An attractive 19-year old Florida man lured a 28-year old man to his house and killed him with a baseball bat, then dismembered his body with a meat cleaver and saw, loaded it into suitcases and tote bags, and deposited it in a nearby marsh. Police have not released details about what the killer’s electronics […]
Sex Work Exhibition Opens at German Museum
The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn opens a special exhibition on the cultural history of sex work, based on a collaboration with sex worker researchers, based on the principle “Nothing About Us Without Us.” From the museum’s online announcement: “The exhibition highlights the creative and artistic role that sex workers also play. To tell a cultural history […]
Gay Symbols Banned and Restored
There seems to be no end to the targeting of the LGBTQ+ community in the U.S. these days. Thankfully, these efforts to diminish the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community are receiving push back. In Idaho, Boise’s official Pride flag was removed because a state law prohibits government entities displaying any flags other than approved flags […]
Gender Transition and Psychological Health
Gender-affirming care for young people has long been advocated on the basis that it improves their mental health and can be life-saving. A new study from Finland, based on the entire population of young people under the age of 23 who were seen at the country’s two gender identity clinics between 1996 and 2019, calls […]
The Resurgence of “Telegony”
The pseudo-scientific concept of “telegony” (the idea that a woman’s first sexual partner leaves a genetic imprint that influences later offspring with a different partner) has been resurrected in some circles, including manosphere ideology of female sexual purity, right-wing esoteric movements in Russia derived from the so-called Slavic-Aryan Vedas, and alternative medicine or energy-healing beliefs […]
How to Own Your Narrative
Nillin Lore’s recently published Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage (Thornapple Press, March 20, 2026) is a self-help book of sorts for Queer and Trans people. The chapters span topics from self-advocacy to finding community and dealing with queer/transphobia. Gender and sexuality are both front and centre in contemporary moral panics around […]
Trans Recognition Advances Globally
Despite political retrenchment in the U.S., recognition of trans and non-binary rights has scored some major victories on the international stage. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women overwhelmingly rejected a U.S. proposal that gender be defined in strictly binary terms. Only Pakistan and Chile voted in favor of the U.S. proposal, which […]
The Catholic Church and Healthcare
A Catholic nursing facility in Hawthorne, New York serving patients with incurable cancer filed a federal lawsuit against New York State. The state requires care facilities to assign rooms according to a patient’s gender identity and allow them to use restrooms that align with their gender identity. The lawsuit claims that doing so is against […]
Does Data Collection Threaten Transgender Policy?
Both houses of the Tennessee legislature have passed a bill to mandate that any medical provider who receives state funds must report aggregate data concerning transgender medical treatments, including prescriptions, surgeries, and treatment for detransition, which the bill requires of any facility which offers transition. LGBT groups in the state vociferously opposed the measure with […]
Adult Film Star Banned from U.S. by Border Control
Canadian gay porn star Milo Miles has recently gone public regarding his ordeal at the American border at the start of this year, resulting in a 10-year ban from entering the country. He was headed to the annual GayVN Awards (a gay porn industry awards event) with six nominations under his belt. As part of […]