2025, the controversial policy and personnel program’s leaders have maintained they’ve already accomplished their goals — and will still provide Trump’s team with their lists of policy recommendations and potential second term hires. But the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think …
Read More »Orville Peck Enlists Three 'Rhinestone Cowboys' for a 'Gay Dream Come True'
What better way to end a gay country album than by singing with four gay country singers? On Friday, Orville Peck released his new LP Stampede, which concludes with a cover of Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” alongside TJ Osborne, Waylon Payne, and Fancy Hagood. “You know how you make ‘Rhinestone …
Read More »Musk Vows to Move X, SpaceX to Texas After California Passes Gender Law
A day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits forcing educators to notify families if a student’s gender identity changes, Elon Musk took to X to announce that this was the “final straw” and that he would be relocating the headquarters for his social media platform and …
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