Dupont Underground and the Washington Blade have teamed up to host “Drag Underground” on Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Dupont Underground.  Performers include Indiana Bones, Bombalicious Eklaver, Shi-Queeta Lee and Cake Pop. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased on Eventbrite. The post Drag Underground returns appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News ..read more

The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner is set for Saturday, April 27 at the Washington Hilton with Colin Jost serving as emcee.  President Biden is scheduled to speak and numerous celebrities are expected around D.C. all weekend for related parties and events.  The Washington Blade is the only LGBTQ outlet that is a member of the Association and is hosting a table of VIPs, including actor Billy Porter and Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.).  “We look forward to the Dinner each year to celebrate our press freedoms and to thank a range of allies and supporters ..read more

Friday, April 26 Center Aging Monthly Luncheon with Yoga & Intergenerational Hangout will be at 12 p.m. at the DC Center for the LGBT Community. Chair yoga will be at noon. Lunch will be provided by the Gay Professional Men of Color at 1 p.m. Guests can bring a beverage of choice. For more information, email adamheller@thedccenter.org.  Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Social in the City” at 7 p.m. at Courtyard by Marriott Dupont Circle. This fun weekly event brings the DMV area LGBTQ community, including allies, together for delicious food and conversation. Attendance is free and more det ..read more

Once upon a time in America, queer people sometimes adopted their lovers as their “children” so that they could be legally bound together as family. That’s not a revelation, though some queer younglings may be shocked to learn this particular nugget of hidden history, nor is it a call to political awareness in an election year when millions are actively working to roll back our freedoms. We bring it up merely as a sort of context for the world that provides the setting in “Housekeeping for Beginners,” the winner of the Queer Lion prize at 2023’s Venice Film Festival, which opened in limited U ..read more

Dear Michael, I’ve been with my husband for 10 years and the sex is pretty much gone. It stopped being exciting a long time ago and pretty much the only time we ever do it is with the occasional third. A really hot guy moved into our building about a year ago. We would see each other sometimes in the elevator or at our building’s gym and we started talking and really hit it off. Mark is 15 years younger than I but we seem to have a lot in common. We started hooking up and the sex is amazing. I haven’t told my husband because it’s breaking our rule about no repeats. I have to say that the secre ..read more

The Mexican Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would ban so-called conversion therapy in the country. Yaaj México, a Mexican LGBTQ rights group, on X noted the measure passed by a 77-4 vote margin with 15 abstentions.  The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Mexico’s congress, approved the bill last month that, among other things, would subject conversion therapy practitioners to between two and six years in prison and fines. The Senate on its X account described conversion therapy as “practices that have incentivized the violation of human rights of the LGBTT ..read more

The annual Rehoboth Women’s Fest opens this week with a range of events and performances. Author Fay Jacobs hosts a launch party for her new book, “Big Girls Don’t Fry” on Friday at 11 a.m. at the Convention Center. Lea DeLaria and Chrys Matthews co-headline Friday night’s events with a performance at the Convention Center from 7:30-11 p.m. Visit camprehoboth.com for a full list of events, including a golf tournament, dance parties, author readings, and more. The post Rehoboth Women’s Fest is underway appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News ..read more

BY ERIN REED | Last Friday, the Biden administration released its final Title IX rules, which include protections for LGBTQ students by clarifying that Title IX forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  The rule change could have a significant impact as it would supersede bathroom bans and other discriminatory policies that have become increasingly common in Republican states within the U.S.  As of Thursday morning, however, officials in at least four states — Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina — have directed schools to ignore the re ..read more

A fired former umpire is suing Major League Baseball, claiming he was sexually harassed by a female umpire and discriminated against because of his gender and his sexual orientation.  Brandon Cooper worked in the minor league Arizona Complex League last year, and according to the lawsuit he filed Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, he identifies as bisexual.  “I wanted my umpiring and ability to speak for itself and not to be labeled as ‘Brandon Cooper the bisexual umpire,’” he told Outsports. “I didn’t want to be labeled as something. It has been a passion of mine to simpl ..read more

Protests have broken out across Argentina in recent weeks after the dismissal of transgender people from their government jobs. President Javier Milei’s action is in stark contract with the progress seen in 2023, where the government’s hiring of trans people increased by 900 percent within the framework of the Trans Labor Quota Law that had been in place since 2021.  Among those affected is Sofia Diaz, a “survivor” who shared her testimony with the Washington Blade hours after she traveled from Chaco Province to Buenos Aires to protest her dismissal. Presentes, an LGBTQ news agency, repor ..read more