Year: 2017

By Thomas Maxheimer Facebook makes LGBTI support available via Messenger Teaming up with The Trevor Project, Facebook will make it easier for LGBT+ teens to seek help and support.  The goal of the project is to enable access to The Trevor Project crisis counselors. Advocacy Groups File Ethics Complaint Against Kentucky Judge Refusing Adoptions to […]

By Thomas Maxheimer Actor Jim Parsons marries longtime boyfriend in swanky ceremony Jim Parsons, most widely known for his role as Sheldon on Big Bang Theory, married his partner recently in a ceremony held at the Rainbow Room at the top of the Rockefeller Center. The Trailer for the New Season of ‘Will & Grace’ […]

By Thomas Maxheimer Trans people are being ‘blocked from voting’ in the UK Just weeks prior to the UK general election, trans citizens are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to register to vote. In Hong Kong’s bid for Gay Games, a bid for equality in Asia Many hope the gay games would bring critical […]

By Thomas Maxheimer ‘A death sentence’: What changes to US healthcare could mean to the trans community The protections put in place by the Obama administration could be stripped away by Trump.  From listing gender dysphoria as a pre-existing condition in the Affordable Care Act to removing prohibitions on gender discrimination, the lives of trans […]

By Thomas Maxheimer Meet the first trans woman running for office on a major ticket in New York Trans women Kristen Browde, Chappaqua, New York, will be the first trans woman to run for office on a major party ticket in the state. Man Beaten In Anti-Gay Attack In South Beach: ‘Faggots Need to Die’ […]

By Thomas Maxheimer ‘American Gods’ Episode Boasts ‘Hottest And Most Pornographic Gay Sex Scene’ Ever on Mainstream TV The series, adapted from Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name, may push out “Sense 8” for the steamiest sex scene on mainstream TV. Wonder Woman Trailer American superhero “Wonder Woman: Rise of the Warrior” is […]

By Thomas Maxheimer “Bathroom bill” in House misses key deadline — but issue stays alive The proposal to gut Texas’ city and school trans inclusive bathroom policies missed a deadline, but this does not mean the initiative is dead.  The proposal, by Republican state Representative Ron Simmons, would ban the protections of any class of […]