The GOP's relentless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and dignity over the past two years have not driven the record number of LGBTQ+ adults back into the closet, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. In fact, the hostile climate seems to be having the opposite effect, inspiri
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Industry actress and Them cover star Myha'la Herrold is opening up about her recent elimination in the third episode of The Celebrity Traitors season two on the BBC.In response to an Instagram commenter who said she was eliminated “because you are BLACK” and called the social ded...
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Who cares about the WNBA's policy on trans players when there are no trans players in the WNBA? A new analysis suggests that, well, no one actually cared. This past summer, WNBA player Sophia Cunningham made some transphobic comments about sports, saying that she wants "to protec...
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Spooky season is here, making it a fantastic time to talk about queerness and horror. More precisely, it's a chance to explore how the horror genre emerged and transformed our perspective on queer identity. Horror is far more political than most people realize. Personally, if sci...
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Billionaire transphobe Elon Musk allegedly cut off his daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson's health insurance coverage the day after she came out as transgender. Wilson's mother, Justine Wilson, made this claim in Musk, the newly released nearly four-hour documentary about Musk's global...
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As the Trump administration’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, prepares to hold her first White House press briefing on Tuesday morning, online sleuths have uncovered her past social media posts that push conspiracy theories, including the debunked, anti-LGBTQ+ QAnon theory o...
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Days after President Donald Trump called Annie Andrews, the cisgender Democratic nominee for South Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat, an anti-transgender slur on social media, Andrews came out against transgender girls and women participating in sports. Trump called Andrews a “trannie”...
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New York’s Long Island, which is just 50 miles from the Stonewall Inn, is a reliably red enclave where President Trump won easily in 2024. Chris Gallant, an openly gay Democrat running for New York’s 1st Congressional District, which includes Nassau and Suffolk counties, is tryin...
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LGBTQ exclusion may be costing Japan as much as ¥16.42 trillion ($10.35 billion) annually, according to a new report by Open for Business, which argues that greater inclusion could help address the economic pressures facing a country with a shrinking population and workforce. Jap...
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The 2025-2026 school year experienced a record number of book bans, according to a new report from PEN America. Public schools across the country saw 12,000 book bans during that time period, the largest number in a single year since PEN America began tracking in 2021. The organi...
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A man convicted of killing a Black transgender woman should have been allowed to use the victim’s sex assigned at birth as part of his defense, a Tennessee appellate court ruled last week. In its October 5 ruling, a three-judge panel for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ov...
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Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democrat running for the Senate seat from South Carolina, slammed her opponent, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC), for calling her a "socialist" and had a response that social media found trenchant. "I told you my opponent was going to call me a socialist,...
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A federal judge last month dismissed a case by a Christian spa worker claiming she was a victim of religious discrimination after she was suspended in 2023 for refusing to give a trans woman a tour of the facility. Jeriah Sellers sued Hershey Entertainment after the company suspe...
