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Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in February 2024 Photo: MCKENZIE LANGE/ Staff / USA TODAY NETWORK Transphobic Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) finally filed her motion to kick out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday evening. A majority of her House Republican colleagues united with 163 Democrats to help defeat her motion immediately in

He Jiankui Photo: YouTube screenshot Controversial Chinese scientist He Jiankui was punished when, in November 2018, he claimed to have used CRISPR gene editing technology to create a pair of HIV-resistant newborn twins. He now says he’ll use a different technique, called “base editing,” to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disease that affects 55

Out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went to a gay bar with eight drag queens on Monday. The queens visited Washington D.C. to promote the upcoming ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, which premieres on May 17. At the Little Gay Pub, a bar in the district’s Logan Circle neighborhood, the group

Bambie Thug in a trans flag outfit in Eurovision 2024 Photo: X screenshot Nonbinary Irish musician Bambie Thug wore an outfit bearing the colors of the transgender flag during their witchy performance in Eurovision singing contest semi-finals in Malmö, Sweden on Tuesday. Thug is the first nonbinary performer to represent Ireland in Eurovision and said

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Scene from Pride in Paris in 2019 Photo: Shutterstock Across France on Sunday, thousands rallied for trans rights in the wake of calls by right-wing senators to ban hormone therapy and puberty blockers for trans youth. A coalition of LGBTQ+ activists, left-wing members of parliament, trade unionists, and young people joined protests in Paris, Lyon,

Ice hockey fans in Boston stood and cheered last Saturday night as two young women proposed marriage to one another while in the rink. The dual proposal occurred during a sold-out Saturday afternoon match between the Professional Women’s Hockey League of Boston (PWHL Boston) and PWHL Montreal at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photo: Composite via Josh Morgan / USA TODAY NETWORK and Brittany Hosea-Small/Special to USA TODAY / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Patric Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed outrage that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t transphobic enough to be the next president of the United States.

Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling Photo: Shutterstock composite Transphobic billionaire Elon Musk told transphobic possible-billionaire J.K. Rowling to try writing something “interesting and positive” this weekend after she shared a 709-word essay explaining her transphobic views on Musk’s social media platform, X. Musk has also repeatedly used X to promote transphobic views to his 182.3

In early 2021, Stephen Miller — former White House senior adviser to Donald Trump and architect of the 45th president’s hopeful second-term mass deportation agenda — announced his next venture: America First Legal (AFL). Paraded as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” AFL fights for Trumpist values in the legal system. And the group is prolific: In its three

Megan Thee Stallion Photo: Shutterstock A former employee is suing Megan Thee Stallion, claiming conduct by the out rapper “created a hostile work environment.” In the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles last week, Emilio Garcia claims that the “WAP” rapper’s behavior made “the conditions of his employment intolerable in direct contravention of various statutes and

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Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges Photo: Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via iMAGN Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American

The East Frank Superette and Kitchen in Monroe, North Carolina. Photo: Screenshot / WCNC The owners of a North Carolina restaurant that hosts popular drag brunches are striking back after anti-LGBTQ+ protesters sued them late last year. The East Frank Superette and Kitchen in Monroe, North Carolina, has been hosting all-ages drag brunch shows for

Kevin Spacey in 2017 Photo: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports via IMAGN Gay actor Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexual assault by nine additional men who will appear in a forthcoming two-part documentary entitled Spacey Unmasked, which will air in the U.S. next week. Spacey has denied the allegations and accused the documentary’s creators of

In a historic win for the LGBTQ+ community, Aetna reached a settlement today with a group of plaintiffs alleging medical discrimination in their fertility coverage. The insurance company is paying out $2 million to the members of the class action lawsuit, as well as restructuring how they cover fertility for queer couples moving forward. This

Sophia Hutchins, left, and Caitlyn Jenner in 2018 Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic via IMAGN Sophia Hutchins, the rumored girlfriend of right-wing trans conservative Caitlyn Jenner, recently denied the rumors while misgendering and deadnaming Jenner to her 246,000 Instagram followers. Hutchins also recently worked for the transphobic right-wing media outlet Fox News and is a board member

As the pro-Palestinian campus protests heat up, so do the electoral politics around it. For months, the drumbeat of dissatisfaction with the Biden administration’s support for Israel has been growing, even as the president has been ramping up pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to change his scorched-earth policy in Gaza. With civilian casualties topping

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) Photo: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY via IMAGN When Christian Nationalist Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) visited George Washington University (GW) yesterday to complain about a pro-Palestinian encampment there, students repeatedly shouted “Beetlejuice!” at her. The jeer referenced the time she was kicked out of a theatre during a performance of Beetlejuice: The Musical

Rodney Wilson, the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month, is setting the record straight about how LGBTQ+ identities are depicted in the Bible. After a historic vote yesterday by the United Methodist Church to end its ban on LGBTQ+ clergy, Wilson penned an essay for Advocate directed at the religious leaders around the world who still

A student carries a University of North Florida pride flag to protest the LGBTQ+ Center’s closure. Photo: Bob Self/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN The University of North Florida (UNF) has shut down its LGBTQ+, intercultural, interfaith, and women’s centers to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) 2023 law banning publicly-funded universities from

Rep. Greene (R-GA) speaks on May 1, 2024. Photo: Josh Morgan-USA TODAY via IMAGN Congressional Republicans are “sick and tired” of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and they plan to help defeat her resolution to kick out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), which she promised to formally introduce “next week, absolutely.” The defeat would help

The United Methodist Church voted today to repeal its ban on LGBTQ+ clergy, with an overwhelming majority of delegates voting in favor of inclusivity. The decision took place at the church’s General Conference, where the delegates voted 692-51 to remove the ban, as reported by the Associated Press. When the vote was announced, folks applauded

A drag queen performance at an Albuquerque, New Mexico high school prom has resulted in the performer receiving death threats and the school’s principal being placed on leave amid transphobic complaints from social media commenters. Dylan Payan, who performs in drag under the name Mythica Sahreen, was captured on video performing on April 20 in

Harmonica Sunbeam reads books to kids at a 2023 event Photo: Anne-Marie Caruso/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Jersey City drag queen Harmonica Sunbeam had planned on reading books, singing songs, coloring pictures, and taking pictures with kids as part of Brookdale Community College’s “Bring Your Child to Work Day” event for employees. But

Fox News host Jesse Watters continues to impress with his imbecilic takes on gender, anything gay, trans issues — and now what he’s mischaracterizing as “gender season.” In a recent Fox News segment which Watters calls “DEI Thursday,” the one-time “funny” Fox contributor and now pale imitation to Tucker Carlson twisted a nuanced personal video

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the primary federal agency that enforces laws against employment discrimination, has updated federal workplace guidelines to protect transgender workers from transphobic harassment like misgendering or denial of bathroom access. The new guidelines — the first issued from the EEOC in 25 years — define such harassment as a

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April 7, 2018 : The first Pride March in Jeonju, South Korea Photo: Shutterstock In South Korea this month, the conservative People’s Power party suffered big losses as a rejuvenated liberal opposition took a majority of seats in the legislature. The shift in South Korea’s balance of power could signal progress for the country’s embattled