The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a ban on “international LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) movement” and said that its activists should be designated as “extremists”. After the Supreme Court order, representatives of LGBT people fear arrests and prosecutions. The judge said that he had endorsed a request from the Russian justice ministry …
Update 10/30/2023: Elon is tweeting about this again, so we’re re-running this post to explain why he’s wrong. Two Cars Is Always Better Than One | What Car Should You Buy? Elon Musk is a lot of things. A Tesla not-founder, a Hyperloop not-builder, and most recently the guy making Twitter worse in nearly every …
In this op-ed, Mia M., a 17-year-old Texas high school student and part of the Youth Voices program at It Gets Better, recalls their coming out story and offers tips for other LGBTQ+ youth for National Coming Out Day. Mia’s last name is being withheld for privacy. Life in my early teens was pretty hard. …
Alice Cooper, the eye-liner wearing “Godfather of Shock Rock,” was dumped by a cosmetics company after the singer questioned the rush to perform trans surgeries on kids and said that transitioning genders was a “fad.” The 75-year-old rock legend, whose hits include “School’s Out” and “Welcome to My Nightmare,” had signed the brand partnership deal …
A few days after Alice Cooper espoused transphobic views and denounced gender-affirming health care in a Stereogum interview, the shock rocker has been dropped by makeup brand Vampyre Cosmetics. Cooper had signed a partnership deal with the goth-themed cosmetics company—which describes itself as “proudly women owned, disabled owned and LGBT+ owned”—just two weeks ago, per …