Tensions in this small city of 34,551 people, 39 miles southeast of Charlotte, North Carolina, over a local diner and restaurant’s drag shows have escalated from sidewalk protests into dueling lawsuits inside a federal courthouse.

A gay Australian footballer said he would not attend the 25th FIFA World Cup, and a Ghanaian film was impacted by an anti-LGBTQ bill.

The United Methodist Church lifted its restrictions on gay clergy in a historic vote at last week’s national conference in Charlotte, N.C. 

Women’s health has been disregarded in Florida in favor of a far-right agenda. On May 1, the state’s already restrictive 15-week abortion ban was cut to six weeks, a time when many women don’t even know they’re pregnant.

Is there no bottom to the George Santos story?

"RuPaul's Drag Race" crowns its first Taiwanese-American queen, Grindr suffers a lawsuit claiming the app sold its users' personal information to advertisers, and a trans woman is suing a dating app for women for discrimination.