pride in progress

LGBTQ rights moving forward, at home and abroad: court wins, laws repealed, bans struck down, and the advocates who spent years getting there.

a gay beach in delaware is getting an official state historical marker. on the sand. they had to figure out how. The Delaware Public Archives will unveil a State of Delaware Historical Marker recognizing Poodle Beach, a longtime LGBTQ gathering place in Rehoboth Beach, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at Prospect Street and the South Boardwalk. The ceremony... october 27 a maryland judge put a gay graphic novel back on the school library shelf. moms for liberty called it totalitarianism. sure, babe. Harford County Circuit Court Judge Yolanda L. Curtin ruled on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, that the Harford County, Maryland, school board's June 2025 removal of Mike Curato's graphic novel "Flamer" from school libraries violated Maryland's Freedom to Read Act and... october 23 a gay dad punched the fake cnn guy who asked about his baby. no charges. we'll allow it. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office will not file charges against David Vulin, the West Hollywood father who punched self-described "MAGA influencer" Ryley Niemi in April 2026, after Vulin completed a pre-filing diversion agreement, his attorney and the DA's... october 23 new zealand banned puberty blockers for trans kids, and a court froze it before it started. now a judge has thrown the whole thing out. shortest reign ever. On Oct. 21, 2026, Justice Dale La Hood of New Zealand's High Court declared the government's ban on new puberty blocker prescriptions for young people with gender dysphoria unlawful and set it aside, finding it discriminatory and made without proper... october 21 the first openly gay man in australia's top basketball league just retired at 28. he signed off as "your number 8." we're fine. totally fine. Isaac Humphries, the Adelaide 36ers center who in 2022 became the first openly gay male player in Australia's National Basketball League, announced his retirement on Oct. 20, 2026 at age 28 because of a persistent knee injury. He played 173... october 20 the first olympic event ever held in africa opens in 12 days, in a country that just doubled the prison sentence for being gay. Human Rights Watch said on Oct. 12, 2026, that Senegal's crackdown on LGBT people, after a March law doubling the maximum sentence for same-sex conduct to 10 years, raises serious concerns about its compliance with the Olympic Charter. Senegal hosts... october 19 the building under one of america's oldest gay bars is for sale for $2.5 million. the bar's owner wants the community to buy it. we'll pass the hat. The two-story Telegraph Avenue building in Oakland that houses the White Horse Inn, billed as the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, is listed for sale at $2.5 million. Building owner Graham Bell, 82, told the San... october 19 two school boards let trans kids use the right bathroom. a judge said sue somewhere else. the appeals court said no, sue here. On Oct. 15, 2026, a 2-1 Fourth Circuit panel revived lawsuits by the Fairfax County and Arlington school boards against the U.S. Education Department, which designated them high-risk grantees over policies letting students use restrooms and locker rooms matching their... october 15 hungary used to wrap gay kids' books in black plastic. parliament just voted 139 to 51 to take it off. unwrap them. Hungary's parliament voted 139 to 51 on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, to amend Viktor Orbán's 2021 "child protection" law, removing its ban on content that portrays homosexuality or gender change to under-18s. Prime Minister Péter Magyar's Tisza party passed it... october 13 a former wnba player had one note for white players with opinions on trans athletes: "nobody wants to hear your opinion." we're framing it. Former WNBA guard Sydney Colson, on the Oct. 8, 2026 episode of her podcast Unsupervised with Syd & TP, told white players in the league who say "harmful" things about trans athletes that "nobody respects you" and "nobody wants to... october 11 a politician tweeted something filthy about a gay mp, then fought it for three years. australia's highest court just declined to hear him. bye. Australia's High Court on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, refused former federal Labor leader Mark Latham special leave to appeal, with costs, ending his challenge to a Federal Court ruling that a 2023 tweet defamed Sydney independent MP Alex Greenwich, who... october 11 a police chief used an anti-gay slur at work and got a 30-day suspension. two judges said they were "shocked" and gave him his firing back. On Oct. 9, 2026, a two-judge panel of New Jersey's Appellate Division reinstated the Borough of Roselle's firing of police chief Stacey Williams for using an anti-gay slur at work, overturning the Civil Service Commission's 30-day suspension. The judges wrote... october 11