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When a conservative voter asked Vice President JD Vance a question about housing affordability, he responded by mentioning a US senator's buttocks. During a Fox News town hall last Thursday, October 29, a woman who identified herself as the vice president of her university’s Turn...
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Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic US Senate candidate in Michigan, refused to backpedal his support of transgender people's civil rights when questioned about it by conservative commentator Ross Douthat in a 60 Minutes interview that aired yesterday. Douthat mentioned to El-Sayed th...
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Somewhere in the District of Columbia, a child under five may soon come to live with me. I do not yet know the child's name or story. I know only that my job will be to offer care and stability, and to help that child return home whenever possible. I am in the final stages of fos...
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Thomas Bradley on Sunday became Australia’s first openly gay state governor. Bradley took office as Queensland's premier at a ceremony that took place at Parliament House in Brisbane, the state’s capital. The former Court of Appeal judge succeeded Jeannette Young, whose term as g...
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This story is a joint investigation with The Advocate.On Tuesday, residents of four U.S. states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Washington — will vote on whether to ban transgender athletes from organized sports. Each state has a ballot measure backed by political action commi...
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A new YouGov/Economist poll included two questions about trans and non-binary identities in the United States. The startling results show just how much people believe Democrats will handle trans rights better than the Republicans, with a 29-point margin separating support for the...
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There are more than 100,000 LGBTQIA+ residents in the District of Columbia, and every single one of us deserves to be prioritized. We deserve to be seen, heard, and put first. Janeese Lewis George’s goal of delivering a “People First” approach offers renewed hope and possibility....
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D.C.’s Rainbow History Project has named former Washington Blade publisher Lynne Brown as a 2026 LGBTQ Community Pioneer, a role the group says recognizes “instrumental” contributions to the D.C. LGBTQ community. A statement released by Rainbow History Project says Brown will be ...
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More than a dozen LGBTQ+ venues across the country have had their Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended by the social media platforms’ parent company, Meta, in recent months, often with no explanation and no response from an actual human at the company. “We still don’t know w...
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Elon Musk is blowing a right-wing dogwhistle ahead of the midterm elections by posting what appear to be AI-generated images of Star Wars antihero Anakin Skywalker sitting for a Sith family portrait. “This is what they stole from us,” Musk wrote on X, accompanying a doctored imag...
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A Democratic leader in Iowa announced she does not support the state's Democratic US Senate candidate after he released an anti-trans ad last week. Kathy Winter, chair of the Osceola County Democratic Party, released a statement slamming state Rep. Josh Turek's ad declaring that ...
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Donald Trump claimed the US acquired Greenland while he listed his administration's accomplishments in Dubuque, Iowa, on Saturday. Trump was discussing how much money he claims the US has plundered from Venezuela over the past two years when he mentioned "our acquisition for zero...
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On Sunday, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling responded to a person criticizing her anti-transgender views by pointing out his fetish gear and making fun of his glasses … you know, the thing that the central character of her uber-famous book series also wears!The exchange began ear...
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According to the polls, Democrats are looking at a really good night tomorrow. Democrats are all but certain to take control of the House, the only question is how many seats they'll win. The Senate races in key states are a lot closer, but even there, pollsters are predicting De...
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When most people think of Revolutionary War heroes, the powdered wigs and stoic paintings of George Washington or the Marquis de Lafayette come to mind. But there is another hero who was instrumental in securing America's victory over the British 250 years ago — and he was gay. H...
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Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, is being praised on social media for his response to the media frenzy over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) endorsing El Sayed's Republican opponent. While being peppered with questions over the endorsement, El-Sayed quieted re...
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Out soccer legend Megan Rapinoe – who has long been a staunch supporter of trans rights – recently explained why the debate over the "fairness" of trans women athletes competing on women's teams is completely misguided. On the Who's With Me? podcast, W. Kamau Bell asked Rapinoe, ...
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A group of anti-transgender protestors showed up at a women’s soccer game between the Seattle Reign and the Orlando Pride at Seattle’s Lumen Field on Sunday following several local news reports that Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank had been encouraging a demonstration.But many a...
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Dear Michael, I’m in a sexless marriage. My husband hasn’t been interested in sex in a long time. It’s not something he has wanted to work on. He says he just isn’t that interested. I love him a lot. At first I pushed him to address it. There were no physical causes, he said (doc...
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Recently, I was chatting with an 11-year-old girl about a movie character who carried a secret about herself that was so terrifying she worried that the people who loved her most would reject her for it if they learned her truth. As we talked, I mentioned that some people see the...
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out fellow Michigan Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens for endorsing the Republican running for a US Senate seat in the state. Stevens, who lost the primary to Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed Republican Mike ...
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Buying a home isn’t just a financial decision. As they say, if a person makes one change, the dominoes start to fall in other areas of life. One may end up with new neighbors and stop seeing the old ones. Someone may become besties with their real estate agent (at least for a few...
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Control of Florida's Sarasota County Schools Board will flip to a Democratic majority following recent election wins and the fact that Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler — who was implicated in a 2023 rape scandal alleged by the woman she and her husband had threesomes w...
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Saturday campaigned in support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would codify marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state. Her campaign website notes she had previously expressed support for Question 2. "Back in 2006, I was a ne...
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Last weekend, over 150 people gathered in Montreal, Canada, for the first-ever in-person Queering Wiki international conference. Hosted by Wikimedia LGBT+ and Wikimedia Canada (Wikimedia is Wikipedia's parent company), the gathering brought together contributors, editors, activis...
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‘Frida…A Self Portrait’Through Nov. 8Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre450 7th St., N.W.tickets start at $49Shakespearetheatrecompany.org With her trademark unibrow and a wreath of dahlias woven into pinned black braids, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was unmistakably herse...
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Queer actress and activist Sophia Bush says she does not speak or write the president's name. While promoting her book, And I Will Tell You Mine, whihc covers some of her activist work, Bush told The Hill that "someone who chooses to exemplify and bolster the very worst of human ...
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The midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 3. This is your chance to elect community leaders, including city and Council representatives, state legislators, members of Congress, and many other roles. For more details about voting in Maryland, visit the Maryland State Boa...
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Blog #1 I arrived in Barcelona safely and on time for my overnight before boarding the Celebrity XCEL for the sixteen-day transatlantic cruise back to Miami. I stayed at the AC hotel SOM, a Marriott, and it was fine. They had a car pick me up at the airport. Checked into a 9th fl...
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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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Vice President J.D. Vance, a staunch opponent of LGBTQ+ rights who recently insinuated that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is gay, dressed up as Dumbledore for Halloween.Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter novels is canonically gay, as author J.K. Rowling fir...
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It’s obviously a massively important goal for the Democrats to take both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, and to make headway in state legislatures across the country. But if they fall short of that goal, then because trans people’s safety and existence have somehow been a ma...
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Last Month, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (NLGJA) brought 300 journalists together in San Francisco to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Originally founded as the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in 1992, the group is credited with revolutionizing queer jour...
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A gay New York City couple who spent years handing out over 180,000 backpacks filled with essentials to houseless people both died near the end of June and start of July. Jayson Conner, age 48, died on June 28 from a heart attack at their Manhattan home. His partner, Jeffrey Newm...
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Republicans make their final argument before the Midterms: Be very afraid of trans people Just one example: "They take them as young children, and Timmy leaves home and comes back Sarah," Donald Trump said at a rally in Texas this week to drum up support for Ken Paxton's US Senat...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger stood Saturday morning inside the oldest lesbian bar on the East Coast, urging voters to erase a 20-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Three days before Election Day, the commonwealth’s...
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This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. For the first time in nearly 10 years, Alice* didn’t spend her fall welcoming a new class of students. After leaving her role as a high school English teacher last spring, she ...
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is currently running for governor of Alabama, went on a 20-minute, lie-filled rant on the Senate floor accusing trans people of being violent and "deranged" and proposing that the United States bring back mental institutions to house them. Tuberv...
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Colorado is a solidly blue state with protections for trans people on the books. When a hospital stopped providing gender-affirming care to trans youth because of policies from the Trump administration, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that it had to resume care (the hospital is ...
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In a time ripe with anti-LGBTQ+ – and especially anti-trans – animus, LGBTQ+ media has been critical in both holding leaders accountable and educating the public on LGBTQ+ issues. But as publications of all kinds struggle to survive in the current landscape, many questions have a...
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The GOP is being roasted for inexplicably displaying a photo of left-wing commentator Hasan Piker in his underwear on the jumbotron at the party's midterm convention. The photo, described as a "thirst trap" by Meidas Touch, depicts Piker with one arm behind his head, standing in ...
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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. Happy Halloweekend, everyone! It's perhaps not so surprising that this week's Good News Roundup grab bag h...
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Delaware issued its first-ever state historical marker recognizing an LGBTQ+ site yesterday — the mayor and a queer state legislator both say it's evidence of the area's increasing inclusivity. The Delaware Public Archives will place a historical marker recognizing Poodle Beach, ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.New Texas court documents identify a Republican group as a client linked to text messages impersonating an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund denies any involvement.Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer order...
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Star of stage and screen Sir Patrick Stewart passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday after “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” according to spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak. Stewart will be remembered for his iconic roles as Captain ...
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In a world fraught with anxiety and fear, waking up Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, with a Goldilocks feeling that everything was just right was just odd. And then breaking news confirmed it: Dolores Huerta, icon, civil rights legend, hero to the long, too-often-ignored farm workers ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.When Mike Manning came out on television at 22, he thought he might be surrendering the life he wanted, including marriage, children, and the ordinary comforts of belonging. Seventeen years later, he is married and nominated for an E...
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Democracy Forward has filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS), challenging a state regulation that restricts public libraries from purchasing books for young readers that contain material related to transgender people and gender identity. The lawsuit was...
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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...
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An unintended confluence of AI, blind allegiance, and rabid homophobia is landing supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin's anti-LGBTQ+ crusade in court, leading even his most faithful supporters to question the authoritarian state's methods. Homophobic authors of anti-LGB...
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Several cast members from series 2 of the now-canceled sapphic reality dating show I Kissed a Girl have alleged that the final edit of the show that aired on the BBC depicted them in ways that they felt were racist and at times censorious, according to public posts they have made...
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With fewer than four days left until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump cannot stop complimenting men's bodies, particularly the buttocks of Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH). Trump has also recently complimented and insulted other men's bodies, leaving his own niece to wonder if...
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JD Vance and Fox host Jesse Watters expressed outrage at mailers and text messages sent to Texas families telling their kids to transition behind their parents' backs, even though a Republican group has already been accused of sending them in a potential attempt to boost transpho...
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Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) is trying to use transphobia to turn people against marriage equality in the state, repeating the strategy she used last year in her failed run for governor. Earle-Sears has emerged as a leader among anti-LGBTQ+ advocates fighting ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.While politicians continue to target transgender people and shift their positions, Megan Rapinoe remains steadfast in her support for trans athletes.On the Who’s With Me? podcast, the soccer legend and out lesbian was asked by host W...
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D.C.’s many queer bars are ready to celebrate Halloween this weekend. Here are a few options. Kiki’s D.C. will host its multi-day “Spookiki Volume IV” beginning Friday, Oct. 30. “Spookiki SERVE” will be hosted on Friday, Oct. 30 at 10 p.m. by drag queens Dreux Sidora, Elextra Gee...
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Minnesota passed legislation in 2023 to establish itself as a “trans refuge” state, but now a transgender teenager and his mother are left suing Essentia Health, a regional healthcare system in the state, after they terminated his gender-affirming care with no notice or explanati...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A new Human Rights Campaign report estimates that 12 percent of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+, a higher share than several widely cited estimates. But the federal government is removing the questions the HRC report and similar research reli...
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The Dune franchise is truly the film trilogy that keeps on giving, literally. The popcorn buckets for the third installment, Dune: Part Three, have just been previewed and one variant includes two silicone openings that make it “easier to share,” per AMC’s press release, among ot...
