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The Maine Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that a father can prevent his daughter's mother from taking the child to an anti-LGBTQ+ church in Maine. The mother was represented by the Christian nationalist legal group the Liberty Counsel, which drew national attention to ...
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It’s hard to overstate the sheer sapphic power of a same-sex Dancing With the Stars casting announcement photo. I mean, just look at this newly released image of openly bisexual reality star Sarah Jane Nader with her dancer partner Hailey Bills. The sequins, the hair, the pose? I...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been getting positive attention on social media this week following an appearance on a "manosphere" podcast where he explained his vision for the Democratic party. Fox News, though, had a problem with a gay man appearing on Flagr...
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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy has caused a social media frenzy after claiming he doesn't trust the government, despite being a high-ranking government official. Duffy made the comment alongside his wife, Fox Host Rachel Campos-Duffy, during an appearance on The Katie Mil...
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If you’ve ever looked at women with “Mar-a-Lago face” and wondered who’s apparently teaching them to apply foundation with a concrete trowel, wonder no more.It seems that MAGA has their very own, somewhat cursed equivalent of a drag mother, and her name is Adrienne Gray. The form...
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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) clinched the Democratic seat for his reelection campaign in Massachusetts’s primary election on Tuesday. Markey won the deep-blue state with 64.8 percent of the vote, according to NBC News, triumphing over Marine Corps combat veteran and Congressman ...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Kansas City, Kansas Public School (KCKPS) District for its policy that does not forcibly out trans students to their parents. The district is one of four investigated by the Education Department (ED) earlier th...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Andrew Wommack claimed in an interview published August 27 that he has raised over 50 people from the dead. He has previously claimed that his son and wife were also raised from the dead. While speaking on the Christian broadcast FlashPoint, Wommack told h...
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Trans Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) slammed Pete Hegseth in an interview on Tuesday for pretty much everything he has done so far as Secretary of Defense, accusing him of being "fundamentally unwilling to have anyone who makes him question his own superiority surrounding him." "From ...
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This story describes charges of violence and sexual assault against a transgender woman. Details are graphic.Two men were charged on September 1 for allegedly strangling and sexually assaulting a transgender woman on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus over the weekend, in...
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A charter school in Nashville, Tennessee, removed over 20 LGBTQ+ children's books from its elementary school libraries after a Christian teacher was disciplined for refusing to read one about lesbian mothers to his students. Eric Rivera, a first-grade teacher at the Knowledge is ...
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In a new piece written for Nonprofit Quarterly, Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, which describes itself as the largest national trans-led organization, shared that there has been a “near complete exodus” of philanthropy from the transgender r...
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This story originally appeared on Out. One year after renouncing what he called the gay "lifestyle," Christian recording artist and former reality TV star Davis Mallory has revealed his new straight love life.The singer posted posted a series of photos with a woman he started dat...
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Bulgaria's top court has ruled the country's government must allow transgender people to legally change their name and gender on ID documents. A trans woman from Bulgaria who moved to Italy, had tried to change her gender and name on her Bulgarian ID documents, but courts in the ...
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) lost Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary to incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) a month after apologizing for suggesting that Democrats should moderate their support for transgender rights. On Tuesday evening, the Associated Press called the race for Markey, with t...
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Self-proclaimed "ex-gay" and far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos – who was deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials back to his home country of the UK last week – said in an interview published Tuesday that he is "ashamed" of his past support for Donald Tr...
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“Lou’s Legacy: a Reporter’s Life at the Washington Blade,” a documentary produced by The Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., will receive an Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. The film premiered on WETA PBS in D.C. and Maryland P...
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A city employee was attacked early Sunday morning in Sacramento's LGBTQ+ district of Lavender Heights, where he said four men left him with minor injuries after shouting racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs. The victim, Joseph Sais, told KCRA that he was walking home with a friend after ...
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The Rt. Rev. Charles “Charlie” Braun, who served since 2001 as Bishop of the D.C.-based Inclusive Catholic Diocese of the Chesapeake Bay and as founding minister at the affiliated LGBTQ supportive St. John’s Inclusive Catholic Community of D.C., passed away Aug. 3 at the age of 8...
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The University of Florida disbanded its chapter of the College Republicans after one of its reported members, Dylan Estrella, was photographed allegedly throwing a "seig heil" Nazi salute in an online video stream — the photo went viral. Now, the organization is suing the univers...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Seth Moulton went looking for a promotion and found the exit.Massachusetts Democrats overwhelmingly rejected the congressman’s bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, renominating Sen. Ed Markey after a campaign that turned Moulton’s at...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Milo Yiannopoulos spent more than a year demanding that the U.S. government deport millions of immigrants, particularly Black and brown people. Last week, the Trump administration deported him.Now the far-right provocateur says the s...
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The Washington Blade this week welcomed Alexis McLean as its fall intern. Alexis is studying political science at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Fla. She is interning with the Blade as part of a continued partnership with the Washington Center. "I am looking for...
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Saline County, Arkansas has agreed to pay $275,000 to Patty Hector, the county library’s former executive director, to settle her lawsuit claiming that county officials violated her free speech rights by firing her in October 2023 after she publicly opposed an April 2023 resoluti...
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The Miss Gay Old Bay pageant was held at The Lodge in Boonsboro, Md. on Friday, Aug. 29. Vanya Varushka was crowned the winner. Glitter Douglas was named first runner-up. Both Varushka and Douglas qualify to compete in the Miss Gay Maryland pageant in October. (Washington Blade p...
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Everybody yearns for a little gay kiss — but what if you’ve never locked lips with anyone before?Learning how to kiss, much like painting, sculpting, or dance, is an art that requires a lot of care and practice. If you’ve never done it before, or just don’t feel like you have the...
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This story originally appeared on Out.La Bola Negra may have started its life as a small Spanish-language film, but the epic gay saga has proven to be a critical darling and smash success before it even hits theaters.Directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's breakout hit took ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.It’s easy to get so focused on the pleasure sex brings that you don’t think about what comes afterward, but whether it’s cuddling, a warm bath, or pillow talk, aftercare should be part of your post-sex routine — especially if you’re into anal...
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A Wyoming county district court ruled on Monday that a criminal case against a trans woman who pulled a gun on a man who pushed her to the ground will go to trial. According to The Laramie Reporter, the court found the woman's lawyers failed to prove that her actions were covered...
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Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial end of summer in Rehoboth Beach, but there will be no shortage of LGBTQ events, with CAMP Rehoboth’s annual SUNFESTIVAL taking over town this weekend. Thursday (9/3) Get your Labor Day Weekend started early Thursday night with happy hour fro...
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This story originally appeared on Out.For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on s...
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By JESSICA CALEFATI | Anne Arundel County Public Schools staff cannot use transgender students’ preferred names if their parents oppose it, according to an internal document reviewed by the Banner, a change that comes after conservative groups challenged the school system’s appro...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.LGBTQ+ organizations in Arizona will hold a vigil Wednesday for two men killed outside a longtime gay bar, as advocates warn that a note found with the suspected gunman indicates other queer gathering places may also have been target...
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Early Monday morning in Tucson, AZ, a gunman reportedly targeting LGBTQ-associated businesses opened fire on patrons outside local LGBTQ bar “Venture-N,” killing two people. Vincent Anthony Siqueiros and Cameron Davis Capara were shot and killed.The attack is being investigated a...
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California on Monday prevailed against the Trump administration's bid to strike down the state's law allowing trans student-athletes to compete in school sports. A US District Court judge agreed with California that the administration’s threat to withhold federal education fundin...
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) insinuated yesterday that the president has a terminal illness because he canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing. "Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him t...
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The FBI quietly lowered its background check hiring standards back in June to allow the hiring of people who have previously stolen from an employer or engaged in acts of bestiality, CBS News reported on August 28. The lowered standards come at a time when the FBI has lost about ...
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Chloe Shapiro was promised an honorable discharge and $86,655.32 in severance if she agreed to voluntarily leave the Army National Guard and not fight Trump’s second trans military ban. Months later, she has received only $20,000 of that payment and is now homeless. “I had my pla...
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As I type this, I have a Pumpkin spice latte — iced —with a generous amount of honey syrup in hand. I’m gay and we only drink these iced. It’s only September 1, but I can’t help but feel like fall is here. Or at least close enough to taste. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m a Scorpio,...
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Protect the dolls!Now in its fourth year, Doll Invasion at Fire Island Pines celebrated everything that makes the transgender and nonbinary community so beautiful. With iconic performances from rising stars and plenty of parties where queer people could simply let their hair down...
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Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo is opening up about the homophobic backlash he received after coming out as gay earlier this year. During a recent appearance on The Break Down with Nath & Johnny, Shomo explained that shortly after finishing the band’s latest album, Pure Ecstasy, h...
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Three people were fatally shot outside a gay bar in Tucson, Ariz., early Monday morning, about a mile from the city’s nightlife district. Police have said the shooting, which took place in the parking lot of Venture-N bar at 1239 N. 6th Ave., was likely a hate crime and a double ...
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Actress and organizer Indya Moore announced she no longer uses they/them pronouns or identifies as nonbinary on August 31 in a post to Instagram. “I no longer Identify as Non Binary. My pronouns are She/her Please be kind to me. I may share more later Love, Solidarity, Peace and ...
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As I was growing up, my parents often shared stories about how they were bullied when they were my age, just for being Asian. My mom is Cambodian and my dad is “Wasian,” Chinese and white. Students teased them for their looks, their homemade lunches, and treated their traditional...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office did not respond to a request for comment. The request failed to send because of a server error and was not received by the office...
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CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday detailed a remarkable shift among Independents as America prepares for the midterm elections in November. Enten explained that if "you win independents, you win elections," which is why the preferences of this demographic have been s...
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The prediction market platform Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to gay and disgraced former GOP Congressman George Santos. Kalshi announced Santos' ban on Monday after a federal regulator accused him of making almost $18,000 from betting on his own likelihood of atte...
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This review contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Adults season 2.I’ve been waiting since Community sputtered to a close 11 years ago on Yahoo Screen — which, yes, was a real streaming service — for a sitcom to figure out how to flesh out its own internal lore and expe...
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A fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona, LGBTQ+ bar is being investigated as both a hate crime and a possible double murder-suicide. The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 31, when the suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, is believed to have gon...
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The wife of D.C. attorney Robert Wone, who was found stabbed to death on Aug. 2, 2006, in the Dupont Circle area home of three gay men, has filed a complaint in court accusing two of the men of failing to make the payments they promised to make to settle a $20 million wrongful de...
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Whitman-Walker Health, D.C.’s LGBTQ supportive healthcare center and medical clinic, is calling on D.C. residents and supporters to take part in its 40th annual Walk & 5K Run to End HIV scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 19. The event, in which participants choose to walk or...
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French prosecutors say a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a prominent activist before he attacked him in Paris on Saturday. Media reports indicate Pierre Picavet, a police officer who is the president of FLAG!, a group within the French Justice and Interior Ministries that defends L...
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MAGA devotee Mark Da Costa has shut down his restaurant after just six weeks, mocking queer people in a social media post announcing the eatery's closure. Da Costa, who once performed on the reality TV singing competition Australian Idol, opened the Bueno Eatery in the Newtown ne...
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This story appeared originally on Advocate. Two men were shot and killed outside a longtime gay bar in Tucson, Arizona, early Monday in what police are investigating as a hate crime. The suspected gunman was carrying a note listing several LGBTQ-associated businesses, and the cit...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump has for years insisted he loves women, even as he set in motion the reversal of federal abortion rights and blocked enforcement of equal pay regulations. Still, women in politics have stood by the GOP leader — ...
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The Department of State apologized for "deadnaming" a lake after President Donald Trump's executive order last week renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Because deadnaming usually refers to the act of referring to a transgender, non-binary, or gender-expansive individual by thei...
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Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on Sunday campaigned for U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) in New Hampshire. Robinson traveled to Manchester, the state’s largest city, nine days before the Sept. 8 primary that will determine who will vie for retiring U.S. Sen. Jeann...
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Have you heard the gospel of Lola Petticrew? The nonbinary actor first came on my radar after our friends at Autostraddle blogged about their role in Hulu’s FBI serial killer drama Furious, but I resisted watching it. Not because the show doesn’t have great reviews — it does! — b...
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Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries as of yesterday, TVP World reported. However, Poland itself has not legalized same-sex marriages within its own borders. The country was compelled to start recognizing foreign s...
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Donald Trump said in an interview yesterday that voters should treat the 2026 midterms as if he is on the ballot, while bringing up how he is going to make "transgender… end." Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who is now a Fox News host, asked Trump on his show yesterday about the u...
