Olympic figure skater Amber Glenn is going for gold — and she’s taking us all to the metaphorical gun show while chasing that Dancing With The Stars mirror ball trophy. During the competition show’s Disney night, which aired on November 2, Glenn performed a quickstep to “A Star Is Born” from the nos
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The singer-songwriter reflects on her queer identity, Filipino heritage, and the experiences behind her new album, In the Living of It. For indie-pop singer songwriter Issadora Ava, the beauty of life are the moments that don’t always make sense. Sometimes, clarity emerges only i...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed made clear he will defend transgender rights in an often combative 60 Minutes interview that aired on Sunday.CBS sent conservative columnist Ross Douthat to interview the Democrat ahead of tod...
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Three authors have joined an advocacy group in a federal lawsuit challenging the Alabama Public Library Service’s anti-trans book ban. Late last week, legal nonprofit Democracy Forward filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on behalf of auth...
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Chris Gallant, the out Democratic candidate for New York’s First Congressional District, says he’s “not embarrassed or ashamed” of a series of racy photos that recently resurfaced in media reports. Over the weekend, right-wing outlet the New York Post reported that more than a de...
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NEW YORK – Before Sterling Tull was creating the makeup for “The Rocky Horror Show” Broadway revival, its mad scientist, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, was watching over her bedroom from a poster on the wall. Purchased by her mother, the poster hung there from the time Tull was 13 until she...
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Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mocked Donald Trump for spending so much time talking about other men's bodies these past few weeks. Buttigieg appeared on CNN last night to talk about the midterm elections. He was talking about how, while polling shows that the...
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Election night viewing parties are taking place in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia on Tuesday. The Human Rights Campaign Greater D.C. Steering Committee will hold a watch party at Number Nine (1435 P St., N.W.) from 7-9 p.m. Crush Dance Bar (2007 14th St., N.W.) will have its own pa...
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The city of Dubuque, Iowa, says it had to intervene to stop Donald Trump's team from covering up a diversity mural ahead of a GOP rally. Trump spoke at a rally in Dubuque this past Sunday, and images of the city's "SOLIDARITY" mural being covered with tarps emerged on Saturday ni...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.St. Louis police are investigating the August shooting death of a transgender woman as a homicide after initially classifying it as an apparent suicide. Her mother challenged that finding.Jhené Audrict, 21, was found dead on August 1...
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In huge news for sad gays, indie darling Sufjan Stevens has released his first all-new Christmas song in nearly 15 years. The track, “On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better),” is an apology in musical form, with some characteristically gutting lyrics (“when I wake I still see dar...
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Vice President JD Vance is now claiming he only dressed up as gay wizard Albus Dumbledore for Halloween because he “lost a bet.” And if you don’t know why that’s so funny, then brother, you need to befriend more transgender women.At a campaign rally in Rome, New York on the eve o...
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“Do you know a child that is interested in gender-affirming surgery? We can help!" claims a text message anonymously sent to Missouri voters last week. "Protecting a child’s right to have this surgery is on the ballot this Tuesday,” the message adds, though the state already bans...
