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The New Jersey queer bar Pint fired its Wednesday night trivia host and donated all of this last trivia night's proceeds to sexual violence prevention programs after the host awarded Best Team Name to a group called “Cornell 7 inches,” a reference to the seven Cornell University ...
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Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer who received the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, immediately mocked President Donald Trump upon learning of the honor. “If you clap a little bit more, I may share this prize with Trump,” she said in Nuremberg, Germany. A crowd la...
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Friday, October 9 Go Gay DC will host “Out in DC LGBTQ+ Community Social” at 7 p.m. at Hotel Zena. This is a chance to relax, new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Eventbrite. Saturday, October...
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The owners of a New Jersey gay bar have issued a public video apology after hosting a trivia night at which a team competed under a name that mocked the story of an alleged gang-rape at Cornell University.As the Hoboken Daily Voice reported, patrons of the bar Pint in Jersey City...
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Nearly 12,000 books were banned by public school districts nationwide during the 2025–2026 school year, according to a new report from PEN America, which also found that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly driving bans that specifically target LGBTQ+ literature. Accordin...
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As if ripped from the plot of a romance novel, women’s professional baseball player Ashton Lansdell and professional softball player Aliyah Binford are stealing the hearts of queer sports fans with their couples content. Naturally, the sapphic internet is eating it up. Lansdell, ...
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The International Criminal Court this week unsealed arrest warrants for four Taliban officials in Afghanistan accused of targeting LGBTQ people, women, and others who defy the group’s strict gender norms. The warrants the ICC unsealed on Oct. 5 are for Hibatullah Akhundzada, the ...
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The far-right website Breitbart sent an undercover journalist to uncover corruption among Democrats, and their hidden camera uncovered a field organizer in Ohio admitting to stealing "diva sunglasses" from Walmart. Under the headline "EXCLUSIVE — UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOWS OHIO DEMOC...
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Janelle Sarauw, a former senator in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) legislature, is coming to the US Congress as the territory's next at-large congressperson. The out legislator won the Democratic primary in August by a wide margin and faces only token opposition in her very blue, i...
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Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was asked what she thought about Donald Trump calling her opponent, Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews, a "tr***ie," and she refused to answer the question. In a separate interview, Graham Nordone implied that Trump's use of the slur was justified. Grah...
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LGBTQ+ fans of the Avatar universe, rejoice! With the debut of the latest installment in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise, Avatar: Seven Havens, the animated fantasy series has debuted a gay couple as part of its roster of characters. One of the main characters, Jae, is a...
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Daniela Fuentes came to the United States from Cuba and worked as a hairstylist and drag performer in Miami. Then she was picked up by ICE, detained, and deported to the Central African Republic, a country she’s never been to, where she knows no one, doesn’t speak the language, a...
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Several crew members attached to the production of Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE film Pawn Shop, which is currently in production in Livingston, Montana, left the film early after originally being told they were going to work on a “fun action movie,” and were allegedly kept in the dark a...
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The Opening Night On the evening of Tuesday, September 29, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in SoHo filled with the kind of noise every exhibition hopes for. From 6 to 10 p.m., more than 200 guests moved through Nemesis: Remember, the final exhibition of GLAAD's Equity in Media an...
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Conservatives rejoiced this week after the Washington Post reported that 2025 data from the U.S. Centers by Disease Control and Prevention appears to indicate that LGBTQ+ identification among young teenagers has dropped over the past few years. But even in the Post’s own reportin...
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Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown released an ad Thursday refuting a new, lie-filled attack ad featuring a detransitioned activist named Soren Aldaco. Aldaco's ad claimed that Brown supports "sex changes for minors [and] irreversible surgery" which she was "a kid." B...
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Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews of South Carolina recently released a political ad saying that she neither supports "biological men playing women's sports" nor "gender surgery for minors." While her ad is intended to deflect political attacks from her opponent, Sen. Dar...
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The BBC has reached a "substantial" settlement with the online UK LGBTQ+ outlet PinkNews over allegations the BBC now agrees were "false and defamatory," including accusations of sexual misconduct and misogyny by the publication's founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband, Anthony J...
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Bet Mishpachah Executive Director Joshua Maxey on Wednesday was among those who spoke at a ceremony in D.C. that marked the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack in Israel. The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington hosted the ceremony that took place at the Washington Hebrew C...
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked his supporters at a rally to harass everyone they know until they vote Republican. Paxton is running for a US Senate seat and may pull off what some thought was impossible just earlier this year: losing a statewide election in Texas as ...
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Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday morning that socialism is when "you want boys to play in girls' sports." That is neither the dictionary definition of socialism nor what the word has previously meant in an American context. During his press conference announcing President...
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed an anti-trans bathroom bill Friday, after Republicans passed it using a procedure that allowed them to bring the legislation up for a vote without a public hearing. As the Kansas Reflector notes, the version of Senate Bill 244 passed by the stat...
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The U.S. Department of Justice charged Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, of Richfield, Minn., on Oct. 7 with one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition in order to commit a federal crime of terrorism. Mohamud allegedly planned to carry out a mass-casualty attack in...
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Police in Gujarat, India have arrested several men in connection with the murder of one of the region’s most prominent LGBTQ+ personalities. Mad Sandhu, a Punjabi social media influencer, makeup artist, and LGBTQ+ activist, was shot Saturday evening in Amritsar, the economic capi...
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In the continuing race to see who can throw transgender people under the bus most quickly, South Carolina Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Annie Andrews has released a new direct-to-camera campaign ad in which she states that she does not support trans athletes playing in spo...
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A new rule from the Trump administration will take effect on October 13, barring federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds from covering gender-affirming care for minors. While several Democrat-led states have produced workarounds to keep the programs ...
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Virginia state Del. Tim Griffin (R), a Christian, posted a video of himself expressing his rage at a school district for recognizing October as LGBTQ+ History Month. The Loudoun County School Board approved the proclamation in September. It rejects anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and ...
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Angela Winston, 37, spent 11 months on Rikers Island, in a New York jail complex that has become notorious for inhumane conditions and reports of violence perpetrated by correctional officers. Now living in a treatment facility after her recent release, she’s focused on parenting...
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Not that a basic vodka-soda should ever dare to appear in print on the craft cocktail list at year-old Bar Betsie, but if it did, its name would be written in big black block letters, back-lit, on a marquee behind the 14-seat bar, with its ingredients – Tito’s, seltzer water – si...
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Today there are war criminals leading three major governments. President Trump here in the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, and Vladimir Putin in Russia. The world would be a better place if they were thrown into a jail cell together, and the key tossed away. We are l...
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Ten years ago, I had a vision: to create a dedicated space within The DC LGBTQ+ Community Center for local LGBTQ+ artists to share their creativity in a community space conceived specifically for them. That vision became the Center Arts Gallery. Over the past decade, the Center A...
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James “Jim” Bedore, an international affairs specialist whose career included work for the U.S. Department of State and as a private sector consultant in Europe with a focus on Middle Eastern and African development before his retirement in 2000, died on Sept. 2 at his home in D....
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Public schools banned nearly 12,000 books during the 2025-2026 school year, according to a new report released from PEN America, a group dedicated to freedom of expression for writers. That represents the highest number of bans in a single year since PEN started tracking them in ...
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Virginia advocacy groups have launched a campaign that urges the Virginia High School League to once again allow student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. Equality Arlington on Sept. 16 published an article about the “Right 2 Play VA”...
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Two women sit on a bed, a Pride flag hanging behind them. One is nervous; the other tells her to be calm and that she’ll do “all the work.” The music swells. The two hold hands and — fill out a ballot voting for Steve Hilton? This is the new advertisement from the Hilton gubernat...
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President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur against Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews on Monday as he sought to rally support for Republicans in the state’s Senate race. In a post on Truth Social, Trump attacked Andrews three times, referring to her as “...
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It turns out that the sapphic social media sleuths were correct in alleging that Layla Taylor, the recently-out bisexual Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, is dating none other than Kelsie Chesser. The pair graced the red carpet at the Page Six Virtual Reali-Tea Awards on October...
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A year after Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital ended its gender-affirming care program for transgender youth, researchers from the same institution have released a study measuring the negative impacts of anti-transgender legislation on the health of trans people in the U....
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Speaker Laurie Jinkins, the first woman and first lesbian Speaker of the House in Washington state, is speaking out about two ballot measures up for a vote right now in her state that endanger the health and safety of all girls and other vulnerable youth. Ballot measure 638, now ...
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On the October 5 episode of Behind the Table, a podcast in which hosts of ABC’s talk show The View recount the week’s episodes by taking a closer look at the stories covered — current co-host and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin revealed that her close friend and sorority s...
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham remains at the center of a culture war around transgender participation in women’s sports. But since the publication of her consequential July profile with ESPN, in which she said she opposed trans inclusion because she wanted to “protect you...
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(Editor’s note: This article is part of our 2026 contribution to the D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout the week at bit.ly/DCHCRP.) A decision by President Trump’s administration to...
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Everyone really does watch women’s sports. According to a new report in the Sports Business Journal, the WNBA shattered its attendance record in 2026, drawing 3.79 million fans to games this season — a 20% year-over-year increase.SBJ attributes this record-breaking high in part t...
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The Real Housewives of New York City has always been known for its vibrant personalities and unforgettable moments, but season 16 brings a refreshing, ground-breaking layer of representation to our screens. Among the newest cast members stepping into the spotlight is publicist an...
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Despite Washington State’s strong Democratic leaning, having voted blue in every presidential election since 1988, recent polling data suggests that an anti-transgender sports ban on the ballot this November is more viable than the state’s progressive reputation might suggest.Thi...
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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is planning to allocate $8.9 million to healthcare nonprofits in the city to provide gender-affirming care services to patients under 18. The move comes in light of several major hospital systems in the metropolis ceasing ...
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If you were ever hoping for more queer masculine representation in media à la King of Drag, look no further than Tom Thailand, the country’s first ever national pageant for “toms,” a culturally specific term for masc-of-center lesbians, transmascs, and trans men.. The months-long...
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The job of parents has always been to keep their children as safe as possible, but what happens when an entire presidential administration has made your family the target of its political animus? For parents of transgender children, this question isn’t a hypothetical nightmare sc...
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The cold wind of October blows, Julia Wolf’s “In My Room” is on repeat, and the leaves across New England have turned that oh-so-colorful triad of red, orange, and burnt yellow. It’s official: Fall is here and with it, the official Twilight re-watching season.It’s hard to believe...
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As the U.S. midterm elections approach, a new survey is shedding light on what’s motivating younger LGBTQ+ voters.According to data from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, gathered online by the research company Verasight, Gen Z voters — defined as being currently ...
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A reelection advertisement created by a Republican super PAC in support of Ohio Senator Jon Husted misleads viewers into thinking that a young person’s gender transition was somehow Democratic opponent Sherrod Brown’s fault due to failed state-level policies. There’s only one pro...
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Posts featuring a drag queen landed Austin, Texas-based gay bar Rain on 4th in hot water with social media company Meta, leading to their account being deleted, per a new report. Scott Neal, the president of Rain on 4th and a managing member of Oilcan Harry’s, another queer bar, ...
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The Texas founder of Voidly has assembled a global observatory, a probe network, a VPN, an encrypted messenger, agent email and a marketplace for AI agents. Every claim it makes points back to evidence anyone can check....
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It was a slam dunk. University of South Carolina Salkehatchie men’s basketball coach Matt Lynch announced on social media that he is engaged to his partner, Cody Aaron. “Lifetimes,” Lynch wrote alongside a carousel of images of the proposal. See on Instagram Lynch is the only out...
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Actor Elliot Page is in lockstep with the Gender Liberation Movement to stand up and fight for transgender youth. On Tuesday, September 23, the award-winning actor joined crowds of trans people and allies rallying outside of NYU Langone Health in New York City, protesting the hos...
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Two-thirds of straight women and one-third of straight men are unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, according to a YouGov poll published today, during Bisexuality Visibility Week. The poll illustrates how lingering stereotypes negatively affect people's impres...
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Freedom Fest — a MAGA event featuring 55-year-old anti-LGBTQ+ musician Kid Rock — has been canceled after selling just six $1,000 VIP tickets to the otherwise free event. The event was set to feature 68-year-old US House candidate Ed Gallrein (R-KY), 54-year-old Rep. James Comer ...
