This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Major hospital systems in New York and Pennsylvania have struck deals with the Justice Department that carry steep financial penalties and keep gender-affirming services closed to minors.NYU Langone Health will pay the department $8.5 million, and the U
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This story originally appeared on Out.A deluge of internet memes flooded social media over the weekend as news broke that Rep. Lauren Boebert was accused of having a sexual relationship with staffers she supervised, some of whom were women.The accusations came to light after a co...
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“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL 9000, the fictional homicidal computer in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is just one example in science fiction of an artificial intelligence (AI) that outsmarts and takes control of its human developers and...
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Pete Buttigieg skewered Donald Trump and the Republican Party on Saturday while delivering the keynote speech at a Texas Democratic Party event in Dallas. "A lot of people believed him when he said he was going to drain the swamp," Buttigieg said. "And then we wake up to see bill...
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Drag Race España just released its season six cast list and the roster includes the Drag Race franchise’s first-ever full-time drag king: Marcus Massalami. When the season begins airing on September 27, we can expect to see Marcus performing alongside other contestants such as Àl...
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Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the beloved Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," denounced trans rights while promoting their new album, claiming the movement for equality is merely "the Left losing their collective mind...
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The executive director of the world’s oldest LGBTQ Catholic organization has announced she will retire once her successor has been chosen. Marianne Duddy-Burke has been with DignityUSA for more than four decades. She has been the group’s executive director since 2007. DignityUSA ...
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A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men's prisons, overturning a lower court's ruling earlier this year. The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unani...
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Social media screenshots and video seem to indicate that copies of the game Marvel’s Wolverine sent to countries in the Middle East included redacted and heavily altered references to Mystique’s same-sex relationship and marriage with crime boss Tyger Tiger, per a report in Kotak...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) – known for her outspoken advocacy against LGBTQ+ people's rights – is facing a complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee claiming that, among other things, she had sexual relationships with two women and one man whom she supervised and paid one o...
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If you want to see how the Democratic Party's muddled messaging on transgender issues, look no further than Ohio. There, two Democratic candidates have taken dramatically different approaches on how to deal with GOP anti-trans attacks. The worse strategy of the two comes from Rep...
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Donald Trump flipped out at a journalist who brought up an accusation that an unnamed person was a "pedophile," and she had one "clinical-grade" question in response. CBS News's Norah O'Donnell asked Trump in an interview on Sunday about Cole Allen, the man who allegedly opened f...
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Whitman-Walker Health held the 40th annual Walk and 5K to End HIV at Anacostia Park on Saturday, Sept. 19. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key) The post PHOTOS: Walk and 5K to End HIV appeared first on Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News....
