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Chicago Chick-fil-A will share a building with Black and trans-led LGBTQ+ group

Brave Space Alliance said that they were only made aware of the new location planned for the floor beneath them when local news outlets reported on its opening.

Vatican welcomes straight-acting, celibate gay priests in training...for now

The church also declares LGBTQ+ folks exist "in a situation that seriously hinders a correct relationship with men and women."

Luke Evans’ memoir shows why there’s no such thing as a gay Jehovah’s Witness

The only documented experiences we have about growing up LGBTQ+ as a Jehovah’s Witness comes from former members, like Evans, who have left – or been forced to leave.

Vatican gay sex hits rock bottom, and the Internet responds

Is this why young people are leaving the church?

British priest dead, another arrested after night of poppers, ecstasy, and gay sex

A drug-fueled night of sex turned deadly.

Oklahoma superintendent wants $3.3 million to put 55,000 Trump Bibles in classrooms

Ryan Walters recently asked the Oklahoma Legislature for $3 million in the state Department of Education's 2026 budget request to purchase Bibles for schools. But not just any Bible.

Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's trans daughter, calls out Christian writer for 'anti-queer' op-ed about her

Vivian Wilson is calling out a Christian ex-gay for his transphobic op-ed about her.

Livid Donald Trump demands apology over bishop's 'nasty' National Prayer Service sermon

He called Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon “nasty in tone," said she wasn’t good at her job, and claimed that “she and her church owe the public an apology.”

New D.C. Catholic archbishop is pro-LGBTQ+ and anti-Trump

Robert McElroy has made many statements supporting LGBTQ+ people and criticizing Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies.

A New York judge refused to marry a lesbian couple. The community wants her to resign

Felicia Pitts-Davis is being investigated by the state Commission of Judicial Conduct for refusing to marry a lesbian couple despite marrying a straight couple moments before.

Harris's campaign says Donald Trump is 'not up to the job' after transphobic Al Smith Dinner monologue

The former president clearly did not understand the assignment, while Vice President Kamala Harris did.

Meet the transgender Lutheran pastor preaching acceptance: 'Nothing is wrong with you'

Drew Stever, a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is one of the few out transgender clergy members to be ordained by a Christian institution.

Is Chick-fil-A still anti-LGBTQ+? Here’s its full record

From employee discrimination to millions in harmful donations, Chick-fil-A has a long anti-LGBTQ+ history. But how much is still going on?

Bishop Budde is unapologetic about confronting Trump over his treatment of LGBTQ+ people and immigrants

“It wasn’t like I was talking about people I don’t know,” Budde told The Advocate.

Robert Cromey, ally priest who performed San Francisco's first same-sex church weddings, dies

Cromey was a pre-Stonewall advocate of LGBTQ+ rights and joined Dr. Martin Luther King on his March to Selma.

Watch a bishop scold Donald Trump about attacks on LGBTQ+ and immigrants during inaugural prayer service

“There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives,” the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde told the president.

Vatican adds event for LGBTQ+ Catholics to Holy Year calendar

An Italian association for LGBTQ+ Christians has announced that it will perform a pilgrimage in September, marking one of the hundreds of events in next year's Jubilee.

No, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine isn't performing pagan rituals in the woods

The doctored footage has been circulating on social media lately in which Levine's head was digitally placed onto the body of a woman wearing robes and a pentacle necklace.

Historic Vatican gathering punts on LGBTQ+ issues

The Synod of Synodality was supposed to decide important doctrinal issues but instead upset most, observers say.

LGBTQ+ Catholics ask Pope Francis to reconsider church opposition to gender-affirming care

A group of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their allies held a private meeting with the pope over the weekend in which they urged him to reverse the church's stance on transgender health care.