Daniel Villarreal

Portland

Freelance Writer at Freelance

He/him 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌴🥥 Writer, editor & educator. Into film, 420, & pro-sex work. Trans ally. 🏳️‍⚧️ Pragmatic socialist. 🌹 Nonmonogamist. At @LGBTQNation.

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The GOP is hopping mad after a city outsmarted its Pride flag ban

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

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Police said a gay actor's murder wasn't a hate crime. They're now changing their tune.

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

The chief of the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) has taken back the department’s initial statement that the June 1 murder of Jonathan Joss, a gay 59-year-old Native American actor, didn’t seem to be motivated by homophobia. Joss’ husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, wrote in a public Facebook post that he heard a neighbor yell anti-gay slurs before shooting Joss to death.
White supremacists leave threatening messages at homes with pro-LGBTQ+ displays

3 weeks ago | gaysonoma.com | Daniel Villarreal

National/ News/ Top Stories Bigots in the Utah cities of Providence and North Logan celebrated the first day of Pride Month by leaving anti-gay and white supremacist messages in front of homes with pro-LGBTQ+ displays. North Logan homeowner Ryan Thorell, whose family displayed pro-LGBTQ+ signs outside of their home, found several posters stapled to nearby utility poles facing his house — the posters said “White power,” “man plus woman,” and had homophobic slurs, he told KSL-TV. He called the...
Local chef shot to death on video hours after city's Pride celebration

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

Derwin Darnell Joseph Matthews, Jr. — a 31-year-old resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — was shot to death on June 2, just hours after attending his city’s Pride celebration. Local police say the shooting, captured on video, occurred after a man tried to take Matthews’ cell phone. The assailant shot Matthews in the stomach around 2:38 a.m., and Matthews was pronounced dead at 6:20 a.m. after being transported to Jefferson Hospital by police.
Trans championship athlete threatened by Trump says she's "not scared" of him

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

AB Hernandez, the transgender high school student-athlete who was recently threatened by President Donald Trump before winning her state’s competitions for the high jump and the long jump, has said she’s “not scared” of his threats and promised not to keep her mouth shut when it comes to trans participation in sports. “I can tune it out pretty well. I don’t really care.
A trans woman fled a deadly cartel in Mexico. Trump is trying to send her back.

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abducted a 24-year-old undocumented transgender Mexican woman after she left her asylum hearing in a Portland, Oregon courtroom last Monday and quickly transported her to Tacoma, Washington, so that they could deport her. Now, the woman’s lawyers say they’re unable to contact her, and a federal judge has ordered ICE not to deport her out of Washington state.
Fewer LGBTQ+ couples are marrying as GOP increasingly targets same-sex marriage

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

The percentage of LGBTQ+ people getting married has dropped from its all-time high of 10.2% in 2016-2017 to 8% from 2021-2024, according to a newly released Gallup poll. Despite this, the overall number of same-sex couples in the U.S. is at an all time high, despite the lower percentage of queer people currently marrying. It’s unclear what is causing the decline, but it occurs just as the U.S. is about to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Obergefell v.
Shocking video shows trans woman hatefully attacked by angry man

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

Surveillance video at an Extra Space storage facility in Nashville, Tennessee captured Jeremiah Hendrix, a now-former employee of the Black Tie Moving company, physically assaulting transgender makeup artist Tyler Flanagan on May 30. Flanagan said the incident made her fear for her life. Flanagan said five members of the moving company hurled anti-trans slurs at her before the attack and the storage company facilities didn’t take her safety concerns seriously.
Montana GOP angered after city outsmarts their new statewide Pride flag ban

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) and state Republican legislators are angry that the city of Missoula has figured out a way to get around their ban on flying Pride flags on government property: by following the law and declaring the rainbow flag as their official city flag. Now Gianforte and the ban’s legislative sponsor are pledging to change the law once again to stop the city from ever flying the “divisive” LGBTQ+ community flag again.
Lesbian Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic party to be an Independent

3 weeks ago | lgbtqnation.com | Daniel Villarreal

Karine Jean-Pierre, the lesbian former White House Press Secretary under President Joe Biden, has dropped her Democratic party affiliation and switched to independent, according to her upcoming book Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, scheduled for an October release.