DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more
Here's everything DOGE did that affected the LGBTQ+ community at home and abroad.
November 24, 2025
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52% of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks targeted transgender and gender nonconforming people
There were 932 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 – equal to 2.5 incidents every day, according to GLAAD.
June 2, 2025
When the First Friend Goes
Matthew Perry’s death is a reminder of when the first in our tribes passes away, and the fragility of our friendships and mortalities.
October 30, 2023
Wham!'s Andrew Ridgeley Talks Final Meeting with George Michael
The last time the two men saw each other, they faced off in a game of Scrabble.
July 3, 2023
Bullied to Death
The executive directors of the Trevor Project and the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network team up to address harassment and suicide prevention in schools -- and pay tribute to Carl Hoover-Walker and Jaheem Herrera.
April 23, 2009
Death of a Showgirl
In the '90s, Jahna Steele was one of Vegas's most celebrated topless performers. Did being outed as transgender contribute to her demise?
March 5, 2008
Death in Afghanistan
A lesbian soldier's mysterious death in Afghanistan raises many questions--including why more fallen service members have not been identified as gay. William Henderson investigates.
November 16, 2007
Death of a pioneer
Eric Rofes, who died of an apparent heart attack on June 26, was an influential activist who authored several books on AIDS and gay culture and once served as director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the Shanti Project in San Francisco.
June 28, 2006
TBT: The Death of Judy
As the new interns start each semester we ask them, 'Do you know who Judy Garland is?'
June 26, 2014
Death Becomes Him
Director Tom Kalin returns to the Sundance Film Festival -- which in '92 embraced his first feature, Swoon -- with Savage Grace, a movie about another, very different gay killer.
January 11, 2008
A matter of life and death
For months Paula Jacquard watched her friend Mark fight AIDS and cancer, proving once again that in queer culture the family you rely on is the one you make.
March 26, 2007
Targeted by death squads
An escalating campaign of "sexual cleansing" in Iraq has led to the executions of many gays and lesbians. Some have managed to flee. Those left behind hide from public view.
September 11, 2006
Hall of love and death
Michael C. Hall, the straight actor who so perfectly embodies the gay funeral director on HBO's Six Feet Under, talks frankly about internalized homophobia, sex on-camera, and what's next for David Fisher
May 25, 2004
Nevada man used antigay slur in death threats to U.S. senator
John Anthony Miller admitted to a series of disturbing calls and threats against two unnamed U.S. Senators and their families.
May 16, 2025
Separated by Death but Wed in Spirit
A year ago this month, Irish voters approved marriage equality by popular vote. Writer Charlie Bird goes beyond the headlines of that historic day in his new book, A Day in May. Read a heartbreaking, but beautiful, excerpt from John Paul Calnan below.
May 12, 2016
Seattle Celebrates the Death of DOMA
Take a look at the joyful crowds that gathered in Seattle, Wash. to celebrate the landmark Supreme Court rulings on 'Rainbow Wednesday.'
June 28, 2013