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A group of drag queens were all set to perform at a Montgomery, Alabama restaurant in honor of Pride last weekend when police raided the eatery just minutes before the big show. The Touch of Soul Café had planned to host the event the night of June 29. The restaurant kicked off the Pride party at 11 pm, with plans to continue until 2 am. Owner Geri Moss believed she had the right to keep the restaurant open until that hour...

FCB is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, representing some of the biggest brands today, ranging from Coca-Cola to Levi’s to Nivea skincare. In a leaked internal memo written by FCB CEO Carter Murray, the agency will be terminating its account with the skincare company at the end of 2019, when its contract expires, after allegations of homophobia on Nivea’s part. According to Ad Age, it all started when the brand rejected an image FCB pitched depicting two men’s...

The dating app Jack’d has just agreed to fork over $240,000 in damages and make substantial security updates after it failed to protect users’ private photos and videos. New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office put out a statement this week saying it had reached a settlement with Online Buddies, Inc., the parent company of Jack’d, for allowing the private photos and videos of nearly 2,000 users to leak online. “Although the company represented to users that it had security measures...

Well, this is awkward. A spokesman for SAVE, South Florida’s largest queer advocacy group, has issued an apology after honoring four men accused of a violent attack on a gay couple in what police are investigating as a hate crime. Tony Lima, Executive Director for SAVE, released a Facebook apology video on Friday claiming he spoke in “haste” following a ceremony in which he recognized the four men for their charity work while speaking at an annual Champions of Equality Gala...

“Sisters are doing it for themselves,” Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin sang on their 1985 top-twenty single, in support and recognition of liberated women everywhere. In 2019, the LGBTQ community could use a similar DIY hit anthem of its own. But even if Janelle Monáe and Sam Smith were to serve it up next week, this much still would be abundantly true: We can’t do it all for ourselves. Collaboration is essential to the sweet smell of success. That doesn’t...

A gamer named Jordan showed his gaymer friend Joel the meaning of found family, spending hours to give their Minecraft castle a rainbow-hued makeover after Joel’s coming-out did not go over well with his parents. “My friend that I have played Xbox with for many years recently came out as gay and got a lot of backlash from his family,” Jordan wrote on Reddit recently, sharing a picture of the end result. “To show my support I did this to...

    The use of the word homosexuality in mainstream news headlines before Stonewall was not pretty, not pretty at all, depicting us as everything from danger perverts to be feared to silly nuisances to be dismissed. Early headlines ranged from “Homosexuality A New Menace” in the 1917 Los Angeles Times to “Debutants Bow at Local ‘Pansy’ Ball” in the 1931 Afro-American.  Even the kindly advice columnist Ann Landers was skeptical of our sanity.             source

A Georgia couple has cried foul over treatment at a Savannah mall. Victoria Torres and Tuyen Nguyen recently took Torres’ five-year-old nephew to a play area owned by Treehouse Adventures. As they watched the child frolic, Torres put her arm around Nguyen and began to read a magazine. That’s when things got out of hand. A daycare chaperone approached the couple and ordered them to stop, claiming that their behavior made the children uncomfortable. The argument quickly escalated. “There were plenty of...

The apparently serious organizers of a “Straight Pride Parade” gathered for a press conference on Wednesday to announce they’d been given the green light by the city of Boston to move ahead with their event. The parade will likely take place on August 31 with everyone’s favorite alt-right homocon troll Milo Yinnopoulos serving as Grand Marshal. It sounds like a really fun time. The group’s next step is to obtain a license from the city; Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has stated he...

The Air Force says it is investigating an airman who posted a series of videos of himself calling gay people “cockroaches,” “pedophiles,” “sodomites,” and “vermin scum,” among other antigay slurs. “The sodomites, the homos, they do all their filthy acts in the dark of night where no one can see them,” the airman, who has not been identified but who was wearing his uniform in the videos, said. “When you get these perverts on their own, they flee like cockroaches, like...

The vandalized flags hanging from Wicker Park Lutheran Church (image via WGN screenshot)It seems like vandalizing pride flags has become a pastime for haters. The most recent instance happened this last Sunday near 3 a.m. when a vandal was caught on camera jumping a fence at Wicker Park Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois to spray paint two flags hanging outside the church. The vandal spray-painted a black “X” on the transgender flag and “We love kids” on the Pride flag,...

A scene on Hart Island from “Pose” season two (image via FX)Hart Island is a small islet located a mile east of the Bronx. It’s one mile long and a third of a mile wide (roughly 213 acres), and during the mid ’80s and ’90s, New York City buried thousands of people who’d died of HIV on the island out of fear the bodies might infect others. The island and its dark history were recently explored in season two of...

Washington teen Jace Taylor has lashed out against the Bellingham camping organization The Firs after losing his job as a camp counselor because he is gay. Taylor had grown up attending The Firs functions and looked forward to his summer job as a camp counselor. On June 11, leaders of The Firs contacted Taylor over a photo of himself with another man he’d posted on Facebook. Representatives for the camping group asked if the man in the photo with Taylor...

The British royal family, like so much of the world (note: certainly not all), has shown a serious about-face on LGBTQ acceptance. Prince William this week extended that embrace within his own gilded ranks when he said it would be “absolutely fine by me” should one of his three children come out as gay. The remarks came while William, the Duke of Cambridge (sick title bro), was visiting the Albert Kennedy Trust, an LGBTQ charity focused on assisting homeless youth. Asked...