This story originally appeared on The Advocate.For young people exhausted by attacks on their rights, Queer the Ballot offers practical tools to influence decisions about their lives — before they can cast a ballot.In eighth grade, Bekah Garlikov began taking a screenshot of the news headlines about
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Frotting, dry humping, grinding: whatever you choose to call the act of rubbing two genitals against each other like an eager hand on a genie’s bottle, frotting is quickly becoming one of the most popular bedroom activities among queer people. At a time when our understanding of ...
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Kim Petras is not having all the weird comments about Hunter Schafer’s body.Model and actress Hunter Schafer opened up about her experience with bottom surgery in an Elle cover story published Monday. Unfortunately, in the short timeframe since the article’s publication, people h...
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The city of Rehoboth Beach, Del., has invited the public to participate in a two-day series of meetings and workshop sessions scheduled for Nov. 12-13 to help develop a new Downtown Master Plan. A statement released by the city says the two-day event is being organized jointly by...
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Rob Jetten, the first out LGBTQ+ prime minister of the Netherlands, revealed on Monday that he and his partner, Argentine field hockey player Nicolás Keenan, are expecting their first child. "Someone very special is on the way," the pair wrote on Instagram. "See you in 2027, litt...
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A newly released report based on a survey of 175 LGBTQ community centers located throughout the U.S. has found that 76 percent of the centers have experienced anti-LGBTQ threats or harassment either online or offline over the past year due to a hostile political climate. But the ...
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A new two-year study of LGBTQ+ youth from the Trevor Project holds some good news for young people across the U.S., as well as confirmation of the harmful impacts of gender identity-based discrimination, economic insecurity, and the scourge of conversion therapy on mental health....
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MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn't stop laughing at Donald Trump's Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said that reports of Trump's "itty bitty...
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The annual National Trans Visibility March took place in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The march ended at the Puerto Rican Capitol in San Juan, the U.S. commonwealth’s capital and largest city. Samy Nemir Olivares, a member of the Puerto Rico LGBTQ+ Federation’s board of directors who...
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Nebraska's Supreme Court unanimously ruled on October 16 that the state's anti-transgender sports measure can remain on its November midterm ballot. Cara Ullman, a registered Democrat, filed the lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Monday, August 31. She alleged that the measu...
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Transgender voters are praising Democratic US House candidate Christina Bohannan of Iowa for responding to her Republican opponent's recent anti-transgender attacks by releasing an ad that doesn't agree to right-wing framing on trans issues. Some Democrats have responded to simil...
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Shawn Oliver, a transphobic 42-year-old Republican now-former candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts, suspended his campaign on Sunday after being arrested on Saturday night for crashing and overturning his car while under the suspected influence of alcohol. Around 11...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The U.S. Air Force had spent more than two decades training her husband. During those years, their family built a life around his service, moving with each assignment change, finding new communities, and helping their children start ...
