Tag: LGBTQ

"Of course I took it personally." A rainbow flag hanging outside an LGBTQ-themed Baltimore store was burned last weekend, Baltimore Sun reports. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. Surveillance footage captured two unknown men fleeing the scene after setting fire to the Pride flag at Same Gender Love in the Mount Vernon neighborhood. “My first reaction was full of emotion,” says Marva Laws, who has owned the boutique for a year. “I was very angry because this is mine....

Last year, the country backtracked on a plan to legalize same-sex marriage The Cuban government has cancelled its LGBTQ Pride event, the annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, which was to see participants taking to the streets in Havana on May 11, and the city of Camagüey on May 17. The government has framed the cancellation as merely an “adjustment” to the planned activities marking the occasion, the rest of which will still take place as scheduled, and include...

We have the term in our publication name. Some guys don’t care for the word. But what does “queer” mean? How does it differ from “gay”? And are or aren’t the two words interchangeable? These are all questions Redditors recently mulled… but don’t hold out hope for a consensus! Here’s a wide-ranging variety of comments, edited for readability. “People seem to use queer like how some people use non-binary. So it basically means whatever feel like. Queer seems to...

Yesterday, the U.S. State Department appealed a Ninth Circuit court decision granting birthright citizenship to Ethan Dvash-Banks, the child of a same-sex bi-national couple living in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration is saying that a child born to an American father is not in fact American and shouldn’t be allowed on U.S. soil. If the administration gets its way, the Dvash-Banks family will effectively be torn apart. And what’s worse, this isn’t the only same-sex family the Trump administration...

His Christian pastor brother still says, “I want the best for him. I just don’t support the gay lifestyle.” In an interview with The Washington Post, Chasten Buttigieg, the 29-year-old husband of out gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, revealed that his brothers both rejected him when he came out as gay. He ended up being homeless and working at a Starbucks just to afford health insurance before he eventually went on a life-changing date with Pete. Chasten was born the third...

Andi Mack, the Disney Channel show that features an out-gay teen and earned the network a fair number of “firsts”, has been canceled. The tween dramedy series’ third and final season will air this summer, according to Deadline. While certainly an entertainment niche, Andi Mack rose to national prominence in 2017 when a 13-year-old character, Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) told his friends Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and Buffy (Sofia Wylie) that he had feelings for Andi’s boyfriend, Jonah (Asher Angel). That moment...

Easter is a holiday that is designed for the family and close loved ones in mind. It is, of course, another prime example of gay men creating a fabulous hashtag like #GayEaster on social media to show off their colorful holiday spirit on such a cheery day. There seems to be a hashtag for everything, and #GayEaster may just be my new favorite based on what came up after I perused the photos that appeared throughout this particular Sunday. Some decided...

His loved ones say 28-year-old Trevor Gray isn't actually gay, but "it wouldn't matter if he were." A 28-year-old man in Mississippi was brutally beaten up because his assailants thought he was gay. According to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, Trevor Gray, who’d recently moved back to his home region of Wayne County, went out to a local bar in hopes of making new friends last week. His Friday night took a turn for the worse when two fellow patrons—Landon McCaa, 32,...

The San Jose city council vows to fly LGBTQ Pride flags near the eatery. Rainbow flags may fly at a new Chick-fil-A scheduled to open next month at a California airport. San Jose LGBTQ community leaders and other concerned residents attended a city council meeting this week to protest the Chick-fil-A location under construction at Mineta San Jose International Airport, citing the fast food chain’s continued donations to anti-LGBTQ organizations. Last year the council approved and announced a new contract with Host...

The religious right is upset that out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken the nation by storm. Evangelical leaders are claiming the small town Indiana mayor isn’t actually a Christian because he is gay. They’re particularly perturbed he’s had the temerity to challenge holier-than-thou Vice President Pence’s conservative brand of evangelical Christianity and President Donald Trump’s lack of “Christian values” despite being embraced by the religious right. Buttigieg has made it a point to mention his faith during his media appearances...

Something’s rotten in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Racist and homophobic posters began circulating the halls of McCormick Junior High last week, and instead of doing anything about it, the school’s principal, Jeff Conine, decided to fire the teacher who brought the issue to his attention. The posters read: “It’s great to be straight. It’s not OK to be gay. Black lives matter only because if it weren’t for them who would pick our cotton. Join the KKK.” When substitute teacher and co-sponsor of the...

The manager of a tattoo parlor in Jackson Heights, New York who screamed homophobic slurs at a gay couple before getting into a physical altercation with the men will not be charged with a hate crime, the DA’s office says. 26-year-old Mohammed Hoque was caught on camera going off on husbands Jeremy Valarezo and Joseph Sokolowski after they refused to have their IDs scanned while trying to purchase a pipe from Village Moon Tattoo Shop. The incident happened last November. In a...

11-year-old Ella Briggs is the first out “Kid Governor” of Connecticut and she ran on a pro-LGBTQ platform in the election for fifth graders. The award-winning statewide initiative teaches the children civics and the winner is “sworn in” at the Old State House in the capital. Now Briggs has her eyes set on higher office. She says she will be the country’s “first lesbian president.” “I will begin important conversations with students and adults all over this great state. We will...

The Philadelphia LGBTQ community is shook after another violent attack took place on Sunday night outside a popular gay bar. The victim, a 50-year-old patron of The Toasted Walnut, was standing right outside the bar around 11PM on Sunday night when the assault took place. According to police reports, four men and a woman took part in the assault. Josh Schonewolf, the bartender who was working that night, saw the attack as it happened. “All of a sudden a car full of guys...