South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM). May — who was honored
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Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is having a hard time defending President Donald Trump's chaotic economic policies. And now he just threatened a journalist for questioning Trump's management of the economy. Bessent appeared on NBC's Meet the Press this past Sunday, where hos...
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Donald Trump has never cared about the people of the United States. He has always concerned himself with the richest of the rich, the upper 1% on the financial scale. He has given massive tax and regulatory breaks and other favors to the tech oligarchs and relegated the rest of t...
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“Queer zine, N. A sexy, subversive and explicit publication devoted to enlarging and examining our cultural assumptions.” That's a definition of queer zines unearthed by the Queer Zine Archive Project, or QZAP, an online archive dedicated to the preservation and promotion of quee...
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Scandal-plagued Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) may have made a veiled threat to out anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) for having sex with men, longtime gay journalist Michelangelo Signorile publicly suggested in his Substack post yesterday. While Moreno angrily swore at former White ...
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The Washington Blade held a celebration for the 25th annual Best of LGBTQ D.C. Awards at Long View Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 22. Ashley Darby of "The Real Housewives of Potomac" was the emcee at the "Murder on the Dance Floor" costume party. Performers included Elextra G, Druex S...
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Review boards tasked with expelling trans troops from the U.S. military aren't performing as expected. The boards, composed of everyday uniformed service members, are voting to keep their trans colleagues. Related Trans service members challenging military ban score major victory...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A Republican district attorney has launched a criminal investigation into the mailers sent to thousands of Texas voters posing as guides from a transgender rights organization, all while a company is taking initial steps to end its r...
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The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) filed a petition in state court Thursday seeking authorization to begin taking depositions as part of its effort to determine who has been impersonating the organization in text messages and mailers sent to Texas voters ahead of t...
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Chefs for Equality celebrated its 15th anniversary on Oct. 19, an event that makes it clear that the fight for full LGBTQ equality is not yet fully won, through the lens of delicious dishes along with fine wines. Launched in 2012, Chefs for Equality is a proud, fierce, sumptuous ...
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Florida-based drag queen Miss Bouvèé has raised over $25,000 from selling the bricks from a Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk that was demolished as part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s ongoing war against LGBTQ-affirming roads. After the Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk was dismantled in Oc...
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Half a billion dollars in attack ads deployed by Republicans in Texas this election season are having unintended consequences. According to conservative voters in the state, they're teaching their children that trans people exist. "My kids didn’t even know what transgender meant ...
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A lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, is suffering an empty dance floor after announcing it would make masking optional on Saturday nights. The change earned a scorching reaction online from patrons who've come to expect a full masking protocol every time they visited, the ...
