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- January 1, 2026
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The Kink Community Responds to BDSM Depiction in Pillion

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The new film, Pillion, which Hard Copy reported on last June, is starting to receive positive reviews. The film tells the story of the relationship between Colin, a timid man, who is swept off his feet by Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker. Ray, a dom, takes Colin on as his submissive. After opening […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Two American Anti-Trans Bills Will Move To Senate

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The Trump administration and the Republican party at large have ratcheted up their efforts to dismantle gender affirming care for youth. This effort comes in the form of two bills that recently passed through the House of Representatives. The first, a la representative Marjorie Taylor Green, criminalizes parents and healthcare providers who facilitate gender affirming […]

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- January 1, 2026
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Gay Male Visibility in Pop Culture Varies

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The popularity of the queer Canadian sports series, Heated Rivalry is still growing since its debut on November 28th. In contrast, the second season of Boots, the Netflix series about a closeted young gay man and his straight best friend who join the marines, has been cancelled after the Trump administration referred to it as […]

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- January 1, 2026
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That Awkward World Cup Situation Continues to Unfold

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There’s an interesting cultural phenomenon happening right now bringing queerness and organized sport together in the Zeitgeist. One example is the 2026 Fifa World Cup Match between Egypt and Iran scheduled in June in the midst of host city Seattle’s annual pride celebrations, a plan that was made prior to anyone knowing which teams would […]

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- December 1, 2025
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Support for Gay Marriage is Falling

The Economist/YouGov conducted a demographically weighted poll of 1,623 U.S. adults in late October, that revealed 54% support for the legality of gay marriage, compared to 33% opposition. While this is still a solid majority, it is substantially down from the 70% level of support in a 2021 Gallup poll. Most of the decline comes […]

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- December 1, 2025
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On Global Sexual Democracy: The Toxic Tea

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Ghana president John Dramani Mahama has pledged to sign into law the “Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill” if it is passed by his country’s parliament. This draconian anti-LGBTQ+ bill punishes queer people for merely existing. The bill calls for a three-year imprisonment for those who identify as LGBTQ+, and a ten-year sentence for […]

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- December 1, 2025
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On Global Sexual Democracy: The Good Tea

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The European Court of Justice ruled that Polish courts had erred in refusing to recognize the legitimacy of a same-sex couple’s marriage performed in Germany. Like Hungary and Slovakia, Poland does not allow same-sex marriage within its own borders, and the ECJ’s ruling does not require EU members to do so. However, if a same-sex […]

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- December 1, 2025
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Gender Telehealth Service Expands into US

British physician Helen Webberley has announced that her gender telehealth service Gender GP, which has provided hormone-therapy prescriptions in the UK since 2015, is now expanding into 12 U.S. states, with the intention to go nationwide. Although Webberley’s medical license in the UK has been suspended, her service operates with a network of cooperating physicians […]

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- November 15, 2025
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Uganda Bill Criminalizes Identifying as LGBTQ+

Uganda, already one of the world’s harshest anti-gay regimes, is introducing a new bill which would impose up to 10 years in prison for simply identifying as LGBTQ. In 2023 the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Act” which brings the death penalty to anyone involved in “aggravated homosexuality”. Prior to that, […]

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- November 15, 2025
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Supreme Court Continues to Weigh In On Sex and Gender

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On November 10 the Supreme Court kiboshed an opportunity to overturn the constitutional right to same-sex marriage by denying an appeal from Kim Davis. Davis, if you recall, is that troll of a county clerk from Kentucky who has been married four times and who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 […]

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