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BY LORI KERSEY | The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down West Virginia’s ban on transgender athletes, finding the law violates trans students’ rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the constitution and Title IX, a federal civil rights law prohibiting discrimination based on sex in education programs.

One year after returning to the WNBA after her release from a Russian gulag and declaring, “I’m never playing overseas again,” Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner and her wife announced they have something even bigger coming up this summer.

This week, April 15 – 21, marks National Deaf LGBTQ+ Awareness Week, a project launched by the Deaf Queer Resource Center to uplift, support, and bring greater visibility to these multiply marginalized communities. Every day this week, Queerty will be spotlighting a short film that focuses on deaf, queer characters—all of which you can watch right now.Today’s short, Ode To Pablo, begins with a familiar scene.A lone, young Afro-Latino man—the titular Pablo (Ian Vasquez)—is practicing shooting hoops on a basketball court when a group of three young men roll up, seemingly miffed someone’s playing on their turf.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Heading on to the court, the guys challenge Pablo to a game of pickup.

twink boyfriend Romeo?A new production of Romeo and Juliet is headed to Broadway this fall, featuring Heartstopper breakout Kit Connor and West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler as its titular leads.And if that wasn’t enough to get the theater gays going, the show –– stylized as Romeo + Juliet, a lá Baz Luhrmann –– is directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold and will apparently be a musical, with compositions by Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey‘s go-to producer pal Jack Antonoff. Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The play’s biting tagline is “The youth are f**ked.” But it sounds like the gays will be well-fed!Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor will star in a modern-day adaption of ‘ROMEO + JULIET’ on Broadway this Fall.Music made by Jack Antonoff.

The Evening Standard, Courtney Love shared her unvarnished thoughts about some of the biggest female pop stars of our time and, let’s just say, shots were fired. And Gay Twitter X™ has responded accordingly.First, here’s a quick recap of what the 59-year-old rocker said…On Taylor Swift:Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.On Madonna:I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me.