This week Backstreet Boy AJ McLean made headlines thanks to an interview he gave Refinery 29.

Throughout the ninth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Huffington Post Queer Voices will interview each departing queen on the Saturday following the air date of their elimination episode. Check HuffPost Queer Voices weekly to read about these queens’ reflections on their time on the show, as well as their legacies as queer artists and performers.

Henry Sias went into law because he needed a practical career where he could “go to the dentist every year.” Now, the 40 year-old attorney and co-founder of Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equitycould become the first openly transgender man in the country to become a judge.While there are two openly transgender women judges in the U.S.

The Russian LGBT Network, an LGBTQ rights group dedicated to fighting for the acceptance and protection of queer Russians, claims that the organization has successfully helped 42 gay men escape anti-gay persecution in Chechnya.

This could be viewed as a direct step toward consolidating power and, yes, toward fascism, as we’ve seen play out in other countries ― in Turkey recently, and in many other countries in history from which you could choose as an example.

Facing a barrage of criticism over remarks he made about the LGBTQ community,Tennessee state Sen. Mark Green (R) withdrew his name from considerationto become the next Army secretary Friday. Green had been tapped by President Donald Trump for the role April 7, and put his previously announced run for governor of Tennessee on hold after receiving the nomination. However, it didn’t take long for Green’s controversial LGBTQ views to resurface in the wake of the appointment.

Shepard Smith is famously tight-lipped about his private life, but the Fox News anchor did open up about his sexuality during an appearance at the University of Mississippi last month. The 53-year-old was a featured speaker at the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism as part of the “It Starts With MEek” conference April 21.

Some social conservatives are expressing anger about Donald Trump’s “religious liberty” executive order because, unlike what was feared by LGBT activists because of an earlier leaked draft, there’s nothing in the order giving exemptions to business owners or government workers who are opposed to marriage equality or LGBTQ rights in general. Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation slammed the order as “woefully inadequate.

The families of gay men allegedly being held in detention camps in Chechnya are reportedly being encouraged to kill their gay sons ― and according to survivors, many are complying. Throughout the course of April, different reports from Russia media claimed that gay men were being rounded up and held in “concentration camps” in the republic of Chechnya, with detainees subjected to torture and death.

When I wrote a piece a few days after the election, “The Mike Pence (Donald Trump) Assault On LGBTQ Equality Is Already Underway,” I hoped against all hope that something might change to alter what was already happening during the Trump transition. But in fact, much of what I reported has materialized in the first 100 days. And there’s reason to believe the second 100 days will be worse.