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By: Michael Jacobs, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – Gay Music News - Hip Hop LAS VEGAS, NV — (December 23, 2025) — Tokeyo is closing out the year with zero apologies and maximum intensity, unleashing his explicit new “Merry Freestyle” music video — a bold, four-minute lyrical assault packed with sharp bars, fearless delivery, and [...]
By: Michael Jacobs, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – Gay Music News LAS VEGAS, NV — (December 17, 2025) — Shockwaves rippled across the global music industry Wednesday after YouTube announced it will stop supplying data to Billboard’s music charts, citing what it calls an outdated formula that undervalues ad-supported streaming. Related LGBTQ Music Entertainment [...]
By: Michael Jacobs, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – K-Pop Music News SEOUL, KR — (December 6, 2025) — K-Pop superstar WONHO is heating up the charts once again as his swagger-packed ‘if you wanna’ music video has officially surpassed 4 million views on YouTube, just four weeks after its release. The hypnotic title track [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBTQ Politics News WASHINGTON, D.C. — (December 4, 2025) — In a stunning reversal of long-standing federal protections, the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered PREA-certified prison auditors to stop evaluating whether jails and prisons protect LGBTQ and intersex people from sexual abuse — despite decades of [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBTQ Politics Asia DENVER, CO — (December 2, 2025) — Community leaders in Denver are sounding the alarm after YouthSeen, a respected LGBTQ youth mental health and wellness organization, was forced to close its doors indefinitely following a targeted robbery that wiped out the nonprofit’s entire emergency [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics Asia TOKYO, JP — (November 29, 2025) — In a deeply disappointing blow to Japan’s LGBTQ community, the Tokyo High Court on Friday ruled that the nation’s ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional — an abrupt departure from the growing legal momentum affirming marriage equality [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics Europe WELLINGTON, NZ — (November 23, 2025) — New Zealand’s coalition government has triggered widespread backlash after announcing an indefinite ban on puberty blockers for transgender youth, a move immediately hailed by far-right lawmakers and condemned by civil rights organizations across the country. Related Coverage [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics LAS VEGAS, NV — (November 16, 2025) — LGBTQ Americans are buying guns at a record pace over the surge in hate crime violence. For decades, gun culture in the U.S. was framed as rural, conservative, and overwhelmingly Republican. Today, that picture has radically [...]
By: Michael Jacobs, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – K-Pop Music News SEOUL, KR — (November 11, 2025) — Rising K-pop boy group CLOSE YOUR EYES just dropped their electrifying title track “X” and its official music video — and it’s a visual masterpiece. Blending smooth R&B tones with powerful choreography, “X” marks the group’s [...]
By: Michael Jacobs – Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – Latin Pop Music News SEOUL, KR — (October 26, 2025) — Get ready for a new kind of global pop firestorm. HYBE Latin America’s first-ever Latin boy band, SANTOS BRAVOS, has officially dropped their debut single “0%”, lighting up the K-Pop world with Latin flavor, fierce [...]