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New Texas Law Sparks Alarm Among Intersex Texans
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (1753+ words) By Aidan Johnstone, The Texas Tribune Aside from a hole in his heart that surgery fixed early in his life, Mo Cortez didn't have any notable medical complications growing up in San Angelo. By all accounts, he was a normal,…...
Medicaid Ban Limits Access to Gender-Affirming Care
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (951+ words) This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Star Gates, a nonbinary transfeminine person in Ohio, realized something important a few months ago: She didn't…...
From Viral Content to Real Life Community, LesbianLand Takes Off
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (428+ words) At the center of LesbianLand, a name garnering tens of thousands of followers online, is one goal: "to make queer folks feel seen, entertained, and held." Sydney Mack and Racquel Simone are the Houston-based couple who started it all. "We…...
Ms Mykie Brings Queerdos! to MATCH’s Mix-MATCH Festival
3+ week, 5+ day ago (591+ words) Drag performer Ms Mykie is dismantling the heteronormative ideas of beauty and sex and showcasing queer bodies at an upcoming art installation and show." Queerdos! is part of the 3rd Annual Mix-MATCH: A Mixed Arts Festival, a free, one-day celebration of…...
Revival Run Crew Builds Queer Community Through Movement
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (659+ words) After moving to Houston from Chicago, Weyand, 30, was in search of a supportive queer community. As Weyand began working as a barback at Pearl Bar, she quickly found just that. "I was super lonely in Chicago, and when COVID hit,…...
Federal Employees File Complaint Against Administration’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (320+ words) The complaint, filed Thursday on the employees" behalf by the Human Rights Campaign, is in response to an August announcement from the Office of Personnel Management that it would no longer cover "chemical and surgical modification of an individual"s…...
2026 Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Community Summit Returns to the Montrose Center
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (315+ words) Programming at the Summit spans health, wellness, arts, culture, and LGBTQ history. Open forums encourage diverse voices to share experiences and ideas as the group crafts real-world solutions. The ultimate goal is to create a clear, action-oriented plan for the…...
A New Chinese Pronoun Opens Space for Nonbinary Identity
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1320+ words) Hong Kong (CNN) " Whenever high-profile non-binary activist Siufung Law did media interviews, journalists always asked: what pronoun would they like to use? For a long time, the Hong Kong native, who uses they/them pronouns in English, had no easy…...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Pushes Bill to Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
2+ mon, 18+ hour ago (377+ words) The bill passed the House Judiciary Committee along party lines and has been forwarded for consideration by the full chamber. At the same time the bill criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender youth, it explicitly permits non-consensual surgical procedures on intersex…...
The Must-Read Queer Books of 2025
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (623+ words) Each year brings a new wave of queer literature, but 2025 stands out as a season of remarkable ambition, emotional depth, and genre-defying experimentation. Across fiction, memoir, fantasy, horror, and poetry-infused prose, LGBTQ authors around the world have delivered books that…...