"I think this is not just a matter of budget cuts, right?" Ciszek said. "It's important to take a step back and see this more as a moment of risk, a moment of political pressure, and looking really at the limits of corporate allyship, particularly when LGBTQ visibility has become really politically costly."

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Pride celebrations across the country continue to lose out on large sponsorships as corporations, a key source of funding, shrink their affiliation with diversity causes and LGBTQ+ events.

Corporate sponsorships of celebrations in several cities, including New York City, Salt Lake City, Louisville, St. Louis, Orlando, and Pittsburgh are down from previous years, organizers said.

Jordan Braxton, co-president of the United States Association of Prides, which supports Pride celebrations nationwide, said that while some smaller Prides have seen a growth in sponsorships, a majority have seen a reduction.

She said the Trump administration's dismantling of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, has scared corporations away from sponsoring Pride celebrations. "I think that's why some of the corporations have pulled back, because they don't want that government scrutiny," she said.

He has also said that same-sex marriage was a “huge gift” to pedophiles.

Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, says “gays” should be banned from “buying children” because it is no different from the institution of slavery in the U.S. It’s unclear whether he’s referring to adoption, surrogacy, or both.

In a May 28 post on the social platform X, Gruber wrote, “Gays should be banned from buying children. We fought a war to end the practice of buying and selling people and now the gays are bringing it back in the name of ‘progress.’ Evil then. Evil now.”

In a follow-up post he wrote, “Those who buy babies would have bought blacks. Both are justified based on the ‘desires’ & alleged ‘rights’ of rich elites. But in every case, innocent people are harmed and treated as property. Today’s gay’s were yesterday’s plantation owners. Make buying humans illegal again!”

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The new policy is spearheaded by a Project 2025 author.

In Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama....homophobic Republicans are refusing to mark the occasion. Instead, they are replacing Pride with Christian Nationalist-laced celebrations of “fidelity” and the “nuclear family”—which they unsurprisingly declare to be families led by married male-female pairs. At least three states—not surprisingly all of which are in the South—have refused to recognize Pride and instead made their own sad holiday months.

Police say the 18-year-old approached the woman from behind and exposed her body to onlookers, including children, at Cedar Point.

Texas legislature has passed a wrath of anti-trans bills as of late but you haven’t seen anything yet.

Any of these 11 million people seeking to transition (or merely to maintain the body they already have) would either have to pay out of their own pocket, or find employment elsewhere.

🌟🚨"Every day we’re being told things are going wrong, every survey, every crime report, every fact seems to suggest we’re in trouble,” Davies said. “And yes, I think they’re right.”

The Traitors host says he has mostly observed the trend online, but his staffers at Club Cumming have felt it in public.

The X-Men star, who owns the Club Cumming nightclub in Manhattan’s East Village, also shared that he and many members of his staff have anecdotally encountered more hostility in public, even in the city, than in previous years. “Even in New York, which is very much a liberal bubble, I’ve noticed things shifting,” he said. “In my club, the young people working there are talking about feeling more anxious about taking the subway and going about their lives.”

Cumming’s own sense of the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is backed up by worrying trend lines. In January, two psychological researchers wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times citing data showing that, despite the popularity of shows like Heated Rivalry, overall LGBTQ+ acceptance in the U.S. peaked around 2020 and has been declining in the U.S. since, including among young people. Other studies suggest underscore the possibility that this is driven by a partisan divide, with Gallup recording its largest-ever gap between Republican and Democratic support for same-sex marriage last year.

Earlier this week, Premier Danielle Smith formalized a separation question that Albertans will vote on later this year. What could sovereignty mean for queer people in the province?

Alberta, a Conservative-run Canadian province, banned trans kids from accessing essential healthcare or participating in sports. After courts halted the legislation due to ‘irreparable harm to gender diverse youth,’ politicians overruled the courts–and Canadian human rights constitutional law–to inflict the harm anyway.