A few months ago, I was driving to Kansas, and I already knew the law there. In government buildings, the bathroom you’re allowed to use is based on your sex at birth. I wasn’t expecting anyone to stop me at a gas station, but knowing that law existed was enough to stay in the back of my mind while
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West Hollywood’s City Council approved an ordinance this week allowing people in polyamorous relationships to register as domestic partners. While the law does not confer the same rights as marriage or state domestic partnerships, it does offer certain protections to people in mu...
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Conservatives have been using Abdul El-Sayed's name to scaremonger ever since he won the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan in August, but Fox News host Jesse Watters found a way to say his name that many people thought reached new frontiers in racism. Watters was on The F...
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This article contains spoilers for the plot of Red, White, & Royal Blue — and for the results of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, but you’ve probably heard about those.Americans across the country are rejoicing after Texas flipped blue, electing James Talarico as the state’s firs...
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Crush Dance Bar (2007 14th Street, N.W.) was packed on Saturday night for a Halloween costume contest. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) The post PHOTOS: Halloween at Crush appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
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Over the weekend, as he prepared for the midterm results, President Donald Trump threatened to rule by veto, saying that, faced with a Democratic Congress, “I guess I’ll become Mr. Veto.” But if he’s serious about vetoing everything the Democrats come up with as a political tacti...
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The blue wave took the midterms by storm on a national level, and it also saw trans and nonbinary candidates winning state and local elections across the country, giving trans people more say over their own rights at a time when they’re politically threatened daily. While Congres...
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See, when you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite. Though the Mississippi U.S. Senate race has not yet been called, Democrat Scott Colom is currently leading by just over 1,000 votes in the traditionally red state, which hasn’t had a Democrat as a senator since 1989. And, i...
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By LEE O. SANDERLIN | Well, after a year of Gov. Wes Moore cajoling lawmakers, a special legislation session and a state Supreme Court decision, Maryland is poised to redraw its congressional maps to hand Democrats an 8-0 advantage. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Questio...
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By GINNY BIXBY | Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will serve on Will Jawando’s transition steering committee, he announced Wednesday. “We worked together in the trenches, two doors down from each other in the Obama White House,” Jawando, the county executive-...
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Many Democratic elected officials reveled in victory yesterday as a blue wave swept the nation. But no one celebrated having their hands in as many victories as former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spent Wednesday posting pictures of himself with Democrats he campa...
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Donald Trump is facing scrutiny online after a clip went viral showing him falling asleep in the Oval Office during a press event, waking up, and falling asleep again. The clip is from an event where Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr announced a new deal with ...
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Out California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) is projected to win his election to represent California's 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, meaning he will succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D) in the district that encompasses San Francisco, despite not ...
