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During the Election Night victory speech of Rep-elect Anthony Constantino (R-NY), he repeatedly referred to present members of the press as "f**king a**holes," while a young girl listened in-person near his podium. Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule, invested $17 million of his...
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Queer woman Maggie Ellis made history this week by becoming the first out LGBTQ+ elected as chief justice to the state Supreme Court. She intends to use her job to revisit the court’s orders regarding same-sex marriage. Ellis, who currently serves on the Texas Third Court of Appe...
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President Donald Trump has ousted Susie Wiles as his chief of staff, announcing that Stephen Miller, the current deputy chief of staff, will take her place on Monday. Trump posted the message to his social media site Truth Social on Friday afternoon, informing the public of the c...
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Reports about the death of Gen Z’s sex life have not been exaggerated: About 37% of single Gen Zers are now celibate, according to a survey by the Kinsey Institute and ModernDating.com. You’d think that at a time when we have more access to sex education, hookup apps, and a great...
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The government of South Korea apologized on Wednesday for language in a manual written for youth counselors that categorized homosexuality as deviant behavior. Homosexuality was grouped with sexual violence, theft and drug abuse under “delinquency-related issues” in the manual, t...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A cannabis worker and daughter of immigrants just won election as Florida’s first out transgender elected official.Quinnie Perez, a trans woman, was the top vote-getter in a three-person race for a relatively low-profile post on Oran...
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Dallas Wings stars Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers announced they are no longer dating — and as it turns out, they haven’t been together for over a year. In a new episode of Fudd’s podcast, Fuddin’ Around, released November 6, the former couple shared that they have broken up. “Well...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) now says she's not bothered by the prospect of losing reelection because her job in Congress "doesn't define me." With 94.9% of the vote counted, the race in Colorado's Fourth Congressional District still hasn't been called. Boebert has gotten 181,555 v...
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Still trailing her Democratic challenger with fewer and fewer votes left to count, Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) campaign is citing "unusual voting patterns" and insisting on a recount. With 94.9% of the vote counted, the race in Colorado's Fourth Congressional District still hasn...
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Following multiple legal challenges and a years-long court battle, a New York appeals court has overturned Nassau County’s anti-trans sports ban. On Wednesday, a four-judge panel of the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division handed down decisions in two separate challenges to t...
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Generations are arbitrary. If I had been born eleven days earlier, the Baby Boomer descriptor would have been the shorthand called upon to explain my habits and peculiarities. Hugh Ryan is just shy of having been forever labeled a Millennial, the (mostly) Reagan babies that stake...
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When right-wing media goes low, trans people go funnier! Nonbinary Georgia state rep. Bentley Hudgins made history after winning an assembly seat — and conservatives are (unsurprisingly) losing it. On November 5, End Wokeness, a right wing X account, made a post lamenting their v...
