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The Culture Club frontman is receiving a ton of backlash for releasing a song in solidarity with Israel.

The American restaurant and gift shop company announced on July 27 that current CEO and director Julie Masino, who led the controversial rebrand, will be stepping down on August 10.

An out lesbian on TikTok is conducting what she calls "social experiments" by cold-calling churches to ask if they would allow a registered child sex offender to attend their Sunday family services, and posting videos of their responses.

For one LGBTQ+ family from Indiana, Family Week offered something rare: the joy of being surrounded by families that looked like theirs.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

More For You

Most Popular

White House communications director Steven Cheung reaches for a juvenile, 40-year-old sex fiction to criticize an actor’s defense of USAID, writes John Casey.

The stories about the late Republican senator's sexuality may multiply after his death. None of them changes who he chose to be, writes John Casey

University police found a student in an argument with juveniles on campus and ended up pepper-spraying her multiple times.

The mayor’s office in Spokane had initially defended the hateful sign as protected speech under the First Amendment.

Opinion: Many men held up as role models to boys are being exposed as dangerous charlatans, writes Josh Ackley.

The Center for American Progress says its new framework will help Democrats confront anti-LGBTQ+ attacks without abandoning civil rights. Transgender people aren't so sure.