TikToker jokes she was “oppressed” by gay parents in viral video, has perfect response for homophobes

emerged as a star swimmer for the college this year, becoming the first trans athlete to win a NCAA Division I title in March after finishing first in the women's 500-yard freestyle championship.However, her success has sparked debate about how to fairly include transgender women on women's athletic teams. Critics have argued Thomas, who transitioned in 2019, has an unfair advantage over her cisgender teammates and should be required to compete on the men's team. Her supporters, on the other hand, say trans women competing on the team of the gender they identify with is important to validate their identity and should not be an issue since Thomas meets the NCAA's criteria for trans women athletes.The NCAA announced on Friday the more than 240 nominations for its 2022 Woman of the Year award.

Bianca Quilantan 07/16/2022 12:28 PM EDT Link CopiedA federal judge temporarily blocked the Education Department’s Title IX guidance, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.Eastern District of Tennessee Judge Charles Atchley in an order late Friday said the agency’s guidance “directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’ ability to continue enforcing their state laws” that restrict transgender people from playing on sports teams and using bathrooms that match their gender identity.A coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general is being led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery. They have argued their states face a “credible threat” of losing significant federal funding due to their policies and laws.The states also argued that forcing schools to use transgender students’ pronouns is illegal under the First Amendment and that the Education Department violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Tenth Amendment, which delegates certain powers to the states.The Education Department, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Justice Department, along with their leaders, are listed as defendants.

ABOVE: Dan's my neighbor. If I lean out my window, I can see his butt. Any window.

I'm sorry, but THIS is how a diva should be: fabulous, and outspoken. 

Some loudmouthed woman ruined a perfectly lovely day in the park for one guy and his boyfriend, and now the guy is wondering if he’s overreacting to this “uncomfortable experience in public.”In a July 7 Reddit post, this guy says that he and his boyfriend were seated on a bench with the guy’s arm around the boyfriend and the boyfriend’s hand in the guy’s hair.Sounds dreamy, right? Enter homophobe, stage right.“Then this lady in her late 40s/early 50s walks by us [and] wouldn’t stop staring and started to point at us,” the guy writes. “She then starts talking to an old man sitting in the park, starts yelling telling the man to ‘look at them’ and [saying] ‘THERE’S KIDS AROUND.’ Basically, very loudly shaming us.”“I know nothing serious happened—she did not even talk to us directly—but, I don’t know, since then, I have just been having anxiety all day,” he adds.And in the comments, the guy says he and his beau weren’t even kissing. “[I] just had my arm around him, and she decided to flip out,” he said.

did squats and crunches in the buff, Tom Daley met Prince Charles, and monkeypox surged in New York City.

recently wrote to the Dear Abby advice column seems to have a relationship lacking all of those things in spades.The unnamed woman asked if she should move to the town where her bisexual boyfriend “Ashton” lives or break up with him. She suspects that Ashton’s sleeping with his male friends on the side.

(Image via YouTube)

upcoming event docuseries, Colosseum, a perhaps unintentionally sexy look at the age of gladiators filled with ancient Roman eye candy that had us setting our DVRs to the network for the first time in… ever?Well, because we’re so thirsty such big history buffs, that got us wondering what else HISTORY had to offer. It only took a quick Google search to find that the network’s YouTube page is rife with content that, while not overtly queer, is definitely twinged with enough homoeroticism to please the casual internet browser—we’re talking hours and hours of footage of strapping men recreating ancient battles in frequently very little clothing.Related: History buffs list their favorite facts about queerness through the agesOf course, there’s a lot of other stuff to sift through.

Several intolerant Iowa citizens have come together to sabotage their own community by bullying the single library in the town into closing.The Vinton Public Library has faced opposition from certain community members for not supporting their narrow worldviews for years, and a Pride book display this year seemed to be a bridge too far for those folks.One resident, Brooke Kruckernberg, openly accused the library of having a “liberal agenda” at a city meeting in March, citing “the staff hiring decisions and the books that have crept in our children’s section of the library” as unacceptable points of contention.”I don’t believe the library is representing our town well with hiring a majority of staff who are openly a part of the LGBTQ community,” she stated.The recent resignation of openly gay interim director Colton Neely, the latest in a string of departures from the library, was the final straw causing the library to close due to lack of personnel.Related: Mob of conservative mothers demand library burn Pride display booksAmong the previous employees the community has also lost to intolerance is former director Renee Greenlee, a nationally recognized and beloved librarian.Greenlee received the I Love my Librarian award from the American Library Association — an honor only extended to ten people across the country annually.Following her resignation in May, several local citizens spoke out at a city council meeting, chastising the community for chasing off such an accomplished and lovable figure.“She’s a gem and shame on us for losing this,” stated Vinton council member Tami StarkRelated: Man ordered to take down rainbow lights by HOA won’t be dulling his shine any time soonAt the meeting in March, Kruckernberg’s mother

The first three-digit hotline in the U.S. for people who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and other mental health crises launched on Saturday.

Ashley James has reflected on how far LGBTQ+ visibility has come as she admits she had nobody to talk to when she questioned her own sexuality. The DJ and presenter recently performed at Metro’s 50 Years of Pride party in Soho, describing it as ‘so fun’ as well as ‘so important. ’Now, speaking to Metro.

politics and the media.While the issue is furiously litigated on social media, the organisation he runs, the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), works on the ground every day to help those whose stories are often overlooked.Trans issues have fuelled debate in activist and academic quarters for a long time but 2022 looks set to be the year it goes fully mainstream.Under Boris Johnson, the gender debate has become politicised, from the stripping of trans protections from the ‘conversion therapies’ bill, to his jibes over Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘struggle to define what a woman is’.From major sports bodies adopting new gender policies, to high-profile interventions from national figures like J. K.

Nakhane (Pic: Alex de Mora), Armand Joubert and Makhosi Lwazi have released a new batch of proudly queer music.

— Anon, LondonYes, I most certainly do. And here it is, in seven words: You. Are.

Lab.oratory (the underbelly of Berlin’s Berghain) must rank as the greatest sex space in the history of the universe, the 37-year patina which coats nearly every nook, cranny, and orifice of east London fetish stalwart The Backstreet (aka Backstreet) surely singles out this den of iniquity as unique among the waning number of surviving male-only bars devoted to leather, rubber and the rest.Not even Berlin’s gay ‘ghetto’ Schöneberg has anything to rival it: an atmospherically lit, blackened and cinematic space coded top to bottom in conventionally manly signifiers (black oil drums, thick festooned chains, dusty boots dangling from the ceiling, camouflage netting, a big cage, stools, dirty everything), playlists that consistently get it just right (sexy but never overly aggressive music), and an unbendingly strict door policy (albeit with waistcoats and boots made available to those guilelessly showing up in mufti). A reassuring brand of sleazy anonymity pervades the bar and one that lends itself to a wet and sticky dream. Sadly, this piece is not merely an unbridled celebration of an establishment that occupies a singular position in the pantheon of gay leather bars that includes both New York’s Mineshaft and Spike, Hamburg’s Toms Saloon, London’s Cellar Bar, Amsterdam’s Argos, Berlin’s Knaast, Paris’s Keller, Munich’s Ochsengarten, Antwerp’s The Boots and various Eagles, nearly all of which are dead or near-dying.

Above: Brittney Griner being placed in the defendant's cage in a Russian court FridayBasketball star Brittney Griner’s trial on drug charges in Russia continued this week with her defense presenting medical and character evidence.Griner has pleaded guilty to possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil, which is illegal in Russia, but her lawyers are bringing forth evidence that they hope will result in a lighter sentence than the 10-year maximum possible under Russian law, CNN reports.Griner, 31, center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, was arrested in February at an airport near Moscow. She was planning to play for a Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, during the WNBA’s off-season.

WARNING: “Stranger Things” Season 4 spoilers are ahead. Noah Schnapp is busting down the closet door for his character Will Byers in the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things.” The 17-year-old actor has previously left Will’s preferences to the interpretation of viewers. But after the season finale dropped on the streaming service, he revealed to Variety that Will is gay and is in love with his best friend, Mike Wheeler (played Finn Wolfhard).

Washington Blade reports, activist Ahmar Mustikhan said to her, “Mayor, I’m extremely grateful to you for the all the works that you have done so far for the LGBTQ community, including this shelter here. Mayor, I’m a little concerned because there is this word that you are lesbian and you are in this closet.

Queerly beloved, we are gathered here today to listen to these things called bops.It’s really been a novel week for singers all over: Kehlani put Christian Walker in his place, Harry Styles hosted another gender-diverse group hang in his bed, and Lana Del Rey accidentally gave us the diversity win that nobody asked for.Now that we’ve made it to the weekend, hopefully our favorite musicians can get a break from all the wild happenings and just get to focus on what they do best: feeding the gays.From celebrating femboys to a club hit for the boytoys, here’s your weekly bop roundup:To quote Leslie Knope, “You know why tonight’s fun? ‘Cause everyone’s so gay.”Lizzo’s entire new Special album is full of song-of-the-summer contenders, but “Everyone’s Gay” is a specific love letter to her favorite fans. The song was originally debuted at a “Night of 1,000 Lizzos” event at Heart WeHo hosted by Drag Race fan favorite Kornbread, who introduced Lizzo as an up-and-coming drag artist named “Amazonia Prime”.

Social Media Safety Index (SMSI).The 2022 safety index, which marks the second annual scoring on social media safety from the LGBTQ advocacy group, evaluated Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube on 12 measures at a time when hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by politicians around the country."After reviewing the platforms on measures like explicit protections from hate and harassment for LGBTQ users, offering gender pronoun options on profiles, and prohibiting advertising that could be harmful and/or discriminatory to LGBTQ people, all platforms scored under a 50 out of a possible 100," GLAAD said in a Wednesday news release.Each platform received its own SMSI score out of a possible 100 points. GLAAD's safety index gave Facebook 46 percent, Instagram 48 percent, TikTok 43 percent, and both Twitter and YouTube were scored at 45 percent.The safety index included summaries explaining the steps each platform has taken on LGBTQ safety, as well as where GLAAD identifies there is room for improvement.

Twelve years later, Seth MacFarlane is reflecting on “Quagmire’s Dad,” the 2010 Family Guy episode in which Quagmire’s war-hero parent comes out to him as a transgender woman named Ida. When it first aired, “Quagmire’s Dad” drew the ire of Queerty, GLAAD, and other LGBT groups for its portrayal of Ida, including a scene in which Brian vomits after hearing that Ida, with whom he’d had sex, is trans.

a July 13 tweet, Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “I posted about a deeply disgusting incident that happened today on the Capitol steps, but took it down bc it’s clearly someone seeking extremist fame. It’s just a bummer to work in an institution that openly allowed this, but talking about it only invites more. Just really sad.”Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ newsIn a second tweet, Ocasio-Cortez wrote, “Here is a video he posted of the incident.

The Advocate for three years this month, crafting an estimated two columns per week, so there’s quite a bit of history being accumulated.I wrote through two impeachment hearings, the Mueller investigation, and covered most every detestable thing Donald Trump did during the last two years of his presidency and in his post-presidency.I’ve talked to Mary Trump a couple of times, and as a psychologist, she gave me insight into the depravity of her uncle.I also spoke to a number of gay and lesbian members of Congress about all the horrible havoc Trump was instigating. I talked with the former president of the Log Cabin Republicans, who left the party, fed up with all the rot Trump infused into the GOP.There were other credible sources who helped me along the way, with the goal of always trying to shine a light on the tyranny, bigotry, and insanity of Donald Trump.And as an aside, I made it a point never to put the word “President” in front of his name.

Noah Schnapp is setting the record straight — or gay, for that matter!

A post shared by Fe ✌

“Pleasing.” The queer ally—who once helped a fan come out as bisexual during a live show and recently dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in a fashion spread—has been dipping his toes into other artistic realms of late, such as acting (in the upcoming feature My Policeman) and entrepreneurship. Enter “Pleasing,” whose “Hot Holiday” collection titles were just released.

Ted Cruz is absolutely livid that Brett Kavanaugh didn’t get to enjoy a slice of Morton’s Legendary Hot Chocolate Cake® before he was driven out the back door of a Morton’s Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. by peaceful pro-choice protesters last week.On Monday, Cruz sent a letter to Sen.

Well, it’s right there in the headline: Showtime’s upcoming drama series American Gigolo has abs and Rosie O’Donnell—what more could a gay possibly want in their television programming?For better and for worse, we’re in the golden age of mining classic films and other old IP for new content. And, yes, all of these remakes and revivals can be a bit tiresome, but, my goodness, we think the premium cable network might be onto something here!Based on Paul Schraeder’s 1980 film of the same name, American Gigolo stars Jon Bernthal as Julian Kaye, a Los Angeles escort to some high-class ladies.

Related: Gay man with monkeypox reveals symptoms and lesions in viral videoThe city has around 7,000 two-shot vaccine doses to give out. Many of these have already been administered, with a further 14,500 due from the federal government by the end of this week.

I mean, I shouldn’t say it like that. It was an amazing honor, and I think it’s something that you want to do, you do it once, and I don’t know if I would want to do it again.

Rep. Jim Jordan is learning the hard way that deleting a repulsive tweet does not actually make the problem go away.It arguably makes his blunder even worse, as the story becomes about the disturbing thing he said and the desperate attempt at damage control.Jordan is facing harsh criticism for a now-deleted tweet attempting to discredit reports of a 10-year-old rape victim who had to travel to another state to get an abortion.The GOP lawmaker’s comment came after President Biden referenced the case last week and signed an executive order to federally protect abortion access in certain circumstances.

You is probably one of the most psychologically complex shows on TV right now, specifically because it forces us to confront one very dark question: What happens when you find a creepy killer to be very, very hot?Yes, the former Lifetime series made quite the casting coup when it nabbed Gossip Girl‘s Penn Badgley for the lead role of Joe Goldberg, an obsessive serial murderer who compulsively stalks the women he develops crushes on. Again, creepy!The problem here is that Badgley—in real life—is one sexy man.

Law professor Khiara Bridges took Josh Hawley to school at a senate hearing yesterday, and we don’t think he’ll be graduating any time soon.In Tuesday’s hearing on “Post-Roe America”, Hawley mocked the professor for referring to those affected by the Dobbs decision as “people with a capacity for pregnancy”, asking, “Would that be women?”Bridges succinctly explained that there are women who can’t get pregnant, as well as trans men and nonbinary people who can.“We can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups,” Bridges clearly explained. “Those things are not mutually exclusive, Senator Hawley.”Somehow, that’s just too much information for the junior senator to process.After a tense exchange where Hawley tried to imply Bridges believes Roe is not a women’s issue, she plainly said the quiet part out loud.“I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing them.”Related: Josh Hawley wants to force women to have babies and make adoption easier… just not for gay peopleThe senator responded incredulously, as if he couldn’t fathom how denying trans folks’ existences could possibly be harmful to them.Indeed, Hawley and his state’s legislature don’t seem to want to recognize trans people if they can help it.

Twins often share a bond said to be closer than siblings, which may help to explain why one man felt so conflicted about whether or not to attend his twin sister’s wedding.He couldn’t have cared less that his sister was marrying a woman — after all, he was the first person she ever came out to and he says he “supported her wholeheartedly.”The reason he ultimately decided to skip the event and take a solo trip instead is a bit more complicated. He took to Reddit’s popular AITA (Am I The A**hole) forum to share the unusual circumstances and get some outside perspective.Posting under the handle Slow-Hovercraft-4860, he explained that just three years ago, he was engaged to his then-girlfriend, Julie.“I proposed to Julie and she said yes,” he wrote.

As more and more photos leak from the set of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie—featuring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in life-sized doll drag—it’s getting increasingly difficult to separate the Barbie World from our own.At this point, that line between the two seems to have completely disappeared for Gosling. While making the press rounds for his upcoming Netflix thriller The Grey Man (apparently he’s mockingly called a Ken Doll in the movie), the actor couldn’t help but embody his plastic boy-toy character, giving off major Ken vibes.

I adore her. She’s just going to take this show and make it her own.

A post shared by Trapped Heroes (@trappedheroes)Everyone’s talking about Thor, his bare butt, and the gay parts of his latest film. But forget about him! Instead, take a gander at the cosplaying, superheroic hunks of @trappedheroes, the thirst-trapping Instagram account filled with musclemen in skin-tight spandex outfits.While the account simply reposts shots of hunky cosplayers showing off their finest spandex, it’s a good reminder of the many reasons that gay guys love superheroes — the muscles and flashy outfits are just part of it.Numerous academics have said that comic book superheroes are a modern form of mythical storytelling.

Harry Styles is back on his bisexual breadcrumb-trail business in “Late Night Talking”, and we’re eating it up like Central Park pigeons.In this latest installation in the singer’s “gender indiscriminate flirty group-hang” series (alongside “Lights Up” and “Watermelon Sugar“), he takes the viewer under the covers, gets in some quality little-spoon time, and officiates a quaint lesbian wedding.Another fun scene sees Harry on a cute Lady and the Tramp-style spaghetti dinner date with a guy — all from the comfort of his bed, of course.Needless to say, the Harries™ are going a little feral:harry styles boy dater, lesbian marriage officiator pic.twitter.com/6QB5ThS19E— harry is my housewife

Attorney Jonathan Mitchell has made a career of trying to erode hard-fought rights under the guise of constitutional literalism, and now that Roe v. Wade has fallen, he has his sights set on PrEP access.Mitchell, the former solicitor general who helped write Texas’ so-called “bounty-hunter” abortion law, opened up his own private firm in 2018 to target several of the High Court’s rulings.The Dallas Morning News reports that Mitchell’s approach has always been dismantling decisions on the argument that the rulings stray from the Constitution’s language when it was written, as opposed to the idea that document is a “living” thing that must adapt to modern knowledge.

Related: Roberta Kaplan on the demise of Roe v. Wade and what’s next for equalityLast month, after the Dobbs draft leaked but prior to the final ruling being announced, The Guardian published a bombshell report about People of Praise, an anti-LGBTQ Christian cult where she once served as a handmaid female leader.

“This is the way ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ ends. Not with a ‘How you doin’?’ but a clip-show.” – T.S.

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ news Radical right-wing Catholic site Church Militant first broke the story in June with a 30-minute video featuring interviews with the men accusing Peterson of making sexual advances toward them. Another, Patrick Rooney, says he was sexually involved with Peterson, who is unmarried, for roughly 10 years, despite being married to a woman.Rooney, who has known Peterson since 1992, claims in the video that the pastor made subtle sexual advances toward him for years, but they didn’t become sexually involved until 2005.

Living parody Christian Walker descended upon a Starbucks this morning and decided to make it everyone’s problem.This “everyone” includes the person in the car ahead of him: nonbinary pop-R&B singer Kehlani.Herschel Walker’s sole claimed heir initially stopped in the coffee shop’s parking lot to moan to his Instagram story that they had five Pride flags in the windows, but “not an American one.”“Pride month is OVER,” Walker shouts. “You’re intolerant of how I identify as a frickin’ American!”He then rolls up to the speaker and demands that they put up an American flag, saying that he will deliver one to the location himself if he has to.When he gets closer to the window he sees an American flag with rainbow stripes, which sends him into an absolute spiral.“You only GET a Pride month because you’re in AMERICA,” he tirades.Related: Herschel Walker’s son says he’s not gay, he just “likes men”It’s when he overhears the person in the car ahead of him assuring the baristas not to worry since it’s “just that a**hole from TikTok” that Walker gets out of the car to berate them.When he approaches their window, we learn that the “loving, tolerant, inclusive” person in his story is actually “Good Thing” singer Kehlani.Christian Walker got out of his car at a Starbucks drive through and stepped to Kehlani out of all people omfg pic.twitter.com/UD5vRAVTcj— j (@joshszn) July 13, 2022“Get your drink and go away,” Walker rants.

Anything’s Possible—featuring a red-carpet roll-out for the stars at the historic Orpheum Theatre—and celebrations wrap up 10 days later with a closing night presentation of the highly anticipated queer slasher, They/Them. And in between, well, where do we even begin???Long story short, Outfest 2022 is going to be major.

Neil Patrick Harris makes his grand return to TV comedy with Netflix’s Uncoupled, a series about a successful, forty-something New York real estate agent whose life is turned upside down when his partner of 17 years leaves him suddenly single.A modern-day Renaissance man, Harris has been keeping plenty busy, but Uncoupled represents a return to the medium that made him. The artist formerly known as Doogie Howser, M.D. and then later as the (straight) playboy Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother? hasn’t had a proper leading-man television role since that sitcom ended in 2014, believe it or not.Related: About that time we made Neil Patrick Harris & Jonathan Groff cry “gay tears”(Yes, he was the murderous Count Olaf in Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events, but we’re not counting that here due to all those prosthetics and villainy.)Better still, Uncoupled gives Harris the opportunity to play a gay man, and it’s great to see the actor step into the role of a true romantic lead.

Did you hear that? It was the sound of Ivanka Trump frantically Googling the penalty for perjury under federal law. (Answer: Up to five years plus fines.)During yesterday’s January 6 hearing, Ivanka’s former chief of staff, Julie Radford, basically threw her under the bus by directly contradicting sworn testimony she gave to the committee back in April.Related: Trump so pissed at Ivanka for testifying to Jan 6 committee that he can no longer imagine dating herRadford served as Ivanka’s chief of staff during her entire time pretending to be a government employee in the White House.

Emojipedia—the official emoji reference website—has provided a first glimpse at the 31 new digital icons set to be introduced to iOS and Android within the next year. While there’s nothing especially shocking among this typically eclectic group of faces, foods, critters, and symbols, it’s still got the internet abuzz as we mentally prepare ourselves for the way we text to change forever.Are we being hyperbolic? Yes, definitely.