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Serenity Birdsong Photo: MT Lambda Instagram Serenity Birdsong, a transgender student at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), killed themselves on Monday inside the campus’ James E. Walker Library. Birdsong was vice president of MTSU’s student LGBTQ+ organization MT Lambda. The school canceled classes and closed the library on Tuesday but resumed normal operations on Wednesday.

On a scorching hot day in Las Vegas, George Escarero was on a water break from knocking on doors in one of the city’s sprawling gated communities. The gay, longtime banquet server at the Mirage, whose first language is Spanish, estimated the temperature at 105 but said, “That’s how we go, just walk and walk

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. speaks during the first day of the Republican National Convention. Photo: Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spewed anti-LGBTQ+ talking points to defend a comedian who made numerous racist comments at the New York City rally for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump,

When the Alabama Supreme Court announced its decision that embryos have the same legal rights as children — placing IVF access in jeopardy nationwide — the future of LGBTQ+ families instantly became uncertain. LGBTQ+ couples overwhelmingly rely on fertility treatments to build their families, and IVF is the most common method of assisted reproduction.  LGBTQ+

“Under the Hitler regime…the most important thing that I learned…was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problems. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most tragic problem is silence.” -Joachim Prinz, Rabbi of Berlin, exiled in 1937 to the United States, from his speech on August 28, 1963, in

Sitting on a colored mat beside a DIY box full of tailoring items, including scissors, thread rolls, and stickers, Deepak’s eyes are glued on a thrifted jacket that she had recently brought. While closely looking at the jacket, she puts a sticker on the stained part.  “This is how I repair these thrifted clothes and

May 9, 2024; Washington, DC; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaking along side Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and other Republican Senators holding a press conference discussing a resolution that condemns any action by the Biden Administration to withhold or restrict weapons for Israel. Photo: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Republican Ted Cruz’s desperate search for trans targets in

Here are eight positive stories that happened this past week. Shutterstock Chase Strangio | Shutterstock History will be made soon! ACLU attorney Chase Strangio will argue for trans people’s rights to access medical care before the Supreme Court. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news

The history of the Middle East – and especially between Palestinians and Jews – abounds with blame, recrimination, retaliation, and an ever-escalating cycle of mistrust and violence. There is indeed plenty of justifiable blame to go around on all sides, but as we blame and blame and blame, attack and attack and attack, react and

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Amtrak station in Mobile, Alabama on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Photo: Gregg Pachkowski / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has apparently had enough of Republican members of Congress who voted against the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law

When DeAnna LeTray, a trans woman in New York, was arrested after she called the police during a domestic incident at her home, authorities at the county jail tore her wig off, subjected her to a cavity and strip search, sexually abused her, and housed her with male inmates. She was arrested, she said, after

“I say of all dangers to a nation, as things exist in our day, there can be no greater one than having certain portions of the people set off from the rest by a line drawn – they are not privileged as others, but degraded, humiliated, made of no account.” –Walt Whitman At one time,

Rep. Greene (R-GA) speaks on May 1, 2024. Photo: Josh Morgan-USA TODAY via IMAGN Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is hearing things — all wrong. The rhetorical bomb thrower and U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia claimed on Wednesday that Kamala Harris compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and even said that such a comparison would get Trump

The moderate conservative PAC Lincoln Project released an ad responding to anti-trans attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris. The new ad says that “Trump is for he/him” and that he’s trying to “gaslight” voters by bringing up Harris’ past statements that she would enforce current federal policy by ensuring health care access for transgender inmates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Photo: Shutterstock A Kremlin-backed propaganda network is allegedly behind a disinformation campaign targeting Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, spreading false rumors that he sexually assaulted former students, according to WIRED. Various experts allege that the network Storm-1516 is behind these efforts. This network is tied to many false claims, including one

The fake Matthew Metro from the AI video A viral post on X by a user entrenched in the QAnon conspiracy sphere claimed that a former student of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Matthew Metro, alleged that Walz sexually assaulted him in 1997 when he was still a student. The move is part of a broader

Windhoek, Namibia – 05, 20, 2021: Namibian LGBTQIA rights Activists demonstrate in protest march in support of recognition of same sex marriages Photo: Shutterstock With the overturning of Roe v. Wade causing a crisis in abortion care across the country, the LGBTQ+ community and its allies are terrified that something similar could happen to marriage

Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) Photo: YouTube screenshot Saddled with a felon for their presidential nominee and with no platform to run on other than Donald Trump’s dementia-tinged ramblings, Republicans are reaching back 2o years for their tried-and-true campaign strategy: when in doubt, attack the LGBTQ+ community. Back in 2004, it was an assault on the

A soon-to-be mother is going viral online for her video in which she called out a bakery for allegedly ruining her gender reveal surprise by telling her what color was inside her cake. In the video, TikTok user “morbidmama7,” who is called “Ariel” in the video, plays a voicemail message left for her by an

Several small business owners in Lancaster, Ohio, say they saw an increase in new customers after a local anti-LGBTQ+ group tried to start a boycott campaign against them. According to local NBC affiliate WCMH, the group Fairfield County Conservatives began circulating a list of local small businesses on social media following two September city council meetings

A transgender woman in Vallejo, California has endured a distressing legal hurdle after being assaulted: The district attorney’s legal paperwork exclusively refers to her by her deadname. Jeriann Guzmann had her name legally changed in 2012, so she was shocked when her county’s district attorney sent a letter to her son’s home addressed to her

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Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe Photo: Human Rights Campaign Convicted killer Daqua Lameek Ritter was sentenced to life in prison following a guilty verdict in the death of Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe, a 24-year-old Black transgender South Carolina woman who Ritter was in a relationship with. Ritter is the first individual to be tried and convicted for

Photo: White House/Alan via Wikimedia Commons (CC license 3.0) Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump reportedly tried to get adult film performer Stormy Daniels to sign a hush money agreement — again, after he was already found guilty of charges connected to the first time he bought her silence. This week, out MSNBC

Photo: Screenshot Fox News In an appearance at a Fox town hall event hosted by Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he could ban transgender women from playing women’s sports in the U.S., an authority he wouldn’t have as president. “You just ban it. The president bans it.

Cape Town, South Africa – March 31 2023: Protesters take to the streets over Uganda’s anti-gay legislation after Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed it into law. Photo: Shutterstock Uganda’s brutal Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) reportedly cost the country as much as $1.6 billion in the year since it became law. The law, signed by Ugandan President

For years, lesbian TV screenwriter Elisabeth Finch told her wife, friends, and co-workers that she had chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer. The cancer, she said, required chemotherapy which forced her to have an abortion, and later resulted in her developing a spinal tumor and losing a kidney. Her employers at the TV medical drama Grey’s Anatomy

Donald Trump speaks to his supporters during his campaign event in Coachella, Calif., Oct. 12, 2024. Photo: Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has shown an inability to answer direct questions over the course of his 2024 campaign, often jumping from