North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed three anti-LGBTQ+ bills yesterday in defiance of veto-proof Republican majorities in the state legislature. Read on »
A Popeyes franchise in Wilkes-Barre Township, Penn., has been fined after a former employee said he was harassed and terminated because of his sexual orientation. Read on »
The U.S. House Freedom Caucus confirmed on Thursday that Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had been booted out. Read on »
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis misjudged how much homophobia his LGBTQ+ supporters would ignore as Republicans embarked on a quest to outbigot each other in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Because of the viciously homophobic political advertisement he promoted, Gays Against Groomers, his most enthusiastic LGBTQ+ support group, began to collapse. But what is Gays Against Groomers? Read on »
A teenage boy in Ireland pleaded guilty to the brutal assault on a lesbian couple after he saw them kissing at a bus shelter. The boy will be sentenced as a juvenile. Read on »
A federal judge has declined a request to block Georgia’s ban on most gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Read on »
The Peaky Blinders team have denounced the use of footage from the series in an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign ad made for Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis. Read on »
Gays Against Groomers, the anti-transgender hate group led by a lesbian political operative aligned with Florida’s homophobic Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is imploding as it deals with infighting. Called out for its founder’s support for DeSantis despite his spreading of an explicitly hateful and homophobic video last week, prominent members of the group are jumping ship. Read on »
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There’s a laugh-till-you-cry scene in Joy Ride in which the comedy’s four leads have consumed or hidden loads of drugs in — ahem — unlikely places. They’re hoping to avoid landing in the slammer in China after a run-in with an American drug dealer on a train. The character Lolo instructs her travel companion Kat to “push, pull, and twist” the remaining bag of cocaine stashed in her rectum. “It’s not a bop it….” Kat retorts, her face twisted with discomfort. Read on »
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