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News (USA)
Will President Trump cut aid to international queer and intersex advocates?
“We have to be realistic,” said the World Bank’s first LGBT and intersex advisor.
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Commentary
10 ways transgender service members led the fight for equality in 2016
Transgender Americans are two to three times more likely to serve in the military than their fellow cisgender civilians.
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News (USA)
Man who lost police discrimination case dies by suicide after jury verdict
San Diego police arrested him for “public nudity” during a gay pride festival because he was wearing a gladiator outfit.
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News (USA)
Historians move conference from North Carolina to Maryland over HB2 law
Business historians are protesting the states’s controversial transgender law by moving the Business History Conference to Baltimore.
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News (World)
Japanese snacks features kissing queer couples on their packaging
Two different manufactures have teamed up to create packaging that shows couples kissing when you put their products side by side.
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News (USA)
Indiana University to gay couples: Get married by Jan 1 or lose health benefits
Now that marriage is a possibility for employees, the university says it will stop offering domestic partner benefits on Dec 31.
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News (USA)
Missouri lawmaker wants state to get out of the marriage business altogether
“You can stop spending so much emotional energy on the issue, and we can move on to other things,” state Rep. T.J. Berry said.
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Commentary
This 1950s book lays out 45 kinds of gays, but it’s not all rainbows
While it has campy moments, it’s not all fun and games in Richard Hauser’s “The Homosexual Society: A new approach to the problem.”
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Life
Six months after Twitter ban, Milo Yiannopoulos nets $250k book deal
Despite being criticized as racist, sexist, and transphobic, conservative gay editor Milo Yiannopoulos just landed a major book deal.
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News (USA)
These daddies dancing with their babies will put a smile on your face
Play that funky music, papa!
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News (World)
George Michael’s manager didn’t know he was gay at the height of his fame
When he was finally forced out of the closet in 1998, he made clear that he wanted the world to know that he was in a relationship with a man.
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Life
Vote now: Alt-right darling Milo Yiannopoulos leads Person of the Year contest
You still have time to help pick our Person of the Year. Currently right wingers Milo Yiannopoulos and Vice President-elect Mike Pence are in the lead.
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News (USA)
Police: 8 boys accuse Minnesota teacher and his husband of abuse
The couple was found dead Aug. 25 in an apparent murder-suicide shortly after the first teen reported the abuse to police.
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News (USA)
Transparent star Alexandra Billings slays this Radiohead/Cabaret mashup
Get ready for goosebumps.
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News (USA)
FACT CHECK: Ex-agent didn’t write book outing Obama as gay and Muslim
Despite widely circulated claims to the contrary, no ex-Secret Service agent published a book outing President Barack Obama as a gay man or Muslim.
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News (USA)
One day after daughter Carrie Fisher’s death, actress Debbie Reynolds dies at 84
“She’s now with Carrie and we’re all heartbroken,” said her son, Todd.
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News (World)
Elton John to perform at George Michael’s funeral
The pop icon is reported to be planning a new version of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” just as he did for Lady Diana.
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Commentary
The top 10 transgender stories of 2016
2016 was the year that “transgender” crossed from the unique and rare into topical conversations across the country, and around the world.
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Commentary
5 ways LGBTQ people should get ready for 2017
It’s still hard to believe that Donald Trump won the election. His victory sent a harrowing message to the country, especially to many of us in the LGBTQ community. So far, his cabinet member choices are completely anti-LGBTQ. All of them have either voted for some bill that denied us of fundamental rights like, job […]