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The owners of a New Jersey gay bar have issued a public video apology after hosting a trivia night at which a team competed under a name that mocked the story of an alleged gang-rape at Cornell University.

As if ripped from the plot of a romance novel, women’s professional baseball player Ashton Lansdell and professional softball player Aliyah Binford are stealing the hearts of queer sports fans with their couples content. Naturally, the sapphic internet is eating it up.

LGBTQ+ fans of the Avatar universe, rejoice! With the debut of the latest installment in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise, Avatar: Seven Havens, the animated fantasy series has debuted a gay couple as part of its roster of characters. One of the main characters, Jae, is an airbender who travels with main characters Pavi, the Avatar after Korra, and Pavi’s long-lost sister Nisha.

Several crew members attached to the production of Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE film Pawn Shop, which is currently in production in Livingston, Montana, left the film early after originally being told they were going to work on a “fun action movie,” and were allegedly kept in the dark about the film’s conservative politics, according to a new report in IndieWire.

Conservatives rejoiced this week after the Washington Post reported that 2025 data from the U.S. Centers by Disease Control and Prevention appears to indicate that LGBTQ+ identification among young teenagers has dropped over the past few years. But even in the Post’s own reporting, researchers suggest that the data — taken from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey — paints a more complicated picture.

In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in sports that affirm their gender identity.

Angela Winston, 37, spent 11 months on Rikers Island, in a New York jail complex that has become notorious for inhumane conditions and reports of violence perpetrated by correctional officers. Now living in a treatment facility after her recent release, she’s focused on parenting her three-year-old daughter and putting her time in jail behind her. She feels a lot of anguish about the months she served. How could she not?

Public schools banned nearly 12,000 books during the 2025-2026 school year, according to a new report released from PEN America, a group dedicated to freedom of expression for writers. That represents the highest number of bans in a single year since PEN started tracking them in 2021. The 11,982 bans represented over 7,000 unique books — also a record number of titles prohibited in one year.

It turns out that the sapphic social media sleuths were correct in alleging that Layla Taylor, the recently-out bisexual Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, is dating none other than Kelsie Chesser. The pair graced the red carpet at the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea Awards on October 6, effectively hard-launching their relationship to the world.

A year after Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital ended its gender-affirming care program for transgender youth, researchers from the same institution have released a study measuring the negative impacts of anti-transgender legislation on the health of trans people in the U.S..