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President Donald Trump pumps his first as the crowd chants “fight, fight, fight!” during the inauguration parade for President Donald Trump at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. “The sky is falling!” Henny Penny (also known as Chicken Little) announced in stunned amazement. “A piece of it fell on my head.” “No,”

Jul 17, 2024; Milwaukee, WI, USA; Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum. The third day of the RNC focused on foreign policy and threats. Anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has refused to attend a public town hall planned by her constituents because she claims it

Elon Musk takes the stage at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. On the same day that Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson went public with some unflattering observations about her father — calling him a “pathetic man-child” among other things — the billionaire Trump ally and Telsa CEO lashed out on his X platform, tying

MSNBC anchorwoman Rachel Maddow pointed out that the president recently doxxed his own former campaign attorney, Joseph diGenova, by accidentally releasing his full birthdate and Social Security number in un-redacted government files detailing the investigation into the 1963 passing of President John F. Kennedy. The doxxing led diGenova to receive frightening messages and worry about

Olivia Sawyer, right, and Olivia McDonald of Washington D.C. join others in rally at the U.S. Department of Education on March 14, 2025, after lay-offs and the threat of President Trump closing the agency. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to eliminate the Department of Education, falsely claiming that it will improve

Twenty-six Democratic members of Congress signed a letter Monday demanding that Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth reverse course on what they describe as an unconstitutional purge of books and learning material at K-12 schools operated by the Department of Defense (DOD). The letter comes after the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) instructed schools to pull

USA Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a press conference after meeting with President Bernardo Arevalo in February 2025. An annual U.S. State Department report detailing human rights around the world will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous

Bud Light employees at the 2017 Toronto Pride Parade. Anheuser-Busch is one of several large companies that have recently withdrawn their sponsorship from San Francisco’s June 2025 Pride celebration, leaving the event’s organizers searching for $300,000 to make up for the lost cash. Right-wingers boycotted Anheuser-Busch’s Bud Light in 2023 after the beer brand promoted

Transphobic Minnesota State Sen. Justin Eichorn (R) Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (R), 40-year-old married father of four children, supported a bill to ban transgender female athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. He also recently introduced a bill to designate “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as an official mental illness. He was just arrested for trying

The presidential administration has deported and “disappeared” an LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seeker under the accusation that his tattoos made him a member of a terrorist group. He received no court hearings and his lawyer and a lawyer representing the federal government both say they have no idea where he is now. Meanwhile, the president is

When Welsh drag performer James Lee Williams appeared on the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK in 2019 as The Vivienne, they made history and wowed fans by becoming the reality competition spinoff’s first-crowned champion. But when the 32-year-old performer unexpectedly died on January 5, many wondered about the cause of death. On Monday,

On Friday night, a gay bar in Indianapolis was the scene of a heated exchange between Donald Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats and bar staff who say they abused them. The bar staff threw them out. Related: “A group of individuals visited Chatterbox and intentionally misgendered and harassed a Chatterbox employee, resulting in them being

“I’m a dyke. I don’t wear lipgloss or anything like that,” my coworker said at lunch one day. She is a decade older than me. Her lesbian world and its definitions are lightyears away from mine.  “What’s that supposed to mean?” I ask.  Related Queer women candidates have been smashing glass ceilings across the US.

Washington, DC, USA, 8.23.24 – The front exterior of Bernard P McDonough Hall at Georgetown Law. A note sent to Georgetown Law Center by interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, declared it “unacceptable” that the school “continues to teach and promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion].” Martin demanded the school eliminate

President Donald J. Trump arrives at Trump International Golf Club, Sunday, February 3, 2019. President Trump was hosting his annual Super Bowl watch party at his golf club in West Palm Beach. Amid reports that Donald Trump’s frequent golf trips have cost American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, Lara Trump claims the president doesn’t

Kids gather for the West Allis Pride event’s “Drag Queen Story Hour,” to hear Princess Janelza read three children’s books. Can the state of a city’s drag community be an indicator of its economic vitality? Urbanist and author Nicholas Lalla thinks so. In a recent HuffPost op-ed, Lalla argues that the conservative moral panic around

The governor of West Virginia, Patrick Morrisey (R), signed a bill defining “man” and “woman” based on reproductive biology and erasing nonbinary and trans identities into law. “West Virginia will not bow down to radical gender ideology,” Morrisey said in signing the bill. Related: The bill, S.B. 456, made national headlines for a provision that

A parents’ rights activist, seated prominently between First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance at President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last week, has lost her appeal over forced outing in Florida. A federal appeals court this week upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit brought by January

Texas state Rep. Stan Gerdes (R) Texas legislator Rep. Stan Gerdes (R) has introduced The FURRIES Act, legislation to punish students who act like non-human animals in schools and penalize schools who allow this behavior. Anti-transgender Republicans claim that schools have been forced to accommodate students who identify as house pet “furries.” However, educators have

An annual shot to protect against HIV infection has successfully passed an early safety trial, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. The drug lenacapavir passed a critical Phase I testing trial and now may become a highly-effective and convenient form of HIV prevention. Related 11 HIV activists arrested after saying Trump USAID official has

Protesters raised the transgender flag outside the White House in July, 2017, to denounce Trump’s transgender military ban. A group of so-called “detransitioners” sponsored by groups including Moms for Liberty and funded by the federal government assembled on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to push the Trump administration’s false narrative that there are only two “immutable”

Comedian and former daytime talk show host Rosie O’Donnell has moved out of the U.S. to Ireland with her nonbinary child Clay following the re-election of President Donald Trump. She’s at least the second high-profile lesbian comedienne to do so, following Ellen DeGeneres. In a nine-minute TikTok video, O’Donnell reveal that she moved to Ireland

Rep. Lauren Boebert, (R-CO) at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) has introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for her “racist” and “ableist” comment criticizing Rep. Al Green (D-TX) for interrupting President Donald Trump’s congressional address last week. During her Friday appearance with the right-wing media broadcaster Real America’s Voice,

The creator of a women’s gym that has not yet opened in London originally promised that her business would be trans-inclusive, but has now walked back her promise with a message that implies that trans women are likely to sexually assault cis women, which is false. Fitness influencer Natalee Barnett has been talking about her

Protestors unfurl a 200-foot rainbow banner while dressed in pink and rainbow-colored accessories outside of the Utah state capitol building. Demonstrators unfurled a 200-foot rainbow banner in front of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday in protest of a H.B. 77, bill that would ban rainbow and transgender Pride flags as

Memos from the administration of President Donald Trump, revealed last Friday by the New York Times (NYT), have flagged over 100 words that government agencies should limit or avoid. The Times compiled a full list of the terms from government memos, official and unofficial agency guidances, and other documents.    The list contains mostly inoffensive phrases

Brandi Carlile/Elton John At a time when the world seems a lot scarier for LGBTQ+ youth, Elton John and Brandi Carlile are bringing a little hope to the table. On Wednesday, March 5, the duo released “Swing for the Fences,” the latest single from their upcoming collaborative album, Who Believes in Angels? According to Carlile,

Outspoken Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) did not mince words when speaking to a reporter about Donald Trump’s recent (and many would say, dystopian) address to Congress. “This is not what we should be doing,” she declared. “I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. Why are we fighting with Greenland? We’re fighting with Canada, we’re