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Sex pods? Long sleeves? Californians try to cut monkeypox risk while waiting for shots
Gay and bisexual men, transgender people and others worried about monkeypox are strategizing to protect themselves as they wait for vaccinations.
Kat Graham Fights for LGBTQ+ Rights With New Album
As she drops new music and promotes her new film Collide, Kat Graham is using her platform to raise awareness for the LGBTQ+ community.
I spent the weekend in this LGBTQ-celebratory town just north of San Francisco, and it felt like a queer spin on small-town America
The town of Guerneville, California, is filled with queer-owned business and has all you'll need for a relaxing weekend getaway, including a river.
Pride on the canal: Huge crowds at Amsterdam water parade
Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Amsterdam's historic canals Saturday to celebrate Canal Parade, a Pride flotilla of 80 brightly decorated boats packed with people partying, singing and waving rainbow flags, balloons and umbrellas. The boats representing rights groups, bars, clothing brands and even the Dutch military made their way slowly through the waterways in a resumption of the hugely popular LGBTQ Pride event that had been canceled for two years amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Search renewed for remains of 4 victims of 1973 gay bar fire
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims, including three who were never identified. The UpStairs Lounge burned on June 24, 1973, killing 31 men, including two whose mother died with them, and injuring another woman and 14 men. Ferris LeBlanc, 50, a World War II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and three bodies burned past identification were buried next to each other in the city’s unmarked “potter’s field.”
White House Monkeypox Response Team Gives Update to LGBTQ+ Community
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, President Joe Biden's monkeypox response deputy coordinator, discussed the administration's outreach to LGBTQ+ communities.
A Florida school district added a parental 'advisory notice' to over 100 books
A southwest Florida school district added warning labels to more than 100 books, many of which touch on issues related to race or the LGBTQ community.
Sinema Endorses Biden Spending Bill - Will Other Changes Follow?
The out Arizona senator had been the only Democrat not behind a bill on energy and health care, but she's still standing in the way of some pro-LGBTQ+ legislation.
Hysteria Over LGBTQ+ Books Might Close a Michigan Library Forever
A library in Michigan may have to shut down because its staff refused to ban LGBTQ+ books that conservative community members have protested against.
How NBA Legend Bill Russell Helped Rick Welts Come Out
Welts, the gay former president of the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriors, will speak and be a pallbearer for his lifelong friend's private memorial service.
'RuPaul's Drag Race' winner Shea Couleé reportedly cast in Marvel's 'Ironheart': 'Hype increased by 100,000'
The "Drag Race" star made a historic achievement for LGBTQ representation in media.
Police Investigating Attack On Utah Gay Couple As Possible Hate Crime
Investigators say it was obvious the suspects knew Jacob Metcalf and Christian Peacock, both 18, were gay prior to attacking them.
WOW Podcast Network to Launch With 'Night Fever,' 'UNHhhh' & More
The network also includes podcasts like Gay Sex Ed, Homophilia, and Girl Group Gossip.
Kevin Bacon Felt 'Sense of Pride' Working with Young LGBTQ Costars on They/Them : 'Very Moved'
"I think the timing is really good for a movie like this," Kevin Bacon tells PEOPLE of his new Peacock Original film They/Them, an LGBTQ-themed horror movie set at a conversion therapy camp
'Less Drag Queens, More Chuck Norris' Says Hungary's Viktor Orbán
The authoritarian prime minister of Hungary served up anti-LGBTQ+ and Christian right rhetoric at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
'They/Them' Is The Latest Horror Film To Exploit Identity — And It's Not Even Scary
The movie, premiering on Peacock, explores a uniquely queer experience through too much literal storytelling, and counters what makes so many genre films great.
"Paper Girls" Will Be Your New Obsession And These Fan Reactions Prove It
"I guess that's one way to find out you're gay."View Entire Post ›
New Orleans renews search for missing remains of victims of notorious 1973 fire
The New Orleans City Council is reviving an effort to locate the lost remains of several victims of an arson that killed 32 people at a popular French Quarter gay bar in 1973. The fire at the UpStairs Lounge was the largest mass murder of LGBTQ citizens in United States history until the Pulse nightclub massacre in 2016. The council passed a motion on Thursday directing the city's property management and legal departments to "take any and all appropriate steps necessary" to "facilitate the recovery" of three unidentified fire victims and one identified victim, Ferris LeBlanc, who were buried in an unmarked graves somewhere in the city's potter's field.
Biden, Congress Members, Task Force, HRC Denounce Griner's Sentence
The president said the situation is "unacceptable," and the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus and the Human Rights Campaign agreed.
Christina Ricci says Johnny Depp explained to her 'what homosexuality was' when she was 9
Ricci told Andy Cohen that Depp explained what "gay" meant in a phone call during the filming of "Mermaids," at Winona Ryder's request.
7 ways to reduce your risk of monkeypox
With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency as the number of cases continue to rise, the most important thing you can do is know your risk level. Monkeypox is still rare and most people have a low risk. The monkeypox outbreak first started spreading among men who have sex with men, a group that includes people who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender and nonbinary.
Kevin Bacon Says Having Kids 'Really Does' Help in Seeing a 'Different Point of View'
"Certainly when it comes to young people, they are our future," Kevin Bacon tells PEOPLE while discussing his new Peacock Original film They/Them, an LGBTQ horror film set at a conversion therapy camp
'Chicago' to welcome trans actor Angelica Ross as Roxie Hart
NEW YORK (AP) — “Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart in the long-running musical. Ross, whose credits also include “American Horror Story: 1984,” will start an eight-week run beginning Sept. 12 at the Ambassador Theatre. In 2018, “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” star Peppermint became the first openly trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway, starring in the Go-Go’s jukebox musical “Head Over Heels.”
Help! How Do I Know If I'm Addicted to Porn?
Advice columnist, author, and queer sex writer Alexander Cheves breaks down one reader's question about their relationship with porn — and the stigmas so many people still have about it.
A cultural power-struggle at an Iowa library casts a 'dark cloud' over a small town
The public library in a small Iowa farming town has been embroiled in a monthslong controversy spurred by anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, attempts to censor books with