3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1395+ words) Legal challenges flared this week over an Inland Empire school district’s alleged removal of library books and, separately, on its efforts to require parental notification on student gender identity — policies strongly supported by the school board president, Sonja Shaw, a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (288+ words) Jamaal Harrison was riding his e-bike to a West Hollywood Goodwill when he spotted a small animal running through the street. When he realized what it was, he was “astounded.” Hours later, he and the little pig he tried in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (440+ words) Portland, Oregon, mother Allison Roberts filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Portland Public Schools and her children’s elementary school after allegedly facing retaliation over her opposition to their gender curriculum. According to the Liberty Justice Center, which filed the lawsuit…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1117+ words) Welcome back to the “Media Front.” New York Magazine set out this week to document a cultural shift in its city. By Friday, choices about how to document that shift had become a media story of their own. “Habibi City,…...

3+ week, 6+ day 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, 20+ hour 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, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) A North Carolina man has defied the odds and hit the lottery for the second time in two years — securing a hefty jackpot which he plans to channel into community philanthropy. Cristien Breton, of Salisbury, won a substantial $100,000 prize on…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1081+ words) Before gay kickball leagues, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Grindr or even Stonewall, there was the steamy world of bathhouses. Operating 24 hours a day, bathhouses were havens for gay men, where they could be entertained by the likes of Bette Midler and…...

1+ mon, 5+ 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…...