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A federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump has ordered an anti-LGBTQ+ student club in D.C. to be reinstated at a high school, ruling it violated members’ constitutional rights by barring the group from campus. The student club, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), asserts homosexuality is immoral and opposes sexual activity outside of

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance speaks at his rally inside Middletown High School, Monday, July 22, 2024 Photo: Cara Owsley/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), wrote a foreword to a book about Project 2025, authored by the architect of the conservative mega-plan, contradicting Trump’s claim

National Harbor, MD US – Mar 4, 2023: Former US President Donald J. Trump makes remarks at the 2023 CPAC. Photo: Shutterstock This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the

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 Elon Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson pushed back against transphobic claims her billionaire

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at The American Federation of Teachers National Convention Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Houston. Photo: Ricardo B. Brazziell/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK Over 25,000 LGBTQ+ people attended the Human Rights Campaign’s “Out for Kamala Harris” virtual event last night. During the event, over 40 LGBTQ+ and allied actors, activists, government

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Vice President Kamala Harris on the set of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Photo: X video screengrab Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime LGBTQ+ ally, will appear Friday on the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9 to encourage viewers to vote. “Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the

Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld a 60-year-old law criminalizing gay sex on Wednesday. The court is also considering whether or not to make the penalties for having gay sex even harsher in a more recent bill. The Ghanaian Criminal Code of 1960 says that sexual relations between people of the same sex are banned in the country,

Team USA center Brittney Griner (15) high-fives teammate Kelsey Plum (5) during the WNBA All-Star Game against Team WNBA at Footprint Center in Phoenix on July 20, 2024. Photo: Joe Rondone/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK New parent Brittney Griner has opened up about her experience with new motherhood after the birth of her child.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin Photo: Screenshot Milwaukee Journal Presidential candidate Kamala Harris held her first official campaign event on Tuesday in the must-win battleground state of Wisconsin, introduced by two-term out Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), who enthusiastically endorsed her historic candidacy. “I am so proud to support Kamala Harris for President of the United States!” Baldwin

John Kluge Photo: Screenshot/RTV6 Eighteen Republican state attorneys general are supporting a former high school teacher from Indiana who refused to comply with his school district’s trans student guidelines and lost his job because of it. The Republican coalition, which is co-led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, filed an amicus brief with the United

Vice President of the USA Kamala Harris speaks during NAN 2023 convention day 3 at Sheraton Times Square in New York on April 14, 2023 Photo: Shutterstock After President Joe Biden announced his exit from the 2024 electoral race and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement on the Democratic ticket, memes started

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 Mega-MAGA Republican JD Vance,

An Idaho library sign went viral on Reddit earlier this month for stating that all patrons under the age of 30 must show a photo ID proving that they’re above 18 years old to access an adults-only section. The sign is real, and it’s part of a troubling trend affecting librarians, communities, and free speech

Donald Trump’s mega-MAGA pick for vice president says anyone who doesn’t have children is disqualified from running the country; especially “childless cat ladies” like Vice President Kamala Harris — even though she has two stepchildren. Vance made the provocative claim in an appearance on fired Fox host Tucker Carlson’s show on July 29, 2021, while

Gay Trump supporters Juan Hernandez and Charles Moran at the 2016 RNC. Photo: ABC News, Screenshot “It’s official! The national GOP platform has been stripped of all anti-LGBT language! Inclusion won! Thank you @realDonaldTrump!” This untrue statement was published July 15th on X (formerly Twitter) by Charles Moran, president of The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR),

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with D.L. Hughley highlighting how the Biden-Harris Administration has taken historic steps to advance economic opportunity by improving access to housing, creating jobs and investing in small businesses as part of her nationwide Economic Opportunity Tour on Thursday May 16, 2024 at Discovery World in Milwaukee, Wis. Photo: Jovanny Hernandez

President Joe Biden has announced that he will drop out of the presidential race, following weeks of pressure from Democrats following his lackluster debate performance and speaking gaffes in his public appearances since. Biden has pledged to serve out the rest of his term and he immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement

A health care worker doing a finger prick test for HIV in Uganda in 2017, Photo: Shutterstock The Tennessee government has agreed to scrub sex workers who were unjustly convicted of being sex offenders due to an HIV diagnosis from the sex offender registry following a settlement this past Monday. The lawsuit, OUTMemphis vs. Lee,

Dylan Mulvaney Photo: Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK A watchdog group has uncovered tax filings linking rightwing lawyer and Federalist Society funder Leonard Leo to the Bud Light boycott campaign, last year’s rightwing backlash against the beer brand sponsoring a 50-second video by trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Tax records for 2022 obtained by watchdog

Nearly half of LGBTQ+ professionals have experienced depression at some point in their lives, according to a new global study. The research from talent platform and LGBTQ+ professional network myGwork revealed 44.6% of LGBTQ+ professionals shared they’ve experienced episodes of depression at some point in their careers. Related: That rate rose to 53.3% for trans

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6 November 2019; George Arison, Founder, Shift, on Future Societies Stage during day two of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal Photo: Eóin Noonan/Web Summit via Wikipedia Grindr’s out CEO George Arison said at Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech conference that he believes “synthetic employees” will replace many workers in the tech sphere.

Out Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan (D) on Friday became the third gay House Democrat to publicly call on President Joe Biden to give up his reelection campaign. Pocan released a letter with three other House Democrats calling on the president to “pass the torch” to a new generation of leaders as panic overwhelms faith in

Ruby Corado, the founder of an LGBTQ+ housing organization for trans people and people of color in D.C. called Casa Ruby, has pled guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud, The Advocate reported. Corado admitted to a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that she sent $150,000

James David Vance, commonly known as J.D. Vance, is an American venture capitalist, author, and politician. He first gained widespread recognition with his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which delves into the struggles of white working-class Americans in Appalachia. Vance’s journey from a troubled childhood to Yale Law School and beyond captivated many readers, propelling him into

Row of brand new John Deere tractors outside Photo: Shutterstock John Deere, a multi-billion dollar agricultural machinery company, will no longer participate in “social or cultural awareness parades” and will remove all “socially motivated messages” from its training materials and workplace policies,” the company announced via X on Tuesday. The company’s announcement follows a recent

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during his RNC speech Photo: Video screenshot Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) said that anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) looked like an “AI powered inflatable sex doll” during Gaetz’s speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last night. Earlier in the convention, another attendee told Gaetz to stop being an “as**ole”

Jul 17, 2024; Milwaukee, WI; Ric Grenell, Former Acting Director of National Intelligence during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum Photo: Jasper Colt-USA TODAY Ric Grenell, a gay man who was acting director of national intelligence for about two months during the Trump administration, spoke on day three of the

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the recently named vice presidential candidate for the re-election campaign of former President Donald Trump, will speak tonight at the Republican National Convention. But public LGBTQ+ figures, like lesbian MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and queer members of Congress, are already speaking out about Vance’s anti-LGBTQ+ record and his support of overturning