Cosplayer Clara Tan was on her way home to the state of New York from an event in California when she was aggressively taken into ICE custody at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport without being shown the warrant. After a suspected broken foot with no medical care and 18 h
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Police in Bahawalnagar, Pakistan, have arrested two men in connection with the death of a transgender woman who had previously filed a harassment complaint against them. Local officials with Bahawalnagar’s City B Division Police Station say the victim, Zoya Malik, was attacked by...
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Political observers are starting to notice President Donald Trump's increasingly strange behavior at his midterm political rallies. Former White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews said his behavior makes it seem like we're "watching his cognitive decline in real time." I...
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Poodle Beach has long been a draw for LGBTQ visitors to this popular beach town and on Thursday, the state of Delaware officially took notice. A large crowd gathered on the boardwalk at 11 a.m. under a perfect blue sky to witness the dedication of a new Sta...
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Barack Obama brutally mocked the Trump administration for its dramatic response to his joke about the president's design aesthetic while ignoring the former president's criticisms of its actual policies affecting Americans. While campaigning for Democrats in Cleveland last week, ...
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What if there were magic in the world, and it could give us the power to attain the things we long for in this life? That’s the question we are asked to contemplate in “Wicker,” the new film from co-writer/directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, which adapts Ursula Witt...
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Early voting, and polls, give hope Democrats could have a great day next Tuesday. But I have been disappointed before. Clearly, many polls were wrong in the last presidential election, and in this year’s primaries. So, it all comes down to who comes out to vote. Democrats have ru...
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This story is based on LGBTQ Nation interviews with John Kyper in October and in 2025, and includes recollections from a history of his deportation that he shared with Left History in 2008. John Kyper was just a hippie hitchhiker traveling to Canada. But a backpack filled with co...
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A group of North Carolina drag queens have issued cease-and-desist orders to the funders of a political ad for Republican Jennifer Balkcom after being depicted as deepfaked versions of themselves dancing with Democratic opponent Jamie Ager.The ad in question, which was approved b...
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Nine months ago, in January of 2026, I penned a column that advocated for gender affirming care among trans youth. Providing gender affirming care to trans youth is an issue that I care deeply about, mainly because I understand and know the suffering that young trans people can f...
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A female student who was banned from playing the male lead role in her high school musical filed a lawsuit against the school district on Monday, alleging she was discriminated against based on Title IX. Ana Mota, a 17-year-old senior at South Grand Prairie High School, was initi...
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A Virginia pastor is suing to invalidate a state ballot measure asking voters to remove the state’s 2006 constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and to add a right to marry regardless of a partner’s sex, gender, or race. Filed by the Founding Freedoms Law Center on behalf of Past...
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How’s this for a game of Gay Mad Libs? RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Briar Blush has been engaged in a bitter, weeklong back-and-forth with rapper Azealia Banks on X. The Twitter drama began with season 18 contestant Briar commenting on another female rapper, namely the MAGA-fied...
