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California on Monday prevailed against the Trump administration's bid to strike down the state's law allowing trans student-athletes to compete in school sports. A US District Court judge agreed with California that the administration’s threat to withhold federal education fundin...
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) insinuated yesterday that the president has a terminal illness because he canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan bill to create more affordable housing. "Did he wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Is he unable to stay awake today? What's causing him t...
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The FBI quietly lowered its background check hiring standards back in June to allow the hiring of people who have previously stolen from an employer or engaged in acts of bestiality, CBS News reported on August 28. The lowered standards come at a time when the FBI has lost about ...
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Chloe Shapiro was promised an honorable discharge and $86,655.32 in severance if she agreed to voluntarily leave the Army National Guard and not fight Trump’s second trans military ban. Months later, she has received only $20,000 of that payment and is now homeless. “I had my pla...
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As I type this, I have a Pumpkin spice latte — iced —with a generous amount of honey syrup in hand. I’m gay and we only drink these iced. It’s only September 1, but I can’t help but feel like fall is here. Or at least close enough to taste. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m a Scorpio,...
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Protect the dolls!Now in its fourth year, Doll Invasion at Fire Island Pines celebrated everything that makes the transgender and nonbinary community so beautiful. With iconic performances from rising stars and plenty of parties where queer people could simply let their hair down...
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Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo is opening up about the homophobic backlash he received after coming out as gay earlier this year. During a recent appearance on The Break Down with Nath & Johnny, Shomo explained that shortly after finishing the band’s latest album, Pure Ecstasy, h...
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Three people were fatally shot outside a gay bar in Tucson, Ariz., early Monday morning, about a mile from the city’s nightlife district. Police have said the shooting, which took place in the parking lot of Venture-N bar at 1239 N. 6th Ave., was likely a hate crime and a double ...
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Actress and organizer Indya Moore announced she no longer uses they/them pronouns or identifies as nonbinary on August 31 in a post to Instagram. “I no longer Identify as Non Binary. My pronouns are She/her Please be kind to me. I may share more later Love, Solidarity, Peace and ...
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As I was growing up, my parents often shared stories about how they were bullied when they were my age, just for being Asian. My mom is Cambodian and my dad is “Wasian,” Chinese and white. Students teased them for their looks, their homemade lunches, and treated their traditional...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story stated that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office did not respond to a request for comment. The request failed to send because of a server error and was not received by the office...
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CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday detailed a remarkable shift among Independents as America prepares for the midterm elections in November. Enten explained that if "you win independents, you win elections," which is why the preferences of this demographic have been s...
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The prediction market platform Kalshi has issued its first-ever lifetime ban to gay and disgraced former GOP Congressman George Santos. Kalshi announced Santos' ban on Monday after a federal regulator accused him of making almost $18,000 from betting on his own likelihood of atte...
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This review contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Adults season 2.I’ve been waiting since Community sputtered to a close 11 years ago on Yahoo Screen — which, yes, was a real streaming service — for a sitcom to figure out how to flesh out its own internal lore and expe...
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A fatal shooting in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona, LGBTQ+ bar is being investigated as both a hate crime and a possible double murder-suicide. The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 31, when the suspect, 44-year-old Ousman Ceesay, is believed to have gon...
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The wife of D.C. attorney Robert Wone, who was found stabbed to death on Aug. 2, 2006, in the Dupont Circle area home of three gay men, has filed a complaint in court accusing two of the men of failing to make the payments they promised to make to settle a $20 million wrongful de...
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Whitman-Walker Health, D.C.’s LGBTQ supportive healthcare center and medical clinic, is calling on D.C. residents and supporters to take part in its 40th annual Walk & 5K Run to End HIV scheduled to take place Saturday, Sept. 19. The event, in which participants choose to walk or...
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French prosecutors say a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a prominent activist before he attacked him in Paris on Saturday. Media reports indicate Pierre Picavet, a police officer who is the president of FLAG!, a group within the French Justice and Interior Ministries that defends L...
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MAGA devotee Mark Da Costa has shut down his restaurant after just six weeks, mocking queer people in a social media post announcing the eatery's closure. Da Costa, who once performed on the reality TV singing competition Australian Idol, opened the Bueno Eatery in the Newtown ne...
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This story appeared originally on Advocate. Two men were shot and killed outside a longtime gay bar in Tucson, Arizona, early Monday in what police are investigating as a hate crime. The suspected gunman was carrying a note listing several LGBTQ-associated businesses, and the cit...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.President Donald Trump has for years insisted he loves women, even as he set in motion the reversal of federal abortion rights and blocked enforcement of equal pay regulations. Still, women in politics have stood by the GOP leader — ...
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The Department of State apologized for "deadnaming" a lake after President Donald Trump's executive order last week renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Because deadnaming usually refers to the act of referring to a transgender, non-binary, or gender-expansive individual by thei...
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Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson on Sunday campaigned for U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) in New Hampshire. Robinson traveled to Manchester, the state’s largest city, nine days before the Sept. 8 primary that will determine who will vie for retiring U.S. Sen. Jeann...
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Have you heard the gospel of Lola Petticrew? The nonbinary actor first came on my radar after our friends at Autostraddle blogged about their role in Hulu’s FBI serial killer drama Furious, but I resisted watching it. Not because the show doesn’t have great reviews — it does! — b...
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Civil registry offices across Poland began legally recognizing same-sex marriages from other countries as of yesterday, TVP World reported. However, Poland itself has not legalized same-sex marriages within its own borders. The country was compelled to start recognizing foreign s...
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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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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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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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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 ...
