Sept. 12 is a solemn day for the people of Turkey. It is the anniversary of the 1980 coup d'état — when members of the National Security Council, along with the armed forces, dissolved the Turkish parliament, arrested hundreds of thousands of people, and entered a three-year period of martial law. O
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Donald Trump had a lot to say about Sen. Jon Husted's (R-OH) body at a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio. "I’m standing over here, and I don’t do this with men very often," Trump said before describing what he was thinking as Husted spoke, with Trump standing behind him. "I start...
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When the Welsh government in 2021 embarked on what Deputy Minister of Social Partnership Hannah Blythyn described as a project to make Wales “the most LGBTQ+ friendly nation in Europe,” Welsh scholar Norena Shopland was commissioned to help train librarians, museum staff, and arc...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Fox News host Jesse Watters said during an episode of The Five that he would never "let" his wife, Emma, run for a high office and that some men just don't like their wives working. "I know a lot of guys… We don’t like our wives working," Watters said while discussing...
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A gay couple in Slovakia is suing the government over its refusal to recognize their marriage as legal. Ivan Novotný, 31, and Metod Špaček, 51, wed in Austria in 2020, and under a 2025 ruling by the European Union's highest court, Slovakia must register the marriage. Related Slov...
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The GOP's relentless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and dignity over the past two years have not driven the record number of LGBTQ+ adults back into the closet, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. In fact, the hostile climate seems to be having the oppo...
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Industry actress and Them cover star Myha'la Herrold is opening up about her recent elimination in the third episode of The Celebrity Traitors season two on the BBC.In response to an Instagram commenter who said she was eliminated “because you are BLACK” and called the social ded...
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Who cares about the WNBA's policy on trans players when there are no trans players in the WNBA? A new analysis suggests that, well, no one actually cared. This past summer, WNBA player Sophia Cunningham made some transphobic comments about sports, saying that she wants "to protec...
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Spooky season is here, making it a fantastic time to talk about queerness and horror. More precisely, it's a chance to explore how the horror genre emerged and transformed our perspective on queer identity. Horror is far more political than most people realize. Personally, if sci...
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Billionaire transphobe Elon Musk allegedly cut off his daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson's health insurance coverage the day after she came out as transgender. Wilson's mother, Justine Wilson, made this claim in Musk, the newly released nearly four-hour documentary about Musk's global...
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As the Trump administration’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, prepares to hold her first White House press briefing on Tuesday morning, online sleuths have uncovered her past social media posts that push conspiracy theories, including the debunked, anti-LGBTQ+ QAnon theory o...
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Days after President Donald Trump called Annie Andrews, the cisgender Democratic nominee for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat, an anti-transgender slur on social media, Andrews came out against transgender girls and women participating in sports. Trump called Andrews a “trannie”...
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New York’s Long Island, which is just 50 miles from the Stonewall Inn, is a reliably red enclave where President Trump won easily in 2024. Chris Gallant, an openly gay Democrat running for New York’s 1st Congressional District, which includes the eastern side of Long Island, is t...
