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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Thursday called President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America “petty and disappointing.” “This is petty and disappointing. We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. and Canadian economies,” wrote Scott in a Thursday social media post about the order. “Further

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released a 20-page pseudoscientific report entitled, “Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian Psychology?” The report concludes that “gender ideology is associated with left-wing authoritarianism and willingness to justify political violence,” but its methodology and creation both align with the Trump administration’s general

Marni von Wipert, currently a member of the San Diego City Council, is running for Congress from one of five recently gerrymandered districts in California, redrawn to add Democratic votes and, the party hopes, send a majority to the House of Representatives in 2027. A pledge to “Flip the 48th” is von Wilpert’s mantra. The

Former pro-basketball player and sports commentator Charles Barkley criticized the transgender athlete debate unfolding in the WNBA, saying, “Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women,” in his interview with radio host Michael Smerconish published Monday on YouTube. During the interview, Barkley defended Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham’s comments opposing trans women and girls’

Seth Gruber, the Christian Nationalist host of The Seth Gruber Show, spoke in his August 25 broadcast about a news story involving “California sodomites who bought a baby through surrogacy” but then allegedly told the birth mother to “kill it” (per their surrogacy agreement) after the unborn fetus was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a

Pride parades, sponsorships, and celebrations all trace their roots back to Black and Brown trans people, who reached their absolute limit with police violence, surveillance, and harassment. We gave this movement its heartbeat. But decades later, our communities are still being asked to work for free in the name of a liberation that has not

Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was declared the winner of yesterday’s Republican primary runoff after running a short campaign based largely on transphobia and who her brother was. Graham has received 52.5% of the vote in the runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) with 99% of the votes counted, and Norman delivered a concession speech

Three years ago, the right lost its mind over Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg allegedly flying “private” on the taxpayer’s dime, and for once bringing along his husband to honor veterans in his official capacity as a cabinet member’s spouse, among other charges. The latest ethical lapse from the Trump administration puts that transportation contretemps

A New Jersey detective says he was sexually assaulted by a supervisor amid years of anti-gay harassment. Last week, Russell Kingsland, a detective with the state’s Division of Criminal Justice, filed a notice of tort claim, a formal written notice of allegations required in New Jersey before a lawsuit can be filed against public agencies,

Transphobic billionaire Harry Potter author JK Rowling compared herself to convicted rapist and championship boxer Mike Tyson while threatening critics who dare to publicly criticize her on social media. “If you walked up to Mike Tyson in a bar and punched him in the face, I doubt ‘you can’t hit back because I’m so puny!’ would save

Security camera footage at Protest Pizzeria, a gay-owned pizza shop in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle, captured a criminal breaking the restaurant’s glass front door and stealing $78 in cash from their register around 3 a.m. last Friday, The Washington Blade reported. Though police aren’t investigating the incident as a hate crime, the business’ owners, Randy

The former publicist of Phil McGraw, known publicly as Dr. Phil, is suing the television personality for anti-gay discrimination, among other alleged indiscretions, Jerry Sharell started working for the former talk show host in 2016 and became president of publicity in 2019. He claims in the lawsuit that McGraw began treating him differently due to

Middle school students pushed past a “wall of teachers” this past Friday to walk out and protest their school board’s ban on a musical composition honoring Stonewall veteran Marsha P. Johnson, issued earlier in the week. Administrators had placed the school under a “cautionary lock and hold” that day to prevent the walkout. In a

US House member and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds (R-FL) calls himself a “Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man.” Byron Donalds’ LGBTQ+ legislative record not only aligns him with MAGA’s anti-queer ideology but suggests that he’d be as antagonistic towards LGBTQ+ civil rights and expression as his home state’s current Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

A transgender music teacher in North Carolina, targeted by a state lawmaker, Libs of TikTok, and a local chapter of Moms for Liberty, was defended at multiple school board meetings this month as “perfectly qualified” and “a lovely person.” “There is no reason why their ability to do their job should be in question,” said

Stew Peters, a Russia-backed anti-LGBTQ+ influencer who once baselessly accused a gay father of raping his own children, recently said that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) should be dropped off in Iran’s capital city of Tehran to see if he’ll be killed by anti-LGBTQ+ extremists. He’s just the most recent political figure to accuse Graham of being

The WNBA apologized after fans at last Sunday’s game in Georgia between the Indiana Fever and the Atlanta Dream were instructed by security to cover shirts communicating both pro- and anti-trans messages. “This should not have happened,” the league said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. Related The controversy reportedly concerned three fans,

Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. This week’s Good News Roundup has it all: queer entertainers standing up for trans people, court victories against anti-LGBTQ+ policies, and even several studies showing that

Pop singer and LGBTQ+ ally Ariana Grande successfully got her song “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)” removed from a transphobic August 20 video posted by President Donald Trump’s TikTok account. It’s the second time the Trump administration has used Grande’s music without permission and just the latest instance of his administration using

Actor Rob Lowe admitted yesterday in a conversation with Oprah Winfrey on his podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe that he was repeatedly called a “fa**ot” during his childhood because he was “pretty,” USA Today reported. “I wish that when I was younger I was cute. What I actually was, was pretty,” Lowe said. “And that,

While there is still a group of people who believe adolescents experiencing same-sex attractions can actually overcome their identities to become heterosexual, the overall mindset among the religious right has shifted. Nowadays, the thinking tends to be that just because a person is LGBTQ+ does not mean they have to act on their desires (e.g.,

Control of Florida’s Sarasota County Schools Board will flip to a Democratic majority following recent election wins and the fact that Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler — who was implicated in a 2023 rape scandal alleged by the woman she and her husband had threesomes with — will step down from the board on

A three-judge panel for the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals ruled that gender-affirming care for minors constitutes an essential medical treatment for trans youth and that the ban on gender-affirming care is in violation of a state constitutional amendment. Originally passed by Republicans to undermine Obamacare, the amendment is now being used to prevent

A judge has blocked the Trump administration from stripping the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP), a bipartisan sex education program that has been running since 2010. Under Donald Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services tried to push an abstinence-only model and strip federal funding from other programs. “This ruling is a positive step

Fox News and Republicans are apparently scandalized that out bisexual San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who is running for one of California’s U.S House seats, held an August 13 fundraiser at a San Diego, California, lesbian bar called Gossip Grill. The right-wing media outlet notes that the venue’s events include “Girls, Gays and

Michael Allen Caruso | police photo Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appointed Michael Allen Caruso last August to serve as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller. Caruso was arrested yesterday on charges of molestation, kidnapping, luring and enticing a child, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and child abuse early yesterday morning, according to an

A Kansas judge has issued an order to temporarily reinstate the driver’s license of one trans woman. The ruling states that she is likely to succeed in her case against the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) and that KDOR violated due process by invalidating the license. “Plaintiff was deprived of her constitutional Due Process right

An unknown vandal spray-painted graffiti and smashed a window displaying pro-LGBTQ+ signs at Corner Drug, a family-owned pharmacy in Woodland, California early Monday morning. The signs expressed support for Woodland Pride and LGBTQ+ residents, with one sign stating, “Hate has no business here” and another rainbow-colored sign declaring the business as a safe space from

A federal judge on Friday ruled against a Trump administration provision to to remove gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit covered under the Affordable Care Act, a 2010 law (also known as Obamacare) which requires the federal government to subsidize such benefits. Senior U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton (an appointee of former President George

Earlier this year, out Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and MAGA conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to years in prison for tampering with voting machines. And new evidence shows that the White House held a “brainstorm call” with several federal agencies to discuss imposing