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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

Donald Trump dancing alongside Adin Ross. The car door shows Trump after his July assassination attempt. Photo: YouTube screenshot In a bid to win young conservatives, former President Donald Trump (R) conducted a live-streaming interview with Adin Ross, a 23-year-old Jewish internet personality who has previously interviewed misogynist human trafficking suspect Andrew Tate and Nick

Elon Musk (l) gives a thumbs up to a reporter’s question on Sept. 13, 2023 in Washington D.C. Photo: Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, pushed back against a claim from the billionaire that all of his “boys” – including her – were happy throughout their childhood. Musk

Kyle Rittenhouse listens to the crowd cheer for him before a panel discussion during the third day of AmericaFest 2021 hosted by Turning Point USA on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Phoenix. Photo: Antranik Tavitian/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people in 2020 and injured a third at a rally

Oklahoma Educational Superintendent Ryan Walters Photo: BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Over a dozen public school districts in Oklahoma have said they won’t comply with a recent directive requiring them to teach about the Bible and the Ten Commandments. The state’s anti-LGBTQ+ Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters issued the directive

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 Last week, a federal judge overturned Florida’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for state employees, referring

J. D. Vance speaking at a Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) trans former friend is questioning the sincerity of his anti-trans rhetoric, accusing the GOP vice presidential nominee and other Republicans of political “opportunism.” Last weekend, The New York Times published excerpts from 90 email and text

LGBTQ+ Americans are coming out younger than ever, according to a new poll from Gallup. A majority say that they’ve come out by 22, around 57%. 70% of respondents say that they came out by the age of 30. 7% came out in their 30s, 2% in their 40s, and 1% 50 or older. 18%

This week, coincidently during the International Olympic Games in Paris, I returned to my undergraduate alma mater, San José State University, to facilitate a workshop on social justice issues. I still clearly see in my mind’s eye the raised, black-gloved fists of gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos soaring into the air

The British actor Linus Karp has revealed on social media that he was the victim of a homophobic attack last week in the SoHo area of London. In a series of posts on X, Karp, seen recently in the U.S. in the stage satire Gwyneth Goes Skiing, described being struck in the head with the

July 2024 saw at least three Black transgender women murdered in the U.S., continuing what the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has described as an epidemic of fatal violence against transgender and gender expansive Americans. As The Seattle Times reported late last month, shortly before 12:30am on July 1, 23-year-old Kenji Spurgeon was shot and killed

Whole Foods store at night in October 2017 in Chicago. Photo: Shutterstock A transgender woman in Washington, D.C., Ximena Navarrete, claims she was sexually harassed, raped, and generally discriminated against while working at local Whole Foods supermarkets. She has filed lawsuits against the company and its parent company, Amazon, seeking a combined $2.5 million in

Taiwan has come out swinging against transphobic billionaire author J.K. Rowling for stoking a culture war at the Paris Olympics over the inclusion of a Taiwanese female boxer whom she claims is a man. “What will it take to end this insanity? A female boxer left with life-altering injuries? A female boxer killed?” Rowling posted

Photo: Screenshot Instagram Gay dad José Rolón, a widower raising three kids on his own, faced a choice. The social media influencer, who covers gay family life and is known as @nycgaydad, was under attack by conservative online provocateur Stew Peters. Peters is an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who “regularly promotes anti-LGBTQ+ and white supremacist beliefs,”

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a visit to the Erie West Senior Center to discuss property tax and rent rebate programs for seniors on May 4, 2023. Photo: GREG WOHLFORD/ERIE TIMES-NEWS / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is rumored to be on Vice President Kamala Harris’s short-list of possible