4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (1239+ words) At around 5 p.m. on July 30, one day ahead of schedule, the DataLounge, a long-running online forum that became a gathering spot for (mostly) gay men, went dark. Just like that, tens of millions of posts spanning more than three decades simply…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (641+ words) ESPN host Stephen A. Smith said Thursday that Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., could make him a Republican, praising the Trump-backed gubernatorial frontrunner days before Florida Republicans choose their nominee to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis. “And I ain’t no d— Republican. But…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (967+ words) Every school day, Vilma Armas watches her 16-year old daughter walk to Miguel Contreras Learning Complex from their apartment near the corner of Lucas Avenue and West 3rd Street. It’s the same intersection where the Silver Platter, a historic LGBTQ+ Latino…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (176+ words) Joanna Whaley, a hospital chaplain who won the Democratic primary on Tuesday for a Michigan state House seat, could become the first transgender person elected to the state’s legislature. Whaley defeated both former state representative Frank Liberati and Allen Park…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (549+ words) The word “degenerate” has, across centuries, faded in and out of fashion and from one use to another, but its latest vogue feels notable. Lately there’s a comic note, a habit of self-deprecation, a sense of toying with the stern…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (653+ words) During her 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson could not define what a woman is, saying “I’m not a biologist.” Yet, she was actually allowed to cast a vote in the ruling on state bans on transgender athletes…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (365+ words) Just over 10 years ago, I opened a small bookstore a few hours northwest of New York City. The shelves are arranged by affinity: notable people choose their 10 favorite books; elsewhere, titles gather around more whimsical themes. Early this year, I…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1154+ words) Millions of people are expected to gather on Sunday for the New York City Pride March, a jubilant and rainbow-bedecked celebration of the L.G.B.T.Q. community that is one of the city’s largest annual public events. The march, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1222+ words) Scott Wiener is a Democratic member of the California Senate and a prominent gay politician who has championed significant state legislation to expand the rights of transgender people. But late Friday afternoon, as Mr. Wiener was on his way to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (536+ words) Antoni Porowski, the “Queer Eye” star turned Nat Geo host, says “taste” — one of the buzziest words right now in both Silicon Valley and the ad world — isn’t actually what leaders should be chasing. “The word taste makes me uncomfortable,…...