The excitement surrounding Coachella reached fever pitch this week when it was announced that Beyoncé would headline both nights of the annual music festival in April. Amidst the buzz about the star-studded lineup, which includes Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead and Bon Iver, some more troubling news has come to light. Coachella’s owner, Phil Anschutz, is reportedly a key donor to a number of high-profile, right-wing groups that have opposed LGBTQ rights for years.

Your new attorney general opposed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, has had to defend racist statements he’s made throughout his career and believes that Roe v. Wade is one of the “worst” Supreme Court decisions“of all time.” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.

The piece, which many media sites assumed was written in direct response to a Dec. 2016 Buzzfeed story thatclaimed the Gaines attend an anti-LGBTQ church, was lauded as“perfect” and “filled with love and compassion” by conservative and religious outlets. If you didn’t look closely ― or weren’t thinking critically enough ― it’s easy to understand why. “Joanna and I have personal convictions,” Gaines wrote.

Over the holidays, while many people weren’t paying attention, a Texas federal judge, District Court Judge Reed O’Connor,issued an injunction barring protections for transgender people under the Affordable Care Act as well as protections for women seeking a “termination of pregnancy”: The judge also ruled that plaintiffs were likely to prevail in court on their claim that the new policy infringes on the rights of private healthcare providers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act [RFRA]. The injunction has terrible and immediate...

I was just 20 years old at the time and freshly out of the closet, so it wasn’t difficult to imagine facing a similar fate because of how I looked or how I acted. It was easy to think I might end up making eyes at the wrong guy at the wrong time.It terrified me.

“Fixer Upper” co-host Chip Gaines appeared to break his silence over reports that he and his wife, Joanna, attend a church that denounces homosexuality. In November, BuzzFeed’s Kate Aurthur questioned the Gaines’s association with the Antioch Community Church,a nondenominational, evangelical church based in Waco, Texas.

Things took a surprising turn on the Jan. 1 episode of “Sister Wives” when a member of the TLC reality show’s polygamist family announced she was a lesbian. As seen in the above Entertainment Tonight clip,Kody and Meri Brown’s 21-year-old daughter, Mariah Brown, came out to her Mormon Fundamentalist family in the episode, which aired Sunday night.

A New York nightlife-based art collective and end event production duo will end their practice together, with their final collaboration taking place on New Year’s Eve. Back in 2014, HuffPost Queer Voices engaged in a long-term examination of the NYC nightlife community both historically and today called “After Dark.

Two weeks ago I publishedan open letter here to a long-time, long-distance friend after I learned she had voted for Donald Trump. I stated that I realized I never really knew her, that I couldn’t fall back on the thought that she lived in the Rust Belt and experienced “economic anxiety” (she doesn’t, and surely isn’t) and that I’m just being honest when I say we can no longer be friends.

As beloved as the show was in its original incarnation, the LGBTQ community has made significant strides toward equality in the 24 years since then. So when it was announced that “Falsettos” would be returning to Broadway in a Lincoln Center Theater production this fall, Lapine sought a creative team who would approach the musical as a new work altogether. Still, Liff said that when Lapine tapped him to choreograph “Falsettos,” he was initially hesitant.