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Federal government extends LGBTQ2 Community Capacity Fund

$7.5 million earmarked for existing recipients, plus new monies for two additional queer and trans community projects

Mexican alt-rock band Trends is no passing fad

Lead by Marina Paiz, the Los Angeles-based outfit is slowly but surely making a name for themselves

By Daria Lynn Cottingham

Power

Donald Trump pledges to ban trans athletes nationwide if re-elected as U.S. president

He also misgendered Penn swimmer Lia Thomas and mocked Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard

By Yvonne Marquez

500 Che’s of summer

OPINION: How Che Diaz in “And Just Like That” is the textbook Manic Pixie Dream Queer

By Andi Schwartz

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World’ season premiere recap: Drag is all over the world

Nine queens from across multiple Drag Race franchises face off, and one goes home

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Power

Pride Toronto mishandled grant funding, exploited Indigenous and Two-Spirit artists, investigation finds

An independent review of the largest Pride organization in Canada is now underway

Justice

This lesbian service member was discriminated against for not wearing makeup. She’s suing

Kristin Kingrey alleges discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender expression on the part of the U.S. Armed Forces

Brigham Young University is under investigation for the way it disciplines LGBTQ2S+ students

Queer students say the school’s punishments violate their civil rights

By Sarah Prager

‘Encanto’ star Jessica Darrow is your new favourite queer icon

Jessica Darrow spoke this week about the signifiance of soft butches like her character Luisa

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 14, Episode 4 power ranking: Press ‘Play’

One queen has already racked up her second win of the season

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 14, Episode 4 recap: Such a tease

A self-referential acting challenge brings out the spirit of overacting in the queens

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Books

Ignored for 40 years, Kay Dick’s paranoid dystopian novel ‘They’ rings true today

A bisexual writer and editor who was ahead of her time, Kay Dick’s prescient oeuvre deserves reappraisal

Power

This LGBTQ2S+ group just removed Netflix from its ‘Best Places to Work’ list over Dave Chappelle

No company has ever been booted from the HRC Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index before

Sports

A historic number of LGBTQ2S+ athletes will go for gold at the Winter Olympics

At least 33 out LGBTQ2S+ athletes will compete in Beijing in February, more than doubling the number who competed in 2018

By Yvonne Marquez

Is this the queer dating game you’ve been waiting for?

“Dating Unlocked” and everything else LGBTQ2S+ coming to streaming platforms in February

Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board updates guidelines for LGBTQ2S+ claimants—but there’s more work to be done

ANALYSIS: Board members’ reliance on stereotypes and a lack of oversight can often lead to “life or death stakes” for refugees

History

Pack your bags: Britain’s first LGBTQ+ museum is set to open this spring

The museum seeks to expand knowledge of queer history and culture

By Ursula Muñoz S.

Faith & Spirituality

These priests just staged a mass coming out to demand LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic church

The new initiative is calling for reform on the church’s policies relating to the LGBTQ+ community

By Jordan Daniels

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