This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A woman was killed, and 29 people were injured Saturday night when a vehicle drove into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebration, in what German officials are investigating as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack.Authorities were searching Sunday for a
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday defeated Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of the country's presidential election. Lula beat Bolsonaro by a 51.76-48.24 percent margin with 99.79 percent of the votes counted. CNN Brasil declared Lula the winner shor...
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Dear Ms. Rowling, I am writing to you not as a political organization, an activist institution, or a representative of any movement. I am writing as a transgender woman who has spent much of her life trying to live with dignity, integrity, and the freedom to be herself. I knew fr...
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Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered for being gay. He died on October 12, 1998, at the age of 21. December 1, 2026, would be his 50th Birthday. Not many years ago, when I was teaching a university Queer Studies course, I opened a unit on the topic of violence directed against m...
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In this year of sparse and lackluster LGBTQ History Month programming, the future of LGBTQ history concerns me. I am troubled by the state of the LGBTQ community, both in a global context and specifically in Washington, D.C. Much of what bothers me comes down to what I perceive a...
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It’s rare for a movie that was made over a half-century before to somehow become one of the most anticipated film releases of the year, but thanks to Ken Russell’s “The Devils,” we know that it does happen. It’s true that Russell’s legendarily controversial 1971 period horror dra...
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During the 2024 election cycle, a multimillion-dollar deluge of Donald Trump- and GOP-fueled anti-trans campaign ads flooded the airwaves. Those ads peeled away some support for trans people, but in researching their efficacy, the Transgender Law Center and its communications and...
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At a White House military Mother’s Day event on May 6, First Lady Melania Trump stated that while many know her husband, President Donald Trump, as a "strong commander-in-chief," she believes he is a caring leader who "constantly remembers each and every American soldier is someo...
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Republican Jadon MacCormack, a Connecticut State House candidate who literally wants to execute all LGBTQ+ people, decisively lost his primary race last night against his competitor, Anthony Emilio. MacCormack won only 90 votes, less than 20% of the total votes cast for both cand...
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Hunter Schafer was recently in London for the wedding of her Euphoria co-star Zendaya, who married actor Tom Holland. She found time for a night out with close friends at a nightclub. “We were dancing incredibly hard. There were no cameras out, which was great, so everybody was r...
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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...
