Judge Jessica Clarke has sanctioned Epstein accuser Kristy Makuta and her former attorney Jeanne Christensen for fabricating evidence to accuse Epstein and billionaire Leon Black of lurid and sadistic sex crimes, even though it is now clear that she had never met either of them. She had also falsely accused her parents and high-school dance […]
Continued Attacks on LGBTQ+ Healthcare
As of April 2026, 11 U.S. states have enacted conscientious objection laws, allowing health care providers to refuse to treat LGBTQ+ patients based on personal or religious beliefs. LGBQ+ adults in affected states were 71% more likely to report being in fair or poor health after the laws passed, compared to those in states without the laws. […]
Sex Isn’t Real?
In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary, Beans Velocci argues that biological sex is not a natural fact or stabile category, but a socially and historically constructed classification system congealed via powerful cultural discourses. Velocci explains that scientific ideas about sex have always been entangled with racism, colonialism, eugenics, and efforts to […]
Thailand Clamps Down on Tourists Having Public Sex
Despite its reputation as a favored destination for both gay and straight sex tourism, due to its permissive attitudes toward sex work and homosexuality, Thailand is in many ways still a socially conservative culture where nudity is considered shameful and taboo. Randy Western tourists, unaware of Thai customs, have in several recent high-profile cases offended […]
Canadian Fiddler Sues Over AI Claiming He was a Sex Offender
We reported earlier this year on Canadian fiddle-player and songwriter Ashley MacIsaac, who suffered concert cancellations after Google’s AI Overview published claims that he was guilty of sexually assaulting a woman and of luring a child with sexual intent. He has now filed a $1.5 million defamation suit against Google, alleging both material damages and […]
High-Heeled Activism
It is important to note that there has been some sassy pushback in response to the anti-LGBTQ+ antics of the current cruel and out-of-touch American administration. More than 1,000 people attended a fundraiser for the American Civil Liberties Union at a gay bar in Brooklyn on April 16. The drag event raised $25,000, and the […]
Sex Toy Fair Opens in Shanghai
China produces over 70% of the world’s sex toys, so it is not surprising that the Adult Products International trade fair opened in Shanghai in April. Chinese firms are inventing new ways of integrating AI with sex toys, creating the new field of “teledildonics.” Vibrator pulses and suction pumps can adapt their intensity in response […]
June is Now “Nuclear Family Month” (insert eye-roll here!)
Leave it to Tennessee, whose Republican-run legislature has officially deemed June as “Nuclear Family Month”. The House joint resolution was signed by Governor Bill Lee on April 9. While the policy does not explicitly mention the Queer community, June is when many LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations take place across the country. This is undoubtedly a pointed […]
Library Board Fired Over Trans Children’s Book
In the fall of 2025, the Asheboro Public Library in North Carolina received a complaint about Call Me Max, a picture book by award-winning transgender author Kyle Lukoff. The library board followed established procedures for reviewing challenged materials and voted 5-2 to keep the book in place. Shortly after the decision the Randolph County Board of […]
Texas University Bans Discussion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Chancellor Brandon Creighton issued an April 9 memorandum that would end virtually all teaching and research of any subject related to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) at the five campuses of the Texas Tech University System, citing legislation that he himself authored while chairman of the Higher Education Committee of the Texas Senate. Courses […]