Anti-LGBTQ+ Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds (R) purposefully and repeatedly misgendered a transgender woman during a tense exchange on the campaign trail. Video shared on social media shows the woman confronting Donalds about an anti-LGBTQ+ mailer she received from his campaign. Relate
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Any hopes of seeing drag queen Trixie Mattel in Dead by Daylight seem to have gotten the axe.Prominent Dead by Daylight concept artist, leaker and news account @dvveet shared alleged insider information about an unsuccessful collaboration between RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars seas...
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There’s no getting around it: Horror is a horny genre, and some of the best horror movies are also the sexiest. There’s already a very thin line between being scared and getting turned on. Couple that with horror’s focus on the outsider, and it’s no surprise that queers in search...
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Political ads are usually forgotten once the election is over, but Republican's Vivek Ramaswamy's most recent ad in the Ohio gubernatorial race will live long in the annals of reprehensible campaigning. Ramaswamy dug up the mother of Democratic nominee Amy Acton to have her brand...
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(Originally posted October 8, 2026) Five states have ballot measures in the 2026 midterm elections that target the health, safety, and well-being of LGBTQ people, youth and families. If passed, the ballot measures would also have negative impacts on other vulnerable youth and on ...
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is getting attention on social media for turning a bizarre question about his wife into a slam on Donald Trump. The Atlantic published a profile by Mark Leibovich about the senator, who is the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ). Giffords served in...
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Few people outside of Maine probably knew much about Troy Jackson's LGBTQ+ legislative record until earlier this year, when he joined the state's US Senate race after Democratic candidate Graham Platner dropped out. While Jackson started his political career as a Republican (and ...
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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...
