News + Politics
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Overture: 24 Years and Counting
Metro Weekly is still here, we're still queer, and we're not stopping any time soon
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Newly opened Trans Wellness Center will serve Los Angeles’ transgender community
Six organizations focused on the transgender community will occupy the Trans Wellness Center
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Forum: In Defense of Michelle Wolf
On Saturday, Michelle Wolf reminded us that comedians are going where journalism and our government has failed us
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New Hampshire Senate approves transgender rights bill
Bill's passage marks the first pro-LGBTQ rights victory in a state legislature since 2016
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UK Supreme Court hears challenge over whether bakers can discriminate against gay people
Ashers Bakery refused to make a pro-marriage equality cake featuring Bert and Ernie
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Congressman drops out of speaking engagement at ‘kill the gays’ pastor’s conference
Rep. Mike Johnson won't be speaking at Kevin Swanson's Bible Family Conference
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Pulse survivor Brandon Wolf receives death threats following Mike Pence comments
The Pulse nightclub shooting survivor who sparked outrage among right-wing activists after he misspoke about Vice President Mike Pence’s past support for conversion therapy is...
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Survey: Majority of Muslims support marriage equality while evangelicals remain opposed
PRRI finds 6 in 10 Americans oppose allowing business owners to refuse to serve LGBTQ people
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N.J. newspaper calls on GOP congressional candidate to drop out for anti-gay slur
Editorial board worries that Lonegan's offensive comments make him vulnerable in the general election
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Two Wisconsin residents sue over state’s Medicaid ban on gender confirmation surgery
Two Wisconsin residents are suing the state’s Department of Health Services over a ban that prohibits transgender Medicaid recipients from obtaining coverage for gender confirmation...
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Newspaper ads highlight business community’s opposition to anti-gay Kansas adoption law
The bill would allow adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples
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Wisconsin school crowns transgender student prom queen
Nikko Nelson said she wasn't expecting to win, despite her school being supportive of her transition
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Anti-gay pastor Scott Lively has qualified for the Republican primary in Mass. governor’s race
Lively has a long history of statements advocating for the criminalization of homosexuality
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Hawaii legislators send bill banning conversion therapy to governor
Bill now heads to Gov. David Ige, who is expected to sign it into law
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Pulse survivor Brandon Wolf says Pence wants to put gay people in “concentration camps”
After backlash, Wolf later tweeted that he intended to say "conversion" camps
