A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits. Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton (an appointee of former President George
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As middle and high school students head back to class for a new school year, combined research shows that affirming teachers and the support of friends are instrumental to a positive school experience for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse (TGE) students. The research brief, School Experiences and Outcomes Among Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Young People, is
LGBTQ+ people were the only demographic in a recent poll that supported allowing trans people to compete on sports teams as their gender. In results just posted online from the Pew Research Center, 73% of American adults said that they were either “not too” or “not at all” comfortable with “transgender athletes competing on sports
A Florida newspaper last Wednesday criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed Attorney General James Uthmeier for telling the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops that their schools can’t receive taxpayer-funded vouchers if they require vaccinations. “Apparently, Uthmeier believes he understands Catholic values better than some priests, with Pope James saying he has concluded ‘there is no religious basis’
Out actor Neil Patrick Harris said in an interview published yesterday that he publicly came out as gay in a November 2006 statement to People magazine at the age of 33 in anticipation of online blogs potentially outing the then-young actor. Talking with Great Company, a videocast hosted by Jamie Laing, Harris (who is now
From buzzing metropolises to scenic beach getaways and cities with rich queer histories, here at GayCities we know just how many places there are to see. And while we haven’t been everywhere, it’s on our list. But between the travel ads, influencer recommendations, and Instagay photo dumps, it can be hard to decipher which friendly
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in a Pennsylvania case where the adminsitration sought access to the private medical records of transgender children. In a short motion, the DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a lower court decision that denied the DOJ’s
Bród is Pride in Irish Galway Girls, Gays and Theys took to the streets this weekend in celebration. What started with 15 people in Eyre Square in 1989 is now Ireland’s longest continually running Pride festival, welcoming hundreds of visitors to its fourth-largest city every year. Under the theme of “Still We Rise,” the festival
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) — a MAGA congresswoman who has repeatedly accused LGBTQ+ people and their supporters of “grooming” children for sexual abuse — has a 21-year-old son who, as of today, has been charged with three felony counts related to sexual exploitation of a child. Her son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Sunday and
Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Micky Angelo Petrillo. TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
A new study has found that healthcare professionals are not doing enough to screen trans patients who have had top surgery for breast cancer. Published July 29 in the Breast Cancer Research and Treatment journal, the researchers emphasized the “dearth of available data” on cancer risk profiles of people who have had gender-affirming mastectomies, “including
Actor Geno Segers will no longer be the next star in the Broadway production of Hadestown after videos of him making transphobic comments resurfaced last week. The producers confirmed in a statement that they have “mutually agreed” to part ways with Segers only days after announcing his role as Hades. While the statement did not
A 54-year-old woman named Yolanda Olejniczak Marodi confessed on Tuesday to lethally stabbing her 49-year-old wife Rebecca “Becky” Marodi, in their Ramona, California home on February 17. Marodi was a lesbian captain for California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Yolanda Marodi also stabbed her previous husband to death in 2011. Rebecca Marodi
A mob of people beat a transgender couple on May 31 after one of the partners used a public restroom in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. After the attack, police arrested one of the trans women, took her to a men’s jail, and has now charged the couple with offenses that could imprison them for months. Near
Opponents of gender-affirming care for trans youth often claim that puberty blockers negatively impact young people’s bone density; something that sounds alarming considering that adolescence is the primary time of life when humans acquire their lifelong bone mass. However, a study published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics concluded that trans minors on puberty blockers
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview published Monday that he is “more inclined than not” to run for president again in 2028, furthering long-held suspicions that he may do so. “I think I’m more inclined than not, but there’s so much we don’t know,” Buttigieg told British business podcaster Steven Bartlett
Source: @louqueernaval on Instagram. Where does your mind go when you hear “French Riviera”? The Cannes Film Festival? Saint-Tropez and its famous celebrity parties? It’s likely conjuring a luxurious image. And you’re not wrong. From the pensioners of Cagnes-sur-Mer to the wistful art-lovers of Antibes, the southern coast of France is bubbling over with lovers
Stonewall uprising veteran Stormé DeLarverie and her wife Diana met in 1943 at Smalls’ Paradise, a 24-hour nightclub in Harlem. Stormé — a “stone butch gay woman” in the words of their “gay daughter,” trans singer Christy Henderson Jenkins — went on to be the “male impersonator” emcee for the Jewel Box Revue, a racially
If you know, you know. That was the case with Casa Susanna, a guesthouse in New York’s Catskill Mountains, which in the 1950s and 60s catered to a particular subset of the LGBTQ+ community, a group trans author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen described as “transfeminine cross-dressers.” Related Some even brought their wives for weekends
A New Jersey high school reached a settlement with the family of Myles Fitzpatrick, a trans teen who took his own life in 2022 after serial harassment by classmates and the alleged failure of school staff to acknowledge his distress or stop the bullying, My Central Jersey reports. Fitzpatrick, who started his transition two years
Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, “I Love America Better Than You,” at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for “exercising their free will.” “Towards the end of ‘I Love
President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as woman walked into the same restroom as her,” Hassan told Midland
A former employee of PepsiCo sued the company on July 24, alleging that the company fired her after she returned from family leave following a period of repeated anti-gay harassment that they failed to stop, Human Resources Direction reported. Her lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The
The Trump administration on Monday threatened legal action and the end of federal education funding against the Anne Arundel County Public School District of Maryland for allegedly withholding information about a child’s gender identity from their parents, The Baltimore Banner reported. The federal government began investigating the school after the Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy
“Nothing disgusts me more than a f**got on the sideline.” So said the Rev. Ray Broshears, the collar-clad leader of the Lavender Panthers, a gay vigilante group enlisted by Broshears to combat attacks on gay and trans people in San Francisco during the 1970s. Related Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay
Melissa Chaudhry, a self-identified progressive Democratic candidate for Congress in Washington State, is facing backlash and calls to rescind her endorsements after she equivocated on support for the LGBTQ+ community and admitted she’ll drop Democrats for the Green Party if she’s elected to Congress. That seems increasingly unlikely. Related The trouble for Chaudhry, a candidate
Ohio middle school teacher Erica Putro was shocked to discover how many of her colleagues didn’t know about the state laws legislators have enacted to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ students. She worried that a lack of knowledge on the subject would make it much harder for teachers to protect and advocate for their LGBTQ+
A new policy paper delivered by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the influential Democratic think tank, has advice for Democratic Party candidates ahead of the midterm elections: leave the issue of transgender participation in school sports to local schools and sports groups. The policy advice, titled “Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues,” comes as
A new study to be presented at an international AIDS conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next week shows the devastating effects of cuts that the Trump administration has made in the global effort to eradicate HIV/AIDS. Sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for children and others at risk from the disease have