Medical expert gives surprising sign Trump may have a heart issue
He said readouts from Trump's physicians indicate a possibly deadly potential health issue.
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Elon Musk's ex-wife says he cut off his trans daughter's health insurance the day after she came out
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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Trump's new press secretary spread anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories about "revolting, rabid" leftists
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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Annie Andrews denounces trans athletes after Trump targets her
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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On Republican Long Island, gay Democrat Chris Gallant bets on public service over politics
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 Nassau and Suffolk counties, is tryin...
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Report: LGBTQ exclusion costs Japanese economy billions a year
LGBTQ exclusion may be costing Japan as much as ¥16.42 trillion ($10.35 billion) annually, according to a new report by Open for Business, which argues that greater inclusion could help address the economic pressures facing a country with a shrinking population and workforce. Jap...
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"Disrespectful": Author of the most challenged book of the year speaks out
The 2025-2026 school year experienced a record number of book bans, according to a new report from PEN America. Public schools across the country saw 12,000 book bans during that time period, the largest number in a single year since PEN America began tracking in 2021. The organi...
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He murdered a woman. A court overturned his conviction because the victim was trans.
A man convicted of killing a Black transgender woman should have been allowed to use the victim’s sex assigned at birth as part of his defense, a Tennessee appellate court ruled last week. In its October 5 ruling, a three-judge panel for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ov...
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Democrat had the best response to GOP senator's name-calling: "Unlike my opponent…"
Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democrat running for the Senate seat from South Carolina, slammed her opponent, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), for calling her a "socialist" and had a response that social media found trenchant. "I told you my opponent was going to call me a socialist,...
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Christian spa worker sued after she was asked to help a trans customer. A judge just shut her down.
A federal judge last month dismissed a case by a Christian spa worker claiming she was a victim of religious discrimination after she was suspended in 2023 for refusing to give a trans woman a tour of the facility. Jeriah Sellers sued Hershey Entertainment after the company suspe...
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This project has honored over 650 LGBTQ+ icons over the past 20 years. It's just getting started.
Twenty years ago, in October 2006, the Equality Forum of Philadelphia christened 31 LGBTQ+ persons as History Month Icons. Almost all of them were big stars in the sky: author James Baldwin, comedian Ellen DeGeneres, congressman Barney Frank, lesbian pioneer Barbara Gittings, art...
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Trump claims Democrat wants to force kids to call their moms "gestating" in bizarre anti-trans rant
Donald Trump claimed in a speech on Friday that it is becoming unacceptable for kids to use the term "mom." The president was mocking a New York bill focused on updating language in state law surrounding surrogacy and parentage to "gestating parent" and "non-gestating parent" rat...
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Samuel Alito says marriage equality probably won't be overturned despite how much he hates it
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito doesn't believe the Court will overturn marriage equality, despite his strong opposition to the ruling. In a CBS News interview promoting his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, Alito said the Court's overturning of ...