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Caitlyn Jenner appeared on Tomi Lahren’s Fox Nation podcast this week to “break her silence” with an hour of slurred rambling. During the interview, she mentioned that, due to Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive orders, her passport now says she’s male, curtailing her ability to travel, but she assured Fox listeners that she still loves the

Notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ professional mixed-martial artist Sean Strickland says he wants to “beat the s*** out of” Elliot Page. Earlier this week, Championship Rounds, an MMA news account “powered by” online gambling platform Rainbet, shared an X post featuring a video of Strickland next to a photo of Page. In the brief clip, an off-camera interviewer

A queer Torah study group in Portland, Oregon, wants LGBTQ+ people to know that they have always been a part of Jewish history. It’s all in how you look at things, explains Rabbi Emerita Ariel Stone, who helped start the study group at Congregation Shir Tikvah. “If you look back at Jewish teachings about the

In a live TV interview, British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan repeatedly called anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) a racist bigot and asked her if she was a drunk. The exchange occurred when they both appeared on the Thursday installment of Piers Morgan Uncensored, a news talk program. Early into her appearance, Morgan asked Mace about an

Pro-LGBTQ+ protestors were tear-gassed, detained, and arrested in Turkey this week as they demonstrated against the government’s recent raids. Last weekend, raids picked up activists, journalists, and attendees at LGBTQ+ spaces, all under the propaganda of “keeping families safe.” “This is the widest crackdown on LGBTQ+ people in recent years,” said Human Rights Watch’s associate

Anthony Kazmierczak, a 56-year-old Trump-loving right-winger, unsuccessfully attacked Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in January by using a syringe to shoot an unknown liquid at her during a public event. He was quickly tackled by security officers and arrested after his attempt. Omar survived the attack unharmed, but Kazmierczak was recently sentenced to 14 months in

In the wake of controversy surrounding the funding of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, the president’s gay niece, Mary Trump, discussed the “gobsmacking” level of corruption in which her family is entangled and explained just why her cousin might feel a deep need to take the money. In what the New York Times called “an extraordinary

The city council of Southlake, Texas — one of the wealthiest cities in the US — voted unanimously on Tuesday night to deny a permit to Pride So-Kel, a community Pride festival planned for October 3 on the 10-acre property of St. Martin-in-the-Field, an Episcopal church. While one person at the council meeting reportedly opposed

Beloved out actor George Takei and his husband, Brad Altman, are celebrating a remarkable 40 years together, 18 of them married. “Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles,” Takei wrote on social media, alongside a photo of the couple with

A promotional image supporting the candidacy of Republican Florida State legislative candidate Marshall Clayton Rawson | Facebook Florida may soon elect Marshall Clayton Rawson — a Republican, White nationalist supporter who supports the execution of LGBTQ+ people — to its state legislature. Rawson has a long history with the League of the South, a white

A high school student and her family have settled their lawsuit with the Boise School District after the student said she saw a trans girl in the bathroom, which is something that people have been able to sue over in the state since 2023. The district agreed to pay her $34,000, plus attorney fees. According

Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he believes America is ready for a gay president when asked about it on the Sunday morning news talk program Meet the Press. The show’s hostess Kristen Welker mentioned to Buttigieg that former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her 2025 book 107 Days that, during her 2024

Baltimore’s LGBTQ+ community is reeling after a 27-year-old trans woman was shot and killed Friday morning in the city’s Barclay neighborhood. While police have not yet publicly identified the victim, the housing and health organization Baltimore Safe Haven told media outlets her name was Sophie Lee. Related “This is not only a former client of

America PAC, the super PAC backed by Elon Musk, is set to spend over $100 million in an effort to help Republicans win in the midterms. So far, that spending budget seems to be going almost exclusively towards anti-trans ads that push scaremongering lies about trans people, misinformation about Democratic candidates, and are (in some

A First Nation in Alberta, Canada has declared itself a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care amid the province’s crackdown on providing such care to trans kids under 16. “All children, including trans and two-spirit children and their family, will have safety under our treaty,” said Dale Steinhauer, chief of Saddle Lee Cree Nation, on Wednesday,

Russia has slapped the international travel site Booking.com with an approximately $70,000 fine (6 million rubles) for violating the country’s so-called LGBT propaganda laws. The Tagansky district court of Moscow reportedly handed down two three-million-ruble fines to the company in response to a newsletter sent to foreign partner hotels that contained information on housing LGBTQ+

The Swiss government says it supports a uniform, national ban on so-called conversion therapy, and it’s moving ahead to consider federal legislation to outlaw the discredited practice. A report from the government published last week details a number of current national regulations addressing the practice, as well as a patchwork of laws or procedures in

Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) hired 25-year-old Stephen Woytek as his campaign’s political director in August. Woytek’s social media activity shows that he posted an image of Nazi soldiers as his Facebook profile photo, follows a group that reenacts Nazi military campaigns, follows several suppliers of Nazi military uniforms, and contributed to a public playlist

Seattle moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the tenth American city to adopt civil rights protections for polyamorous and other “nontraditional” relationships. A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle

During a town hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night, out former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg hilariously mocked the right-wing organization for young conservatives, Turning Point USA. “As a tactical matter, I’ll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a lot of different places,” said Buttiegieg, who is

Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is currently running for reelection, has been called out for photoshopping a trans Pride flag into an ad released by his opponent, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D). The original ad, posted by Hinojosa, involved a video of the candidate speaking with a second grader about her school shutting

MAGA pastor and self-proclaimed “prophet” Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries recently said that uncircumcised people are trying to steal the nation. His comment was part of a bizarre transphobic and Islamophobic statement on the midterm elections. “I am not going to let uncircumcised, uncovenanted people try to steal this nation that was dedicated to

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Jennifer Sey had been waiting for an athlete like Sophie Cunningham. Related Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear startup that openly calls transgender people’s identity a “lie,” has spent the last two and a half years stoking the flames of the

Precious Arzuaga and Jennifer Quijano have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for their role as “ringleaders” in the brutal early 2025 torture and killing of 24-year-old trans man Sam Nordquist. During the sentencing, Nordquist’s mother and sister spoke, and Arzuaga apologized for her role in Nordquist’s grisly death. “I was trying to

Riley Gaines on Fox News | Screenshot Anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, who has dedicated her life to trying to ban trans women from women’s sports, mocked a recent WNBA game she attended as being filled with “a bunch of disgruntled lesbians.” Gaines made the comment during an appearance on Fox News, where she said she

Tonya Agnew is a mom of two adult children, a wife, and the Vice President of Communications & Marketing for Family Equality – a national nonprofit that protects and advances freedoms for LGBTQ+ families Pack lunch. Set out the perfect first day outfit. Finish summer reading. Come out – again and again. That last one

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) allegedly broke the hand of Brian McGinnis, a decorated Marine officer who protested the Iran war during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday. Sheehy was assisting Capitol Police officers attempting to eject McGinnis from the hearing. A CBS News reporter recorded video of the incident and posted it to

After a legal battle that lasted nearly 10 years, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that transgender people have a legal right to change their name and gender markers on official ID documents. The case began when a Bulgarian trans woman moved to Italy and, for years, was repeatedly denied the right to

President Donald Trump during his June 7, 2026 Meet the Press interview | YouTube screenshot MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace couldn’t stop laughing at Donald Trump’s Truth Social rants defending his Great American State Fair, an event that has suffered from a series of mishaps and mismanagement issues as well as low turnout. Wallace said

LGBTQ+ fans are devastated that the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars canceled their Pride Night for the upcoming season, but right-wingers are celebrating the move as evidence that “not every sport is woke.” The anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council (FRC) shared an article in its Washington Stand publication celebrating that the Stars are done with Pride