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An Ohio school district has paid a $450,000 settlement to a teacher who was forced to resign after refusing to address two students by their transgender names and personal pronouns. Vivian Geraghty was an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Stark County from August 2020 until August 26, 2022. Geraghty, a Christian, reportedly

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., on May 3, 2024, in Sedona. Kyrsten Sinema arrived in the U.S. Senate in 2019 as a Democrat with a pledge to model her tenure on another Arizona senator, self-described Republican “maverick” John McCain, who died just months before her election. She lived up to that promise in some ways, bucking

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Actor Lukas Gage is opening up about feeling pressured to come out as gay and expressing sympathy for Kit Connor who he says faced a similar “witch hunt.” The Smile 2 star appears on the cover of the latest issue of Attitude, and in the accompanying profile Gage recalls dealing with the public perception that

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Viciously anti-LGBTQ+ failed gubernatorial candidate and current North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) has been fined $35,000 by the North Carolina State Board of Elections for committing hundreds of campaign finance violations during the 2020 election when he won the race for North Carolina lieutenant governor. A report

U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1880-1965) as President of the International Business Women’s Congress held in Paris in 1936. President Joe Biden has established a national monument in Newcastle, Maine, to Frances Perkins, the first woman member of a presidential Cabinet who may also have been part of the LGBTQ+ community. Perkins served as

Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA on Monday, April 24, 2023. On the evening of December 9, I read about the death of legendary poet and educator Nikki Giovanni while searching for something on the Internet. What a tremendous loss. I thought I was going to cry.  On November 9, a month before her death,

A school board meeting in Riverside, California, went awry after Republicans and anti-trans activists stormed the town hall in opposition to school policies protecting transgender girls. The Riverside County School District held a board meeting on Thursday, with California Assemblymembers Bill Essayli (R) and Leticia Castillo (R) in attendance alongside a crowd of anti-trans activists

Based on a new Texas state mandate that bans reading material in school libraries which “describes, depicts, or portrays sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive,” officials in a school district in the Texas panhandle recently removed the Bible from library shelves. Then they put it back. Related: In an email to parents

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson fulfilled her longtime dream of performing on Broadway when she recently made a special one-night-only appearance in the very queer musical & Juliet. On December 14, the Biden appointee — and the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — took the stage at the Stephen Sondheim

Officials in Louisiana held a series of meetings in October and November, telling Department of Health staff that the state would no longer allow them to promote COVID, flu, and mpox vaccinations. The new policy would be implemented quietly and would not be put in writing, four health department employees told NPR. They asked to

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18-year-old transgender woman Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson An 18-year-old Black transgender woman named Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson was shot to death in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Monday. Police have arrested an unnamed underage suspect and charged him with murder as an adult. Thompson’s family suspects her murder was a hate crime, and police suspect it may

State Sen. Molly Cook, 33, a sixth-generation Texan and former ER nurse, starts a new term in January after multiple campaigns in a single year that would have left a less energetic candidate exhausted on a beach on South Padre Island. Not so for Cook, who has only upped her game with every electoral challenge.

President-elect Donald Trump picked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general on Nov. 13, 2024. Gaetz is being probed by the House Ethics Committee as a part of an ongoing investigation that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is freaking out over the fact that members

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill imposes a prison sentence of up to five years for the “willful promotion, sponsorship, or support of LGBTQ+ activities.” The

A 22-year-old Michigan man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime for planning to carry out a mass killing of gay people. Mack Davis spent a year July 2023 to June 2024 planning his crime while researching other mass killers and amassing weapons, even inscribing “F***OT Killer” into one of his knives, according to the

Bill White, nominated for Ambassador to Belgium On Saturday, Donald Trump announced his selection of Bill White — a gay businessperson and Republican donor who dropped Hillary Clinton the night she lost the 2016 election — as Ambassador to Belgium. White, 57, along with his husband, Bryan Eure, were once fixtures among Manhattan’s liberal elite; now White

Fearing a backlash from parents, Disney has cut a transgender storyline from Pixar’s upcoming original animated sports series Win or Lose, a show about a co-ed middle school softball team. Pixar employees have previously accused Disney of censoring LGBTQ+ content from its animated projects. LGBTQ Nation contacted Disney and Pixar for comment and will update

Protestors outside the Supreme court during oral arguments for United States v. Skrmetti A few weeks ago, I attended the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, a landmark transgender discrimination case that could have lasting impacts on the personal freedoms of transgender people and our families nationwide. The energy outside the Court was

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New York City Council member Chi Ossé Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos. Ossé, an anti-police brutality activist who

Three more men stepped forward on Thursday to accuse rapper and music producer Sean “P. Diddy” Combs of drugging and raping them. The civil lawsuits follow four others filed by men last month, including one victim who was 16 at the time of his alleged assault. “It was a usual thing. Come for a meeting,

A gay police officer is suing the city of Oceanside, California, alleging he faced both anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and retaliation after he reported it. NBC 7 San Diego reports that Sgt. Tyler Peppard filed a lawsuit against the city on November 22. According to court documents, Peppard joined the Oceanside Police Department (OPD) as a recruit

This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. —  it then appeared on Mother Jones and has been republished with the publication’s permission. A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What remains is

LOS ANGELES, CA. November 09, 2024: Jonathan Bailey at the premiere for Wicked at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Wicked star Jonathan Bailey did not come out as gay until his mid-20s, but he had inklings about his sexuality throughout his childhood. Bailey, who plays straight heartthrob Fiyero in the film, recently told British Vogue that

The ACLU of Florida is suing the state’s Department of Corrections over a new anti-transgender policy that will restrict trans prisoners’ access to gender-affirming medical care as well as their ability to express their gender identity. According to a report from The Marshall Project and the Tampa Bay Times, a federal judge in Tallahassee held

Uproar Lounge in Washington, DC A neighborhood leather bar in Washington, DC is struggling in the aftermath of a massive insurance rate hike, and they’re asking for help from the community. Uproar, a bar for bears, their admirers and the leather community located on Florida Ave. in Northwest DC, has been a fixture in the

Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, is trying to delay his federal sex-trafficking case. As Business Insider reports, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office of the Eastern District of New York said that Jeffries’s attorneys asked a Manhattan judge on Monday to schedule a hearing to determine whether their client is

In a highly contentious move, the Republican-led Warren County Virginia Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 earlier this week to take control of Samuels Public Library after local community members pushed back against book bans, The Washington Post reports. Nearly 100 residents of the local community attended a six-hour hearing discussing whether to take control of