Black trans TikTok star Girlalala killed; boyfriend charged with her murder
The 21-year-old hairstylist had nearly 300,000 TikTok followers and many more on Instagram.
November 19, 2025
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Trans woman Kaitoria Bankz killed in attempted carjacking in Alabama
A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder.
April 4, 2025
How the end of federal abortion rights hurt LGBTQ+ parents
A groundbreaking new study finds that the overturning of Roe v. Wade upended relationships, family planning, and the mental health of queer women and nonbinary people across the country.
October 15, 2024
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
October 13, 2025
BREAKING: U.S. House passes defense spending bill with anti-trans provision
The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would deny insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for trans children of service members.
December 11, 2024
Trump orders closure of Department of Education 'once and for all'. He can’t do that without Congress
The president once famously said that he loves "the poorly educated."
March 20, 2025
Karine Jean-Pierre hangs with ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ queens at iconic gay bar
The eight all-star cast members had a busy day at the monuments, the White House and with Karine Jean-Pierre at D.C.’s Little Gay Pub ahead of a screening of the season nine premiere of Drag Race All Stars.
May 7, 2024
People Are Stepping in to Help Queer Migrants
The Black LGBTQ+ Migrant project now has more resources to battle an intolerant world, and a bigoted administration.
June 25, 2018
Op-ed: Why We Shut Down the Castro
As the #BlackLivesMatter movement forges ahead, white LGBT people don't have to sit on the sidelines.
February 2, 2015
Capital of Alabama Elects First Black Mayor; Once Defied Roy Moore
Steven Reed was the first judge in the state to issue same-sex marriage licenses in defiance of an order by homophobe Roy Moore.
October 9, 2019
Pauli Murray Will Be First Black Queer Person on U.S. Currency
The nonbinary civil rights activist, lawyer, poet, and priest will appear on a quarter.
February 10, 2023
Empowering black lesbians
Conference attendees came from across the country to celebrate and embrace "sistahood" as well as a common bond of culture and same-sex attraction.
April 21, 2005
Pride Media Stands With Black Lives Matter and the Right to Protest
The Advocate and its sibling publications vow to center and amplify Black voices.
June 3, 2020
Black Transgender Woman Aerrion Burnett Killed in Missouri
Burnett, whose best friend was murdered nine years ago, is at least the 27th trans American to die violently this year.
September 25, 2020
Billy Porter, Megan Rapinoe, BLM Founders Among Time 100 LGBTQ+ Icons
The magazine honored many out figures and allies in its roundup of the world's "most influential" people.
September 23, 2020
New Coalition Promotes Passage of Equality Act
The Equality Act would improve "the lives of millions of LGBTQ people in this country and our families," says Kierra Johnson, executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund.
March 23, 2021
Finding the Intersection Brings Us Closer to a Beloved Community
The vision of Martin Luther King Jr. is progressing as we stand up for our rights, says filmmaker and minister Gil Caldwell.
February 15, 2017
A Call for Reform on HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day
People living with HIV and their allies are making clear that HIV criminalization laws no longer make sense -- and that they do harm.
February 28, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Clarence Thomas in Affirmative Action Dissent
Thomas accused the court's newest justice of casting all Black people as victims and wanting to "reallocate society’s riches by racial means."
June 29, 2023
Aaryn Lang Does the Work for Her Black Trans Family
The activist, writer, and media personality is fighting for equality in all sectors of the movement.
August 12, 2020