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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

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Commemoration 40th Anniversary Historical Marker. Photo: GayleSF/via Wikipedia On Tuesday, the San Diego City Council voted unanimously to declare August Transgender History Month in the Southern California city. “With the rise in anti-trans hate and bigotry, I want our trans community to know that I see you, I respect you, and I

Despite passing in the Senate earlier this week, the Kid’s Online Safety Act (KOSA) is reportedly dead in the U.S. House after progressives, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), worried that it would possible censor LGBTQ+ content. Some Republicans also opposed the bill, stating that it would violate free speech protections for social media platforms and

Former President Donald Trump and ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Photo: YouTube screenshot This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention on Wednesday shocked audience members within

Vice President Kamala Harris/Secretary Pete Buttigieg Photo: Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel//Cody Scanlan/Holland Sentinel//USA TODAY NETWORK A close-knit group of donors to out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign is rallying to get him on the Democratic presidential ticket with Vice President Kamala Harris. The group of wealthy Democrats, many of them

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Bubba’s 33 waiter Noah Bierig Photo: Screenshot KAKE News A waiter in Kansas has turned an ugly customer interaction into a cause for celebration. Noah Bierig, 19, a server at Bubba’s 33 in Wichita, says things felt off when he was serving a group of young men at the restaurant on a Sunday two weeks

The DeMoss Learning Center at Liberty University Photo: EOverbey via Wikimedia Commons and Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license A transgender woman is suing ultra-conservative Liberty University for sex discrimination after she was fired from her job as an information technology (IT) specialist. Ellenor Zinski began working at the Christian college—located in Lynchburg, Virginia

The Senate has passed the Kid’s Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children’s and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) in 91-3 votes. While the bipartisan bills seek to reduce the harmful impact of social media on young people, advocates worry that KOSA in particular will enable Republicans to block queer youth from seeing

Photo: Copyright X – Screenshot X – France 2 Barbara Butch — who performed in a controversial Olympic Opening Ceremony segment accused of mocking Christianity — has received death, torture, and rape threats as well as numerous anti-semitic, homophobic, sexist, and fatphobic insults for her involvement. Butch has pledged to fearlessly fight the threats. Her

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance speaks at his rally inside Middletown High School, Monday, July 22, 2024. The Ohio senator is the running mate of former President Donald Trump. Photo: Cara Owsley/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Years before Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) became one of Ohio’s U.S. senators and the Republican vice

Failed Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) went on a wide-ranging seven-minute rant on Monday about the “woke mind virus,” gender-affirming healthcare, the Olympics opening ceremony, crime statistics, and student protestors when asked about a recent federal court ruing placing a permanent injunction on his so-called Stop WOKE Act. The law, which

Parents, students, and private schools and libraries are suing the state of Idaho for a law that they say infringes on their First Amendment free speech rights and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights. H.B. 710, which took effect in early July, allows citizens and government officials to file lawsuits against schools and libraries that do

In a sweeping decision, Nebraska’s Supreme Court ruled 6-1 in favor of allowing a ban on gender affirming care and abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy. This decision, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Hilgers, concerned Legislative Bill 574, an act that restricted abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy as well as gender affirming care

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized a local trans nonprofit this week for its program supporting trans and nonbinary entrepreneurs. During its regular meeting at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday, the board bestowed its Certificate of Honor to Transgender District in recognition of the group’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program, according to local LGBTQ+ outlet

Entrance to Darcelle XV Showplace Photo: Adam Jones/via Wikipedia D Darcelle XV Showplace, a much-beloved drag venue in Portland, Oregon, has asked for community support as they risk going out of business. “An important message to our faithful supporters of 57 years: the time has come to make difficult decisions regarding the future of Darcelle

Gov. Ron DeSantis Photo: Screenshot A mother who works for the Broward County Public Schools may not get fired after she allowed her daughter, who is trans, to play on a school’s girls’ volleyball team. On Tuesday, the board of the district located near Miami came to the conclusion that they’re unlikely to fire information

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