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Neo-Nazi group accused of violating civil rights law for disrupting N.H. drag story hour

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office filed a civil rights lawsuit against a neo-Nazi group on Wednesday alleging it disrupted a drag story hour at a café in June.  Attorney General John Formella filed the complaint against 19 unnamed members of the New England neo-Nazi group NSC-131, which stands for Nationalist Social Club, and their leader, Christopher Hood, 25, accusing them of violating the state’s anti-discrimination laws for trying to stop the café’s drag story hour through acts of intimidation.  The event, where drag queens read children’s books to kids, took place during Pride Month at Teatotaller, an LGBTQ-owned coffee shop in […]

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Gen Z Is the Most-Queer Generation. They Also Want to Be Labeled the Least

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Gen Z has long been known as the generation with the most LGBTQ+ members, but recent research reveals that it is also the generation most likely to embrace unspecific labels. Among 18- to 26-year-olds, 26 percent said they identify as “something other than straight,” according to a new poll from Business Insider and YouGov. This compares to 15 percent of Millennials, 11 percent of Gen X, and 7 percent of Baby Boomers.  Gen Z is more likely to identify under the umbrella-term of “queer” rather than a specific label. 5 percent self-identify as queer, compared to just 1 percent of Millennials and Gen X, […]

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There Are More Than 1,300 Conversion Therapy Practitioners Still Active: Report

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There are still hundreds of conversion therapy practitioners in the U.S., despite many state and local laws limiting the discredited and harmful practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. A Trevor Project report released Tuesday, “It’s Still Happening,” identified more than 1,320 conversion therapy practitioners in 48 states and the District of Columbia. More than 20 states, D.C., and numerous cities and counties have enacted laws barring licensed professionals from subjecting minors to such therapy, but those laws don’t affect what counselors offer adult clients, nor do they affect the work of unlicensed practitioners, including many of those who […]

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Lawsuit: CPAC Knew About Schlapp Hitting On Men

The Washington Post reports: Officials overseeing the Conservative Political Action Conference knew about past accusations of sexual misconduct by chairman Matt Schlapp but failed to investigate or remove him from his powerful post, an amended sexual battery and defamation lawsuit claims. In one alleged incident, during a fundraising trip to South Florida in early 2022, Schlapp was accused of stripping to his underwear and rubbing against another person without his consent, according to the filing. In 2017, at a CPAC after-party, Schlapp attempted to kiss an employee against his wishes, the lawsuit claims. In both cases, according to the suit, the alleged […]

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Gay Senate Staffer Allegedly in Hearing Room Sex Video Fired

A 24-year-old U.S.Senate staffer who is allegedly in a video showing two men having sex in a Senate hearing room has been fired. A video of the incident in a Senate hearing room was reported on Friday and quickly went viral online. Maryland Democratic U.S. Senator Ben Cardin’s office released a statement about the legislative aide who was allegedly in the video’s employment. “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate,” a spokesperson said. “We will have no further comment on this personnel matter.” Maese-Czeropski’s LinkedIn profile shows he had worked for the 80-year-old senator since October 2021. In his defense earlier […]

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As Culture Wars Rage, LGBTQ+ Support Is Going Down ‘Across the Board,’ According to a New Study

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As anti-LGBTQ+ bills from politicians spike across the United States, support for gay and transgender people is also declining among the public.  While the majority of Americans still support marriage equality and anti-discrimination policies, support for LGBTQ+ rights has gone down “across the board” in the past few years, according to a recent report from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). While around 72 percent of the public supported marriage equality in August 2021, just 66 percent said they support it in 2023. The PRRI cites “partisan dynamics” as a factor behind the shift, which has largely influenced Republican voters. For example, support for policies […]

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Mpox vaccinations should be recommended for high-risk men, even after outbreak ends, advisers say

Gay and bisexual men at high risk for mpox infection should get vaccinated for the virus even after the current outbreak ends, government health advisers said Wednesday. The committee’s recommendation now goes to the director to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and — if she signs off on it — is sent out as guidance to U.S. doctors. More than 30,000 U.S. mpox cases were reported last year. The number dropped dramatically this year, to about 800. But because the virus doesn’t naturally circulate in the U.S., any single case counts as an outbreak, according to the CDC. Mpox, […]

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America’s first out elected officials were two civil rights warriors you’ve probably never heard of

Three weeks before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arrived in the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan to deliver what was to be one of the final public speeches of his life. Hundreds of people packed the gymnasium at the local high school to hear the civil rights icon speak. In the audience that night was an 18-year-old boy named Jerry DeGrieck. DeGrieck, already a longtime supporter of the Civil Rights Movement from an early age, was defying an edict from his avowedly racist parents prohibiting him from attending. DeGrieck’s presence that night, however, was not the only […]

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#GLAADInstitute meets Kansas & Missouri advocates fighting anti-LGBTQ laws

When the GLAAD Media Institute (GMI) visited Kansas City, Missouri on Oct. 14 to facilitate a multimedia workshop called Telling Your Story: Messaging & Media Tools for Today’s Activist Justice Horn said something that had the room snapping in agreement. “National organizations don’t visit cities like Kansas City or Tulsa, so for GLAAD to be here means a lot to the LGBTQ community of Missouri,” said Horn, the chair for the LGBTQ Commission of Kansas City. Horn said that because states like Missouri and Oklahoma are fully locked anti-LGBTQ states, they’re over looked.  It’s true. The “Show-Me” state introduced the highest quantity […]

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Black Trans Woman and Gender-Nonconforming Gay Man Killed in Ohio Double Murder

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A transgender woman and a gender-nonconforming gay man, both Black, were fatally shot while driving around their home city of Toledo, Ohio, in November. A suspect was identified in their killings, but he was later found dead in Cincinnati. Trans woman Amiri Jean Reid and gender-nonconforming man Kejuan Richardson, both 21, were shot in the head in the early evening of November 14 before crashing their vehicle, TV station WTOL reports. They were pronounced dead at a local hospital. Toledo police classified the deaths as homicides and issued an arrest warrant for Jorenzo Phillips, 19. But he was found dead in Cincinnati on November 23, […]

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