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Commentary
“It’s a Sin” is about AIDS in England & Americans should remember that when they watch it
We in the UK were relatively spared a period of fighting for our lives against an uncaring and withholding political establishment. For all the similarities, we had a different experience.
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Life
Chad Banks is a gay Democrat serving in Wyoming. Here’s what he says it’s like.
Banks is one of three out LGBTQ legislators in the state’s House of Representatives – one of whom is a Republican.
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Life
Bob Ross is “helping” Banksy debut his new street art painted on a prison wall
Video footage of the mysterious graffiti artist painting Oscar Wilde escaping the prison is narrated by the late television host.
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News (USA)
Mississippi is the first state to pass a law attacking transgender youth
The governor is blaming the ban on transgender girls in sports on Joe Biden.
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Life
The gay secrets behind the classic TV sitcom “Bewitched”
It somehow comes off as queer without ever actually coming out. How is that possible?
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Life
“Pose” is coming to an end after its third season this year
“We have told the story that we have wanted to tell, the way that we wanted to tell it.”
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Politics
Trump appointee busted for insurrection. He worked for a hate group before rioting for Trump.
The State Department aide has a long history of “researching” ways for the religious right to oppose LGBTQ rights.
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Politics
President Joe Biden names Reggie Greer senior advisor on LGBTQ issues
While he’ll have the president’s full support, Reggie Greer will still have a big job ahead of him.
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News (USA)
Mormon students light up BYU sign in rainbow colors to support equality. The school may expel them.
Brigham Young University has denounced the display and said it violated their policies. They weren’t as worried about anti-LGBTQ fliers that appeared on campus though.
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Get on the road to Joshua Tree with the Yoberts
Follow Corey and Cristian (aka @The_Yoberts) as they road trip around Southern California, finding adventure in Big Bear, Joshua Tree and Palm Springs. #LGBTQ #url#
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Commentary
Can Biden deliver on his promises? We’ve got real talk on this week’s LGBTQ Nation podcast.
Managing Editor Alex Bollinger joins host Alex Berg, Immigration Equality Executive Director Aaron Morris, and artist Julio Salgado on this week’s podcast episode.
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Commentary
Aleshia Brevard’s “The Woman I was Not Born to Be” is the best trans memoir I’ve encountered
“It was about who I was, about the boy I was presumed to be. I’d been subjected to all the traditional male training and none of it took.”
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Life
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis proposed to longtime boyfriend Marlon Reis after COVID scare
The couple has been together for 17 years and they have two children together.
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News (USA)
Arizona passes anti-mask law after Republican argues masks weren’t used to stop AIDS
“We heard about that in the ’80s. Yet no masks were required.”
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Health and Wellness
American Psychological Association opposes transgender conversion “therapy” in historic statement
“Transgender or nonbinary gender identities are normal variations in human expression of gender. Attempts to force people to conform with rigid gender identities can be harmful to their mental health and well-being.”
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News (USA)
Teachers spell out racial slur with giant Scrabble letters. Parents are pissed.
“I don’t believe it that five Caucasian teachers, not one of them knew that. Maybe one didn’t know it, maybe two didn’t know it, but all five didn’t know it?”
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News (USA)
A teacher spoke about a trans woman for 2.5 minutes. Now parents want him fired.
When the teacher highlighted Marsha P. Johnson during his “Person of the Day” segment on the school’s e-learning platform, he couldn’t have guessed what would happen.
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Bias Watch
Newt Gingrich makes bonkers claim about transgender equality
And, of course, it was on Tucker Carlson’s show.
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Politics
Jen Psaki masterfully shuts down reporter’s dumb question about trans people
“Did you have another question?”
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Politics
GOP Congresswoman calls Equality Act “supremacy of gays, lesbians & transveshikes”
Gun-totin’ Rep. Lauren Boebert obviously has no idea what the bill (or the 14th Amendment) actually says.