Queer Onda El Paso

08/15/2025

Our new episode celebrates the wonderful LGBTQ community of Las Cruces and their many Pride Events being hosted in late September/early October. Listen now: www.queeronda.com

08/15/2025

Bea Arthur, best known for her sharp wit and commanding presence in The Golden Girls, carried a far softer, fiercely compassionate side away from the cameras. In the early 2000s, she learned from a friend about the growing number of LGBTQ+ teens being kicked out of their homes. The thought of young people with nowhere to turn stirred something deep within her, and she decided to help without fanfare, without headlines, and certainly without credit. She became one of the main financial backers of a New York shelter dedicated to giving these youths a safe and dignified place to rebuild their lives.

Bea didn’t just write checks. She showed up. Sometimes unannounced, she’d bring groceries, warm scarves she had knitted herself, or simply her company. Staff members recall her sitting for hours with the kids, swapping jokes, telling stories, or quietly listening when someone just needed to be heard. One Christmas Eve, she stayed past midnight wrapping gifts for the shelter residents, determined to make the night feel special. To many of those kids, she was not a celebrity but the grandmother they had always wished for.

When Bea passed away in 2009, the depth of her generosity came fully to light. In her will, she had left $300,000 to the shelter enough to secure its future and inspire its renaming to The Bea Arthur Residence for Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth. For a woman celebrated for delivering biting punchlines on screen, perhaps her most powerful one came in silence: ensuring that even after her death, those with nowhere to go would always have a place to feel safe, loved, and worthy.

08/13/2025

Ten years after Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, the Supreme Court faces its first direct challenge to the ruling.

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis — jailed in 2015 for refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples — has petitioned the court to overturn it, citing religious freedom.

08/10/2025

Happy Gay Uncles Day!

Gay Uncles Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in August. It was first celebrated in the US on a wide scale in 2016. 💚🩵

08/09/2025

Young Jacob stood up in front of 300 classmates and said: "I've been acting as someone I'm not. You see me every day acting the part of 'straight Jacob...'"
* Watch it below 👇

08/06/2025

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08/05/2025

By PFLAG National:

Friendly reminder: Being an ally means ACTIVELY learning, advocating, and speaking up for your LGBTQ+ loved ones. You cannot claim the title without putting in the work. 💪

To those just starting their allyship journey, to those looking to increase their activism, check out our resources at pflag.org/find-resources 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️