Gay marriage is finally official in Colombia, two Italian women just adopted each other’s kids, the Dems are fighting for the Equality Act and Sioux Falls is stepping up, and everyone (still) hates North Carolina’s HB2.
I have negative feelings about sad uncomfortable men, lots of bird pictures you’ll love, ugly crying, a teacher fired for saying “vagina,” empowered women in ads and so very much more!
One city in Alabama has drawn a new line in the sand with bathroom bills, organizing against police violence, a bill about counselors in TN that’s dangerous for LGBT people, and more.
The Lexa Pledge will make sure Lexa didn’t die in vain, Steven Universe’s gayest episode is getting its own book, The Fosters is on Netflix now, Gillian Anderson wants to talk to you about her bisexuality, and so much more pop culture news!
North Carolina Democrats file to repeal HB2 and 54 protestors are arrested; Florida’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion is halted — for now; three teenage girls drowned in a stolen car and their families are questioning if the cops did all the could to save them; an editor of a LGBT magazine in Bangladesh was violently killed and more news.
President Obama dissed anti-LGBT laws and then someone came out to him, more and more folks are exacting sweet revenge against HB2 — on mountaintops and in courtrooms, an alpaca in here just got a haircut and Angelica Ross won Best Actress.
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
Topics include 55 LGBT Power Couples, Janet Mock in People’s Most Beautiful Issue, all the rad new TV shows a freshly feminist Lifetime channel is making for you, a film called “Women Who Kill” that sounds f*cking spectacular and so much more!
A lesbian firefighter was harassed and discriminated against for years by her co-workers and her complaints were ignored by her superiors; Tennessee’s “bathroom bill” is dead, at least for now; Ani DiFranco cancelled an upcoming show in North Carolina, Georgia is investigating the treatment of LGBT prisoners in their prisons and more news.
Rihanna encourages a gay superfan to come out, the fight for LGBT equality is raging on worldwide, Janet Mock won a Shorty Award for her activism, everyone still hates your dumb anti-LGBT legislation, and a hedgehog from the AS community is in here trying to pick up a stick! Seriously, come for the news but stay for this hedgehog.
Even more proof that same-sex parents raise kids with good outcomes, a bathroom bill supporter in TN who’s a rampant sexual harasser, new data on police violence and more.
Plus also: Evan Rachel Wood tells us what perfume has in common with being bisexual, Marie Claire hangs out with Rowan Blanchard, everyone’s still talking about The 100, and many other entertainment news stories for your sweet faces.
When it comes to embodying the kind of toxic bullshit gender politics our culture has praised in men for eons, Donald Trump takes the cake.
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory saves face with an executive order to clarify HB2, but it doesn’t actually do anything; a New Jersey school district approves a pro-trans bathroom policy change; married lesbian couples in Indiana are suing the state for not allowing both parents to be on birth certificates, and more news!
Rainbow wasp nests, feathered dinosaurs, more People vs OJ Simpson feelings, raising fat-positive kids, Josie and the Pussycats 15 years later, the southern states’ governments still hate you in case you were wondering, a by-women-for-women rideshare is coming soon and so much more!
Mayors Against Discrimination and Governors against bathroom bills, Bruce Springsteen’s message of support for the “freedom fighters” in North Carolina, Rosie’s anti-Trump song in the fashion of Rizzo, gay marriage in Colombia and LGBT protections in Pennsylvania, and more!
Tennessee has resurrected its bathroom bill that would hurt trans teens, what really happened with the judge’s verdict on Kesha’s lawsuit, new statistics about sexual assault, and more.
There’s so many stories in here! The Bury Your Gays conversation is going strong, Ellen DeGeneres’s beard speaks out, Abby Wambach is ashamed of her DUI, Caitlyn Jenner joins the cast of “Transparent,” videos from the GLAAD Awards, new trailers for Salem and “Grace & Frankie,” we mourn the end of The People Vs. OJ Simpson and SO MUCH MORE!
Mississippi is the latest state to pass an anti-LGBT bill that protects people who don’t believe in same-sex marriage, trans people and extramarital sex; the man who killed Islan Nettles took a plea deal to get a shorter prison sentence; Texas is considering protecting “religious freedom” in its constitution; a man from LA killed his son because he was gay and more news.
Jennifer Azzi and Kezia Dugdale are gay, an amazing man is helping animals be better at selfies, there’s gay marriages and gay adoptions happening around the world, everyone’s exacting sweet revenge on the beast that is North Carolina’s HB2, and more!