NEW YORK – GLAAD today expressed outrage over President Trump’s continued silence on the attacks against LGBTQ men in Chechnya even as new reports indicate that members of the Chechen LGBTQ community could face terrorism charges if these men attempt to escape the country and attacks on them based on their perceived sexual orientation. In…
AUSTIN, Texas – Today anti-LGBTQ groups including the Texas Pastors Council Action, Texas Values, Vision America Action and Texas Right to Life rallied in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s anti-trans “special discrimination session.” The session includes Abbott’s call to pass anti-transgender legislation including Senate Bill 3, a bill which would bar transgender and gender non-conforming Texans from access to…
TEXAS – Late last night, the Trevor Project – the nation’s largest LGBTQ youth crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization – issued a press statement about the amount of incoming calls, text messages and online chats they’ve received from transgender youth. The influx of communications to the suicide prevention organization corresponded most notably after President…
VALENCIA, Calif. — Luxury cruise brand, Cunard, has welcomed its first booking by a same-sex couple following a recent Supreme Court ruling enabling same-sex marriages in Bermuda, where Cunard’s fleet of ships is registered. The ruling means that Cunard, which has offered weddings on its ships for the past five years and has married over 250…
thursday, aug. 3 Jak Knight Originally from Seattle, Knight is an L.A.-based stand-up comic, writer and actor. He was named a 2014 Comedy Central Comic to Watch and a 2015 New Face at the Montreal JFL Festival. In television, Jak has performed on The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, @Midnight, and Adam Devine’s House Party….
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Lambda Legal CEO Rachel B. Tiven blasted the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions over new reports revealing plans to undermine and attack affirmative action policies. A report from The New York Times this week affirmed the effort will dedicate resources from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division toward investigating and…
OAKLAND, Calif. – There are an estimated 27 LGBTQ community centers in the state of California and until just recently, Oakland was the only major city in the state without an LGBTQ community center. Founders Jeff Myers and Joe Hawkins sat in the future multi-purpose room of the new LGBTQ community center, a space they…
NEW YORK CITY — A Care2 petition is demanding iHeartRadio drop its show The Breakfast Club after a guest and the show’s hosts laughed about killing transwomen. Fourteen Black transwomen have been murdered this year. The petition has gathered over 8,400 signatures. View the Care2 petition here. “Transwomen like myself face the threat of violence every…
NEW YORK — In response to the rise in LGBT hate crimes since the 2016 US Election, Jack’d, a gay social app, has heightened security with a new feature that blurs the GPS of its members. “The blurring feature was originally created as a tool to protect gay men in countries such as Russia, Saudi Arabia,…
NEW YORK CITY — Activists demonstrated inside the Trump Tower atrium on Tuesday to voice their objection in response to reports that Donald Trump is considering firing Robert Mueller and pardoning administration members who have broken the law. Members of Rise and Resist, a NYC-based direct action group, carried signs stating ‘You can’t fire the…
