“Do you know a child that is interested in gender-affirming surgery? We can help!" claims a text message anonymously sent to Missouri voters last week. "Protecting a child’s right to have this surgery is on the ballot this Tuesday,” the message adds, though the state already bans such procedures (wh
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Poll workers across the country are pulling out the ballots and “I voted” stickers, bracing for one of the most divisive and consequential midterm elections in modern times. Few states have drawn as much media attention, fiery rhetoric, and last-minute political shake-ups as Mich...
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When a conservative voter asked Vice President JD Vance a question about housing affordability, he responded by mentioning a US senator's buttocks. During a Fox News town hall last Thursday, October 29, a woman who identified herself as the vice president of her university’s Turn...
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Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic US Senate candidate in Michigan, refused to backpedal his support of transgender people's civil rights when questioned about it by conservative commentator Ross Douthat in a 60 Minutes interview that aired yesterday. Douthat mentioned to El-Sayed th...
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Somewhere in the District of Columbia, a child under five may soon come to live with me. I do not yet know the child's name or story. I know only that my job will be to offer care and stability, and to help that child return home whenever possible. I am in the final stages of fos...
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Thomas Bradley on Sunday became Australia’s first openly gay state governor. Bradley took office as Queensland's premier at a ceremony that took place at Parliament House in Brisbane, the state’s capital. The former Court of Appeal judge succeeded Jeannette Young, whose term as g...
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This story is a joint investigation with The Advocate.On Tuesday, residents of four U.S. states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Washington — will vote on whether to ban transgender athletes from organized sports. Each state has a ballot measure backed by political action commi...
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A new YouGov/Economist poll included two questions about trans and non-binary identities in the United States. The startling results show just how much people believe Democrats will handle trans rights better than the Republicans, with a 29-point margin separating support for the...
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There are more than 100,000 LGBTQIA+ residents in the District of Columbia, and every single one of us deserves to be prioritized. We deserve to be seen, heard, and put first. Janeese Lewis George’s goal of delivering a “People First” approach offers renewed hope and possibility....
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D.C.’s Rainbow History Project has named former Washington Blade publisher Lynne Brown as a 2026 LGBTQ Community Pioneer, a role the group says recognizes “instrumental” contributions to the D.C. LGBTQ community. A statement released by Rainbow History Project says Brown will be ...
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More than a dozen LGBTQ+ venues across the country have had their Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended by the social media platforms’ parent company, Meta, in recent months, often with no explanation and no response from an actual human at the company. “We still don’t know w...
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Elon Musk is blowing a right-wing dogwhistle ahead of the midterm elections by posting what appear to be AI-generated images of Star Wars antihero Anakin Skywalker sitting for a Sith family portrait. “This is what they stole from us,” Musk wrote on X, accompanying a doctored imag...
