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An AI-generated political ad released on September 15 targets Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) by insinuating that he's feminine. It's just the latest ad using misogyny and homophobic innuendo to attack a young progressive Democrat. In the 30-second ad, a woman at a beauty salon says of th...
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Advocates, public health experts, and healthcare providers gathered for the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS on Sept. 17 in Anaheim, Calif. The conference is the largest of its kind in the nation and came amid a wave of new challenges for HIV research and treatment. Since the...
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A new poll found that Pete Buttigieg is the most popular likely 2028 presidential candidate among Democratic voters and the second most popular person Democrats were asked about overall, more popular than Mr. Rogers. The poll, conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics for th...
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Detectives investigating the stabbing of three men outside a gay bar in Liverpool, England have arrested three suspects. Merseyside Police arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder, a 22-year-old man on suspicion of two counts of "wounding," and an...
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Over the weekend, California Governor Gavin Newsom went on a bill-vetoing spree. Among those that he shot down was a bill that prevented California from extraditing patients or providers as part of another state’s investigations into gender-affirming or reproductive care. “I am r...
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The fallout from Donald Trump's decision to illegally rename the Kennedy Center to give himself top billing continues to grow, creating an embarrassing situation for the president. As it turns out, artists don't want their work associated with Trump, despite legal threats from Ri...
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Bisexual Awareness Week is upon us and what an amazing time of year it is! The crisp winds of fall are beginning to blow; Libra season is nigh; and bisexuals everywhere are rejoicing — and if you’re not bi yourself, you should still be celebrating, too!As the largest contingent o...
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A new video game based on Marvel Comics’ X-Men characters has been censored to remove references to LGBTQ+ content for its release in the Middle East, according to fans in the region. Over the weekend, players on social media began sharing screenshots and video clips from Marvel’...
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Imagine this. Huge, beefy men are tumbling over each other, a mess of biceps, calves, and thighs, slick with sweat, bodies glistening, hair wet and plastered to their faces and necks. If you thought I was describing a heated gay sex scene, you’d be wrong. I’m actually referring t...
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Uncloseted Media published this story on Sept. 22. By EMMA PAIDRA | Claire, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, distinctly remembers the night she and her ex-girlfriend broke up. “She was strangling me in a CVS parking lot,” Claire recalls, adding how she was gasping for air as b...
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The internet went wild with excitement earlier this month after news broke that out pop star Lady Gaga welcomed her first child with her fiancé, venture capitalist Michael Polansky. Their daughter, Rose Bean Polansky, was reportedly born on June 9 at 11:19 pm. And now, TMZ report...
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Donald Trump's attack on the free press is already backfiring. The president held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new White House helicopter pad on Monday, and because no one from the press pool was there to provide microphones, no one could hear him speak. Trump recently banne...
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In the fight for trans rights and against a pair of draconian ballot initiatives in Washington State, a grassroots campaign is confronting not only the toxic effects of the Trump administration's crusade against trans people, but the deep pockets of the MAGA billionaire who's spo...
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Health insurance in the United States, is infamously difficult to procure, especially for workers without a traditional 9 to 5. This unfortunately happens to be the case for highly award-nominated trans actor Jack Haven, known for their roles in Atypical, I Saw The TV Glow, and T...
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Tensions between pro- and anti-trans protestors escalated in Portland, Oregon, over two weeks after a group of people wearing anti-trans shirts was asked to leave The Sports Bra, a women's sports bar. The Sports Bra has stood by its decision, saying in a statement at the time tha...
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UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is coor...
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A man was arrested in New York City, deported to Guyana, and remanded to prison on Monday on charges related to a decade-old murder of a gay sex worker named Noel Luther. Luther was shot in the chest in the South American nation's capital, Georgetown, on July 22, 2015, and Guyane...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-trans slur while delivering a speech to college students this past Saturday. This is at least the third time he has used this slur in a public setting while the Trump administration attempts to argue in court that the trans military ban...
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Anti-trans activist and fifth-place swimmer Riley Gaines is getting attention on social media after she made a video complaining that her dream of going to dentistry school was ruined by pro-trans university officials. In a video produced by the anti-trans clothing brand XX-XY, G...
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Past the first checkpoint to get into the White House, multiple carts filled with camera equipment sat along a fence. Wagons loaded with tripods, cables, mics, and cameras sat just past where they normally would be working at full power. Today, they were turned off and packed awa...
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The 2026 Shenandoah Valley Pride Festival was held at Turner Pavilion in Harrisonburg, Va. on Sunday, Sept. 20. (Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford) The post PHOTOS: Shenandoah Valley Pride appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay New...
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In the first episode of Buffy’s seventh season, titled “Lessons,” Spike is going mad in the basement of the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High when he gets a lecture from the season’s still-ruminating Big Bad. To deliver the speech, The First inhabits each of Buffy’s central nemeses fr...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert denied having same-sex relationships and castigated the media covering an ethics complaint alleging she had relationships with staffers in a video she posted to social media on Sunday.“I hate to spoil t...
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This story originally appeared on Out.A deluge of internet memes flooded social media over the weekend as news broke that Rep. Lauren Boebert was accused of having a sexual relationship with staffers she supervised, some of whom were women.The accusations came to light after a co...
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“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL 9000, the fictional homicidal computer in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is just one example in science fiction of an artificial intelligence (AI) that outsmarts and takes control of its human developers and...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Major hospital systems in New York and Pennsylvania have struck deals with the Justice Department that carry steep financial penalties and keep gender-affirming services closed to minors.NYU Langone Health will pay the department $8....
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Pete Buttigieg skewered Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Saturday while delivering the keynote speech at a Texas Democratic Party event in Dallas. "A lot of people believed him when he said he was going to drain the swamp," Buttigieg said. "And then we wake up to see bill...
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Drag Race España just released its season six cast list and the roster includes the Drag Race franchise’s first-ever full-time drag king: Marcus Massalami. When the season begins airing on September 27, we can expect to see Marcus performing alongside other contestants such as Àl...
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Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the beloved Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," denounced trans rights while promoting their new album, claiming the movement for equality is merely "the Left losing their collective mind...
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The executive director of the world’s oldest LGBTQ Catholic organization has announced she will retire once her successor has been chosen. Marianne Duddy-Burke has been with DignityUSA for more than four decades. She has been the group’s executive director since 2007. DignityUSA ...
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A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men's prisons, overturning a lower court's ruling earlier this year. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unani...
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Social media screenshots and video seem to indicate that copies of the game Marvel’s Wolverine sent to countries in the Middle East included redacted and heavily altered references to Mystique’s same-sex relationship and marriage with crime boss Tyger Tiger, per a report in Kotak...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) – known for her outspoken advocacy against LGBTQ+ people's rights – is facing a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee claiming that, among other things, she had sexual relationships with two women and one man whom she supervised and paid one o...
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If you want to see how the Democratic Party's muddled messaging on transgender issues, look no further than Ohio. There, two Democratic candidates have taken dramatically different approaches on how to deal with GOP anti-trans attacks. The worse strategy of the two comes from Rep...
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Donald Trump flipped out at a journalist who brought up an accusation that an unnamed person was a "pedophile," and she had one "clinical-grade" question in response. CBS News's Norah O'Donnell asked Trump in an interview on Sunday about Cole Allen, the man who allegedly opened f...
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Whitman-Walker Health held the 40th annual Walk and 5K to End HIV at Anacostia Park on Saturday, Sept. 19. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) The post PHOTOS: Walk and 5K to End HIV appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
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In a hearing convened by Canada's Alberta Human Rights Tribunal on Monday, the lawyer for an anti-transgender advocate in the small town of Westlock (90 miles north of Edmonton), argued that a flyer distributed by her client calling on residents to protest the installation of a r...
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The Wanda Alston Foundation held its Fall Reception at the Penthouse Rooftop at The Wharf on Friday, Sept. 18. Honorees included D.C. Councilmember Robert White, Director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs Japer Bowles, and the Washington Capitals. Rayceen Pendarvis served a...
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WNBA star and longtime trans advocate Brianna Turner is furious that the league has become the center of the debate over trans athletes. “I hate being used as something to dismantle the rights of trans people,” she told Them earlier this week, emphasizing that the anti-trans move...
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This story was originally published by LOOKOUT, a nonprofit newsroom serving LGBTQ+ communities in the Southwest. Hotel Bamy in Equatorial Guinea is not a prison, but Pietro Graza hasn’t been able to leave for weeks. He has been held captive in the semi-abandoned luxury hotel in ...
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One of the biggest headaches of the new home process is the actual moving part. By the time someone is buying a home, most people are beyond the “I just need a pickup truck, a pizza and a case of beer for my friends.” If that is still someone’s preferred way to move, that’s great...
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Despite a U.S. political climate that has made electric vehicles about as welcome as a vegan at a Texas barbecue, automakers haven’t gotten the memo. The 2027 BMW iX3 and Rivian R2—in showrooms soon—prove the point. But think of them as distant cousins: one arrives impeccably dre...
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The fall books season offers lots of options so curl up and get ready to read. FICTION For the mystery fan who likes a sprinkle of thriller, look for “The Longest Death” by Kevin Jagernauth (Soho Crime, December). Richard Cobson hates his small town, he’s bored and desperate to g...
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The Tennessee Christian Preparatory School in Cleveland will have to pay gay teenager Morgan Armstrong $10,000 in a settlement approved on Monday, after the school blocked her from graduating and withheld her diploma after she came out on Facebook. On April 23, 2025, Armstrong po...
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The United States treats trans kids poorly. State legislatures and school boards are instituting bans on appropriate inclusion in school sports, the right to use the correct bathroom, and access to gender-affirming care. We have evidence and research on both the short- and long-t...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Lauren Boebert is publicly refuting a complaint filed with the House Committee on Ethics on September 17 which alleged that the Colorado congresswoman had sexual relationships with three staffers she supervised, including two wo...
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Caitlyn Jenner appeared on Tomi Lahren's Fox Nation podcast this week to "break her silence" with an hour of slurred rambling. During the interview, she mentioned that, due to Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders, her passport now says she's male, curtailing her ability to ...
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Turkey cracks down on LGBTQ+ activism with raids and arrests nationwide How many people were arrested: 47 people across 12 provinces were arrested during government raids last weekend, and another 126 people were arrested during the week amid protests against the anti-LGBTQ+ raid...
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Fifteen years ago this month, the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” took effect. At the time, the importance of the change was obvious: gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans would no longer have to hide who they were to wear the uniform. What was harder to see was what would follo...
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Notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ professional mixed-martial artist Sean Strickland says he wants to “beat the s*** out of” Elliot Page. Earlier this week, Championship Rounds, an MMA news account “powered by” online gambling platform Rainbet, shared an X post featuring a video of Strickla...
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President Donald Trump trolled opponents of his disastrous Kennedy Center takeover on Wednesday night with a stage-managed glimpse into Air Force One. Trump was seen from the tarmac reviewing a poster board depicting heavy machinery tearing down the living memorial to President K...
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The president's lesbian psychologist niece, Mary Trump, recently took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a test used to assess an adult's cognitive impairment and dysfunctions. Donald Trump bragged about acing the test in the past. But even though she did well on the MoCA ...
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The anti-trans right consistently claims that trans-inclusive policies are akin to letting "men" take over women's spaces, and a recent experience at a Brandi Carlile concert reminded me of the real issue here: cis men who are unable to let women have a space, even for an evening...
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More than 2,000 supporters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts turned out on Sept. 18, for a rally in support of the performing arts center and a vocal protest against President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently close the center and possibly demolish it. The...
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A queer Torah study group in Portland, Oregon, wants LGBTQ+ people to know that they have always been a part of Jewish history. It's all in how you look at things, explains Rabbi Emerita Ariel Stone, who helped start the study group at Congregation Shir Tikvah. “If you look back ...
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A new Justice Department memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the FBI to create a “cash reward system” to incentivize providing information against domestic terrorists. However, it also makes it clear that the targets of such domestic terrorist investigations will be “A...
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Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. The official start of autumn is just three days away (September 22), and we hope you're as excited as we a...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump said in a Friday Truth Social post that he is banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House in a major escalation of his longstanding conflict with the media outlets that have covered his political car...
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In a live TV interview, British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan repeatedly called anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) a racist bigot and asked her if she was a drunk. The exchange occurred when they both appeared on the Thursday installment of Piers Morgan Uncensored, a news talk ...
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A school board meeting in Davis, California, descended into chaos Thursday night with the appearance of Beth Bourne, president of the local Moms for Liberty chapter and a candidate for school board trustee in November. Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern...
