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Protesters rally against closing largest gender-affirming care center for kids in the U.S.

Growing up, Sage Sol Pitchenik wanted to hide. “I hated my body,” the nonbinary 16-year-old said. “I hated looking at it.” When therapy didn’t help, Pitchenik, who uses the pronoun they, started going to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the country’s biggest public provider of gender-affirming care for children and teens. It changed their life. But in response to the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to places that offer gender-affirming care to minors, the center will be closing its doors July 22. Pitchenik has been among the scores of protesters who […]

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World’s most sexually liberated cities revealed – with this UK city making the top 10

The results are in for the world’s most sexually liberated cities in 2025, and a surprising UK city has made the top 10.  Global research by escort consultancy group Erobella analysed cities around the world and ranked them based on the number of gay bars they have, the frequency of LGBTQ+ events there, access to contraception, transgender rights, the legality of sex work, and laws protecting against homophobic and transphobic behaviour.  This year, eight European cities have made the top 10 most sexually liberated cities, whilst only one US city has made the list. This marks a clear shift from last year’s rankings, […]

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This LGBTQ+ travel company’s mission of inclusivity is radical & ‘You’re more than welcome’

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As the Trump administration escalates its attacks on transgender people’s rights, revoking “X” gender markers on passports (something a federal court has halted), instructing consular officials to deny visas based on gender presentation, and enforcing a binary-only framework, one LGBTQ+ travelcompany is charting a course toward inclusivity for marginalized travelers. VACAYA, a queer-focused cruise and resort company founded in 2017, has become a sanctuary for those too often sidelined, even within LGBTQ+ spaces: transgender, nonbinary, BIPOC, body-diverse, bisexual, and pansexual travelers. “In our industry, trans travelers are often trapped, by their passports, by government systems, by legal names that don’t reflect who they are,” Randle Roper, VACAYA’s cofounder and chief […]

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10% of new business owners are LGBTQ+ — and they’re offering better benefits

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There are more LGBTQ+ new business owners than ever recorded — and they’re treating their employees better than others. Ten percent of all new business owners in 2024 identified as LGBTQ+, according to a new report from Gusto, marking a 50 percent increase from 2023. This is in line with demographic shifts, the study notes, as about 9.3 percent of U.S. adultssaid in a Gallup survey last year that they identify as something other than heterosexual, up from 7.6 percent from the previous year.  This suggests that “more LGBTQ people are seeing fewer barriers to entrepreneurship and are choosing it as an accessible and viable path to make a […]

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HIV Awareness still belongs at the heart of Pride Month

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It has been said that the first Pride was a riot, sparked by the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. The meaning of Pride Month has expanded and evolved since Stonewall and the subsequent first Pride Parade in 1970. Though Pride was established before the rise of HIV and AIDS, HIV awareness and advocacy have stood at the center of Pride since the early days of the illness.  Though HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was, there are still approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States and over 30,000 new infections every year. The continued prevalence of HIV […]

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Five Trans Youth Speak Out as SCOTUS Upholds Health Care Ban

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On June 18, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The 6-3 ruling is expected to have a broad impact as 24 other states have already enacted similar laws, which bar puberty blockers, hormone therapy (HRT) and gender transition surgeries for trans youth. As of 2024, 46% of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered suicide, and many advocates say this is in part because of their inability to access gender-affirming care.  Uncloseted Media wanted to pass the microphone to the kids and young adults who could be directly affected by SCOTUS’ decision. So we called up […]

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The staggering scale of Donald Trump’s War on HIV funding

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Since 1989, the LGBT Life Center in Norfolk, Virginia, has built up what CEO Stacie Walls calls a “test and treat” model. For every patient that walked through the doors of their HIV clinic after working up the courage to get tested, there had been the promise that, if they tested positive, all they’d need to do to get treatment was walk down the hallway. But since the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to HIV funding took place earlier this year, that’s no longer the case. “The grant money that pays for people who are uninsured is the grant money that […]

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San Francisco bookstore drops ‘Harry Potter’ over J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans donations

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An independent bookstore in San Francisco has announced that it will no longer carry Harry Potter books after J.K. Rowling dedicated her private wealth to anti-transgender organizations.  The Booksmith recently posted a notice letting customers know that they would not be selling the series anymore in light of Rowling founding “an organization dedicated to removing transgender rights ‘in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.’” “With this announcement, we’ve decided to stop carrying her books,” the store wrote. “We don’t know exactly what her her ‘women’s fund’ will entail, but we know that we aren’t going to be a part of it.” Rowling said in May that she […]

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By maintaining Obamacare pillar, Supreme Court hands win to HIV advocates

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the HIV-prevention field a historic win — yet with a major caveat — as it upheld a federally appointed health task force’s authority to mandate no-cost insurance coverage of certain preventive interventions, but clarifying that the health and human services secretary holds dominion over the panel.  The 6-3 decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. essentially leaves in place a popular pillar of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates that most insurers cover various task force-recommended preventive screenings, therapies and interventions, with no out-of-pocket costs imposed on patients. The case reached the high court after a group of […]

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Two red states have a disproportionately high number of gay porn viewers

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Voters in two states won by Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election have been revealed to watch gay porn much more often than the national average, according a study by Pornhub. The porn site’s latest Pride Insights research revealed that North Dakota topped the charts in terms of hours of gay porn watched in the past year, with Wyoming not far behind. Both are notorious for implementing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and both have Republican governors. North Dakota’s proportion of gay porn fans seemingly exceeded the national average by 43 per cent, and Wyoming by 29 per cent. Other states with a higher-than-average interest included […]

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