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NEW YORK (AP) — TV shows like “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “Heartstopper,” “The Last of Us” and “Yellowjackets” helped increase the ranks of LGBTQ+ characters on prime time by 4% over the previous season, according to a new study by the advocacy group GLAAD. This year’s “Where We Are on TV” study, released Thursday, counted 489 LGBTQ characters across scripted prime-time broadcast, cable and streaming shows — up 21 additional characters. It marks a boost after two years of decline, but remains far below the 2021-2022 record high of 637 characters. GLAAD added that the number of transgender characters on TV...

Huntington Beach and its all-Republican city council have proudly led California’s conservative resistance. Now, if California voters approve Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to temporarily redraw the state’s congressional maps, the city would be represented by Rep. Robert Garcia, a gay progressive who leads Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

Snoop Dogg just partnered up queer artist Jeremy Beloate amd GLAAD to support LGBTQ+ children, after receiving backlash over his remarks about a trans couple in Disney Buzz Light year film. Snoop also went on to express he made a “love is love” song for children. Snoop Dogg: “Partnering with GLAAD for Spirit Day just felt right, because spreading love and respect for everybody is what real gangstas do. We’re showin’ the next generation that kindness is cool, inclusion is powerful, and love always wins.” They got him.

Miami Beach’s iconic rainbow crosswalk on Ocean Drive was removed brick by brick Sunday morning — without any notice to the city — leaving residents and LGBTQ+ community members shocked and heartbroken.

After four seasons spent luring little kids into watching the animated program, Ada Twist, Scientist, the Netflix Grooming Syndicate decided to drop a gay marriage and same-sex kiss into season four’s eleventh episode, Blue River Wedding. Here’s the clip: This blatant act of grooming was co-produced by Higher Ground Productions, the entertainment company founded by Barry and Michelle Obama in 2018. This is not a show aimed at adults or even teenagers. It is aimed at little kids, and now we know it is aimed at shattering the innocence of little kids by introducing them to deviant lifestyles long before...

Desiree @DesireeAmerica4 🚨UPDATE: Brandon Keith Mitchell, a registered Tier 1 sex offender in Pennsylvania faced massive public backlash after a viral surrogacy video showed him raising a baby through crowdfunding, protected by silence and loopholes. Now: ▪️ GoFundMe pulled the fundraiser after outrage erupted ▪️ Lawmakers are demanding new legislation to block sex offenders from using surrogacy to obtain children ▪️ Prosecutors admit no law currently exists to stop it, calling it a “devastating loophole” The people spoke. Now the system scrambles. We will not stop until every loophole is closed. and a broken system.

A former “Teacher of the Year” has pleaded guilty to having an “ongoing relationship” with one of her female students starting when the girl was just 15. Brandyn Martin Hargrove was convicted on Wednesday of 12 criminal counts connected to her sexual assault of the ex-student while she was a teacher at Brazoswood High School in Clute, Texas. The formerly-decorated educator was sentenced to 10 years of probation and a 10-year probated sentence, meaning she won’t face any time in prison, despite grooming her student and having a sexual relationship with the minor, which continued until the girl turned 17,...

Parents of an 11-year-old girl have asked the Supreme Court to hear their complaint against a Massachusetts school district that secretly transitioned her to (sexual deviancy) — even having her work with a gender-transitioning nonprofit behind their backs. Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri say the Ludlow School Committee, a Massachusetts public school system, socially transitioned their daughter against their wishes. School officials at Baird Middle School in Ludlow allowed her to transition to a (censored) identity, use boys’ facilities, go by a male name and use nonbinary pronouns, the parents’ complaint states. “For more than a century, this Court has...

The Trump administration on Thursday canceled a grant for sexual education to California since the state “refused to remove radical gender ideology from the federally funded education program.” The grant is worth $12 million, according to multiple media reports. The California Personal Responsibility Education Program serves youths ages 10 to 19, teaching abstinence and contraception to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The program focuses on vulnerable groups, including children who are homeless, in foster care, or living in areas with high teen birth rates. LGBTQ teens are among the targeted populations. The curriculum is offered in schools, juvenile justice...

...“I felt really small,” said McDonald, a biologist and researcher who’s now the founder and president of the Bay Area Puma Project, a local wild cat research and conservation organization that’s part of the Felidae Conservation Fund. “I disrupted his opportunity to get a meal.”... ...And while she had fears, “he was not a threat,” she said. .. ...there have been only 26 total verified mountain lion attacks on humans in California in the last four decades — and four deaths.. ...“Mountain lions still live in the Bay Area and move through the Bay Area because we’ve preserved enough habitat...

The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, is taking its LGBTQ equality message on the road with a multicity tour focused on changing more hearts and minds, particularly in red states. The “American Dreams Tour” will kick off Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, and travel to cities in predominantly Republican-led states through November. The tour’s goal, according to HRC, is to amplify LGBTQ people’s stories “at a time of rising political attacks and cultural erasure” and “celebrate the communities pushing back against hate and fighting for a future of equality for all.” “For half a century, our movement...

Obama Says Fathers Aren’t Enough, Boys Need Gay and Non-Binary Friends [WATCH]Former President Barack Obama addressed speculation about his marriage and shared his views on male development and friendships during a recent appearance on “The Light Podcast,” hosted by his wife, Michelle Obama.Obama used the episode to dismiss circulating rumors about their marriage, while also focusing on what he believes are necessary influences in the lives of young men.In particular, he emphasized the importance of having gay and “non-binary” friends as a means to develop empathy and perspective.“That’s one of the things that I think a lot of times boys...

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that a trans teacher in Florida has no right to refer to herself with the gendered honorific “Ms.” or ask to be referred to with the pronouns she/her under what critics have called Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. The trans algebra teacher, Katie Wood, sued her employer, the Hillsborough County School Board, in 2023 soon after Florida’s anti-LGBTQ law was enacted. A lower court found that the law likely infringes on her First Amendment free speech rights and granted a preliminary injunction. However, the conservative-leaning appeals court overruled the lower...

positive actions are happening to improve the well-being and safety of young people living in Southern California despite the misguided intentions of some of the region's political and law enforcement leaders. Officials announced that they have just finished a crackdown across a multi-county area on suspected child predators and others intent on committing crimes against minors: The effort, dubbed “Operation Spring Cleaning,” was led by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Regional ICAC Task Force, which is comprised of five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. ... The operation took place from...

FBI officials say they are growing increasingly concerned about a loose network of violent predators who befriend teenagers through popular online platforms and then coerce them into escalating sexual and violent behavior -- pushing victims to create graphic pornography, harm family pets, cut themselves with sharp objects, or even die by suicide.

Saunders said the NFL can be very "heterosexual dominant" while announcing his upcoming camp ...Saunders, 28, made the announcement on stage during the 2025 GLAAD Media Awards on Thursday, March 27 and spoke about the initiative during an appearance on NFL Network's "Good Morning Football," where the Super Bowl champion said, "Football is for all."

Canadian wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and central Idaho in 1996 — but within a few years their territory and numbers had greatly expanded, along with their negative impact on livestock and elk herds.

The U.S. federal government is spending over $1 million to fund LGBT mentorship programs and clubs for children as young as 12 through an activist organization that supports body-mutilating interventions for minors who identify as the opposite sex. An initiative of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Lifeworks Mentorship program, matches LGBT-identifying youth 24 and under with an adult who can help them be their "absolute best selves." As the group's IRS 990 forms indicate, it received $162 million in revenue in 2023. The mentorship program mentors provide support in "goal-setting through five achievement areas: home, health, education, career, and...

Search authors, topiLego is anti-LGBT and promotes only two genders, says Science Museum The plastic bricks may reinforce heterosexuality as the ‘norm’ because the blocks are seen as ‘male and female’, according to a tour at the London attraction Pile of colorful Lego bricks on a green baseplate. The self-guided tours have been put together by members of the museum’s Gender and Sexuality Network GETTY Laurence Sleator Friday February 07 2025, 10.00am GMT, The Times Lego is anti-LGBT and promotes the idea that there are only two genders, an exhibition at the Science Museum has claimed. A self-guided tour at...

The Parish Church of St. Jerome is “an independent, inclusive, and egalitarian sacramental community rooted in the Old Catholic tradition.” According to their website: St. Jerome Parish is a devoted expression of Christ’s one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church! Our priests say the Mass in a reverent way and teach transubstantiation. We maintain the threefold order of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. We observe all 7 Sacraments (Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Confession, and Anointing of the Sick & Dying). We follow the liturgical year with its many feasts and fasts. We have a sincere devotion to the Blessed Virgin...