The liquor was flowing, the dice were rolling and the women were plentiful. Down on 14th Street in the U Street corridor in 1946, at Club Madre, your thirst could be quenched and your vices satisfied. At the center of it all was a large, dark-skinned woman whose taste for mink, money, and power made
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Clinical and forensic psychologist John Paul Garrison said last week that a brain lesion or damaged brain tissue may be to blame for President Donald Trump's slurred speech during his October 2 rally at the University of South Alabama in the city of Mobile. “President Trump seems...
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Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on October 3 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign amid the US military's strategic failures in its ongoing war with Iran. Speaking with Eugene Daniels, co-host of MS NOW's The Weekend, Daniels asked Buttigieg ab...
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Senegal’s ongoing crackdown on its LGBTQ+ community is not only increasing fear and stigma on the West African coast, but it is likely also violating international human rights laws as well as protections guaranteed by the country’s own constitution, according to a new report fro...
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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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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 peri...
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The BBC announced Tuesday it is creating a two-part documentary about Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s rise to popularity as a beloved figure in children’s literature and the subsequent controversy over her anti-transgender views, encompassing the last several decades of her li...
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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...
