September 21 2025, 08:15 
Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email.
Resistance takes many forms, and this week it’s evident in politicians, artists, activists, and actors standing up and refusing to back down!
And talking about people who refuse to back down, check out these 20 LGBTQ+ directors changing the film industry, get a glimpse into how ‘Steven Universe’ creator Rebecca Sugar fought Cartoon Network to include queer characters, and did you hear about the driver who finally won the right to get a “GAY” license plate?
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Restaurant owner defies Ron DeSantis’ rainbow crosswalk crackdown with a creative idea
“If they want to erase symbols of pride and acceptance, then we’ll create even more of them.”
LGBTQ+ people won a third of the acting trophies at this year’s Emmy Awards
Alan Cumming’s trans rights pin, Hannah Einbinder’s powerful statement, and more LGBTQ+ highlights from the 2025 Emmys.
Amy Sherald’s Black trans Statue of Liberty is making an unscheduled stop in Baltimore.
The Smithsonian wanted to remove it to avoid upsetting Trump, so the artist pulled it and decided to display it elsewhere.
And talking about cats, Thundercats was apparently super queer
‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to introduce first-ever gay male couple
‘Hacks’ alum Harrison Cone joins the long-running soap opera cast as out actor Christian Weissmann’s love interest.
Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos made history when most LGBTQ+ orgs were gay, white, & male
“We made life better for queers of color, and we made a difference because we made the world better.”
Democratic attorneys general tell trans students, “We will never stop fighting for you!”
“We won’t look away if students are facing hostile learning environments,” one attorney general in the video says.
And because Russia and the U.S. are such a drag sometimes…
Tammy Baldwin fights back to restore LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotline
The lesbian legislator is fighting to protect young queer lives!
State troopers blocked trans students from Capitol restrooms. Now they’re paying the price.
Bigotry is expensive!
State Supreme Court slaps down plan to force Bible lessons into schools
One religious freedom organization hailed the ruling as a victory for the separation of church and state.
And we hope you go dancing into the next week!
From our sibling sites:
- OUTSPORTS: Soccer team takes off clothes when plane gets too hot to take off
- QUEERTY: Robert De Niro had a hunky gay dad & we’re not talking about it enough
- GAYCITIES: Photos show how Gay Days Anaheim 2025 spread queer joy across Disneyland
- INTO: These 2 charts show how Gen Z is changing the makeup of the LGBTQ+ population in the US