Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said this past weekend that an attempt by her Republican predecessor to restrict trans kids' ability to participate in school sports is now dead, and she got emotional during her announcement. She was speaking at Virginia Pridefest this past Saturday in Richmond
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In June 1993, Newsweek ran a cover featuring two embracing women sporting pearls, denim, and outdated haircuts with a single bolded word above their heads: Lesbians. The mere existence of these women-loving-women was news unto itself – and cover-worthy news at that. I don't remem...
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A Georgia librarian filed a federal lawsuit this week against the county and regional library system that fired her after she included a children’s book about a transgender boy in a library display. In her lawsuit, filed earlier this week in the Southern District of Georgia, LaVo...
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It was impossible not to feel your heart warm when watching a video of actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen together. Their friendship was warm, with a level of camaraderie, candor and care, that any of us deserve, and that many coveted. But they weren’t just friends, they wer...
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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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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 ...
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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.Ian McKellen has shared a moving tribute to his late friend, Patrick Stewart.The Star Trek icon died Wednesday "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia," according to a post on his official X acc...
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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 ...
