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With Pride month rapidly approaching, brands everywhere are beginning to introduce LGBTQ-related products. However, Converse just took a big step in a new direction with their just-revealed Pride collection. In addition to creating shoes that sport the LGBTQ rainbow, the shoe company also launched a series of models designed after the transgender flag. Read more: Woodstock […]

Jack White evokes the Beatles in a new statement decrying a homophobic incident that occurred during his show in Canada last week, the former White Stripe saying he’s “disappointed” venue staff tried to stop a kiss between two women. Read more: We Came As Romans will carry on as a quintet Concertgoer Allyson MacIvor says […]

Virgin Airlines is set to make history next year with their first-ever “Pride Flight,” a flight that is set to be operated by an all LGBTQ crew. Read more: “You be you:” New York City mayor signs bill adding third gender option With next year marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, New York City has […]

New York City just became the next location to add a third gender option to birth certificates, marking a huge victory for the LGBTQ community. NYC joins the ranks of similar passings in Oregon, Washington, D.C., Maine, Washington and California. Mayor Bill De Blasio signed a bill Tuesday adding the option of a third gender, […]

However you identify on the LGBTQ spectrum, we see you. Whether you know your identity deep in your bones and exude it with pride, still searching for it minute-to-minute or feel it changes as you wake up each morning, we see you. On National Coming Out Day, a day that’s made to own who you […]

Just in time for National Coming Out Day comes “Strange Bird” from Kings Of Spade, a rock ’n’ roll coming out story from lead singer KC. The song details the singer’s experience coming out to their mom in second grade. Ideally, someone’s coming out experience will feature love and support from their family. However, when […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook shared a positive and hopeful message at this year’s Loveloud festival, and his walkout song was simply the icing on the cake. Read more: Watch Cyndi Lauper join Panic! At The Disco for “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” Loveloud is a music festival that is determined to “ignite the vital conversation […]

Alternative Press has celebrated individuality and self-expression through art and culture for 33 years and for the first time ever, AP 358 honors all things PRIDE with our stunning cover queen Adore Delano. We recently hit the streets of our beloved hometown of Cleveland, OH to catch up with local queens Peach Fuzz, Aurora Thunder, […]

[Photo by: Peter Hershey/Unsplash] Maryland has become the 11th U.S. state to ban  “gay conversion therapy” on underage individuals. Read more: Study shows more teens are identifying as transgender and gender-nonconforming Governor Larry Hogan signed the legislation on Tuesday, May 15. The bill prohibits health professionals from trying “trying to alter a person’s sexual orientation through psychological intervention,” […]

[Photo by: joeygraceffa/Instagram] We didn't think it was possible for Disney to get any more magical, but with their new rainbow ears, they absolutely did. Just in time for Pride Month, which takes place in June, Disney released rainbow ears, and we need them now. Read more: 14 of our favorite music videos that celebrate LGBTQ […]

[Photos by: Frank Maddocks, Eliot Lee Hazel] Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Imagine Dragons will be among the headliners at this summer's LOVELOUD festival in Salt Lake City. The fest spearheaded by Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds benefits multiple LGBTQ+ charities. Read more: Imagine Dragons on Mormon LGBTQ stance Shinoda and Imagine Dragons will be joined […]

[Photo by: Wikimedia Commons] Years & Years' singer Olly Alexander, who has been open about his sexuality since the start of the popular synthpop band, recently revealed that his record label wanted him to stay in the closet when the group was first signed. Read more: 14 love songs for loners As the keynote speaker […]

[Photo by: Luis Blanco/Wikimedia Commons] Judas Priest vocalist and “Metal God” Rob Halford opens up about the continuing fight for equality in a new interview with Noisey, saying he won't be happy until he “see[s] equality across the board”—read more below. Read more: New teen film embraces onscreen diversity Promoting Priest's upcoming album Firepower, out […]

[Photo by: Orion Pictures] Breaking boundaries and celebrating diversity and LGBTQ romance, Every Day is a forthcoming teen film that honors every kind of love. Read more: 14 of our favorite music videos that celebrate LGBTQ pride Based on a New York Times best-selling book by David Levithan, Every Day tells the story of 16-year-old […]

[Photo by: Lorenzo Maimone/Unsplash] More teens in the U.S. are identifying as transgender and gender-nonconforming, according to a new study. Read more: 14 of our favorite music videos that celebrate LGBTQ pride As the Associated Press reports from a study done by Pediatrics with ninth to 11th grade students, nearly 3 percent identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. “Diverse […]

[Photo by: HBO/YouTube] Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds grew up Mormon, and he's teamed up with HBO to challenge the church to rethink its LGBTQ+ policies as suicide rates among LGBTQ+ youth continues to skyrocket in his new documentary, Believer. Read more: Brendon Urie, Halsey, more pen heartfelt letters for Pride Month Believer is set to premiere at […]

[Pictured: Cub Sport; photo by: Jennifer Embelton] BATS, the sophomore album from Australian indie-pop group Cub Sport, follows lead vocalist Tim Nelson coming out as gay and falling in love with keyboardist Sam Netterfield. Nelson explains sharing their story wasn’t exactly his goal, but he went through a lot of personal development after the release of […]

[Photo credit: Andrew Piccone] Diet cig have cancelled their upcoming performance at Messiah College due to the school's anti-LGBT policies. You can read the band's full statement, below. Read more: Live Nation one of the top LGBTQ+ employers According to the Messiah College handbook, “students who experience same sex attraction or identify as gay or lesbian […]

[Photo by: LiveNation.com] The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has named Live Nation as one of the top workplaces for LGBTQ equality, according to Pollstar. Read more: Twitter will now be streaming select Live Nation concerts with new video programming According to Pollstar, the company received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality […]

[Photos by: AT&T] AT&T and Cyndi Lauper are teaming up with the True Colors Fund this holiday season to help put an end to LGBT youth homelessness. Get more information, and find out the different ways that you can help the cause, below! Read more: 14 of our favorite music videos that celebrate LGBTQ pride […]