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Your jaw will drop when you see Grindr's top naughty stats for 2024

Move over Spotify... these are the EOY rankings we need.

Mom Declines Invite to 7th Birthday Party With Antigay Screed

She said anyone who has a problem her antigay views can call her, too.

WATCH: Trans Girl's Mom Sweetly Destroys Transphobic Myths

The unconditional love of a mother for her daughter overpowers the ignorance and bigotry thrown in her direction.

Mother of Mark Bingham on Eleven Years After September 11 and Why We Are Evolving Well

Mark Bingham's mother sees a world still affected by the events of September 11, but one that is evolving more toward the inclusiveness she says her son would have wanted.

Fox News and GOP politicians falsely claim Lakewood Church shooter was transgender

The suspected shooter was a 36-year-old who police identified as the mother of a 7-year-old boy who was shot in the incident.

Mom Orders Son: Beat the Gay Out of Your Brother

A mother in Whiteville, N.C., reportedly ordered her 12-year-old son to 'beat the gay away' from his 15-year-old brother.

Trans Activist Karina Samala: Sex Work 'Should Be Legalized'

"Mother" Karina Samala talks about her 25+ years of fighting and advocating for trans people in Los Angeles. 

What We Learned From a Mother's Love for Her Trans Daughter

Love makes the girl in a life-affirming podcast about a mother and her 7-year old trans daughter.

Op-ed: Why I Unfriended My Mother

After years of trying to abide, this Advocate editor could no longer accept his right-wing mother's 'mild homophobia.'

Gays against West

A mother with an inquisitive 9-year-old boy has forced me and the city of Spokane, Wash., to look deep into society's treatment of homosexuality.

Mom Says Trans Son Was Cyber-Bullied Days Before Suicide

A grieving mother who lost her 14-year-old son to suicide is ready to speak out so no parent experiences what her family is currently enduring.

Texas Shop Tells Mom: Girl Wearing Suit Is 'Child Abuse'

Mother Rachel Giordano stands by her 5-year-old 'tomboy' daughter Maddie, after being told by a salesperson that her support promotes the girl's 'wrong behavior.'

Family Sues School Over Bullying Victims Suicide

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who committed suicide in 2010 after being bullied is suing the school he attended for not protecting him and possibly even contributing to his harassment.

WATCH: Trans Girl Told She Must Attend School 'As a Boy'

The mother of a 13-year-old transgender girl has been told that her daughter will not be welcome to attend classes this fall as herself, and would only be allowed back if the teenager agrees to dress and act like a boy.

Did the Mom Whose Son Was Assaulted in Walmart Make It Up?

Online outrage reached a fever pitch in response to a mother who said her two-year-old son was assaulted by a man unhappy that the child was wearing a pink headband. But a police report calls into question the original accusation.

Androgyne Dreams

What's a mother to do when her 12-year-old son has a passion for long hair and lovely dresses? If she's surrealist artist Margo Selski, she lets him pose as the subject of her fantastical paintings in the exhibition "Hitherto and Henceforth."

Grindr’s 2024 in review from tops to bottoms and from daddy culture to Charli XCX

The gay hookup app has some sexy data on its users. Check it out.

Jamie Lee Curtis is Our Advocate of the Year

The Oscar-winning iconopens up about growing up in Hollywood, her passion for helping others, and learning to be the best parent she can to her trans daughter.

Florida High Court Rules for Parental Rights of Lesbian Egg Donor

A woman will be reunited with her daughter after six years apart.