A New Jersey high school reached a settlement with the family of Myles Fitzpatrick, a trans teen who took his own life in 2022 after serial harassment by classmates and the alleged failure of school staff to acknowledge his distress or stop the bullying, My Central Jersey reports. Fitzpatrick, who s
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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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In June 1993, Newsweek ran a cover featuring two embracing women sporting pearls, denim, and outdated haircuts with a single bolded word above their heads: Lesbians. The mere existence of these women-loving-women was news unto itself – and cover-worthy news at that. I don't remem...
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A Georgia librarian filed a federal lawsuit this week against the county and regional library system that fired her after she included a children’s book about a transgender boy in a library display. In her lawsuit, filed earlier this week in the Southern District of Georgia, LaVo...
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It was impossible not to feel your heart warm when watching a video of actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen together. Their friendship was warm, with a level of camaraderie, candor and care, that any of us deserve, and that many coveted. But they weren’t just friends, they wer...
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Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. often preached that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Change, he asserted, takes a long time, but if we stay committed for the long-haul, we can bring it about. I believe that King envisioned the path toward ...
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More than 130 million names have been struck from India’s electoral rolls during a sweeping voter-list revision under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For transgender people and other LGBTQ Indians, the process has raised fears of exclusion from the ballot, particularly among those ...
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A psychologist is speaking out about what it means that the president keeps taking cognitive tests, explaining that Donald Trump's doctors are likely past the point of trying to figure out whether he is suffering from dementia and are now just monitoring his decline. Former Johns...
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BIDDEFORD, Maine — Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau on Wednesday said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) “should not be underestimated.” “I’m not going to count her out,” the gay Democrat told the Washington Blade during an interview in Biddeford, an old textile mill city near the...
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This story originally appeared on Out.Ian McKellen has shared a moving tribute to his late friend, Patrick Stewart.The Star Trek icon died Wednesday "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia," according to a post on his official X acc...
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This story originally appeared on Out.In announcing his death at age 86, the official X account for legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart rightly called him an activist for human rights. William Shatner, Stewart's costar in Star Trek: Generations, also praised Stewart for his "deep...
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Renowned British actor Patrick Stewart, a gay rights ally who was perhaps best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the science-fiction TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in several films in the X-Men superhero franchise, died today at t...
