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This story originally appeared on Out.As Rosie O’Donnell prepares for her big week in front of a national audience of millions, she's sharing a very personal story that shows just how far she'll go to support her youngest child: She gave herself a permanent reminder in their hono...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ activists' "position is based on a lack of imagination, ignorance, and misinformation" and "that's why they will ultimately fail."This article is offered exclusively to members, those who contribute monthly or annually to LGBTQ Nation.View this article on LGBTQ Nation...
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In the mid to late 1940s, my aunt Bea and her husband lived on an army base where my uncle was stationed. During Bea’s pregnancy, she developed a rash over her body. Her physician diagnosed her symptoms as an allergic reaction to having eaten strawberries. Within the next six mon...
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Beloved actress Anne Hathaway, who is currently five months pregnant, is being “transvestigated” for showing off her nearly fully exposed baby bump on the red carpet. Yes, we had to read that twice also.At the August 9 Los Angeles premiere of The End of Oak Street, starring Hatha...
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Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) has apologized after a discussion of his voting record on trans issues with a group of fellow Democrats turned ugly this week. The congressman, who is up for reelection in November, spent Tuesday evening speaking to Democratic voters in Virginia's predo...
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Lev Goldberg has made history — again. After previously becoming the first trans person to swim across Lake Ontario, Goldberg, who is a trans man, has bested another gargantuan feat: swimming across Lake Huron. Goldberg is also the first trans swimmer to accomplish this goal. Gol...
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A federal judge dismissed Minnesota's lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's stance that states and school districts can't allow trans kids to participate in sports. Minnesota was the only state challenging Donald Trump's "two sexes" executive order. Minnesota sued the Tr...
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The WNBA has commented on the growing number of outsiders trying to use the league’s gender eligibility policies to stir up controversy. Following news that two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom, plan to register for the WNBA draft by simply saying they iden...
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A third GOP candidate who had Donald Trump's endorsement just lost his primary race this week, which led some commentators to point out that Trump's influence on the party is waning. "Mike Lindell falling short in Minnesota is a HUGE embarrassment to Trump after his endorsement,"...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is getting called out for her "psychotic episode" in an airport by a former GOP congressman who she joked was transgender. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was on Fox News discussing next year's midterm elections when he brought up Mace, saying tha...
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Last week in Michigan we saw how dramatically wrong, and misleading, political polling can be. Because of that, and the media hype, it might have made a difference in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate. Haley Stevens lost by about 16,000 votes, and the second Dem...
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For much of my adult life, people have assumed they know my politics before I open my mouth. As a transgender man writing for an LGBTQ publication, many assume I fit neatly into one political camp. The truth is more complicated. I have long felt politically centrist. I believe de...
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Content Warning: This story contains descriptions of fatal violence against a transgender woman.On the evening of August 5, Juju Nadeau was walking with friends along Back Cove Trail, a wooded path wedged between the water and Interstate 295 in Portland, Maine. As an avid urban e...
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Washington DC Superior Court Judge Tanya Jones Bosier ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay $252,479.70 to jazz musician Chuck Redd within 45 days because the Center's former president, gay Trump administration official Richard Grenell, baselessly tried to sue...
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Republican Jadon MacCormack, a Connecticut State House candidate who literally wants to execute all LGBTQ+ people, decisively lost his primary race last night against his competitor, Anthony Emilio. MacCormack won only 90 votes, less than 20% of the total votes cast for both cand...
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Donald Trump's lesbian niece and clinical psychologist Mary Trump explained the psychological roots of her uncle's compulsion with luxury goods that led him to illegally accept a Boeing 747-8 as a gift from Qatar. "Thanks to my grandfather, money, in my family, was the only curre...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ and MAGA Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey (R) spoke at the recent Signs & Wonders Christian conference alongside homophobic pastors and a self-described ex-gay man who raped two 15-year-old boys. Bailey — who said in a 2025 interview that schoolchildren ...
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The Central European nation of Slovakia rejected a gay couple's attempt to have their marriage registered, possibly setting up a clash with the European Union (EU). Ivan Novotný and Metod Špaček, who are both Slovak, got married in Austria in 2020. Both nations are EU member stat...
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Set in the glitzy Hollywood Hills of 1981, Bret Easton Ellis' semi-autobiographical thriller The Shards has just about everything one would want from a Ryan Murphy series. The acts of violence are mysterious, the teens are poreless, everyone is oversexed. It comes as no surprise ...
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The Democratic primary for a seat in Congress representing parts of the Miami area got ugly on Tuesday when voters received a campaign text message smearing the leading candidate with an accusation that he is HIV positive. Shevrin Jones, Florida's first out Black state senator, i...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Rep. Eugene Vindman came to a predominantly Republican Virginia county Tuesday night expecting to tell local Democrats why they needed to help him win reelection and put their party back in control of Congress. Instead, the first-ter...
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Primary voters in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Connecticut went to the polls on Tuesday, delivering mixed results for progressive candidates, but strong showings for LGBTQ+ Democrats. The Progressive wave that has swept Democratic primaries in some states this year continue...
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Most Americans are uncomfortable with two things: transgender athletes and science. According to polling data shared this week by the Pew Research Center in light of the current debate around the WNBA, a majority of Americans (73%) say that they are uncomfortable with the idea of...
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Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Democratic primary for the Senate in Minnesota, as progressive Democrats continue to clinch nominations across the country. On Tuesday night, NBC News called the race for Flanagan, who received 59.0% of the state’s Democratic primary vote, while he...
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Newly confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 50 to 49, Attorney General of the United States Todd Blanche has carte blanche to turn the Department of Justice from justice for We the People to just us, the Trump family. The Department of Justice, while falling within the Executive b...
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The Trump administration has released a finalized version of a new rule that will bar federal insurance, including the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), from covering gender-affirming care for trans youth. CHIP is a joint federal-state health insurance program that prov...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.It’s been just about a month since U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced his plan for the “High-T” Department of War, which he says includes giving testosterone replacement therapy, known as TRT, to cisgender troops deemed...
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Two anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic schools in Colorado will get their case heard at the Supreme Court on November 3, the Court announced on Monday. St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood, Colorado, along with two parents and the Archdiocese of ...
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Gay D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Donohue on Aug. 11 filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court charging that D.C. police acted improperly and violated a local law by not paying him $30,000 in reward money for his role in helping police identify and arrest — and obtain ...
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During Pride month this year, the Delaware Sexuality and Gender Collective (DSGC) announced plans for The Collective, which will become Delaware’s first LGBTQIA+ visitor center and Wilmington’s first dedicated LGBTQIA+ space in nearly 40 years. “We’ve been talking about the conce...
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The flags in the film community are flying at half mast today after news that Superman actor Nicholas Hoult has been cast in the already greenlit second season of the upcoming HBO-produced Harry Potter remake series.Hoult will play Gilderoy Lockhart in the second season of the up...
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Shortly after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) passed away, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) appointed Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to fulfill the rest of her brother's term. Days later, she announced that she was running for that seat, showing that she was not going ...
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One week after Jason DePuy (known as Salina EsTitties on “RuPaul’s Drag Race”) was bullied and eventually evicted from CBS’s "Big Brother” house, the queer drag performer is still emotionally processing his feelings. During his 24 days in the reality TV competition, DePuy often h...
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A former Trump official's speech about how Christian nationalists will "impose" their religion on everyone in the U.S. is getting attention online. William Wolfe served as both the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a Director of Legislative Affairs at the State Department...
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Written down on paper, the world of One Night Only is a harrowing one. A conservative government and an opportunistic tech industry have colluded to implant mandatory biochips in people’s wrists that surveil their sexual activity, with carceral consequences for anyone who does th...
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in a Pennsylvania case where the adminsitration sought access to the private medical records of transgender children. In a short motion, the DOJ asked the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a l...
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As transgender sports policy continues to make headlines, two former NBA players are attempting to use vague WNBA wording on players’ gender identity to extend their finished professional sports careers. Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, two male former professional basketball...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Trump administration has finalized a rule cutting off Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funding for gender-affirming medical care for transgender young people, turning the federal government’s financial leverage ov...
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The manager of the Long Branch Lagoon Water Park in Dodge City, Kansas reportedly screamed and rushed children out of the women's restroom and changing area on August 8 after three self-described “bearded, burly” transgender men wearing yellow “Compliance Crew” t-shirts followed ...
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The First Congregational Church of Fresno — known colloquially as “The Big Red Church” — has experienced a second act of vandalism directed at its LGBTQ-affirming installation of rainbow-colored doors this summer, per a report in local Fox affiliate KMPH. The doors, which were pa...
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New court documents reveal a gay couple in Denver was the victim of a road rage shooting in the city. The men were called an anti-gay slur and other derogatory comments before the suspect shot one of them in the head. Police later arrested Jacob Sifuentez, who has been charged wi...
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"Proud transphobe" Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) started screaming uncontrollably on the House floor today after LGBTQ+ ally Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) gave a speech in support of gender-affirming care, which Mace is trying to ban with an amendment in a military spending bill. Jacobs prese...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The son of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican, now faces child exploitation charges.The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office announced that Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested on charges including sexual exploitation of a child and s...
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Fox News host Tomi Lahren wrote yesterday that the “GOP is an utter embarrassment,” citing rising cost-of-living amid the Republican Party’s continued support of the president’s war in Iran. “Let’s be frank about it, some Americans are turning to socialism because Rep...
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Wes Streeting, the gay former-health secretary of the United Kingdom who extended the country's indefinite ban on gender-affirming care for youth, was appointed to a new role as Defense Secretary last month. He is now opening up about the massive uptick in homophobic abuse he has...
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Karamo — the out gay author, activist, and former culture expert on the self-improvement reality TV series Queer Eye — will host the 8th annual .ORG Impact Awards. The October 6 Washington, D.C., event — hosted by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the people behind the .ORG dom...
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Retired professional basketball players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White recently announced that they plan to identify as women — at least within the sport of basketball — in order to enter the WNBA draft. After people criticized the pair for pulling an obvious publicity stunt...
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On Sunday August 9th, GLAAD, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted a panel at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAFF) exploring how film and visual storytelling can shape culture, influence perception, and expand what is possible for Black LG...
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A bar in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, was fined twice for anti-trans discrimination this past month after a state commission found that the bar not only banned a trans woman from using the women's restroom but also selectively scanned people's IDs at the door with a policy that targ...
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The public prosecutor’s office in Senegal confirmed Friday that 71 men were arrested and charged with “unnatural acts,” Africa News reports. Twenty-eight other men were arrested but had their charges dropped. The announcement comes several months after the Muslim-majority West Af...
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Donald Trump spoke from the Oval Office yesterday about the executive order he signed to delay the childhood vaccine schedule in contradiction of medical professionals’ advice. His comments contained numerous inaccuracies when it came to vaccines, but one in particular stood out ...
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London is a historic city with no end of monumental sights to see: Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge. Now add to that list Greta Lee and Rebecca Ferguson being kissy kissy for a new movie. Footage from the filming of a new movie starring Past Lives star Greta Lee and Dune...
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India's Income Tax Department has opposed a same-sex couple’s petition that challenges Section 56(2)(x) of the Income Tax Act. The provision exempts gifts between spouses from tax. The couple seeks the same benefit for their relationship. At the center of the challenge is the exp...
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Residents of Rehoboth Beach elected City Commissioner Susan Stewart with 61% of the vote on Aug. 8, making her the city’s first openly gay mayor. Stewart beat fellow commissioners Craig Their and Suzanne Goode in the race, as well as newcomer Jake Raak. The final mayoral vote res...
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For the past few weeks, the right has been mounting a crusade against trans women in the WNBA. It started with Sophie Cunningham's comments in a July 21 interview and has grown into a full moral panic, with a growing list of prominent conservatives expressing their opposition to ...
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Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sworn in as attorney general of the United States on Monday. Blanche secured the position as the country’s 88th chief law enforcement officer on Sunday night after a contentious Senate confirmation process, ultimately en...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Editor's note: Major spoilers ahead for the season 3 finale of House of the Dragon.After finally sleeping with Mysaria, Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen woke up and chose violence — because she had to.Two seasons of longing looks, one very memorable ...
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“The Cher Show” at Clear Space Theatre is wonderful. I am always amazed at the talent they attract for their summer series. Kudos to Wes Drummond, the artistic director of the theater. “The Cher Show” is written by Rick Elice. Compliments to the talented director, James FitzSimmo...
