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1 week ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Emma Paidra |Spencer Macnaughton |E Oliver
In February, Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code. This decision, which strips transgender and nonbinary Iowans of legal protections from gender-based discrimination, was signed into law by the state’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds.
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3 weeks ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Spencer Macnaughton
In addition, the youngest generation of adults—Gen Z—are having less sex and fewer one-night stands than their millennial counterparts.
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1 month ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
This story was produced in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times, a nonprofit newspaper that was founded in 1948. Rylee Schermerhorn, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana, is spending her final high school days pet-sitting in the afternoons and is planning to go to college to study dental hygiene. But as a trans woman, she’s worried about President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ban gender-affirming care for patients under 19 through legal action and withholding of federal funds.
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1 month ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Spencer Macnaughton
Video by: Slav Velkov and Joey LautrupIt’s a common belief that younger generations will adopt more progressive views than their predecessors, embracing less sexism, racism, and homo/transphobia. However, young men in 2025 disproportionately support conservative candidates. Last year, 58% of Gen Z men voted for Donald Trump, making the demographic a key ingredient to creating the Republican trifecta.
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1 month ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Mel Leonor Barclay |Jasmine Mithani
By Mel Leonor Barclay, Jasmine MithaniThis story was originally published by the 19th, a nonprofit news network. Organizations that provide services to LGBTQ victims of domestic and intimate partner violence expect much of the federal funding they rely on to dry up as the Trump administration’s executive orders target the work they have been carrying out for years.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
On a summer afternoon in August 2021, Athena Schaffner scrolled the Chipotle menu as she rode the New York City C train. When the train dipped into a tunnel, a man with baggy sweatpants and a disposable facemask stood up from the orange plastic seats and peered at the subway signs above Schaffner, a lesbian college student who was 20 at the time. As he loomed over Schaffner’s short, spiky hair, she got nervous and looked up. Before she could blink, the man punched her squarely in the forehead.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Spencer Macnaughton
Over the last year, Walmart, Meta, Target and many other companies have run away from their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Robert Netzly, CEO and Founder of Inspire Investing, is thrilled. He told Uncloseted Media that his company, which specializes in biblically responsible investing, is growing “like a weed.” Netzly’s company guides Christian investors on how to select companies that are in line with his version of the Christian way.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Jasmine Mithani
By Jasmine MithaniThis story was originally published by the 19th, a nonprofit news network. A network working to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and globally says President Donald Trump’s January 28 executive order attempting to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth “wrongly and dangerously” conflates the two.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Spencer Macnaughton
Video by: Slav Velkov and Joey LautrupSince President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, his administration has waged a full-court press attack on the transgender and nonbinary community, with one executive order stating that—in the eyes of the federal government—they don’t exist. Trans and nonbinary people of color face significantly higher levels of unemployment and are more likely to live in poverty and resort to survival sex work.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
Jake Golding found himself on Tinder messaging a match, excited at the thought of locking in a date. But before he could ask the guy out, he needed to tell him something important. “I’m always thinking about when I’m going to bring it up,” Golding told Uncloseted Media. “What if it’s a dealbreaker?”His fingers paused over the keyboard before typing: “I have an ostomy,” followed by a shaky thumb punch on the send icon. A few minutes passed. Then a day. Eventually, he realized he had been ghosted.