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Out gay Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener's LGBTQ+ rights record has come under greater scrutiny ever since he launched his campaign to fill the seat of soon-to-be-retiring former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Wiener has a good chance of winning the seat, ha...
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When I first heard that I Want Your Sex was going to be Gregg Araki’s response to the widely discussed phenomenon of Gen Z’s relative celibacy, I felt equally trepidatious and excited. As a member of that generation (albeit on the older end), I’m always a little wary of any kind ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration came to the world’s largest AIDS conference to explain its approach to global health. Its presentation showed that the U.S. government could not locate the countries whose health systems it was proposing to r...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Even paper dolls can’t escape the Trump administration’s anti-transgender obsession.Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced an investigation into Minnesota-based MyGender Dolls, saying parents had complained about the possibility...
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Billboards featuring Kylie Jenner have popped up across the nation promoting new AI glasses, the latest from Meta’s Big Brother empire. The new collection features frames that are meant to look sleek and fashionable, just like any other pair of sunglasses, making it even harder f...
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After allegedly taking two transphobes to task, one of the co-owners of the Seattle Storm has been fined and suspended from attending the WNBA team’s next five home games. On Tuesday, anti-trans protestors staged a rally both inside and outside of the Climate Pledge Arena in supp...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.If a Black transgender teenager gets shot and killed in Florida and no one reports it, what does that say about the value of their life? It’s a question trans activists are struggling with after the scant attention paid to the killin...
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Country rock singer Aaron Lee Tasjan said eight concertgoers walked out during the July 12 performance of his satirical and transgender-inclusive song, "I Love America Better Than You," at the 859 St. Joseph’s Church in Galveston, Texas. He said he appreciated those who left for ...
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Eric Conn, an antisemitic far-right Christian nationalist pastor at Refuge Church in Utah, knows what causes "transgenderism," and it's the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In a July 29 post published on X, Conn wrote, "Women's sports are a key propaganda & discipl...
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A political candidate in Russia was sentenced yesterday to 10 days in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow flag on it in a video posted to social media. Daniil Neonov, who is running for municipal deputy in Moscow, was arrested earlier this month for posting the video on J...
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Award-winning gay Mexican-American author and poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz, perhaps best known for his 2012 gay young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, has died. Sáenz passed away at the age of 71 Tuesday in El Paso, Texas, his longtime home, foll...
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Victor Marx is battling demons — including the gay ones — as he runs for governor of Colorado. Republicans nominated Marx, a Marine veteran, culture warrior, and lately, he claims, a mercenary who single-handedly ordered a strike on ISIS, at the end of June. His own Republican ri...
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Donald Trump interrupted Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy during a press conference in which Duffy brought up his gay predecessor, Pete Buttigieg. Duffy was speaking about the administration's decision to significantly roll back fuel economy standards established by the Bid...
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A Colorado school district is suing the Trump administration over pressure to rescind its trans-inclusive policies. The administration threatened to withhold federal funding for Jeffco Public Schools if it continued to support trans students. In response, the district announced T...
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Texas' scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton has worked closely with Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) to launch numerous attacks against the state's LGBTQ+ community, particularly its transgender residents. He has made national headlines in his numerous legal crusades to persecute pro...
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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten detailed a seismic shift taking place among voters under 50 that spells very good news for Democrats. "We are talking about an absolutely huge shift," Enten said this morning. "A 180 – young voters are fed up, and they're taking their anger out ...
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James Dale’s current battle to ensure trans kids are welcome in Scouting America really started 26 years ago, when his soul was crushed after he lost a separate 10-year legal battle for gay equality. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America, as it was calle...
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Enraged over a trans music teacher at an elementary school in her district, a North Carolina lawmaker suggested it "may be time" to introduce legislation requiring teachers to wear clothing that aligns with the sex assigned at birth while teaching. In a July 27 Facebook post, sta...
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Conservative Christian advocacy organization One Million Moms (OMM) is raging over a campaign urging people to educate themselves about the HIV-prevention medication, long-acting injectable PrEP. The ad, produced by ViiV Healthcare, aired on TV Land, which OMM described as "whole...
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The Trump administration is expanding its campaign to pressure institutions into compliance by threatening federal funding. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took to Fox News this past weekend to announce investigations into school systems that have been allowing trans kids to...
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Supporters of Donald Trump are outraged that he endorsed a "Muslim" candidate, who, in reality, is Christian. "It is my Great Honor to endorse Amir Hassan, who is running to represent the fantastic people of Michigan’s 8th Congressional District!" Trump posted to Truth Social on ...
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Poland's highest court rejected a ruling from a European court requiring the Catholic-majority nation to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad. The ruling from the Constitutional Tribunal comes after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled last November th...
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The right has been ginning up hatred against transgender people for years now in order to pass bans on sports and gender-affirming care amid their War on Woke. But now that every state that could pass one of these laws has already done so, they're looking for new targets… and the...
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Two members of Congress known for their virulently anti-trans statements had pictures taken in drag in the past that are getting attention today. Reps. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and Mike Collins (R-GA) both have scores of "0" on HRC's Congressional Scorecard; they have both made anti-t...
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Voters in Rehoboth Beach head to the polls on Aug. 8 to elect a new mayor and the choice couldn’t be more obvious. Susan Stewart is a smart, effective Commissioner with a background in finance who happens to identify as part of the LGBTQ community, which would make her the first ...
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Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow on Monday blamed President Donald Trump's defunding of various programs for the recent outbreaks of wildfires, measles, and diarrhea. Maddow noted that Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire transphobe Elon...
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Editor’s note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key will be on assignment in the Netherlands through Aug. 10. They will be covering World Pride in Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM — Madonna on Saturday will perform at World Pride in Amsterdam. She is sched...
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Seeing that it’s such a tried-and-true part of most people’s sexual development, how to give a hand job may not have crossed your mind in quite some time. You may not put a lot of thought into how you do it, but like with most things in life, the more experience you have and the ...
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In today’s edition of “dumb stuff that conservatives are mad about for some reason,” the British right-wing is currently losing its collective mind over a digital museum exhibit that suggests a transgender reading of one of the Care Bears. Yes, really. Villiers Revealed: We Have ...
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Go anti-woke, go broke. A planned anti-trans rally outside of a WNBA game in Seattle, of all places, appears to have been a major flop. The “rally” took place outside the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game. Even calling it a rally is generous th...
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President Donald Trump late Tuesday night endorsed Michigan Republican Amir Hassan for the U.S. House. Hassan said he only got involved in politics after a transgender woman used the same bathroom as his daughter. “When my 18-year-old daughter was younger, a man identifying as wo...
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The Department of Defense posted and quickly deleted an image that showed an image of U.S. soldiers and the word "Winning" with the caption, "It's not an option." Numerous social media commenters mocked the Trump administration for the post and connected it with the military's cu...
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The U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Wednesday announced an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the alleged use of "transgender dolls" in schools. However, as LGBTQ Nation explained in an article yesterday, there's no proof as of yet that publi...
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When I wrote my review of the first season of “Heartstopper,” I said that if the series could only be summed up in one word, it would be “adorable.” After an additional two seasons and a movie length series finale (which began streaming on Netflix July 17), I’m going to make up a...
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Guinness World Records made it official on Tuesday: a drag show at Calgary's annual Cowboys Music Festival earlier this month set the record for largest attendance at a drag artists' performance in history, with 7,423 fans and performers participating in the record-setting event ...
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Clear Space Theatre Company was founded in 2004 and has become a huge success in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They present performances all year long, and always have a great summer season when the town grows by the thousands. Not only do they have some great main productions this year, ...
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The Trump administration will install temporary warning signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History after releasing a report accusing the museum of promoting what it calls "radical" gender ideology and other politically biased content. According to the Exe...
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Last month’s Pride celebration in D.C. was so fun. Walking around my first Capital Pride with a $15 lemonade I was loving the madness and the color. Artists and small businesses battling banks you’ve never heard of collecting your personal information so you can spin a wheel to s...
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As Rehoboth Beach voters prepare to elect a new mayor on Aug. 8, some city officials and local residents are raising new concerns about the behavior of City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Suzanne Goode. In addition to a history of troubling emails in which she has used homoph...
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — International News Editor Michael K. Lavers is participating in a course at Leiden University in the Netherlands that examines the role that international law plays in the LGBTQ and intersex rights movement. The course — Sexual Orientation and Gender Iden...
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HIV/AIDS activists on Sunday protested a Trump-Vance administration official at the 2026 International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro. Health GAP Executive Director Asia Russell and others disrupted U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Jeff Graham, who is leading the Trump-Vance admin...
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By JESSICA CALEFATI | Allies of transgender children are urging state education officials to fight back against the Trump-Vance administration, which has threatened to punish a growing number of Maryland school districts over local policies that affirm students’ gender identities...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Before Twitter became X, before Elon Musk stripped away protections for transgender users and before the platform earned the lowest LGBTQ+ safety score among major social networks, there was Adm. Rachel Levine, the trailblazing docto...
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For all the talk of six-seven, its older sibling, 69, is still the reigning number in our world of popular culture. When it comes to sex positions, it represents the ultimate equal exchange of pleasure: Visually, it's yin and yang. Energetically, it's a continuous loop of giving ...
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After President Donald Trump compared Kaitlan Collins to Dylan Mulvaney, the CNN anchor has responded, all while keeping it classy in the face of what was, frankly, playground bully behavior. The journalist appeared on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, during which host Jon Ste...
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If you haven’t swum across at least one Great Lake, what are you doing with your life?Transgender athlete Lev Goldberg is already on his second, with a planned swim across Lake Huron scheduled for the first week of August, according to Now Toronto. Last September, Goldberg — whos...
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Transphobes are planning a rally in Seattle in support of anti-trans WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, following her comments against trans women in sports. The rally is slated to take place tonight at the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever game. It is...
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Cameron Esposito hosting a season of King of Drag with Ginger Minj and Yvie Oddly as guest judges sounds like a dream I had once. Except this one is really happening, as Variety confirmed earlier this week.Because the gospel of this show still needs to be spread, a brief recap is...
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Cinema is inherently a place that people turn to seek representation. Watching a movie by yourself can be a quiet place for self-reflection and self-exploration and watching one in a group often leads to a discussion, so movies naturally are a place people turn to for affirmation...
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After a completely nonsensical MAGA meltdown over a supposedly “woke” rebrand last year, the current CEO of Cracker Barrel is being replaced.The American restaurant and gift shop company announced on July 27 that current CEO and director Julie Masino, who led the controversial re...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A self-described lesbian pro-choice Army veteran in Kentucky is going viral for posting videos to TikTok in which she phones churches to ask if a registered child sex offender would be welcome at their Sunday family services. The key...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A woman was killed, and 29 people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebration, in what German officials are investigating as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.Authorities were sea...
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As if people didn’t hate the DMV enough, a Texas femboy and car enthusiast is sounding the alarm about the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles apparently declaring war on yaoi, so to speak.Content creator aSpicyCow, known only as Amber, posted a video to his social media profiles ...
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Remember 2023? The year when transgender influencer and Broadway actress Dylan Mulvaney held up a single can of Bud Light in a video and the right promptly lost its mind, causing parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev to lose billions of dollars in market cap? Donald Trump certainly...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.House Republicans tried to turn President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service into something harder to undo. They failed narrowly, and not before approving two measures targeting transgender troops and their families.A...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump used the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Friday night to target two prominent gay journalists, mock transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney and deliver a sprawling rally-style address befo...
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This discussion contains extensive spoilers for The Odyssey.Much like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, The Odyssey is a blockbuster about morality. That’s a rare combination. So often, we treat popcorn cinema as a time to set aside ethical nuance: good guys fight bad guys, good g...
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The WNBA All-Star Game and skills competition will keep everyone glued to their screens this weekend, but the fun has already started for fans watching the StudBudz capture the chaos and viral moments among the players on their 72-hour livestream of the event.Besties Courtney Wil...
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The Dinah has finally announced its main headliner for the famous sapphic music festival weekend in Palm Springs and it’s the second coming of Lesbian Jesus. In an exclusive announcement to Them, organizers confirmed Hayley Kiyoko will headline at this year's Dinah. “We are so th...
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The Oscar-winning director went all the way back to ancient Greece for The Odyssey, his massive adaptation of Homer's epic about Odysseus (Matt Damon), the king of Ithaca who embarks on a perilous journey home following the Trojan War. And he brought what feels like half of Holly...
