On October 3, 2026 in the late afternoon around 30 Taipei police officers conducted a raid on Commander D, an established BDSM-themed gay bar in the Ximending district on the island of Taiwan. Law enforcement detained 51 patrons and arrested the bar owner over alleged public decency violations. Authorities have been criticized for aggressive actions: […]
Are 1 in 5 Kids Victims of Molestation?
That is the implication of One in Five, a new book by Elizabeth Letourneau and Luke Malone, which hypes child sexual abuse as the “biggest public health crisis of our time.” The book argues that we urgently need to create a federal “Office of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention” to fund researchers like them. While the […]
Fight Over Trans Teen in Massachusetts
A trans teen in Southborough, MA has a restraining order against their parents for past violence and has been removed from their home by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF). The parents deny the allegations of violence, which contradicts court records, and are accusing DCF of removing the teen because the parents oppose […]
Another Librarian Fighting for Free Speech!
The attacks on free speech in U.S. libraries just keep coming! Rutherford County in Tennessee fired their library director, Luanne James, last March after she gained national attention by refusing to remove 132 books from her children’s section. James has now filed a Frist Amendment lawsuit. The lawsuit states that her firing “violated not only […]
Authorities Clean Up Pattaya to Protect Sailors from Prostitution
After months of grueling deployment in the Arabian Sea with no friendly ports available for R&R, the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is finally headed home, with its first stop in the Thai resort of Pattaya, famous for its vibrant red-light district. Once upon a time, letting horny sailors seek companionship in a port of […]
Key Sandusky Accuser Recants
Ever since the publication of science writer Mark Pendergrast’s 2017 book The Most Hated Man in America, there have been serious doubts about the validity of the methods used to convict the Penn State football coach of molesting boys who participated in his Second Mile Program. The charges against Jerry Sandusky were largely set into […]
LGBTQ+ on the Defensive: From Book Bans to One Million Moms Against PrEP
One Million Moms (1MM), an organization with less than 100,000 members, has taken offense to ads for PrEP, an HIV prevention drug, that are being shown on TV Land. 1MM is demanding the network stop running the ads even though the ads do not explicitly mention HIV, homosexuality, or the LGBTQ+ community. The ads feature […]
“A ship – a magnificent ship – full of gay men. And me.”
Egypt recently denied entry to the Virgin Voyages cruise ship Scarlet Lady, which is carrying nearly 2,500 passengers, mostly LGBTQ+ travelers, and the musical diva force-of-nature, Patti LuPone. The Scarlet Lady has already been blocked from docking in Turkey. The ship had been chartered by the LGBTQ+ travel company Atlantis Events, and was scheduled to […]
Sexual Newspeak: The Consequences of Semantics on Gender and Sexual Minorities
The Malaysian government has officially replaced the term “LGBT” with “deviant culture” (Malay: “budaya songsang”) in its public communications and educational materials, framing LGBTQ+ identities as out of sync with the country’s religious and cultural values. Human rights advocates argue that this new terminology further stigmatizes LGBTQ+ people and reinforces discrimination. And, as related to […]
Bi-Partisan Unity on Sex Offenders
In a U.S. political environment where the two major parties agree on very little, there is one issue on which they are absolutely united: making life difficult for anyone with a sexual offense on their record. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) have re-introduced a bill to revoke the pensions of any federal […]