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This story originally appeared on Out.While most of America spent last week mourning the loss of country music legend Dolly Parton, some Drag Race fans spent 9 to 5 trying to stir up controversy with an AI deepfake.A post accusing Ginger Minj of faking a photo with Parton went vi...
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Christian Nationalist pastor Doug Wilson — who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has referred to as a "mentor" and personally invited to lead a monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon — recently said that he would have fought for the southern Confederacy during the US Civi...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration decided that support for transgender people belonged in the nation’s counterterrorism apparatus. Months later, it commissioned a study that appears designed to tell the government it was right.The U.S. Depart...
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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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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it has approved a new once-daily, single-pill HIV treatment, according to a report by CNBC.The new pill, called Bixlenvo and created by Gilead Sciences, is an especially excitin...
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LGBTQ+ adults are significantly more likely to face challenges accessing and paying for necessary healthcare, according to a new survey released last Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health policy research non-profit. Out of over 2,600 LGBTQ+ adults surveyed, 5...
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The Welsh Gender Service has been instructed to pause all referrals for surgical procedures and all scheduled surgeries while an investigation is carried out. The investigation was prompted by anti-trans campaigners complaining that the service is referring too many people. “A pe...
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The internet is abuzz after Christian rock band Skillet removed its opening act Bad Wolves from their upcoming tour after accusations began to circulate that lead singer Sara “Killboy” Skinner is a transgender OnlyFans creator. Skinner was forced to clarify that she is cisgender ...
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Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Sunday that he married longtime partner Gregory Scott Jr. “With full hearts, immense joy, and deep gratitude, Gregory and I are proud to share that we are officially married," Jones wrote in a statement posted to social media. "Surro...
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Dear Michael, My girlfriend and I are getting married! We’re really excited, but we’ve got some big concerns as well. All of our parents have had multiple marriages. I think 10 between the four of them. So we don’t have much in the way of role models for a successful marriage. Al...
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During a campaign speech over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) detailed the challenges of running a state in Donald Trump's America. "I have to worry about whether people can eat lettuce or blueberries off a grocery shelf because Trump is doing away with food inspection...
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By every account, Republicans are facing a disaster in this fall's elections. Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular and seems intent on doing everything possible to increase his party's unpopularity. The odds are very high that Republicans will lose the House, and Democrats are in...
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I grew up with the Harry Potter books. There were Christmases when the Harry Potter box set was the background audio for the holidays. Now, I avoid them at all costs. For years I’ve heard excuses about separating art from the artist and the importance of the franchise to people. ...
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The South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) removed funding from just two of the nearly 180 arts organizations that it supports, both of which have an LGBTQ+ focus, per the Charleston-based newspaper The Post and Courier. At a meeting held on August 20, the board of the state gover...
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The Trump administration's trans military ban has taken several hits in court, and officials are now taking their fight to kick trans people out to the Supreme Court. The administration submitted a petition on August 28, asking the justices to determine whether banning trans peop...
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With experience as an economist, legislative staffer, and nonprofit director, Michael Smith is looking to protect Delaware from the Trump administration and become Delaware’s first openly LGBTQ treasurer. With a master’s degree in economics from the University of Alabama, Smith h...
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Poland has begun to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed outside the country. TVP World, the country’s public broadcaster, reported civil registry offices began to “transcribe same-sex marriages legally” conducted outside of Poland on Aug. 22. The EU Court of Justice in...
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Getting into the WNBA’s business and being transphobic? In tennis, that’s called a double fault. On Sunday, tennis icon Martina Navratilova — whose descent into the anti-trans movement has rapidly escalated since she first publicly opposed trans women in sports in 2019 — helped s...
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True crime YouTuber and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison is sounding the alarm about how the president may have suffered a focal aware seizure at a recent public event. Garrison played a clip of Trump giving a speech to NASA at Houston's Johnson Space Center this past...
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The head of a French LGBTQ+ organization has been hospitalized following a brutal attack in the heart of Paris' LGBTQ+ neighborhood by an assailant who allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs. FLAG! President Pierre Picavet, who is also a police officer, said that he was in the Marais n...
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Vice President J.D. Vance tried to joke about former President Joe Biden in front of soldiers at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach on July 1. It didn't go well for Vance—literally no one laughed. During his speech, Vance told the troops he was having a mental debate ...
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‘Nation-State: A Live Experiment’Sept. 2-13La Pluma TheatreDupont Underground19 Dupont Circle, N.W.$25-40Dupontunderground.orgIndustry Night: September 7. Free for all theater makers A relevant piece replete with borders and passports, La Pluma Theatre’s “Nation-State: A Live Exp...
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An organization led by trans South Asian immigrants is struggling to survive in the face of fewer opportunities for city and state funding. While the group thought it might have to shut down entirely in October, the community has started to rally around it. Now, leaders are hopef...
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Trans advocates are disappointed that Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint will reprise the role of Ron Weasley in a 17-week run of Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Grint – who played the character in all eight original Harry Potter films – originally worked to distance h...
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Two Florida cities are standing up to Gov. Ron DeSantis' removal of their rainbow crosswalks by painting rainbow colors on two other highly visible public places. At the start of Pride month, St. Petersburg painted the steps of its city hall in the colors of the Progress Pride fl...
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This story was originally published by LOOKOUT, a nonprofit newsroom covering LGBTQ+ communities and issues in the Southwest. Editor's note: This story contains mentions of self-harm, as well as physical and sexual violence. When Anna Kilbride told a classmate she would not have ...
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A judge in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon is defending his decision to grant a transgender woman's petition for an administrative change in civil records acknowledging that she is a woman. "I acted legally and according to my conscience," the judge told Beirut-based news o...
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President Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, recently noted that his most loyal and sycophantic high-profile supporters — like Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly — are starting to question his fitness to lead the country. But while Mary Trump hopes ...
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Trump administration report says that supporting trans rights makes people violent What this was based on: The report itself was based on a small, unrepresentative survey that asked people about their views on trans rights and whether they support certain high-profile cases of vi...
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A pollster specializing in women voters said she is "seeing sirens" for the GOP as women indicate a massive decrease in support for the party. Christina Matthews, who conducts polls for Bellwether Research and Consulting, spearheaded a survey of 1,604 women ages 18 and over and f...
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Another former NBA player has inserted himself into the debate over trans athlete participation in the WNBA. Matt Ryan, who used to play forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, posted on social media on Monday in defense of fellow former player Enes Kanter Freedom, who has been on a ...
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As LGBTQ and HIV advocates continue to grapple with the Trump administration’s attacks on healthcare, a new book offers a timely look at what happens when public health systems — and the democratic institutions that sustain them — are pushed to their limits. The book, “Aftershock...
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Jared Kushner, like his father-in-law, Donald Trump, was born gagging on a golden spoon. Kushner married Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, in 2009 at Trump’s National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. Anti-nepotism laws prevent Kushner from working in ...
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The technology field can be a gateway to economic mobility. At E-INFOSOL, a service-disabled, veteran-owned business based in Rockville, Md., CEO and co-founder Fredy Pesante and Vice President of Service Delivery Charles Barnett say internships, mentorship and free online resour...
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A new emergency shelter opened in Houston last Monday to support unhoused LGBTQ+ youth. Asia's House will give young people ages 15 to 17 a place to sleep, filling a gap as the city's first temporary emergency shelter specifically for queer and trans youth, Chron reported. Courtn...
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Author JK Rowling is facing criticism for posting an upskirt image of a transgender woman last weekend while demanding that the trans woman debate her. Rowling wrote post after post on X on July 11, demanding that trans writer Freda Wallace debate her after Wallace called Rowling...
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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. We lost country music legend Dolly Parton and fearless actor Tim Curry this week, but together we can help...
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Editor's note: The Department of Homeland Security on Saturday said Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the U.K. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A DHS spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blad...
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday arrested far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in a statement sent to the Washington Blade said ICE arrested Yiannopoulos, who they described as "an illegal alien from the Unite...
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Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, joked that he is "48.6% gay" in an interview with gay progressive political broadcaster Luke Beasley, published August 17. During their conversation, Beasley asked Hunter Biden whether he was gay like him. Hunter Biden replied,...
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LGBTQ people have a variety of housing options when they’re lucky enough to be able to afford property. In San Francisco – long considered a safe haven for the queer community – individual needs have to be weighed both against the city’s chronic housing shortage and a competitive...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.On Karoline Leavitt’s final day as White House press secretary, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, took a black marker to a map and crossed out the name of a 7,300-square-mile Great Lake shared with Canada.“Lake Ontario, ...
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Love Island USA fans everywhere are vibrating as the reunion of everyone’s favorite heteropessimist reality dating show is set to air on Monday, August 31st. While the American version of the show has yet to include a significant queer storyline within the walls of the villa —and...
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Let’s Go Washington, the Republican group behind an anti-trans sports ban that'll appear on the state's ballot in November, denied a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to remove the academy's name from the group's description of its ballot measure, which appear...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s stand-your-ground law protects a transgender activist.Rihanna Kelver has maintained that Scott Durham hurled anti-trans slurs and pushed her to the ground outside the Crowbar & ...
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Missi Pyle, the 53-year-old actress and singer, came out in a recent episode Shut Up Evan, Netflix's video podcast show hosted by gay pop culture commentator Evan Ross Katz. During the show's Group Chat segment, Pyle talked with Katz, genderqueer musician King Princess, and TV pr...
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Ex-gay far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Yiannopoulos — who once served as an intern for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and is known for his sexist, transphobic, homophobic, and racist statements — is c...
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A lawsuit filed against a New Jersey school district by a right-wing legal advocacy group reveals the coordinated effort among "parents' rights" and other anti-LGBTQ+ groups to strip students of privacy and other protections in schools, all while falsely promoting their legal suc...
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Economic mobility usually assumes a starting line: a bedroom to return to, a parent to call, a place to regroup after things go wrong. For many LGBTQ young adults in South Florida, that starting line never existed. That’s why Our Fund Foundation, SunServe, and Sunshine Cathedral ...
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Gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, who stepped down last March as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., had his $1 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against jazz artist Chuck Redd thrown out by a judge last Friday be...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration’s immigration dragnet has caught one of MAGA’s provocateurs.Milo Yiannopoulos, the "ex-gay" British far-right personality who entered the orbits of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ye (formerly Kanye West) after bu...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both.The former first son declared himself 48.5 percent gay during a recent interview with gay progressive political commentator Luke Beasley — although the ...
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Former director of student wellness and health promotion at Georgia Southern University, Gemma Skuraton, filed a lawsuit against the University System of Georgia (USG) and Georgia Southern University vice president Shay Little, alleging she was terminated in retaliation after obj...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the Pentagon to fire decorated transgender troops who have so far beaten the government in court. The Department of Justice is asking the high court...
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Donald Trump will not be attending a ceremony in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City because he wanted to make a speech at the event, but the organizers wouldn't let him. Speeches haven't been allowed at the ...
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It’s time to let the waterbender be a bit more fluid. Gay shippers and fans of the multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch are gobsmacked that a new comic in the game’s lore-widening Overwatch Undivided series has confirmed that support hero Wuyang has a crush on fellow healer...
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National Women’s Soccer League star Esther González is facing backlash from fans who say her decision to sign with a Saudi Women’s Premier League team is a betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community as well as her former team. In July, González and NJ/NY Gotham FC agreed to end her contrac...
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Last week, Advocate published a list of "11 anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans dogged by gay rumors" and, while it's very stupid, it's also an interesting look at how stifling contemporary culture is when it comes to gender and sexualitly, how people on all parts of the political spectrum u...
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David Archuleta will chat with fans and sign his book “Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself” on Sunday, Sept. 6 at 2 p.m. at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. The book is an inspirational account of his transformation from a closeted Mormon teen singer to a pop star who is c...
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Actor Tim Curry died at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Curry has a career spanning decades that included roles on the stage and screen. With an unmistakable voice, he also leaves behind a large body of voice work in animated features and video games. Curry is perhaps best re...
