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Winning Design Announced for Pulse Memorial

The winners have been announced in a global competition to design a memorial set to be built on the site of the Pulse nightclub. The competition was held by the onePULSE Foundation with the purpose of select...

LGBTQ Southerners Experience Barriers to Health Care, Survey Finds

A report of the new Southern LGBTQ Health Survey found that a high number of LGBTQ Southerners—especially transgender Southerners—experience struggles with their health and the quality of health care they recei...

Tennessee County Commissioner Calls Pete Buttigieg “A Queer” in Released Video

A video has been released of a county commissioner from Tennessee hatefully referring to gay Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as “a queer.” At a meeting regarding an ordinance to make Sevier ...

Judge Rules Southern Poverty Law Center Can List Florida Christian Group as Hate Group

A federal judge ruled that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is allowed to label anti-LGBTQ Florida-based evangelical Christian media outreach group D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) as a hate group, acco...

Man Behind North Carolina’s “Bathroom Bill” to be Congressman

The lead sponsor behind North Carolina’s infamous “bathroom bill,” Dan Bishop, will be a member of Congress after a narrow victory in a special district election, reported Out Magazine. The Republican lawmaker...

Black Trans Woman Bee Love Slater Burned Beyond Recognition in Florida

Black transgender woman Bee Love Slater was founded killed and burned in a car in Clewiston, Florida on Wednesday (September 4), reported NewNowNext. The victim was not identified until Friday (September 6), as...

Founder of Southern Conversion Therapy Organization Denounces the Practice After Coming Out

The founder of the South Carolina-based conversion therapy program Hope for Wholeness has come out as gay and denounced conversion therapy in an interview with The Post and Courier. After two decades with th...

Trans Woman Shows TSA Officers Genitals to Fly

A transgender woman was forced to show her genitals to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers in Florida to be allowed to fly, prompting an investigation by ProPublica into the treatment of trans...

Pulse Survivors No Longer Identify as Gay and Organize Ex-Gay ‘Freedom March’

Two survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting no longer identify as gay and are organizing a “Freedom March” to connect the LGBTQ community with Christianity, according to NBC News. Angel Colon and Luis Javi...

Serial Killer Who Targeted Gay Men in the 90s to be Executed

A serial killer who targeted gay men in the ‘90s will be executed in Florida this week, according to PinkNews. Gary Ray Bowles, known as the “I-95” killer, will face the death penalty on Thursday (August 22)...

GLAAD Hires DaShawn Usher as Program Officer for Communities of Color

LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD has hired DaShawn Usher as their Program Officer for Communities of Color to reduce the stigma around HIV/AIDS, especially in the South. Usher, an award-winning advoca...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

New Study Looks at Demographics of Queer-Identified People

Sanders Campaign Defends Accepting Joe Rogan Support Amid LGBTQ Backlash

Rush Center Names Simone Bell as New Interim Executive Director

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Lil Nas X and Other LGBTQ Celebs Rock the Grammys

Season 12 Cast of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Announced

Lizzo Says She Wants Her Music to Make Black Trans Women Feel Good