More than 130 million names have been struck from India’s electoral rolls during a sweeping voter-list revision under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For transgender people and other LGBTQ Indians, the process has raised fears of exclusion from the ballot, particularly among those who have been reject
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Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. often preached that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Change, he asserted, takes a long time, but if we stay committed for the long-haul, we can bring it about. I believe that King envisioned the path toward ...
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A psychologist is speaking out about what it means that the president keeps taking cognitive tests, explaining that Donald Trump's doctors are likely past the point of trying to figure out whether he is suffering from dementia and are now just monitoring his decline. Former Johns...
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BIDDEFORD, Maine — Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau on Wednesday said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) “should not be underestimated.” “I’m not going to count her out,” the gay Democrat told the Washington Blade during an interview in Biddeford, an old textile mill city near the...
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This story originally appeared on Out.In announcing his death at age 86, the official X account for legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart rightly called him an activist for human rights. William Shatner, Stewart's costar in Star Trek: Generations, also praised Stewart for his "deep...
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Renowned British actor Patrick Stewart, a gay rights ally who was perhaps best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in several films in the X-Men superhero franchise, died today at t...
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With less than a week before the midterm elections, Republicans are claiming that Democrats want to force children to transition, a wildly untrue claim with no basis in reality. Republicans have spent nearly $200 million on anti-trans ads this election cycle election, even though...
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In a live TV interview, British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan repeatedly called anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) a racist bigot and asked her if she was a drunk. The exchange occurred when they both appeared on the Thursday installment of Piers Morgan Uncensored, a news talk ...
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President Donald Trump referred to Democrat Annie Andrews as “Tranny Annie” while campaigning for Republican Senate candidate Darline Graham at the Rock Hill Sports and Event Center in Rock Hill, S.C, on Thursday. “If Tranny Annie does not have the judgment to know that sex chang...
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Dolores Huerta, a tireless advocate for human rights well into her 90s, died of cancer on Wednesday at her home in California, her family said in a statement announcing her death. She was 96. Huerta is perhaps best known for co-founding the United Farm Workers (UFW) union with Ch...
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While campaigning for Democratic US Senate candidate Scott Colom in Mississippi, out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recalled an experience with Colom's opponent, incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), from his time in the Biden administration. Buttigieg spent muc...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had the audience laughing with a clever joke at the expense of current Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while speaking at an event supporting out congressional candidate, Cait Conley, in New York. "Speaker [Mike] Johnson sent them [mem...
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Police in Bahawalnagar, Pakistan, have arrested two men in connection with the death of a transgender woman who had previously filed a harassment complaint against them. Local officials with Bahawalnagar’s City B Division Police Station say the victim, Zoya Malik, was attacked by...
