Nearly 12,000 books were banned by public school districts nationwide during the 2025–2026 school year, according to a new report from PEN America, which also found that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly driving bans that specifically target LGBTQ+ literature. According to the non-profit’
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A new Australian study links a growing, toxic culture of anti-transgender hate online with higher rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts among trans Australians, who described the stigma they encountered online as "relentless," "omnipresent," and "inescapa...
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The New Jersey queer bar Pint fired its Wednesday night trivia host and donated all of this last trivia night's proceeds to sexual violence prevention programs after the host awarded Best Team Name to a group called “Cornell 7 inches,” a reference to the seven Cornell University ...
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Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer who received the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, immediately mocked President Donald Trump upon learning of the honor. “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she said in Nuremberg, Germany. A crowd la...
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Friday, October 9 Go Gay DC will host “Out in DC LGBTQ+ Community Social” at 7 p.m. at Hotel Zena. This is a chance to relax, new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Eventbrite. Saturday, October...
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As if ripped from the plot of a romance novel, women’s professional baseball player Ashton Lansdell and professional softball player Aliyah Binford are stealing the hearts of queer sports fans with their couples content. Naturally, the sapphic internet is eating it up. Lansdell, ...
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The International Criminal Court this week unsealed arrest warrants for four Taliban officials in Afghanistan accused of targeting LGBTQ people, women, and others who defy the group’s strict gender norms. The warrants the ICC unsealed on Oct. 5 are for Hibatullah Akhundzada, the ...
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The far-right website Breitbart sent an undercover journalist to uncover corruption among Democrats, and their hidden camera uncovered a field organizer in Ohio admitting to stealing "diva sunglasses" from Walmart. Under the headline "EXCLUSIVE — UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOWS OHIO DEMOC...
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Janelle Sarauw, a former senator in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) legislature, is coming to the US Congress as the territory's next at-large congressperson. The out legislator won the Democratic primary in August by a wide margin and faces only token opposition in her very blue, i...
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Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was asked what she thought about Donald Trump calling her opponent, Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews, a "tr***ie," and she refused to answer the question. In a separate interview, Graham Nordone implied that Trump's use of the slur was justified. Grah...
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LGBTQ+ fans of the Avatar universe, rejoice! With the debut of the latest installment in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise, Avatar: Seven Havens, the animated fantasy series has debuted a gay couple as part of its roster of characters. One of the main characters, Jae, is a...
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Daniela Fuentes came to the United States from Cuba and worked as a hairstylist and drag performer in Miami. Then she was picked up by ICE, detained, and deported to the Central African Republic, a country she’s never been to, where she knows no one, doesn’t speak the language, a...
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Several crew members attached to the production of Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE film Pawn Shop, which is currently in production in Livingston, Montana, left the film early after originally being told they were going to work on a “fun action movie,” and were allegedly kept in the dark a...
