Brooke Sopelsa

Josh Cavallo, Australia’s first openly gay professional soccer player, is engaged to his boyfriend after proposing on the soccer pitch. The Adelaide United player, who came out in 2021, shared the good news on social media. “Starting this year with my fiancé,” he wrote on Instagram Thursday. “Mr & Mr Coming soon.” He then thanked his soccer team for its “endless support.” “You have provided a safe space in football, one that I never in my dreams thought could ever be possible, and encouraged me…

The percentage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults in the U.S. continues to increase, reaching an all-time high of 7.6% in 2023, according to a new Gallup report. Broken down by gender, the survey of 12,000 people 18 and older across the country found that women were nearly twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ. “Almost 30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+, most as bisexual,” Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, told NBC News. “That’s where a lot of the growth see…

Pop star Lady Gaga did not mince words in a lengthy Instagram message Monday calling out the negative responses to an International Women’s Day post she was featured in last week with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The initial post, shared Friday from Mulvaney’s Instagram account, included several images and a video of Mulvaney and Lady Gaga with a message that said, “Happy international women’s day.” The day is celebrated annually on March 8. The post garnered more than 340,000 likes an…

“Love Lies Bleeding,” starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager besotted with a wayward female bodybuilder, is neither for the prudish nor the faint of heart. Set in the late 1980s in an unnamed Southwestern locale, the gritty, bloody anti-romance could arguably be described as a cross between “Thelma and Louise” and “Natural Born Killers.” The soul-crushing power of love — both romantic and familial — is a theme woven throughout the film, which debuts Friday. The central characters, Lou (Stew…

Straight actors have a long history of being recognized by the Academy Awards for playing gay characters, but the list of openly LGBTQ actors who have had such recognition is much shorter. This year, however, Colman Domingo and Jodie Foster have joined that exclusive club. Domingo received a nomination for best actor in a leading role for playing the title character in “Rustin,” Netflix’s biopic about the gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, an adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. and the a…

For those covering the LGBTQ beat, one thing is certain: There’s never a slow news day. The year has been marked by a historic level of protest — both in support of and in opposition to LGBTQ rights. State legislators filed more than 500 bills targeting LGBTQ people, Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership with Bud Light led to mass boycotts of the brand, and arrests were made following mysterious druggings that stalked patrons of New York City’s gay bars for years. But despite the political division, m…

This year was a banner one for LGBTQ books, with queer-inclusive titles winning major awards, topping bestseller lists and breaking sales records. While a “best of” list can barely scratch the surface of noteworthy titles, we solicited the help of book connoisseurs, our bibliophile colleagues and NBC Out readers to help create a list we can confidently recommend for your bookshelf. ‘And Then He Sang a Lullaby’ Ani Kayode Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s debut novel, “And Then He Sang a Lullaby,” is a co…

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An LGBTQ couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it. “After 23 years of struggle we got this historic achievement, and finally Maya and Surendra got their marriage registered at the local administration office,” said Sunil Babu Pant, an openly gay former parliamentarian and leading LGBTQ rights activist. Pant was present with Surendra Pandey and Maya Guru…

The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, announced it is leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, because of “increasing hate & vitriol on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community.” The decision comes just over a year after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk finalized his $44 billion purchase of the company. “LGBTQ young people are regularly victimized at the expense of their mental health, and X’s removal of certain moderation functi…

Virginia Del. Danica Roem has made political history once again after winning a seat in the state Senate on Tuesday. She is the first out transgender person elected to Virginia’s upper chamber and only the second trans person elected to any state Senate in the United States, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride in 2020. Roem, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, by more than 3 percentage points. Woolf, a former Fairfax County police officer, was endorsed by the state’s Republi…

New York City police said they are conducting an “internal review” following the spread of a video on social media that appears to show an officer using a homophobic slur on a police car announcement system. A video shared on Instagram last week, which had more than 2 million views Thursday, appears to show an officer in the passenger’s seat of a marked police car making a comment about oral sex and then saying “f----t.” The Instagram user who shared the video did not immediately respond to a r…

National Coming Out Day has been observed annually on Oct. 11 since 1988. Founded by psychologist Robert Eichberg and activist Jean O’Leary, the day is meant to celebrate and promote the increased visibility of the LGBTQ community. “Most people think they don’t know anyone gay or lesbian, and in fact everybody does. It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes,” Eichberg said in a 1993 interview, according to his Associated Pr…

Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial, civil rights leaders are remembering the man who made that March on Washington possible. Bayard Rustin was an LGBTQ and civil rights activist best known for being a key adviser to King, and for participating in one of the first Freedom Rides and later planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Thousands gathered on the National…

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signaled he would sign the bill, which would ban “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in primary schools.

While New York state has permitted transgender individuals to change the gender on their birth certificates since 2014, the policy does not apply to minors.

The high court is again rejecting a gay death row inmate’s appeal that claims jurors in South Dakota were biased against him because of his sexual orientation.

Police are asking for the public’s help in apprehending the unidentified male shooter.

“We thought it was just a boring trip to the tax office, but it turned into a lot more than that.”

Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry were allegedly knocked unconscious in downtown Austin by men yelling anti-gay slurs. Police are asking for the public’s help.

Florida psychologist Norman Goldwasser has been a proponent of so-called gay conversion therapy, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation.