From “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to Miley Cyrus’ music videos, drag has certainly become more “mainstream” in the last few years. But for drag queens outside of the spotlight of pop culture fame, the experience of creating and performing a drag character differs greatly depending on the location that a queen lives.

Shortly after the Pulse nightclub shooting in June of 2016, candidate Trump gave a speech focused solely on the mass shooting in which he said, “Our nation stands together in solidarity with the members of Orlando’s LGBT community,” and actually asked, in comparing himself to Hillary Clinton, “Ask yourself who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community, Donald Trump with actions or Hillary Clinton with her words?” Today we know from his actions ― from banning transgender people from the military to calling for allowing employers and...

The U.N. Human Rights Council passed the measureon Friday, with 27 countries voting in favor and 13 against. It aims to ensure that the death penalty is not applied arbitrarily or discriminatorily against minors, racial and ethnic minorities, those with mental illnesses, pregnant women and gay people, or be used as punishment for apostasy, blasphemy and adultery.

Sunday night’s massacre in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival left at least 58 dead and hundreds more injured, making it the worst mass shooting in modern American history. And for many LGBTQ people, Sunday’s tragedy evoked memories of the most recent tragedy to shared the designation of worst mass shooting in modern American history: the massacre at the Pulse nightclub.

I had taken my case to the European court of human rights in the ’80s because trans people couldn’t get their birth certificates amended or replaced after gender confirmation surgery. We couldn’t legally marry. If I had been sent to prison, it would have been a male prison and on and on the list went. Consequently, as a result of the lack of protection in those days, I had fallen prey to the press who had outed me. It destroyed my career as a successful international model.

Actor and recording artist Jussie Smollett, who stars on the Fox hit “Empire,” which debuted its fourth season this week, had a lot to get off his chest this Monday in an interview with me onSiriusXM Progress.

The father of New York’s first openly transgender firefighter opens up about his journey toward acceptance in this exclusive clip from the documentary, “Woman on Fire.” A third generation firefighter, Brooke Guinan began identifying as trans in 2011, three years into her career at the New York City Fire Department.Her father,George William Guinan V, is an FDNY lieutenant and a 9/11 first responder.

A New Jersey Trump-supporting caller to my radio program on Monday expressed how, though NFL players have “the right to free speech,” he was “offended” by NFL players taking the knee because his nephew had died in combat in Afghanistan “defending their free speech.” The protests were wrong, he said, and should be stopped.

I’ve had the opportunity twice over the past several years to interview the current Alabama GOP Senate frontrunner Roy Moore at length and flesh out some of his, um, ideas. And let me tell you: If elected, this guy will be the kookiest, most dangerous man to serve in the U.S. Senate in many years, not to mention that he’d consistently cause embarrassing media spectacles, as if we don’t have enough of that. Moore told me point blank that the U.S.

While fans of the original “Roseanne” are excited about the return of the ’90s-era sitcom, one right-wing“family” advocacy group is freaking out. One Million Moms (1MM), a division of theAmerican Family Association, launched a boycott against Roseanne Barr’s reboot after reports suggested that one of Roseanne’s grandchildren in the show may be gender fluid.