Conchita Wurst, the bearded drag queen who won last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, has announced May 18 as the release date of her debut album, Conchita. The Austrian drag queen and singer announced the release on Twitter, as part of the promotion for her new single “You Are Unstoppable.” According to Frontiersmedia.com the May 18…
Friday, HRC delivered its historic “People’s Brief” — with 207,551 signatories calling for full nationwide marriage equality — to the US Supreme Court. Longtime HRC member Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, the marriage equality case set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 28, joined HRC to hand-deliver…
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden has affirmed his support for federal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people while giving remarks at the Spring Equality Convention for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Addressing the tremendous progress made for the LGBT community – from marriage equality to open and honest military service by gay, lesbian, and bisexual…
A new documentary is taking an in-depth look at what could be America’s first all queer gang. The Huffington Post reports that “Check It,” which is produced by RadicalMedia and actor Steve Buscemi, recalls how three bullied Washington, D.C. teens began the gang (which is also called Check It) in 2005. Today, Check It has…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Army announced today it is elevating authority to discharge transgender service members to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), the highest level at which that authority has ever been reserved. Prior to today’s announcement, local unit commanders were authorized to approve transgender soldiers’ separation orders. This…
Jimmy Somerville has released the new video for “Some Wonder” from his new album Homage – out in the U.S. March 10. The euphoric joy of disco has been one consistent thread, which has run through the diverse, illustrious thirty-year career of pop legend Jimmy Somerville. “Travesty”, written by Jimmy and produced by long-time producer…
When Adam Carolla stopped by HuffPost Live on Thursday, the comic responded to a viewer who asked for his take on Calling Out Carolla, a Tumblr blog that documents “anti-LGBT language” Carolla has used. Carolla: “Go find a politician or somebody who’s in charge and poke a popsicle stick up their butt. I’m a comedian. I’m done apologizing,…
Neil Patrick Harris doesn’t think he could host the Oscars again. He told Variety.com: “I don’t know that my family nor my soul could take it, “It’s a beast. It was fun to check off the list, but for the amount of time spent and the understandable opinionated response, I don’t know that it’s a delightful…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that would have allowed same-sex couples in Nebraska to marry starting on Monday. The Huffington Post reported that the order came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear oral arguments on April 28 on the question of…
Do you like your men rough or perfectly manicured? That’s the question in the all-new episode of Steam Room Stories. Steam Room regulars Chris Reid and Josh Wise get into a debate over the appeal of lumbersexuals (that’s men with beards and muscles in case you don’t know) and metrosexuals. Their conversation escalates with both…
