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Investigating hate and elevating everyday heroes. Nonpartisan & objective LGBTQ journalism. http://unclosetedmedia.com 📰👀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Nov 20

Hello, Bluesky! We are a new LGBTQ news publication that investigates America’s anti-LGBTQ ecosystem and elevates the voices of everyday heroes. We hold the power and the people behind this ecosystem accountable through rigorous, deep-dive journalism. Check out our work:

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Providing you with objective, nonpartisan, rigorous, original journalism that investigates America’s anti-LGBTQ landscape and elevates everyday American heroes. Click to read Uncloseted Media, a Subst...

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

CONVERSION THERAPY🏳️‍🌈 AND THE SUPREME COURT👨‍⚖️: SCOTUS appears poised to overturn Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, the discredited practice used to change one’s sexual orientation or gender identity that major medical associations have said is ineffective and harmful.

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

🏳️‍🌈 🏛️Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal group pressuring the Supreme Court to overturn conversion therapy bans, was founded by Alan E. Sears, an anti-gay lawyer who wrote a book called “The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today”

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

👭👬💍💒GAY MARRIAGE AND SCOTUS: Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito says he still doesn’t agree with the court’s 2015 ruling to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide…. but that it’s precedent. SCOTUS will hear arguments this fall to reconsider Obergefell and to overturn it. What do y’all think?

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 2d

CONVERSION THERAPY🏳️‍🌈 AND THE SUPREME COURT🏛️: Today, the Supreme Court will hear an evangelical Christian therapist's challenge to a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for minors. The case has implications for more than 20 states.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 16d

The influential conservative think tank behind Project 2025 has urged the FBI to treat "violent transgender ideology" as a new domestic terror threat.

Reporting: Independent
Photo: The top half of the post is a screen capture of their post on X where they urged the FBI.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 16d

Check out our story on the LGBTQ students at Utah Valley. www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/5-lgbtq-uv...

5 LGBTQ UVU Students Speak Out After Charlie Kirk's Murder

“I am extremely disappointed with how the media has been approaching this.”

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 16d

Check out our recent story of the LGBTQ students at Utah Valley..https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/5-lgbtq-uvu-students-speak-out-after

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 16d

Insightful post. Check out our recent story about the LGBTQ students at Utah Valley www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/5-lgbtq-uv....

5 LGBTQ UVU Students Speak Out After Charlie Kirk's Murder

“I am extremely disappointed with how the media has been approaching this.”

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 18d

What’s largely been missing from the media narrative around Charlie Kirk's murder is the voices of queer people affected by the tragedy, but also by the subsequent anti-trans rhetoric. We wanted to fill this gap by speaking with five queer students and recent grads from Utah Valley University.

5 LGBTQ UVU Students Speak Out After Charlie Kirk's Murder

“I am extremely disappointed with how the media has been approaching this.”

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · 26d

“Posting inaccurate and incomplete information, especially about a marginalized community, is irresponsible reporting,” a GLAAD spokesperson told The Advocate on Friday.
Photo: KSL News Utah / Reporting: The Advocate

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Uncloseted Media has obtained documents that suggest a prominent member of Moms for Liberty may be falsely presenting as a nurse.

A Moms for Liberty Leader Claims To Be a Nurse. Is She?

Uncloseted Media has obtained documents that suggest a prominent member of Moms for Liberty may be falsely presenting as a nurse.

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Ross Murray @inlayterms.bsky.social · Sep 2

In case you didn't know, Candice Owens has a long history of hate.

Keep this timeline from @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social in your back pocket for when she comes up.

Candace Owens’ Complete Track Record of Hate

As a key face of America’s far right, Owens has repeatedly spewed antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ vitriol.

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Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · Sep 2

@unclosetedmedia.bsky.social asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.

Google sends parents of LGBTQ kids to conversion therapy websites. Why? • Michigan Advance

This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. Google is the most powerful search engine in the world, commanding nearly 90% of the global search ...

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 30

Google Sends Parents of LGBTQ Kids to Conversion Therapy Websites. Why?

We asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.

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Google Sends Parents of LGBTQ Kids to Conversion Therapy Websites. Why?

We asked Americans to Google five queries looking for resources for LGBTQ people who are struggling. Far-right religious groups dominated the results.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 26

‘I Look Like an Expert’: The Sexologist Testifying Against Trans Youth Care [WATCH]

James Cantor, who has never treated a trans kid, has testified in dozens of cases concerning gender-affirming care for minors in the U.S.

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‘I Look Like an Expert’: The Sexologist Testifying Against Trans Youth Care [WATCH]

James Cantor, who has never treated a trans kid, has testified in dozens of cases concerning gender-affirming care for minors in the U.S.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 18

LGBTQ Spaces Say ‘All Are Welcome.’ Asian Men Know Better

From dating profiles that request “No Asians” to racist comments in night clubs, the gay community doesn’t feel inclusive for many Asian American men.

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LGBTQ Spaces Say ‘All Are Welcome.’ Asian Men Know Better

From dating profiles that request “No Asians” to racist comments in night clubs, the gay community doesn’t feel inclusive for many Asian American men.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 14

Loomed wrote: “There’s no reason why Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, needs to hide the fact that he’s a gay man. Come on, Lindsey. I like men too. No need to hide. I want you to relieve yourself of your toxic closeted anger.”
Reporting: The Advocate

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 14

The 38-year-old was arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. “I have decided it is in the best interest of my family and constituents to resign immediately from the South Carolina House of Representatives,” May wrote in his resignation letter.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision.
Reporting: ABC News

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Days 101-200: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made

In his second 100 days, Trump’s relentless attack against the community has intensified.

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Days 101-200: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made

In his second 100 days, Trump’s relentless attack against the community has intensified.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 11

The couple, aged 20 and 21, were arrested in April after residents saw them entering the same bathroom. The police broke into the toilet and caught the men kissing and hugging each other, which the court considered to be a sexual act.

Reporting: CBS News

Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 8

At a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House Thursday, out Gov. Maura Healey (D) signed a recently passed law aimed at bolstering protections for providers of gender-affirming and reproductive care, including abortion.

Reporting: LGBTQ Nation
Photo: Allison Mitchell

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 4

More Than HIV: Trump’s Cuts Shatter Kenya’s Health Care System

Trump’s abrupt PEPFAR cuts are crippling critical health care services for tuberculosis, women and children.

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More Than HIV: Trump’s Cuts Shatter Kenya’s Health Care System

Trump’s abrupt PEPFAR cuts are crippling critical health care services for tuberculosis, women and children.

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 4

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has claimed that the presidential administration’s recent extortion of Brown University in Rhode Island will help end “gender extremism”

Reporting: LGBTQ Nation
Photo: Gage Skidmore

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Uncloseted Media @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social · Aug 1

Bishop Cherry Vann has been elected as archbishop of the Church in Wales, becoming the first woman and LGBTQ cleric appointed to lead any of Britain’s Anglican churches.

Reporting: NBC News
Photo: The Church in Whales via Facebook