The 2026 election is shaping up to be a referendum on Donald Trump, even though he is not on any ballot. At least according to LGBTQ Nation readers. Related Trump's gay niece says his "downward spiral" is becoming "impossible to hide" Last month, we asked you what your main concerns are for the 2026
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Out Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to defend Donald Trump's handling of the economy by blaming Joe Biden, and one gay Democrat had enough. Out Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) was questioning Bessent about his statement last month that the "K-shaped economy is over." A K-shaped...
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I'm excited to focus this month's family-building column on domestic adoption, and more specifically, open adoption, which can create meaningful opportunities for children to maintain connections to their birth families when those relationships are safe and appropriate. While eve...
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Beloved out actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, are celebrating a remarkable 40 years together, 18 of them married. "Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles," Takei wrote on social media...
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In a video clip that has now been widely shared on right-wing social media, an attendee at a recent campaign event for Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico asks the lawmaker who his favorite Texan drag queen is. Talarico responds quickly, sharing that he’s a fan of Drag...
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Tymothy ‘Ty’ Moyer, a gay former resident of Wilmington, Del., earlier this year filed a lawsuit in federal court charging Delaware Attorney General Kathleen ‘Kathy’ Jennings, one of her deputies, and a state-employed victims advocate with conspiring to deny him “equal protection...
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The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass an ordinance officially recognizing non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships, as well as multigenerational households, as protected classes. The measure will amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recogni...
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A man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a series of attacks on queer men that occurred last summer in Nantes, France. While the assailant denies that he picked his victims because of their sexuality, he was found guilty on hate crime charges. 19-year-old Sophian M-Ne...
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A loss of federal funding has threatened to adversely impact the Virginia Anti-Violence Project's work in the state. The group's mission is to assist LGBTQ and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) victims of domestic, sexual, interpersonal, and state violence with direct...
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Nicki Minaj can't take a joke. Trevor Noah, who hosted the Grammy Awards this Sunday in LA, made a joke about her meeting with Donald Trump last week, part of her transformation into a QAnon-believing MAGA supporter. Related Nicki Minaj wants Don Lemon locked up for reporting on ...
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Florida may soon elect Marshall Clayton Rawson — a Republican, White nationalist supporter who supports the execution of LGBTQ+ people — to its state legislature. Rawson has a long history with the League of the South, a white nationalist group that has been certified as a hate g...
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Michael Tomasky, editor-in-chief of the progressive political publication The New Republic, warned about the president's "noticeable… mental deterioration" in an August 4 article that notes, "In two more months, he may literally be drooling." Tomasky's article predicts a midterm ...
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MAGA supporter and entrepreneur Jay Katari stepped down from the board of directors of EqualPride — the parent company of LGBTQ+ media outlets like The Advocate, Out, and them — and resigned as the company's strategic advisor for growth and innovation one day after reports of his...
