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Right-wing financier Reid Rasner may have lost his primary for Wyoming's at-large House seat earlier this month, but he's still getting attention online for his lack of understanding of how public restrooms work. "STOP THE INSANITY!" he posted to Facebook this week. "Another tran...
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Friday, August 28 Go Gay DC will host “LGBTQ+ Community Happy Hour” at 7 p.m. at DIK Bar.This is a chance to relax, make new friends, and enjoy happy hour specials at this classic retro venue. Attendance is free and more details are available on Eventbrite. Trans Discussion Group...
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If any movie title can be said to describe exactly what it is going to show us, “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” would have to be it – and yet, it doesn’t communicate anything to prepare us for what we are going to see. For that, you’d have to already be a fan of the creato...
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Reportar sin Miedo es el socio mediático del Washington Blade en Honduras. Esta nota salió en su sitio web el 21 de agosto. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Las cifras encienden todas las alarmas: 35 muertes violentas de personas LGBTQ, 195 casos de violencia generalizada y 11 personas as...
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There was only one movie I wanted to watch on the day Tim Curry died. Much as I love The Rocky Horror Picture show with its celebration of alterity and sexual liberation, one of the actor’s performances, for me, stands head and shoulders above the rest. I am talking, of course, a...
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This medical group would like transphobes to keep its name out of their mouth. A right-wing anti-trans campaign seeking to ban trans athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity has decided not to comply with a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics to...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Dr. Evan Goldstein has been helping make bottoming healthier and more pain-free for years through his practice, Bespoke Surgical, and now his expertise is coming to a CVS store near you.Goldstein, one of the country’s leading anal surgeons, n...
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Following President Donald Trump's third hospital visit in 13 months, physician and MS NOW medical analyst Vin Gupta told the media outlet Zeteo on Wednesday that one of Trump's "chronic" conditions hints at a possible heart issue. Speaking of Trump's swollen ankles, Gupta said, ...
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Editor's note: International News Editor Michael K. Lavers and Photo Editor Michael Key were on assignment in the Netherlands from July 28-Aug. 10. AMSTERDAM — A transgender American couple who live in the Netherlands say President Donald Trump prompted them to leave the U.S. Jac...
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Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released a 20-page pseudoscientific report entitled “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” The report concludes that "gender ideology is associated with left-wing autho...
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When it comes to being queer, few binaries are more strictly enforced than the top/bottom dichotomy, which separates gay sex into those who penetrate, those who are penetrated, and in some cases, the vers queens who do it all. But what about those who aren’t interested in anal se...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal appeals court has refused to let President Donald Trump’s administration obtain sensitive medical records belonging to transgender young people who received care in New York.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
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Recent headlines and GOP-aligned spokespeople like Riley Gaines would have you believe women and girls in sports are under no greater threat than the one posed to them by transgender people. Indiana Fever guard and latest right-wing media darling Sophie Cunningham poured gasoline...
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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Thursday called President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America "petty and disappointing." “This is petty and disappointing. We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. ...
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Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
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President Donald Trump is so desperate to have his name on the Kennedy Center that he’s willing to tear it down if he doesn’t get his way. In a Monday legal filing, the Kennedy Center board members, most of whom were installed by the president himself, described the arts complex ...
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Esther González, a National Women’s Soccer League champion married to a woman, is facing criticism after signing to Al-Qadsiah of Saudi Women’s Premier League — located in a country that famously outlaws same-sex relations.The 33-year-old athlete’s shocking move comes after she m...
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Written By Shar Jossell Ryan C. Hamilton is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose lens is trained on the people most often left out of the archive. Approaching his work through a sociological framework, Hamilton is dedicated to documenting Black queer life with intimacy and an insi...
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Organizers in Idaho started a campaign to buy a notorious venue that hosted anti-LGBTQ+ events. Their goal: to turn it into a gay bar and community hub. Montgomery Kuykendall, a Boise-based entrepreneur, has launched a GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $3 million to buy the Old S...
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The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit from a former Georgia Southern University employee who said she was fired for objecting when the school didn’t want to provide free chest binders to students, CBS News Atlanta reported on Thursday. Gemma Skuraton, who was formerly Georgi...
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Marni von Wilpert, currently a member of the San Diego City Council, is running for Congress from one of five recently gerrymandered districts in California, redrawn to add Democratic votes and, the party hopes, send a majority to the House of Representatives in 2027. A pledge to...
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WNBA star Cameron Brink did not mince words when asked about former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom's crusade against trans inclusion in the women's league. Brink, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, called Kanter Freedom "a stupid piece of sh*t" during an interview where she al...
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A GOP Congressman shared a bizarre take this week on the trans athlete controversy currently consuming the WNBA. During an appearance on Jenna Ellis In The Morning, a radio show hosted by the president's former legal advisor, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) said he agreed with a comm...
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Rehoboth Mayor Stan Mills called for the resignation of Commissioner Suzanne Goode, following release of an independent investigation into Goode’s behavior that led Mills to conclude she has violated her oath of office. Over the past few months, city staff have complained about C...
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As summer starts to wane and fall starts to settle in, Lilly Wachowski has just the show for you to get into the spooky season groove. Cassie Workman Is Witchy AF, an eight-part weekly, comedic documentary series hosted by Australian transgender comedian Cassie Workman, explores ...
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President Trump’s favorability is at record lows, dragged down by a reckless and unpopular war, soaring food and gas prices, economic instability and a general sense that he is flagrantly corrupt, more focused on vengeance than governing, flailing and mentally unwell. Assuming th...
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As the world is still reeling from the news of the death of legendary Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton on Tuesday, many of her LGBTQ+ fans have resurfaced evidence of her long and enduring support of the LGBTQ+ community.That support included a job and a lasting friendship wit...
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An important event impacting the LGBTQ community will be held on Sept. 12 in Rehoboth Beach, Del. The event is a fundraiser for the Washington Blade Foundation. Whether you can join us in person, or just be with us from a distance, I ask you to seriously consider becoming a spons...
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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for a US Senate seat in Michigan, mocked Donald Trump's bizarre pronunciation of his name at a campaign event on Wednesday. "Donald Trump, because he can't resist the red meat, can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth," El-Sayed said. "Ha...
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Two women identified as a couple who are charged with the May 22, 2026, murder of the mother one of them in her Silver Spring home and who were arrested three weeks later in Ohio are scheduled to go on trial for murder April 19, 2027. According to online records filed with Montgo...
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Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, spoke in his August 25 broadcast about a news story involving "California sodomites who bought a baby through surrogacy" but then allegedly told the birth mother to "kill it" (per their surrogacy agreement) afte...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Kansas judge says one transgender driver can take the wheel again.After Jamie Miller’s license was suspended under a new state law, Douglas County District Judge James McCabria temporarily restored her driving privileges, ruling th...
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Former pro-basketball player and sports commentator Charles Barkley criticized the transgender athlete debate unfolding in the WNBA, saying, "Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women," in his interview with radio host Michael Smerconish published Monday on ...
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This article contains spoilers for Lesbian Space Princess.Another day, another internet debate embroiling queer people at the discourse factory. If you’re on lesbian or sapphic TikTok, it’s likely that your For You Page has been dominated with recent criticisms of Lesbian Space P...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A federal judge cited Dolly Parton’s bosom as he blocked Texas’ drag ban, proving that even in death, the LGBTQ+ icon can still defend the rights of queens.U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled that a 2023 state law criminalizing “...
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President Donald Trump claimed today that the recently deceased country music star Dolly Parton "really liked" him, even though she never publicly discussed her political affiliations and twice turned down Trump's offer to award her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (She also on...
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A Kansas school district has agreed to the Trump administration’s demands that officials out trans kids to their parents, ending a yearlong investigation into so-called “gender ideology.” In its Tuesday, August 25, announcement, Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. ...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Luke Evans is sharing his heartfelt message to Tim Curry following his death.Curry is a theater icon known for originating the iconic role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. Earlier this year, Evans stepped into the stiletto heel...
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), the frontrunner in the race to become Florida’s next governor, has been widely criticized for a bizarre misogynistic comment about why women need high-quality roads. “Everybody gets frustrated when it just takes longer to get from point A to point B," D...
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An employee of the Grand Island, New York, wastewater treatment facility has filed a lawsuit against the town for alleged anti-gay discrimination. Court documents obtained by WIVB reveal Timothy Burns' accusations against a coworker, who he said subjected him to "overtly homophob...
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Well, Rupert Grint certainly figured out how to use the invisibility cloak on his trans allyship.The actor will join the cast of Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for 17 weeks beginning in February 2027, per The Hollywood Reporter. Grint will reprise the role of Ron We...
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This story originally appeared on Out.When J.K. Rowling joined the world in mourning the legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating her legacy, her post on X generated an online backlash that drew a stark contrast between the Harry Potter author's controversial "gender critical" view...
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Tim Curry, the beloved British actor best known for playing eccentric villains, died Tuesday at the age of 80 in his Los Angeles home. His cause of death has not yet been publicly revealed, though he suffered a major stroke in 2012. He was unmarried, had no children, and publicly...
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Pride parades, sponsorships, and celebrations all trace their roots back to Black and Brown trans people, who reached their absolute limit with police violence, surveillance, and harassment. We gave this movement its heartbeat. But decades later, our communities are still being a...
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Tim Curry has passed away.Following a decade of serious health complications, the Broadway star died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles.After originating the iconic role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show in London and Los Angeles, Curry led the original Broadwa...
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A federal judge in Texas ruled this week that the state’s drag ban is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech in violation of the First Amendment. US District Court Judge David Hittner’s Tuesday decision strikes down S.B. 12, a 2023 law signed by anti-LGBTQ+ Gov. Greg Abbo...
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The Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission voted to fine Hideout Arcade Bar & Grille $15,000 last month due to a discrimination complaint filed by a trans woman over her use of the bathroom. Katie Sorber, a transgender woman, said that on April 5, 2023, she was stopped by emp...
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I don’t want to say goodbye. To be honest, my first impression of music icon Dolly Parton was similar to the scathing look the demur Jane Fonda gave the boss’s secretary in one of my favorite funny feminist films ever, "9 to 5." Fonda’s aghast up-and-down scrutiny was pure unspok...
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Democrat Everton Blair has become the first out gay man elected to Congress from Georgia. Blair won a special election Tuesday evening to replace the late Rep. David Scott (D-GA), beating Scott's daughter, Marcye Scott, with 53 percent of the vote, compared to her 47 percent. Rel...
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A 2026 list of candidates released by the D.C. Board of Elections shows that 31 of the 43 known LGBTQ candidates who won election in 2024 as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners have filed the required petition signatures to be placed on the ballot this year to run for re-election...
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A Trump supporter said that she supported the administration's cuts to foreign aid because it meant that fewer people would get vaccinated. Comedian Jason Selvig talked to a woman wearing a red cap and a T-shirt with a giant picture of Donald Trump. He asked whether she supported...
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By LEE O. SANDERLIN | The Democratic Party is having something of an identity crisis — losing to President Donald Trump twice in three elections will do that. Should the party embrace anti-establishment figures who espouse progressive policy ideas like Medicare for all and rhetor...
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The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC Foundation), the public education, research, and policy arm of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the United States, has released new data showing that there are more LGBTQ+ identifying people than ever before...
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Transgender author Jesse James Rose wrote in an Instagram post published Sunday that recently deceased homophobic Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) regularly paid her "a fat stack of cash" when she was a "twinky pre-transition college student" to do "unspeakable things to him in a hotel...
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Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was declared the winner of yesterday's Republican primary runoff after running a short campaign based largely on transphobia and who her brother was. Graham has received 52.5% of the vote in the runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) with 99% o...
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“In 1972, my feeling was that this was a gay town and that I was here at the pleasure of somebody else, which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time.”That’s how late chef, author, and television host Anthony Bourdain described his first summer in Provi...
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In a heartfelt tribute to the late Dolly Parton, who died today at age 80, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile said that she had “felt her leaving all week” and had been “asking folks to pray every day,” proceeding to share a series of touching thoughts on faith and LGBTQ+ inclusion...
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Dolly Parton died on Tuesday at a Nashville hospital. She was 80. Her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Parton passed away at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center "after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer." Parton's nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced his aunt's death in a video...
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There are few celebrities whose passing could inspire such universal mourning as Dolly Parton. The country music legend and renowned philanthropist died today at age 80, turning all of our social media feeds into a sea of black-and-white portraits and tearful remembrances. Surpri...
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Don’t let the Sophie Cunninghams of the world fool you: the WNBA is filled with players who have openly supported transgender inclusion in sports for years.It should be no surprise that a league that has historically been early on for LGBTQ+ inclusion— and is currently 25% queer,...
