3+ hour, 24+ min ago  (650+ words) By John Riley on July 16, 2026 @JRileyMW Russian television viewers have noticed that a well-known episode of SpongeBob SquarePants was altered to remove a rainbow, apparently as part of the country’s sweeping censorship of media and symbols deemed pro-LGBTQ. According to…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago  (218+ words) By John Riley on July 16, 2026 @JRileyMW A transgender advocacy group has created a crowdsourced map of trans-friendly bathrooms in Idaho to help residents find facilities they can use safely. State lawmakers recently passed a law prohibiting people from entering bathrooms…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (813+ words) By John Riley on July 11, 2026 @JRileyMW Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, signed a new law last week prohibiting state funds from covering transition-related treatments for transgender inmates. “No funds shall be expended for any cross-sex hormones, or gender transition…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (693+ words) By John Riley on July 11, 2026 @JRileyMW The Fairfax County School Board has elected its first-ever out lesbian as chair of the board governing Virginia’s largest school system and an out bisexual man as vice chair. At its July 9 meeting, the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (807+ words) Philadelphia Police are searching for a man suspected of carrying out three shootings — two of them fatal — in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood over the past six weeks. The suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Jahylin Melchur, who remains at large....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (927+ words) By John Riley on July 4, 2026 @JRileyMW Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ travelers from docking in the country’s ports, citing “moral standards and family values.” The “Athens to Venice” cruise, which departs from Greece on…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (1043+ words) By John Riley on July 1, 2026 @JRileyMW The Daughters of the American Revolution voted against a proposal to ban transgender members during the organization’s 135th Continental Congress, held June 26 at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. The proposal would have required applicants…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (953+ words) By John Riley on June 30, 2026 @JRileyMW The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that state bans prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams in high school and college are constitutional and do not violate transgender athletes’ right to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (813+ words) By John Riley on June 29, 2026 @JRileyMW Minneapolis has repealed its nearly four-decade ban on gay bathhouses after the City Council voted 9-2 to approve two technical amendments to the city code effectively repealing the prohibition on bathhouses and adult sex venues....

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (887+ words) By John Riley on June 27, 2026 @JRileyMW An LGBTQ organizer suffered a black eye after a man struck her in the face with a flagpole at a Pride event in Cary, North Carolina. Sara Buxton, owner of The Night Market Company,…...