Since at least the 1800s, doctors and religious organizations have created various types of conversion therapy in an effort to cure LGBTQ people. But over time, the practice has become widely condemned. Read more below: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/conversion...

The number of openly LGBTQ American adults has skyrocketed in the past few years, but there’s one group that’s been leading the way: Gen Z women, 20.7% of whom are bisexual. Despite this increase, many bi women still feel deeply misunderstood. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/four-bisex...

While Lemon says he “will not stop” reporting and a judge says the federal government lacked probable cause to arrest him, the unfortunate truth is that these arrests will affect journalism in America. Read more: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/don-lemons...

Only 18% of American families now fit the nuclear model, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. In 2021, approximately one in six Americans reported wanting to engage in polyamory. Despite this, poly individuals remain almost entirely unprotected under the law.

Since the start of December, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, have been under the thumb of an extremely heavy presence of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Many queer people have been on the frontline of these protests. unclosetedmedia.com/p/6-lgbtq-mi....

As ketamine’s reputation shifts from club drug to mental-health treatment, more gay and bisexual men are using it to quiet trauma. For many, the escape doesn’t last. Read more:

Many people weren’t aware of ICE before Trump 2.0. Here’s a brief history of how it formed and what they’ve done since they launched 23 years ago. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/a-history-...

Trump's Government Is Lying About ICE: What You Need to Know: Over the last few weeks, tensions surrounding ICE have gone from a simmer to a boil after immigration enforcement agents shot and killed poet Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Read more here:

In 2026, 19 states have some form of LGBTQ curriculum restrictions and 12 have recent so-called Don’t Say Gay laws that prohibit teachers from educating about anything related to sexual orientation or gender identity. Just eight states require LGBTQ-inclusive curricula. Read more here:

Uncloseted Media spoke with Canada’s Drag Race star and Two-Spirit activist Chelazon Leroux and Two-Spirit actor and influencer Haley Robinson about the problems their community faces in today’s political climate.

Bisexual people🏳️‍🌈 represent the largest segment of the LGBTQ population in the United States. Despite this, bi men remain among the least visible and most stigmatized people in the queer community. Watch six bisexual men speak about erasure here:

One year ago today, Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States for the second time. Since then, he and his administration have waged an all-out attack on the LGBTQ community. Here's how: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/a-full-yea...

The Trump administration’s 2026 Skinny Budget proposal aims to increase the Department of Homeland Security’s budget by almost 65%, which would help fund the 20,000 new officer hires the president recently ordered to stop what he calls an “invasion." Read more:

The Supreme Court appears poised to rule in favor of ADF, which could effectively invalidate conversion therapy bans across the U.S. This victory would add to the organization’s already-high win streak, which they say is around 80%. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/alliance-d...

The vitriol directed at Andraya, a trans woman who ran track in high school, was intense: Parents circulated petitions to have her banned; crowds cheered for her disqualification; and she faced a torrent of transphobic and racist harassment. Read more: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/why-anti-t...

Leaked emails show that, as early as 2014, Alliance Defending Freedom was coordinating with the American College of Pediatricians—another anti-LGBTQ hate group—to produce pseudoscientific studies. Read more about their strategy here: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/how-riley-...

“As an LGBTQ member, as an immigrant and as a black person … it’s like a gang team against me. So I can say ‘terrified’ is the only word I can use, but it is what it is at the end of the day,” says Kelvin, a gay man seeking asylum. Read his story here: www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/for-a-gay-...

The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” includes a mandate requiring trans women to be housed in men’s prisons. Uncloseted Media spoke with five incarcerated trans women.

In September, we launched a national campaign inviting people across the country to leave messages of hope for LGBTQ youth. The campaign culminated at the historic Stonewall Inn, where we installed a rotary phone and invited visitors to leave voicemails of resilience for queer kids. Full story here:

Transgender Americans have been one of the biggest targets of this alt-right rhetoric, and it’s effective. Since 2022, Americans have increased their favorability towards laws limiting protections for trans people and have become less favorable towards policies safeguarding them. Full story here:

NEWS📰📢: Dan Zaksheske has written 18 articles focused on a Michigan trans girl who plays high school volleyball. He also tweeted about the situation at least 41 times and attended at least four of her volleyball games. While watching, he recorded videos of her playing and then posted them online.

HIV and stigma remain baked into queer dating culture, leaving many men living with HIV to navigate rejection, discrimination and shame in 2025. @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/the-harsh-...

NEWS📰🏳‍🌈📰: Katrina Foster is shattering glass ceilings: She is the first woman and first lesbian bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Foster will oversee 160 congregations in the region.

“Nothing to say”: Laverne Cox’s message to the Trump administration. Today on Trans Day of Remembrance, we honor the transgender people whose lives were taken by anti-transgender violence.

More than 61,500 cisgender women sign an open letter calling out the media and politicians for anti-trans rhetoric and policies. Source: PinkNews

Today marks the start of Trans Week of Awareness. Last week at The Center's Women's Event gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, @UnclosetedMedia spoke with @LaverneCox.

Same-sex marriage is safe: In a massive win for gay rights, the Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis’ appeal and won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide 🏳️‍🌈

In authoritarianism, dictators come for LGBTQ🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 people first. Here’s why. The No King’s Protest❌ underscores how many believe Trump’s attacks on queer rights are putting American🇺🇸 democracy in peril.

"I’ve always been resilient and tough. But finally, I feel calm and free." Read about how our Founder Spencer Macnaughton's boyfriend had to dig himself out of an upbringing of Christian extremism in Virginia. He packed up everything at 17 and moved to NYC, where he could live freely & openly

Given the news of the week, we spoke with conversion therapy survivors who say the practice had horrific mental health consequences. It tore families apart, taught patients to hate themselves, and made them feel like "a zombie," engaging in self-harm that landed them in the hospital multiple times.

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn Colorado’s conversion therapy ban. Representing the plaintiff is the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group known for testifying in favor of or voicing support for a litany of anti-LBGTQ policies. Chris Geidner of Law Dork speaks on this.

CONVERSION THERAPY🏳️‍🌈 AND THE SUPREME COURT👨‍⚖️: SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, the discredited practice used to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity that major medical associations have said is ineffective and harmful.

🏳️‍🌈 🏛️Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal group pressuring the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans, was founded by Alan E. Sears, an anti-gay lawyer who wrote a book called “The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today”

👭👬💍💒GAY MARRIAGE AND SCOTUS: Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito says he still doesn’t agree with the court’s 2015 ruling to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide…. but that it’s precedent. SCOTUS will hear arguments this fall to reconsider Obergefell and to overturn it. What do y’all think?

CONVERSION THERAPY🏳️‍🌈 AND THE SUPREME COURT🏛️: Today, the Supreme Court will hear an evangelical Christian therapist's challenge to a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for minors. The case has implications for more than 20 states.

The influential conservative think tank behind Project 2025 has urged the FBI to treat "violent transgender ideology" as a new domestic terror threat. Reporting: Independent Photo: The top half of the post is a screen capture of their post on X where they urged the FBI.

What’s largely been missing from the media narrative around Charlie Kirk's murder is the voices of queer people affected by the tragedy, but also by the subsequent anti-trans rhetoric. We wanted to fill this gap by speaking with five queer students and recent grads from Utah Valley University.

“Posting inaccurate and incomplete information, especially about a marginalized community, is irresponsible reporting,” a GLAAD spokesperson told The Advocate on Friday. Photo: KSL News Utah / Reporting: The Advocate

Uncloseted Media has obtained documents that suggest a prominent member of Moms for Liberty may be falsely presenting as a nurse.

@unclosetedmedia.bsky.social asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.

Google Sends Parents of LGBTQ Kids to Conversion Therapy Websites. Why? We asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results. #Google #LGBTQ #conversiontherapy

‘I Look Like an Expert’: The Sexologist Testifying Against Trans Youth Care [WATCH] James Cantor, who has never treated a trans kid, has testified in dozens of cases concerning gender-affirming care for minors in the U.S. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/i-look-lik...

LGBTQ Spaces Say ‘All Are Welcome.’ Asian Men Know Better From dating profiles that request “No Asians” to racist comments in night clubs, the gay community doesn’t feel inclusive for many Asian American men. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/lgbtq-spac...

Loomed wrote: “There’s no reason why Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, needs to hide the fact that he’s a gay man. Come on, Lindsey. I like men too. No need to hide. I want you to relieve yourself of your toxic closeted anger.” Reporting: The Advocate

The 38-year-old was arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. “I have decided it is in the best interest of my family and constituents to resign immediately from the South Carolina House of Representatives,” May wrote in his resignation letter.

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision. Reporting: ABC News

Days 101-200: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made In his second 100 days, Trump’s relentless attack against the community has intensified. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-101-2...

The couple, aged 20 and 21, were arrested in April after residents saw them entering the same bathroom. The police broke into the toilet and caught the men kissing and hugging each other, which the court considered to be a sexual act. Reporting: CBS News

At a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House Thursday, out Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed a recently passed law aimed at bolstering protections for providers of gender-affirming and reproductive care, including abortion. Reporting: LGBTQ Nation Photo: Allison Mitchell