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An image of results from Google’s Gemini AI image generator Photo: Twitter screenshot Google has partly disabled its artificial intelligence (AI) image generator Gemini after the software produced racially diverse and historically inaccurate images of Black Vikings, female popes, and people of color as the United States “founding fathers.” Gemini produced these images without being
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An anti-trans activist who has claimed fan fiction turns kids trans said she was just doing research when busted reading pornographic Harry Potter fan fiction on a train. Helen Joyce is the director of advocacy for the British anti-trans organization Sex Matters and has spent several years blaming fan fiction for influencing teenagers assigned female
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Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the
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Pastor John MacArthur Photo: YouTube screenshot An influential, white, old, anti-LGBTQ+ megachurch pastor has said that Black trailblazing civil rights hero Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was “not a Christian at all” and was “a nonbeliever who misrepresented everything about Christ and the gospel.” John MacArthur — pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley,
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ACCRA,GHANA: The President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo during an interview with Russian television, May 2, 2018 Photo: Truba7113 / Shutterstock.com Ghana’s Parliament has unanimously approved a bill that would worsen criminal penalties for homosexuality and persecute LGBTQ+ people and their allies. The bill now heads to Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo — if
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Sean Cummings speaking at the February 22 Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting. Photo: Screenshot The vice mayor of an Oklahoma City suburb called out the state’s Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, the entire state board of education, and Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik for creating the environment of anti-LGBTQ+ hostility that
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A campaign to express displeasure with President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict succeeded during the Democratic primary election in Michigan on Tuesday night. The Listen to Michigan campaign sought to get 10,000 voters to choose “uncommitted” over Biden, a margin roughly similar to the number of votes that former President Donald Trump won
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Police in Owasso, Oklahoma are walking back claims that Nex Benedict’s death was not “a result of trauma” as at least one investigator has said he’s examining the school bathroom attack on the nonbinary teen as a possible murder. Benedict’s family has pledged to conduct an independent investigation into the teen’s death. This last weekend,
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The Royal Mint has announced a limited edition £5 coin honoring the late singer George Michael. The commemorative coin features the former Wham! lead singer wearing his signature sunglasses. It also includes a snippet of lyrics from his song “Faith,” released after he left the band to embark on a solo career. Related: This George
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The Manhattan-based headquarters of The New York Times at night Photo: Shutterstock New York Times columnist Pamela Paul argued in a 4,500-word op-ed earlier this month that transgender health care procedures amount to “unproven treatments for children,” despite major medical associations’ support for gender-affirming care and the widespread view that it is lifesaving. The piece, which builds upon Paul’s record of espousing anti-trans views in
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Mike Johnson Photo: Shutterstock Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) blasted his party’s own House leader, anti-LGBTQ+ Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), for being no one’s first choice for the leadership position. “We went through five choices and Mike Johnson’s the fifth choice,” McHenry told CBS News. “He has not been around these leadership decisions. He’s had a
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Charly Arnolt and Kristen Louelle Gaffney on OutKick The Morning. Photo: Screenshot On a recent episode of conservative sports website OutKick’s OutKick The Morning, former ESPN sportscaster and host Charly Arnolt, with her guest Kristen Louelle Gaffney, claimed that California public schools are encouraging students to use litter boxes. Gaffney, a podcaster and the wife
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Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson in 2023’s The Color Purple. Photo: Screenshot Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is disappointed in the way the latest adaptation of author Alice Walker’s The Color Purple depicted the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel’s central lesbian relationship. “The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians,” the out bisexual actress told Buzzfeed in
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Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened. We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try
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James Cleveland Photo: Amazon Screenshot Every Black History  Month, there is a tribute to the Black Church and its gospel music. The contribution of LGBTQ+ singers to the canon of gospel music, however,  is never front and center in the celebration of its history. Every churchgoer – straight and gay –  knows the inimitable style
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