In a rambling press conference ― one of two yesterday from his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club, during his vacation ― Donald Trump cavalierly and quite cruelly stated that he is “doing the military a great favor” by banning transgender people serving openly in the military. Unlike in his tweets from three weeks ago in which he called for the ban, Trump didn’t even give a solid reason for why he’s banning trans troops except that the issue is “confusing.

Lawyers from two prominent LGBTQ advocacy organizations have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of five transgender service members with almost 60 years of combined military service.

What a difference seven months makes. Donald Trump is turning out to be, in his actions as opposed to mere words or proclamations, the most anti-LGBTQ president in history. Unlike George W.

Brandon James, who goes by the drag name Princess Onya Mannand has been performing for 11 years, told local NBC affiliate WCNC last week that he’d applied to host a drag queen story hour at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Donald Trump gave an inappropriate political speech to 40,000 Boy Scouts at their quadrennial jamboree last week, and then liedin an interview with the Wall Street Journal, claiming he received a laudatory call about the speech from “the head of the Boy Scouts.” (The Boy Scouts of America confirmed no such call took place; the BSA’s chief executive had actually apologized for the inappropriate speech in a statement).

With such ample peen on display, you may wonder if you’ve stepped into an elaborate version of a homoerotic peep show inside The Loft at the Davenport Theatre in Manhattan. Actors Brandon Haagenson, Patrick Reilly and Robbie Simpson are certainly chiseled and handsome, yet watching them cavort in the nude throughout much of “Afterglow”is more thought-provoking than titillating. That’s because first-time playwrightS.

“At the end of the day I think the story of Aladdin touches people because Aladdin is somebody that... [thinks] he has to wear the right clothes and have enough money and have the right entourage of people, speak a certain way, dress a certain way,” Leung, who began playing the titular role on June 13, told HuffPost. “And through the course of the show he learns that’s not really what being a ‘prince’ is all about.

Urooj Arshad, a queer Muslim activist who is a member of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity, told HuffPost that Muslims’support for the LGBTQ community may hinge on a common experience that both groups share ― being victims of discrimination. Queer Americans and Muslim Americans have both been harmed in recent years by policies and rhetoric that threaten the safety and wellbeing of their communities.

Asifa Lahore, a 34-year-old drag performer from London, said she’s always happy when queer Muslims become visible in the mainstream press. But after reading media reports claimingthat a young gay couple hadparticipated in the U.K.’s first gay Muslim weddingearlier this month, Lahore wanted to speak out. She didn’t begrudge the couple their happiness. But she did want to point out that this was not the U.K.

Most of her interactions were positive. The active-duty, openly transgender U.S. Navy sailor said she was surprised and delighted that, despite her commander in chief’s announcement on Twitter that trans people will no longer be allowed to serve in the military, her officer in charge checked in to make sure she was OK. Most people don’t.