New York City is now home to what advocates say is the country’s first-ever city-funded shelter specifically for transgender and gender non-conforming people. On Tuesday, August 5, the New York City ...

There’s a scene toward the end of “Will and Harper” that I can’t get out of my head. I’m referring to the 2024 road-trip documentary where Will Ferrell is reintroduced to his old “Saturday Night Live” ...

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Christine Hawes is founder and editor of MainStream MultiMedia, an LGBTQ affirming, intersectional publication and website based in the Quad Cities and serving all of Iowa and Illinois. The ...

Lawyer and transgender rights activist Chase Strangio (R) leaves the U.S. Supreme Court after arguing a transgender rights case before the high court on December 04, 2024 in Washington, DC. The ...

Meet Aria Sa'id, Honey Mahogany and Janetta Johnson. When three Black trans community leaders co-founded the world's first legally recognized transgender district, they did so with one core idea: to ...

From ICE jails to public libraries to Instagram, queer and trans people battled fascism on every front this year.

This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk’s X platform, ...

From the moment President Donald Trump was elected, it was clear that the transgender community was going to be under attack. In the months since he began his second term, trans people have had their ...

For Emma, what could have been a simple dollars-and-cents decision was far more complicated. The choice before her: whether to accept a scholarship offering nearly free tuition to attend law school at ...

This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. In Trump’s new America, bathrooms have become politicized battlegrounds. What may have seemed like ...