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Photo: Screenshot New England Sports Network Jarren Duran, the 27-year-old star outfielder for the Boston Red Sox was back on the field Wednesday night after he was caught responding to a fan at a home game last Sunday with the words “f*cking f*aggot.” That day, during the game’s sixth inning. an unidentified heckler yelled, “You

Texas Judge Reed O’Connor has issued an expansion of an injunction he enacted last June that will further restrict the Department of Education’s trans-inclusive Title IX rules in the state of Texas. In his expansion, O’Connor — an appointee of President George W. Bush ‘— wrote, “The Court also declares unlawful the interpretation in the

An image from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 video about “Left wing code words.” Photo: YouTube screenshot The investigative journalism website ProPublica has published a report detailing leaked training videos from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for eroding federal agencies and civil rights under a second Donald Trump presidency. One particular video shows the

Photo: Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office An Ohio restaurant owner who attracted attention for banning Olympic broadcasts at his four Ohio eateries after calling them anti-Christian is now facing charges of rape, kidnapping and attempted murder. Bobby George, 43, made headlines two weeks ago when he announced that his restaurant group was “protesting” the Paris Olympics

Ugandan activist Clare Byarugaba met with the Pope Photo: Screenshot X Pope Francis on Tuesday met with African gay rights advocates and denounced the country’s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), also called the Kill the Gays law. In a video posted to X, Ugandan activist Clare Byarugaba can be seen shaking hands and kissing the pontiff

Mar 7, 2023; Washington, DC; Senator JD Vance (R-OH) listens as Jerome Powell, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, testifies in front of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee during a hearing on the Federal Reserve’s Semiannual Monetary Policy Report. Photo: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY via IMAGN Just like Donald Trump,

Photo: Instagram screenshot Drag Race alums Jinkx Monsoon, Alaska Thunderf*ck, Monét X Change, Miss Peppermint and BenDeLaCreme are planning a coming-out party for their new Drag PAC political action committee in Chicago next week. The politically-minded drag all-stars are joining local queen Lucy Stoole to present “Drag Night Chicago: A Voter Registration Kiki” next Wednesday

Oklahoma’s superintendent of public schools Ryan Walters Photo: WPDE-TV screenshot Republicans in the Oklahoma state legislature are turning against state Superintendent Ryan Walters (R), as 21 officials have called for an impeachment investigation. “Since Superintendent Walters took office 18 months ago, I have grown increasingly concerned about the budget performance, spending priorities, and transparency surrounding

Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz (D) Photo: Campaign Photo Minnesota Gov. and Vice President hopeful Tim Walz (D) inspired generations of students during his time as a founder of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at the Mankato West High School in Minnesota. Now, some of his former GSA students are coming back to discuss all the ways in

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) compared Democrats and left-leaning liberals to “wolves” who must be shot dead and gardeners who have poisoned American soil in his foreword to Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, a book written by Kevin Roberts. Roberts uses similarly violent and dehumanizing imagery in his

Elon Musk, X/Tesla CEO, arrives before the start of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senators Rounds, Heinrich And Young hosting the Inaugural Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum With Key AI Stakeholders Photo: Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musks’s estranged daughter, has once again spoken out against her

Fire Island’s beloved LezVolley tournament, a volleyball tournament for queer woman and nonbinary people, was abruptly canceled on Saturday when a transgender player wanted to participate. The event, which says it is for “LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary individuals,” has taken place in Cherry Grove on Fire Island — a popular queer beach town two hours

Nick Fuentes Photo: Screenshot Homophobic right-wing broadcaster Brenden Dilley has recently referred to white supremacist MAGA-influencer Nick Fuentes as a “f**” for declaring “war” on the re-election campaign former President Donald Trump. Fuentes, an anti-Semite, dined with Trump in November 2022. Dilley accused him of helping empower the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a campaign rally with Vice President Kamala Harris at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale on Aug. 9, 2024. Photo: Joe Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK On August 6, 2024, the MAGA Inc Super PAC, which is supporting Donald Trump in this election, released a campaign ad that targets

Mpox cases in Africa have surged to over 15,000 this year, more than the entire year of 2023, causing concern for world health experts such as the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who are expected to declare an emergency next week. The most impacted populations are children in the Democratic Republic of Congo,

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks during the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum. The second day of the RNC focused on crime and border policies. Photo: Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Broward County Public Schools employee Jessica Norton was suspended for ten days, but not fired,

One unseasonably warm spring day in 2020, my dad and I ventured from New Jersey to a storage unit in Orange County, New York, to unearth the remnants of my great uncle Nicky’s life. Since his death in 2018, these belongings had lain dormant, preserving the enigma of his vibrant and contradictory existence. From sculptures

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale on Aug. 9, 2024. Photo: Joe Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK According to a recent poll by LGBTQ+ health platform Folx Health, many trans people are thrilled for the Harris-Walz ticket, in large part thanks to candidates’ records

Flore Dispensary owner Terrance Alan Photo: Screenshot California State Fair In 2021, Terrance Alan celebrated the long-anticipated opening of Flore, a well-appointed cannabis dispensary just across the street from the legendary and now-closed Castro hangout Cafe Flore, a victim of the COVID pandemic. Thirty years earlier, at the height of another devastating health crisis, Alan

An essential tenet of liberation is the freedom to define oneself. Unfortunately, many sycophants throughout MAGA world have other things in mind by intentionally misidentifying others for the purpose of disqualifying them from public office and from sports competition. While Vice President Kamala Harris has always been clear about her racial and ethnic identities, former

Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of Missouri in 2023 Photo: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY via IMAGN Eris Montano—a transgender woman who used the locker room at Life Time Gym in suburban St. Louis, Missouri—has become the flashpoint of an anti-trans protest, calls for the gym to be boycotted, and an investigation launched into her by the state’s Republican

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be supplying $68 million to the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, a massive treatment program that provides services to about about a half million people living with HIV. The funding, which was announced by HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) last Wednesday, will specifically go towards

Vice President Kamala Harris in a get-out-the-vote appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race Photo: RuPaul’s Drag Race The anti-LGBTQ hate group the Family Research Council (FRC) is criticizing a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) appearance that Vice President Kamala Harris recently made on the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9. The one-minute GOTV appeal by Harris — who

Dez Bryant pumps up the crowd during a Bedlam college football game on November 27, 2021 Photo: SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK Longtime Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Dez Bryant weighed in on the ginned-up Olympic boxing controversy battering the sport when he declared last week that “God didn’t put you in a foreign

Fox Host Jesse Watters Photo: Screenshot Jesse Watters, the unapologetically unfunny “funny guy” on Fox News, is at it again with weird commentary concerning Kamala Harris’ pick for vice president, Tim Walz. Watters trained his well-known obsession with masculinity onto the Minnesota governor following Tuesday’s rally in Philadelphia rolling out the Dems’ new Harris-Walz ticket.

The city of Huntington Beach, California, is fighting the state’s ban on the forced outing of trans kids in schools, according to a recent meeting discussing a proposed ordinance to oppose this ban. Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark referred to A.B. 1955– the state law protecting queer kids from being forcibly outed by schools to

Photo: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik On the steps of the Colorado capital on Monday, the anti-trans advocacy group Protect Kids Colorado threw in the towel on two failed ballot initiatives. The announcement at a deserted news conference acknowledged the group had failed to garner the required signatures from fellow Coloradans to get two discriminatory measures on

Mayor of Paris, France, Anne Hidalgo, during the inaugural visit of the Association of Mayors of Île-de-France 2024 at the Porte de Versailles in Paris. Photo: Shutterstock Anne Hidalgo — the mayor of Paris, France, the host city of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games — dropped several f-bombs on far-right conservatives who ignorantly blasted the

A group of GOP lawmakers asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which governs student athletics at the college level, to change their “student-athlete participation policy to require that only students assigned female at birth participate in women’s sports” in a letter on Tuesday. “Amid the Biden-Harris administration’s unprecedented assault on Title IX, we write

Elon Musk in 2018 Photo: Craig Bailey, Florida Today / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN History will record another milestone in Elon Musk’s sad descent from high-tech innovator to stumblebum troll with the news that he’s suing one-time advertisers for agreeing that X is a lousy place to advertise. Musk claims it’s a conspiracy aimed