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Although Laith Ashley De La Cruz came out as gay at age 17, he came out as trans at age 19, after watching videos made by transgender people on YouTube. He has since become quite possibly the only out trans male Hispanic model ever to appear in mainstream US media. "When I was a ...
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On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance was filmed making assertions about Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s sexuality at a Republican campaign rally in Tyler, Texas. At the rally, which took place at the old terminal of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, Vance stood at a...
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Students, parents, and businesses from the Sonoma Valley High School community in California are pushing back after the school board voted last Friday to remove a Progress Pride flag bearing the school's dragon mascot, which has flown on the school's outdoor flagpole since 2019. ...
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The D.C. LGBTQ+ Community Center is hosting its 10th anniversary celebration of the opening of its Center Arts Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Center’s offices at 1827 Wiltberger St., N.W., from 6 – 9 p.m. “For 10 years, the D.C. LGBTQ+ Community Center’s Arts Gallery has be...
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Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines is getting mocked online for ranting about how she believes Hillary Clinton is stuck in the past because she recently mentioned Donald Trump winning his first election in 2016. People are pointing out that Gaines herself built an entire career out...
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A jury in Michigan on Friday agreed with two Grand Rapids TV newsroom directors that they were fired without justification in 2023 after they sent a memo to staff directing them to "discern the newsworthy-ness" of Pride events covered in the area and "consider how to make the sto...
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Clinical and forensic psychologist John Paul Garrison said last week that a brain lesion or damaged brain tissue may be to blame for President Donald Trump's slurred speech during his October 2 rally at the University of South Alabama in the city of Mobile. “President Trump seems...
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Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on October 3 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign amid the US military's strategic failures in its ongoing war with Iran. Speaking with Eugene Daniels, co-host of MS NOW's The Weekend, Daniels asked Buttigieg ab...
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People are blasting the BBC online after the public service broadcaster appeared to censor a T-shirt with a positive message about transgender people last Saturday night.On October 9, a video was posted on BBC’s Instagram of House of the Dragon actress Bethany Antonia during a da...
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Senegal’s ongoing crackdown on its LGBTQ+ community is not only increasing fear and stigma on the West African coast, but it is likely also violating international human rights laws as well as protections guaranteed by the country’s own constitution, according to a new report fro...
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The liquor was flowing, the dice were rolling and the women were plentiful. Down on 14th Street in the U Street corridor in 1946, at Club Madre, your thirst could be quenched and your vices satisfied. At the center of it all was a large, dark-skinned woman whose taste for mink, m...
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Donald Trump had a lot to say about Sen. Jon Husted's (R-OH) body at a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio. "I’m standing over here, and I don’t do this with men very often," Trump said before describing what he was thinking as Husted spoke, with Trump standing behind him. "I start...
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When the Welsh government in 2021 embarked on what Deputy Minister of Social Partnership Hannah Blythyn described as a project to make Wales “the most LGBTQ+ friendly nation in Europe,” Welsh scholar Norena Shopland was commissioned to help train librarians, museum staff, and arc...
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Sept. 12 is a solemn day for the people of Turkey. It is the anniversary of the 1980 coup d'état — when members of the National Security Council, along with the armed forces, dissolved the Turkish parliament, arrested hundreds of thousands of people, and entered a three-year peri...
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The BBC announced Tuesday it is creating a two-part documentary about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s rise to popularity as a beloved figure in children’s literature and the subsequent controversy over her anti-transgender views, encompassing the last several decades of her li...
