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This Week on LGBTQ Twitter: De-sexing bones & queer lemonade
Where does our queerness come from? Our bones, lemonade, trains, rainbows? Twitter has thoughts.
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Angelica Ross on Her Broadway Debut, Tech Passion, and Reclaiming Musicals
“It just really hits home for me because I think that so many trans people and queer people go through the stage of hating themselves.”
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News (World)
Malta’s prime minister promises free gender-affirming surgery
The Prime Minister mingled with 12,000 participants during Malta’s Pride Week and March.
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Life
Anne Heche speaks in new memoir just months after her death
“Call Me Anne” includes new insights into her headline-grabbing relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s.
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News (USA)
Students & faculty sue university over ban on hiring LGBTQ people
The Christian school faced long sit-ins and other protests of its anti-LGBTQ policy.
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Life
Boston & London Marathons open nonbinary divisions
“By establishing a non-binary division, you’re creating a space for an entire group of individuals to be seen,” wrote a nonbinary athlete.
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Life
What happened to queer TV this year? We got canceled more often than J.K. Rowling
Something is rotten in the state of Queerdom: this year has seen a purge of queer TV.
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Life
RuPaul graces the Cheez-It box in celebration of reality TV
The product description is cheesier than anything we’ve ever seen on reality TV.
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Election 2024
Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms
That’s roughly the entire population of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Life
Everything we know about the fatphobia controversy around Brendan Fraser’s “The Whale”
The Darren Aronofsky film has been hailed as a comeback for Fraser and criticized as fatphobic.
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Bias Watch
Christian pastor explains why he uses so many slurs
The pastor said that anti-gay slurs imply death to LGBTQ people, so that’s why he likes them.
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News (USA)
Rude Ellen hurt Rosie O’Donnell’s feelings “like a baby”
“I never really got over it,” Rosie O’Donnell said.
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News (USA)
Drag queen dies after collapsing in the middle of a performance
Valencia Prime was beloved by Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community.
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News (USA)
Gay professor threatened after wishing Queen Elizabeth II an “excruciating” death
She was criticized online by supporters of Queen Elizabeth II, and then by opponents when she expressed gay pride.
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Life
Molly Kearney will be Saturday Night Live’s first nonbinary cast member
The “A League of Their Own” actor joins the cast of NBC’s late-night sketch comedy show as a featured player.
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News (USA)
Deranged Trump supporter arrested for allegedly threatening to bomb children’s hospital
Suffering children were evacuated from the building after the Trump donor ranted about “sicko” doctors.
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Politics
Unhinged Marjorie Taylor Greene caught on video kicking a teen activist
She posted video of her kicking the teen to social media and called the victim a “foolish coward.”
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Politics
AOC slammed Republican lawmaker who shouted at Black woman lawyer & called her “young lady”
“Frankly, men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Life
A transgender Joker film has been pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival
Filmmaker Vera Drew is now urging fans to vote for “The People’s Joker” to receive TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.
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Election 2024
Senate will delay marriage equality bill until after the midterms
“We’re very confident that the bill will pass but we will need a little more time.”