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An Idaho jury on August 27 found Rev. Sara LaWall, a pastor with a transgender child, guilty of a misdemeanor trespassing charge for refusing to leave the office of Gov. Brad Little (R) after it closed on April 1st. LaWall was one of nine protesters arrested in Little's office on...
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Gloria Steinem, writer, activist, and a leading voice of the feminist movement in the 1970s, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. Her death was announced on Instagram by her official foundation, Gloria’s Foundation, which shared that Steinem "passed away peacefully at her home, surrou...
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It’s hard to imagine any topic getting more mentions than transgender people on Fox News. Why deviate from the script when stories about bathrooms, student athletes, and Elliot Page’s casting in The Odyssey can generate so much reliable outrage? Well, as it turns out, a new subje...
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I'm not pushing for a third party or telling people not to vote Democrat at this critical time. But we gotta talk...This article is offered exclusively to members, those who contribute monthly or annually to LGBTQ Nation.View this article on LGBTQ Nation to learn more or log in t...
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Two men are in custody in Madison, Wisconsin, after witnesses and surveillance footage revealed they assaulted a transgender woman on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, according to a complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday. According to the complaint, the...
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While speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Donald Trump went on a bizarre tangent about Texas Attorney General and Senate Candidate Ken Paxton's (R) looks, as well as his Democratic opponent, James Talarico's, digestive system. "So Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he d...
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A West Virginia food bank's shelves are bare after refusing supplies from organizations that are allegedly “part of the gay rights movement" because they support LGBTQ+ people. “To let you know the reason why we’re in this position is because I done some research, I made the phon...
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The sapphic cinematic rumors are true: Greta Lee and Rebecca Ferguson are confirmed for the romantic comedy Honeymoon / Funeral, which will focus on two women who have a meet-cute during a flight from L.A. to London, where both women are going for very different purposes. If the ...
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A coalition of blue states has come together to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its plan to strip federal funds from gender-affirming care for minors. The lawsuit alleges that the administration is overstepping its authority by trying to dictate what m...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Vivian Jenna Wilson knows what's at stake for the LGBTQ+ community. With the fast-approaching midterms, the famous transgender model is using her platform to showcase her unapologetic queerness at a pivotal moment in history.Wilson has teamed...
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Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who many considered to be the face of the feminist movement for half a century, died Wednesday at her home in New York City at the age of 92. A post on her official Instagram account early Thursday morning said that Steinem “passed away pea...
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This story originally appeared on Out.RuPaul's Drag Race stars were in the house and on the dance floor as Cordero Zuckerman, best known to fans as season 13 star Denali, wed his longtime love Alexander Montgomery in Chicago last week."This wedding is a huge mile marker in both o...
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It’s hard out here for your local queer watering hole. New York City gay bar owners have revealed that they are facing new financial hardships due to plunging drinking rates among younger customers, per a feature in Gay City News (GCN).“The younger generation doesn’t like to drin...
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The world knows Eric Anderson as Billy Porter's partner. In Rehoboth Beach, Del., he has a life — and a story — entirely his own. My first time with Eric Anderson was hot — very hot. Before he arrived, I sat waiting, overthinking everything. When he finally appeared in a loose-fi...
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For much of the modern transgender rights movement, our political vocabulary has understandably been a vocabulary of emergency. We talk about healthcare bans, bathroom restrictions, discrimination, violence, court decisions, and executive orders. We organize because something is ...
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The Republican National Committee will hold the party's first-ever midterm convention on September 9 and 10 in Dallas, but it seems Donald Trump is the only one excited about it. A host of Republican politicians on the ballot this November are skipping the event, nicknamed Trump-...
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Lesbian political pundit Rachel Maddow pointed out during her Monday night broadcast that President Donald Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario as "Lake America" has turned the initials of the nation's five northern Great Lakes from HOMES to SHAME, something she said is fitting for T...
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Despite having a memorable role in a box-office juggernaut, Elliot Page hasn’t reaped the benefits of The Odyssey’s gargantuan success. During an interview on the Wednesday, September 2 episode of On Film…with Kevin McCarthy, the Oscar-nominated actor said that he hasn’t been off...
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A prominent leader in the fight for transgender rights is speaking out about the "near complete exodus of philanthropy" for trans rights organizations in the midst of the Trump administration's brutal and ongoing campaign against the community. In a piece for Nonprofit Quarterly,...
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I have been going back and forth on whether I think adding justices to the Supreme Court is the right thing to do. But if the court takes the final step of allowing the felon’s executive order on mail in ballots to move forward, I am definitely for enlarging the court. There are ...
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Trailblazing feminist icon Gloria Steinem died at her New York City home on Wednesday, per a statement on her social media. As many of her obituaries will attest, Steinem publicly challenged gender stereotypes in the earliest days of her journalism and activism careers, dating ba...
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With Dancing with the Stars Season 35 set to return September 15th on ABC and Disney+, fans can look forward to two trailblazing LGBTQ stars joining the competition: Olympic gold-medal figure skater Amber Glenn alongside openly bisexual model and reality star Sarah Jane Nader. GL...
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This story was originally published in the Alabama Reflector. Before June 2023, Invisible Histories flew under the radar in Alabama. The nonprofit organization, which archives and researches southern LGBTQ+ history, began collecting items in 2018, just two years after President D...
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Jake Lang — a racist Republican candidate for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat who was jailed for allegedly assaulting Capitol Police officers during the January 6, 2021, riots — struggled to set two Pride flags on fire outside of the Delaney ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, yesterd...
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A year before the landmark Stonewall uprising, asexual Japanese pop artist Yayoi Kusama staged quite possibly New York City's first-ever public same-sex marriage ceremony. Kusama, who passed away on August 14, officiated the November 25, 1968 event, styling herself as the "High P...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Melissa Etheridge and Wynonna Judd don't have time for any prejudice.The iconic singers have not only made strides for the LGBTQ+ community over the years, but they're creating a safe space for every type of fan on their Raised on Radio Tour....
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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...
