Andrew Christian’s new book, Sex = Power = Freedom, features the chiseled hunks and homoerotic images that are instantly associated with his eponymous clothing brand. But the Los Angeles-based designer, whose swimwear and underwear lines cater primarily to gay men, hopes his readers aren’t quick to dismiss the project as yet another collection of male-on-male erotica.

North Carolina’s former governor got a bit more than he bargained for on Inauguration Day when he was heckled by a group of LGBTQ rights activists in Washington, D.C. Video of the Jan. 20 encounter showed Pat McCrory being chased by a small pack of demonstrators outside the Capital Hilton Hotel.

There are a few words I love hearing after sex. I love it when we’re laying there together and my partner turns to me, his eyes all wide and tired with exhaustion (because I am that good), and he says: “Wow, I’ve never done that before.” These words make me grin ear to ear, and I know that I have given you an experience that you won’t want to forget. I love hearing this stuff.

La MaMa is well-known for its focus on intergenerational art and activism, and this illuminating discussion embodied the spirit of the annual “Generations of Queer Performance” festival held in this space. The evening brought two brilliant minds to chat about everything from the lives of LGBTQ people under President Trump to the queering of cheese to the nature of activism in 2017.

You’ve been horrified and depressed, filled with despair since the election. Maybe you are going to a march, and getting involved in some other way; if not, you should be. Mourning and grieving are important, but you know it’s time to move beyond that. Your priorities in life will come into sharp focus and you’ll meet many new friends, many of whom will stay friends for life.

North Dakota officials still seem reluctant to accept same-sex marriage as the law of the land,if the failure of a proposed measure that would’ve adjusted state law to reflect theSupreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equalityis any indication. Senate Bill 2043, which would have changed dozens of legal references, including “husband and wife,” on state-issued documents to gender-neutral terms, failed 15 to 31, The Bismarck Tribune reported Tuesday.

On Friday, two days after NBC quoted a source claiming that Manning was on President Obama’s shortlist for a commutation of her sentence, I interviewed one of Manning’s attorneys, Nancy Hollander.

“It is unfathomable that the next Secretary of Education would oppose basic protections for LGBT students and roll back the progress we have made to ensure all students feel safe and supported in our schools,” Representative Mark Rep. Pocan (D-Wis.), an openly gay House member, said in a statement last week about Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, the Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos. “Ms.

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) of Texas, who presides over the state senate, says he’s not worried about economic fallout over a bill ― unveiled in a press conference last week ― that mirror’sNorth Carolina’s HB2, which regulates access for transgender people in public rest rooms based on their birth certificates.

It was the afternoon of Dec. 30 when Jay Lavery shared a side of himself that, to that point, had only been known to close friends. Two weeks later, the world is in on his “secret.