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Up to an estimated $879 million in LGBTQ+ household and business income has left Missouri in recent years, as queer residents flee a hostile political environment, according to a recent analysis by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP). The state lawmakers responsible for creating this financial drain were warned, the Missouri Independent reports. Related For years,

A Christian preacher is getting praise from the right online after he posted a video of himself harassing Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) on a sidewalk. Joseph Phillip Daniel is a conservative Christian preacher who was once featured in a segment on The 700 Club. He got media attention in 2019 again when he was working

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration can prohibit the State Department from issuing passports that list the correct genders of transgender and nonbinary people. The case, decided on the court’s emergency docket, will allow Trump’s discriminatory policy to proceed while legal challenges against the policy proceed in lower courts. Lower

Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is getting called out for her “psychotic episode” in an airport by a former GOP congressman who she joked was transgender. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was on Fox News discussing next year’s midterm elections when he brought up Mace, saying that Republicans like her could cost the party votes.

Anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives have long crowed about how queer adults, drag queens, and their allies have been “grooming” and “sexualizing” children for abuse. Notably, these concern-trolls ignore all the child abuse scandals regularly coming out of the Republican party and the Christian church. But journalist Evan Hurst — managing editor of the catty and left-leaning political

Two lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration over its new rule limiting student loan forgiveness that plaintiffs argue illegally targets LGBTQ+ organizations. The rule states that employees of government or non-profit organizations that support communities and initiatives this administration dislikes will be cut off from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF), which

We’re one month into a government shutdown, and there’s no end in sight. When the Democrats decided not to swallow the GOP spending bill without getting some concessions, there were warnings that a shutdown could be lengthy. The longest was led by Democrats in Donald Trump’s first term, who opposed the billions he wanted for

Jamie Lee Curtis says she was “mistranslated” over tearful comments she made about Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk days after he was shot dead at an open-air college event in Utah. In a revealing interview with Variety, Curtis clarified her comments about Kirk’s death with her trademark wit and fierce intelligence. Related The controversy over Curtis’s

In 2023, Texas Republicans passed, and Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed into law, House Bill 2127, a power grab so sweeping that it’s become known among critics and the public as the “Death Star Act.”   The law essentially outlaws any measure a local government entity passes that isn’t explicitly authorized by the state. Related

Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to end all Medicaid and Medicare funding for young people’s gender-affirming care (GAC), according to newly proposed rules shared by NPR. A trans activist said the rules would amount to a “de facto national ban” on GAC. The proposed rules would prohibit all federal Medicaid and

A marathon city council meeting in Orange County, California, ended in the early hours of Thursday morning last week with a dramatic victory for free speech advocates. Right-wing city council member Mike Munzing, known among his opponents as “MAGA Mike,” lured a standing-room-only audience to council chambers Wednesday night with his proposal to ban all

A man tried to defend a trans woman who was getting harassed but ended up the victim of the hate crime himself. In the aftermath, he was able to get his surgery covered by strangers who heard his story. “It irked me to ask for help,” Jarod Adkison, whose jaw was broken so badly that

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has reportedly moved away from providing coverage for breast cancer in male patients. While breast cancer is a rare but serious health problem for cisgender men, the memo in question cites one of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders as the reason for the change. “Cancer in male veterans should be

A few weeks ago, political newcomer and U.S. Senate candidate from Maine, Graham Platner, captured the affection of the online left. Former military-turned-boutique oyster farm owner, he has a gruff style, criticizes pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, and peppers curse words between leftist lingo like “oligarchy.” To many, he was the answer to the left’s woes.

The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for an upcoming lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, accusing them of refusing to reopen the federal government to fund the program because they are holding out “for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures.” At the same time, the administration is reportedly refusing to use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is now saying that his state should consider rolling back its law allowing trans students to participate in school sports as their gender, while he argues that he isn’t transphobic because he has signed many pro-trans rights bills and also has a trans godson. “I disagree with all the vitriol,

King Charles III has dedicated a memorial to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender military service members at the United Kingdom’s National Memorial Arboretum. The memorial recognizes both current LGBTQ+ members of the armed forces and those who suffered under the military’s LGBTQ+ ban. The memorial, “An Opened Letter,” combines words taken from evidence that was

Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, ending a three-month power struggle after disastrous election losses in July for the governing Liberal Democratic Party. Takaichi, 64, replaces Shigeru Ishiba, who lasted just a year as prime minister. Related The struggling LDP joined the country’s right-wing Japan Innovation Party

Dr. Richard Isay is a modern hero who opened up the world of psychoanalysis to the LGBTQ+ community. He suffered through what we would call conversion therapy today, but after realizing it didn’t help, Isay fought for psychoanalysis to better serve the queer community. Not only did he open the profession to gay people, but

Political commentator Thom Hartmann has implored the American people to see through Donald Trump’s attempted displays of strength. “Don’t believe it,” Hartmann warned in a recent op-ed. All of the grandstanding, Hartmann explained, from the blatant disregard for the law to his attempts to distract from the flailing economy to his utilization of the military

The question we must all address is: What does it take for a president of the United States to create and post an AI-generated video of himself wearing an imperial crown and dumping massive amounts of feces from a “King Trump” jet onto No Kings protesters marching below? Related It takes a president who has no respect

A federal judge in Mississippi on Wednesday struck down a Biden-era rule extending anti-discrimination healthcare protections to transgender people. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi – a George W. Bush appointee – ruled in favor of a coalition of 15 GOP-led states that sued to overturn the rule, the Hill reports.

Erik Bottcher, 46, the gay New York City Council member representing a large LGBTQ+ constituency in Chelsea, the West Village, and Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan, is likely running for Congress. Earlier this month, Bottcher filed paperwork to run for the seat of longtime Democratic power broker Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who’s retiring, but stopped short of

Noah and PJ have their first dance as a married couple | Screenshot Noah and PJ are married now, but they shocked their wedding guests when it was time to take the floor for the traditional “first dance” as a couple. What they didn’t tell celebrants was that they had a surprise in store –

A report released this week by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found a huge increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate, threats, and violence in the US, UK, and Europe, which researchers frame as a backlash to twenty years of positive progress. The report provides an overview of anti-LGBTQ+ trends from the last five years, examining issues

In Arizona last week, a cisgender male 8th grader was “physically removed” from tryouts for his school’s boys’ basketball team because an error on his original birth certificate incorrectly identified him as being born female. It’s the latest episode in a “gender ideology”-inspired nightmare for the teenager, Laker Jackson, and his family. Related “I’m sad

A U.S. district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by an Ohio elementary school teacher who was suspended for having LGBTQ+ books in her classroom. Last November, Karen Cahall, a third-grade math and science teacher who has taught in the New Richmond Exempted Village School District for three decades, was suspended without pay for

Most media coverage on the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has focused on how its masked agents — super-charged by billions of dollars in increased Republican-approved funding — are invading Democratic-majority cities and using disproportionate physical violence to detain American citizens and non-criminal immigrants while also violating their Constitutionally protected due process rights.

Shutterstock CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten highlighted “shocking” new polling that could spell good news for Democrats in the midterm elections. A Gallup party identification poll, which involves calling voters to ask which party they consider themselves part of and which Enten said has historically “been quite telling of elections,” shows Democrats ahead of