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Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded queer-inclusive shows, is shutting down

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) shared the news today that it would be slowly shutting down following the Trump administration’s defunding of public media. The corporation was responsible for providing funding to NPR and PBS, which were known to fund LGBTQ+ projects such as Intersex Justice, Mother Witt, and Queering the Map. Earlier this month, Congress approved the “Big, Beautiful Bill” that slashed funding for CPB by $1.1 billion over the next two years. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill entirely excluded funding for public media for the first time in over 50 years. Patricia […]

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Remembering Wallis Annenberg, lesbian philanthropist who did much for the LGBTQ+ community

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Wallis Annenberg, the Los Angeles-based philanthropist who died Monday at 86, is being remembered for her generosity to arts, culture, and wildlife. But most obituaries are not mentioning that she was a lesbian — albeit semi-closeted — and how much she did for LGBTQ+ and HIV and AIDS charities. An exception is a Substack column written by L.A. journalist Karen Ocamb, who was in a relationship with Annenberg for two years. Ocamb also emailed remembrances of Annenberg to The Advocate. “I met Wallis in 1986 when she was the speaker at a 12-Step meeting at Cedars-Sinai,” Ocamb wrote in the email. “Truthfully, my back was up because she was this rich […]

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How the Trump administration is greenlighting discrimination against LGBTQ+ federal employees

This week, the Office of Public Management (OPM) issued a memo urging federal agencies to “robustly protect and enforce” federal employees’ right to engage in religious expression in the workplace. This right includes efforts of employees to persuade others of the correctness of their religious views, encourage them to pray or attend religious services, and display religious items, such as crosses and religious posters, in the workplace. While the five-page memo briefly mentions the limits on this religious expression—it can’t be harassing in nature, and employees can’t be disciplined for disagreeing or declining to participate—the memo’s major chord pushes religious expression rather than preventing […]

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Going Dutch: LGBTQ Americans find Trump-free life in Netherlands

It had been months since Alex and Lucy, a trans couple from Arizona, felt safe enough to hold hands in public. They rediscovered that pleasure after moving to Amsterdam this year. The couple, who did not want to give their last names because of the sensitivity of the subject, decided to leave the United States soon after Donald Trump was re-elected last year. They arrived in the Netherlands on Jan. 19, the day before Trump was inaugurated and swiftly issued an executive order saying the government would only recognize two sexes — male and female. “We’re both visibly trans and […]

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Positive Images Grupo Social Events in August

 ¡El Grupo ahora se reúne los miércoles! Estamos muy emocionados de compartir nuestro nuevo horario y nos sentimos muy agradecidos de ser parte de esta increíble comunidad. Esperamos verlos a todos en persona cuando comencemos con las reuniones actualizadas del Grupo a partir del miércoles 6 de agosto, de 6:30 PM a 8:30 PM. ¡Ven y sé parte de este camino, no podemos esperar para verte allí!

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Aging Mindfully: Zen-Inspired Senior Living Takes Shape in Simi Valley

Two Zen-inspired senior living communities are embracing the reality of aging — consciously. Ensō Village, open since 2023 in Sonoma County, and Ensō Verde, now taking shape in a hidden corner of Simi Valley. These communities — a collaboration of the renowned San Francisco Zen Center and Kendal, a visionary provider of communities, programs and services founded on Quaker values — focus on mindful aging, the joys of nature, environmental stewardship, contemplative care and healthy life choices for adults aged 60 and higher. Former actor and film producer Susan O’Connell spent a lifetime living, creatively in the film industry, and then intentionally as […]

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Trump Administration Hits Shameful Milestone of 300 Anti-LGBTQ Actions, Statements, and Policies Against the Community

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This week, GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker reached a milestone of 300 shameful anti-LGBTQ actions, statements, and policies against the community, from the start of the Trump administration’s first term until today.  The list includes approximately 77 anti-LGBTQ actions since January 2025, when the administration began its second term. GLAAD is holding Trump and his administration accountable in the media for every piece of vile rhetoric and every hostile proposed or enacted policy seeking to harm or erase LGBTQ people and the issues that matter to us. Most recently and notably, the administration eliminated the 988 suicide and crisis hotline’s specialized services for LGBTQ youth, a […]

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Cuba’s huge leap forward in trans rights – citizens can now legally choose gender without surgery

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Cuba has taken a significant step forward in trans rights by approving a law that allows individuals to self-declare their gender without requiring surgery. The law, approved earlier this month by The National Assembly of People’s Power, also amends Cuba’s national civil registry, giving legal recognition to common-law partnerships and setting out a process for digitising paper records.  Minister of justice Oscar Silvera Martínez wrote on X/Twitter last week that the law “will allow the country to have a modern civil registry,” including “the issuance of digital documents with full validity and efficiency”. https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=e30%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1946311383659720937&lang=en&origin=safari-reader%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepinknews.com%2F2025%2F07%2F28%2Fcubas-huge-leap-forward-in-trans-rights%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, also took […]

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Meet the gay Navy veteran trying to flip a red congressional seat in Virginia

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Mike Pruitt knows what he’s up against. Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, which stretches from Charlottesville to the North Carolina border, hasn’t sent a Democrat to Congress since 2008. The district is vast, rural, and deeply conservative, characterized by some localities with shuttered hospitals, deserted main streets, and long-neglected infrastructure. But Pruitt, a 33-year-old gay Navy veteran, attorney, and a member of the board of supervisors for Albemarle County in central Virginia, says he isn’t running to hedge his values.  He’s running to represent places like the one he came from — rural, working-class communities left behind by both parties. His campaign centers on defending Medicaid, regulating […]

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