Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona testified in court today about the moment she understood the wife of her bodyguard knew that the pair was having an affair. Months into the adulterous relationship, the bisexual then-congresswoman sent her bodyguard lover, Matthew Ammel, an encrypted message
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Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) said that Donald Trump's massive "tantrum" during a virtual Kennedy Center board meeting "was the most unprofessional thing that I've ever witnessed or been a part of." During an appearance on MS Now, she said Trump called her "dumb," "incompetent," and "...
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Cisgender women at the Kansas State Fair are facing long lines at the restroom — and signs warning them not to use the men’s bathrooms, even if those lines are significantly shorter. That’s just one of the ripple effects of Kansas’s draconian anti-trans bathroom law. S.B. 244, wh...
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Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained more than 150 people who gathered outside an Istanbul courthouse to protest raids that targeted the country's LGBTQ community. CNN reported the protesters had planned to speak with reporters outside the city’s Caglayan courthouse, but autho...
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Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to defend Donald Trump's handling of the economy by blaming Joe Biden, and one gay Democrat had enough. Out Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) was questioning Bessent about his statement last month that the "K-shaped economy is over." A K-shaped...
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I'm excited to focus this month's family-building column on domestic adoption, and more specifically, open adoption, which can create meaningful opportunities for children to maintain connections to their birth families when those relationships are safe and appropriate. While eve...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A gay congressional candidate whose fetish modeling drew right-wing media attention has responded to the coverage, saying he will not be shamed out of his race for Congress.Democratic candidate Chris Gallant, an Army veteran and New ...
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Beloved out actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, are celebrating a remarkable 40 years together, 18 of them married. "Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles," Takei wrote on social media...
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In a video clip that has now been widely shared on right-wing social media, an attendee at a recent campaign event for Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico asks the lawmaker who his favorite Texan drag queen is. Talarico responds quickly, sharing that he’s a fan of Drag...
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The 2026 election is shaping up to be a referendum on Donald Trump, even though he is not on any ballot. At least according to LGBTQ Nation readers. Related Trump's gay niece says his "downward spiral" is becoming "impossible to hide" Last month, we asked you what your main conce...
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Tymothy ‘Ty’ Moyer, a gay former resident of Wilmington, Del., earlier this year filed a lawsuit in federal court charging Delaware Attorney General Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Jennings, one of her deputies, and a state-employed victims advocate with conspiring to deny him “equal protection...
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The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass an ordinance officially recognizing non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, as well as multigenerational households, as protected classes. The measure will amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recogni...
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A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a series of attacks on queer men that occurred last summer in Nantes, France. While the assailant denies that he picked his victims because of their sexuality, he was found guilty on hate crime charges. 19-year-old Sophian M-Ne...
