NFL's first male cheerleaders

5 LGBTQ thing you need to know today, March 30

It's a Friday Funday edition of 5 LGBTQ Things! All pop culture, good news and inspirational stories to give you a break from the heavy headlines as you begin your weekend. Enjoy! 1. The New York Times repor...
Daniel Zovatto

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 20

1. The Kansas Republican party has approved a resolution to “oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity.” According to the resolution, “God’s design for gender is determined by biological sex and not b...
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 7

1. Today, on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta founder and principal investigator Melanie A. Thompson, MD, writes of the disproportionate burden of HIV that African-Amer...
Barbra Streisand

5 LGBTQ things you need to know today, Feb. 6

1. Writer Michelangelo Signorile ponders why the murder rate of gay and bisexual men went up by more than 400 percent in the U.S. from 2016 to 2017 — and why so many of the murderers convicted are tied to neo-N...
Demi Lovato

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Jan. 16

1. According to Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, dozens of transgender volunteers have been seeking to join the military since Jan. 1, when the Pentagon officially open...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 30

1. LGBT soccer fans planning to visit Moscow next June for the 2018 World Cup are being warned by FIFA officials that openly expressing affection toward those of the same gender there may invite "danger" from i...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, Nov. 6

1. Sarah Hyland of ABC's "Modern Family" took to Twitter to "confirm" that her character on the show, Holly Dunphy, is bisexual, but she's "not sure what writers would say," which Teen Vogue says forces bisexu...

5 LGBT things you need to know today, June 23

1. The Mississippi governor signed House Bill 1523 a year ago, and this week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals made the so-called "religious freedom" bill law. Advocates are calling it "the worst anti-LGBT law...