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US ambassador removes gay artist’s “lesbian picnic” painting from embassy for being “very woke”

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Officials with the U.S. State Department have removed a painting by out artist Kehinde Wiley from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, which they have variously described as “very woke” and as depicting a lesbian picnic. The painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, was commissioned by the U.S. government under former President Barack Obama in 2013 and has hung in the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo since 2015. In an August 21 interview with former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer, Erin Scavino, the director of the State Department’s Art in Embassies program, said that Leah Campos, the US ambassador to the Dominican […]

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Evil Homo: Grenell Ordered Purge Of Kennedy Center’s Artworks From Foreign Nations, Wanted Art Chosen By MAGA

The New York Times reports: A storm brought down a five-foot piece of ceiling plaster at the Kennedy Center this month and its leadership sprang into action. One thing they did not do was repair the damage. Instead staff members left the mess on the carpet for nearly two weeks, posting photos on social media with commentary like “the place is falling apart and @realDonaldTrump wants to fix it.” They measured plaster shards and mapped the “debris field” like investigators after a plane crash. Mr. Trump claimed online that a security guard had narrowly avoided “certain death.” Internal emails and documents obtained […]

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BOYCOTT: Elon Musk is pushing millions into dishonest, anti-trans midterm ads

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America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misinformation about Democratic candidates, and are (in some cases) likely AI-generated. “Elon Musk is scapegoating LGBTQ+ Americans to distract voters from the cuts he made and the chaos he has caused,” Ramiro Sarmiento, the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement. “Trans people aren’t the reason cancer research has […]

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Lawsuit Prompts Safety Changes At Colorado LGBTQ+ Bars

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When the gunman who killed five people at Club Q opened fire in November 2022, queer bars across Colorado took a hard look at how they would protect their patrons. Nearly four years later, a federal appeals court has ruled that the shooting victims and relatives of the dead cannot sue the bar’s owner over its security measures.  But for bar owners and managers across the state, the question of who could be held responsible after a shooting is secondary to a more immediate one: What can they do to keep their patrons alive? On Wednesday, a three-judge panel in […]

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The Potential Impact of Voter Identification Laws on Transgender Voters in the 2026 General Election

Transgender people face unique obstacles to obtaining identity documents (ID) that match their gender identity. Identity documents that do not match a person’s gender, such as a person’s name or gender marker, create obstacles to participating in many facets of public life, including voting. Such obstacles may affect voting in the 36 states with voter ID laws, especially the 33 that conduct their elections primarily in person. In these states, voters encounter additional verification requirements at the polls, in addition to federal standards for voter registration and eligibility determination. The strictest of these voter ID laws require voters to present […]

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Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made

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Over the past 100 days, President Donald Trump and his administration have intensified their campaign against LGBTQ people, with transgender Americans the most consistent target. Federal agencies have threatened schools and healthcare providers with investigations, funding cuts and legal action over gender-affirming policies and trans care. Several lower courts have blocked and limited some of the administration’s efforts while the Supreme Court has upheld Trump-supported state bans on trans athletes. Here is a chronological list of the administration’s latest actions centered on LGBTQ Americans, along with responses to those actions—from court rulings to research reports. June 5, 2026 The Department […]

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“A fighting chance”: Trans rights are in the balance in the midterm elections

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Trans people’s rights are a top concern among LGBTQ Nation readers this year.  Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026 midterms and what you think they could change. Quite a few people discussed trans rights, which have been under attack for the past several years.  “Like all trans people in the US right now, the relentless attacks, both through real action and through political messaging, have had a profound impact on my own health and wellbeing,” Ellie Spoering told LGBTQ Nation. “I don’t have any trans friends who are not feeling the impact of these attacks, especially […]

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ICE Sent a Gay Brazilian Man to Equatorial Guinea. Now He’s Gone Silent.

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Hotel Bamy in Equatorial Guinea is not a prison, but Pietro Graza hasn’t been able to leave for weeks. He has been held captive in the semi-abandoned luxury hotel in Malabo, the former capital city, after being deported from Arizona despite legally seeking protections in the United States for protection against torture in his home country of Brazil.  Graza was almost killed by police partly because he is a gay man, and immigrated to the states where he sought asylum. But in 2024, he was detained by federal agents and held in a Florida detention camp before a transfer to […]

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Dems with anti-trans views are on the ballot. What should pro-trans voters do with them?

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Numerous Democratic midterm candidates have previously made anti-trans statements or voted for anti-trans legislation. Trans journalist Erin Reed published a list yesterday of these candidates and advised her followers not to vote for them, lest their victories convince the Democratic Party “that throwing transgender people under the bus is a winning strategy,” Reed wrote. Reed’s list only included Democrats running in federal and statewide races, and noted that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) endorsed some candidates who had made anti-trans votes or statements. She warned that if these candidates win and transphobia becomes a permanent Democratic Party value — as it has with the UK’s ostensibly left-of-center Labour […]

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Female-only app Giggle For Girls loses appeal in trans discrimination case

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The High Court of Australia has blocked Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover from challenging the landmark ruling that found excluding a transgender womanfrom her app was gender identity discrimination. After years of back-and-forth court appeals, this landmark case (dubbed Tickle v Giggle) has finally come to an end. Giggle for Girls was marketed as a female-only space. The app allowed women to find roommates, engage in freelance work, find friendship groups and more. The discrimination case brought by trans woman Roxanne Tickle was against Giggle for Girls and its founder, Sall Grover. Grover’s Wikipedia page describes her as a “self-identified trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. […]

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