The voices, visibility, and viral moments shaping LGBTQ life on the internet.
‘Bookstores are for everyone’: TikTok calls out bigoted customers, sparking wave of LGBTQ book sales
Homophobic and racist customers flip around LGBTQ and BIPOC books.
On Aug 12, 2021 by Viola Stefanello
‘What you said was very ignorant’: TikToker confronts transphobic cashier at Dollar General
‘How do you know that I’m not trans, and I didn’t take that very personally?’
On Aug 11, 2021 by Phil West
Family members arrested for shaving ‘GAY’ into boy’s hair in viral Instagram video
‘Absolutely unacceptable.’
On Jul 19, 2021 by Tricia Crimmins
‘They concluded that my voice was too masculine’: Trans woman says she was forced to out herself to Sephora worker (updated)
The Sephora rep allegedly went on to misgender her after the clarification.
On Jul 8, 2021 by Rachel Kiley
‘Well done’: Coca Cola doesn’t allow ‘Palestine’ or ‘Black Lives Matter’ on its Coke bottles—but it does allow ‘blue lives matter’
‘Nazis rule’ passed the censors—but ‘lesbian’ didn’t.
On Jun 22, 2021 by Kahron Spearman
We Are the Union’s Reade Wolcott on Reddit memes, queer-centric ska, and trans activism
Wolcott is leading a new kind of ska revival.
On Jun 16, 2021 by Laiken Neumann
‘What form of legal discrimination will be legalized next?’: Moms, TikTokers fight against anti-trans bills
Anti-trains legislation proposed in Texas set a dangerous precedent.
On Jun 2, 2021 by Jennifer Xia
‘No hate like Christian love’: TikTok shows anti-gay mom subjecting teen daughter to ‘exorcism’ in her room
The episode had the TikToker contemplating emancipation.
On May 14, 2021 by Phil West
‘So unsafe in that moment’: Trans TikTok model describes invasive TSA check at airport
‘I felt completely stripped of my humanity.’
On Mar 29, 2021 by Samantha Shaps
Conservatives freak out after Target pulls transphobic book (updated)
They’re crying ‘censorship.’
On Nov 13, 2020 by Ana Valens
Gay man’s story about 94-year-old grandma switching parties for him earns praise from AOC
‘She told me that I’m the love of her life and that she would not break her promise.’
On Oct 8, 2020 by Eilish O’Sullivan
This organization wants people to pay for the bisexual flag
‘Bi pride but make it capitalist!’
On Apr 29, 2020 by Moises Mendez II
Why Harley and Ivy aren’t dating in the new ‘Harley Quinn’ cartoon
The showrunners weighed in on Harley Quinn’s love life in season 1.
On Nov 28, 2019 by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Homophobic mom’s ‘super-secret’ meatloaf recipe blasted online by her revengeful, gay kid
It’s being dubbed ‘revenge loaf.’
On Nov 24, 2019 by Nahila Bonfiglio
Conservatives melt down after Chick-fil-A says it will stop donating to anti-LGBTQ orgs
Conservatives are calling it a ‘betrayal.’
On Nov 19, 2019 by Alex Dalbey
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