Long before drag performers had their own television shows, podcasts, and social media followings in the millions, they were creating their own media. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially, sisters were doing it for themselves, creating their own DIY zines. Los Angeles’s Vaginal C. Davis pho
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The new dollar coin with Donald Trump's face on it is set to be released next month, and one administration official is telling conservatives to patronize liberal businesses with the coin to "watch their heads explode." But people pointed out that giving liberals money is probabl...
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After months of controversy, Martha’s, a queer women’s sports bar in Philadelphia, announced on Thursday in an Instagram post that it will close its doors this weekend after roughly a year in operation. “It is with heavy hearts that we have decided to close Marsha’s doors for goo...
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Righteous mischief managed. Protesters stormed the red carpet in support of transgender rights at a Thursday gala performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London’s West End, The Independent reported.The masked protestors laid down on the red carpet as celebrities tried...
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Close to 200 mostly local LGBTQ community members and activists turned out on Thursday, Oct. 15, for the 20th anniversary celebration for the D.C. Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs. The event, which took place at the Penn Social event hall in downtown D.C., included remarks by D.C....
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MAGA devotee Mark Da Costa has shut down his restaurant after just six weeks, mocking queer people in a social media post announcing the eatery's closure. Da Costa, who once performed on the reality TV singing competition Australian Idol, opened the Bueno Eatery in the Newtown ne...
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Transphobic billionaire Elon Musk donated $158 million to Texas PAC, a super PAC supporting Texas' rabidly anti-transgender Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign, Axios reported yesterday. Paxton is running a high-profile race against pro-LGBTQ+ progressive Christian ...
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Ana Lupez, a trailblazing transgender performer, died Wednesday at the age of 82 from heart cancer in the city of Mendoza, Argentina. She was one of the first Argentinian women to undergo gender-affirming surgery and made a career as a renowned actress and dancer, touring through...
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Written By Christian Castro Every year, Latine people have the highest number of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, after Black people. The “distinction” of being the second most affected by HIV means we are exceptionalized even as we are deprioritized as needing treatment, ...
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Alec Blade, a gay man, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the video game store GameStop, alleging that his coworker at a Brooklyn store made threats and comments against him, creating a hostile workplace that violated a New York human rights law and Title VII, a federal law prohi...
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President Donald Trump admitted he has "very severe problems" when talking to reporters after a live luncheon his administration hosted in the White House Rose Garden to honor first responders. When asked about the danger of first responders resorting to drugs and alcohol to mana...
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Country star Orville Peck has made a name for himself not just as an artist, but as an advocate for gay rights. But during his feature film acting debut as Vega in the adaptation of beloved video game Street Fighter, the masked singer gets the chance to represent gay wrongs. Peck...
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A Texas trans organization is demanding answers after Republican voters in the state received unsolicited texts linking to the advocacy group's website, in what appears to be a duplicitous effort to stoke anti-trans animus ahead of the midterm elections. The culture war scare tac...
