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News (USA)
Meet the big man on campus: first openly gay student body president at Texas A&M
Bobby Brooks ran on a platform of expanding diversity at the university, and won.
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News (USA)
This transgender immigrant’s message of love is what we need right now
The music video by actor, singer and activist Rizi has gone viral with more than 1 million views.
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News (USA)
Transgender woman charged with murder of trans teen by silicone injection
Police say Kavonceya Iman Cornelius is a “pumper” who illegally injected loose silicone into transgender women like Symone Jones.
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News (World)
Study finds discrimination against people with a ‘gay voice’
A study found that straight people didn’t even need to know someone’s sexual orientation to react with homophobia to their voice.
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News (World)
Malaysia theater to defy censors and show unedited ‘Beauty and the Beast’
After disappointing fans, Malaysia’s largest theater operator decided to go ahead and show the full film despite orders to cut LeFou’s kiss.
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Commentary
Mormon Church releases video about ‘accepting’ gay children
A video produced by the Mormon Church tries to get parents to accept their LGB kids while not rejecting the church’s teaching that being gay is wrong.
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News (USA)
Majority of millennials see Trump as an illegitimate president
Just 22 percent of young adults approve of the job he is doing as president, while 62 percent disapprove.
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News (USA)
Trump admin. deletes LGBTQ questions on yet another federal survey
The administration has also withdrawn from another planned survey evaluating the effectiveness of a homelessness project for LGBTQ youth.
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News (USA)
Not getting enough? Ellen discreetly suggests lesbian love to straight viewers
Ellen wanted to “help” her audience by reminding them that lesbians could be having better sex than straight women.
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News (USA)
YouTube reverses some restrictions on LGBTQ videos
YouTube set a huge number of LGBTQ videos on “restricted” mode, upsetting some of its biggest stars and their fans.
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News (USA)
FBI director confirms agents are investigating Russian ties to Trump campaign
As for Trump’s claim that Obama “wiretapped” him, James Comey said, “I have no information that supports those tweets.”
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News (USA)
Here’s what happened at Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
Gorsuch said his role, if confirmed as the next Justice, was “not about politics,” and pledged equal justice to both “poor and rich.”
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News (USA)
Nearly half of sexually active high school girls in NYC have had female partners
The study also showed that students who had experience a same-sex relationship were more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.
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News (USA)
Is the Trump Administration erasing our elders by refusing to count them?
The only proposed change to the annual national survey of older Americans would erase more than 3 million LGBTQ elders.
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News (USA)
Founders of the Homocore movement angered by Gucci ‘Queercore’ shoe line
“Queercore didn’t ‘lend it’s name’ to Gucci for their shoes. I should know, I invented the term ‘Queercore,’” said legendary punk filmmaker and musician G.B. Jones.
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News (USA)
Trump attacks wrong target on Twitter as his approval rating plummets to new low
Former president Barack Obama’s approval ratings upon leaving office were as good as President Trump’s are bad.
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News (USA)
YouTube sends ‘regrets’ to LGBTQ users for filtering videos, makes no change
The video sharing service stunned and angered users by turning content about same-sex relationships and gender identity invisible, and says it will “look into” concerns.
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News (USA)
Judiciary vote on Trump Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch likely in 2 weeks
Trump’s Supreme Court pick has been called “a significant threat” by LGBTQ advocates.
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News (USA)
Katy Perry revealed she went to camps that tried to ‘pray the gay away’
“When I was growing up, homosexuality was synonymous with the word ‘abomination,'” Perry said in an emotional speech after receiving HRC’s National Equality Award.
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News (USA)
Report: Hate crime laws have resulted in few convictions for anti-trans violence
A 2009 hate crimes law meant to make federal prosecutions easier has resulted in relatively few convictions nationwide.