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Donald Trump | Screenshot The astronauts of the Artemis II mission to the moon, which took place from April 1 to April 10, visited the White House on Wednesday and were forced to stand behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office as the president rambled about how he was also good enough to be an

A Fox News poll released this week shows that less than 1% of respondents consider “wokeness” and transgender issues as the most important issue facing the country, and that a majority also prefer Democrats’ handling of trans issues over Republicans’. A prominent trans journalist says the results show that Democrats can continue to support trans

Gay Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie wrote on Wednesday that his sister Christina Lynn Downer, who has been missing for the last four months, is no longer alive, according to investigators at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). “The case has officially transitioned from a missing person to a homicide investigation,” Fowlie wrote via

A popular statistic used by the anti-trans movement for years has been that between 60% and 90% of young people who identify as trans will revert to their gender assigned at birth in later life. That statistic has been used to inform legislation, but a new study from Virginia Commonwealth University shows that those figures

The Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday for allegedly making violent threats against the president by posting an image on social media of seashells on the beach spelling out “8647.” The term “86” is a restaurant and bar industry phrase for ejecting, throwing out, getting rid of, or refusing service to

U.S. House Republicans introduced two bills on April 3 that would require schools nationwide to out transgender students to their parents and ban schools from acknowledging the existence of trans people. An official from the Human Rights Campaign called the bills “cruel.” House Bill 2616, known as the Parental Rights Over the Education and Care

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on May 7, 2024. | Jack Gruber/USA TODAY / USA TODAY NETWORK During an appearance on Newsmax, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told voters to stick with the GOP in midterms because “You’ve gotta keep the grownups in charge, and that’s the Republicans.”

The Trump administration is reportedly continuing to engage in efforts to prevent trans people from owning guns, or at least intimidate them into changing their minds. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) confirmed to the Independent that it is still working to update its policies in conjunction with the president’s executive order declaring there are

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Monday both called for the ABC TV network to fire late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel for allegedly inciting violence against the president through a segment on Kimmel’s show that imagined him delivering a comedic address at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD). Kimmel’s segment, which

The Legal Accountability Center has filed a complaint against the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Andrea Lucas, alleging that she has instructed investigators not to look into complaints about anti-LGBTQ+ behavior. The complaint also challenges letters sent by Lucas to law firms requesting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) information. “The EEOC does not

While we don’t need a calendar date to tell us queer women have always been building valuable spaces for themselves, Lesbian Visibility Day, and the close of Lesbian Visibility Week both offer a useful pause, not just for surface-level celebration, but for paying attention to the ecosystems queer women sustain every day: businesses, creative practices,

Officials censored about 6,588 books from public and school libraries last year, an all-time high since 1990, according to a recent report from the American Library Association (ALA). The report revealed that — among the 11 books the most frequently challenged by pressure groups, government officials, and decision makers — at least three were frequently

A gay bar crowd of over 1,000 people in Bushwick, Brooklyn, cheered on the night of Thursday, April 16, as the opening lines of the melancholic ballad “We Are Charlie Kirk” played through the bar’s backyard speakers, a projected image of a waving U.S. flag appearing on a large screen onstage. Drag performer Lauren Banall

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has appointed Black lesbian librarian and archivist Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz as commissioner of the city’s Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS). Advocate describes DORIS, which oversees municipal archives, records administration, and the library, and as “one of the city’s most consequential but often overlooked agencies” that is “central to

The “Puto!” chant is back. Weeks before the World Cup descends on North America, the enthusiastic homophobic slur, chanted by Mexico soccer fans at their opponents, is making a comeback at stadiums in the co-host country, despite FIFA sanctions and a campaign by Mexican soccer officials to rid the expression from the “beautiful game.” Related

When there are threats against trans rights and the climate feels so inhospitable to the very existence of marginalized communities, it can be easy for people to retreat to safe choices. Groups might argue that it’s best to hold on to something that feels secure and solid rather than draw attention by fighting for those

Donald Trump’s lesbian niece, Mary Trump, accused the president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain for repeatedly and blasphemously comparing him to Jesus and God, saying that it serves mostly to boost his ego, manipulate their followers, and silence criticism while making White-Cain and Trump richer in the process. “I don’t think ‘blasphemy’ is a

All of Trump, Hegseth, Vance, and Johnson’s Christian references and posturing in their battle with Pope Leo XIV are fakakta (the Yiddish term for “messed up,” “ridiculous,” “defective”) and prove the following points, at the very least: That they misuse and misinterpret Christian scripture to justify their actions in their war with Iran. That they are incapable of either

An English court on Thursday convicted 43-year-old Adam Hall of deliberately inflicting grievous bodily harm by transmitting HIV to five young men, a 15-year-old boy, and a 17-year-old boy, and of raping four of those individuals. Hall will now serve a 23-year minimum of a life-long prison sentence. During the four-month trial, which began in

Hung Cao, Trump’s newly appointed acting Navy secretary, apparently worries that witches and Wiccans are threatening to overtake communities nationwide. Cao replaced former Navy Secretary John Phelan, who was fired Wednesday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. But in a 2023 interview, during Cao’s failed 2024 Senate campaign for Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat, Cao said he

A Black transgender woman claims she was the object of discrimination on the early evening of Thursday, April 14 at a popular Detroit area gay bar, Detroit Metro Times reports. The woman, who goes by Lauren on the video-sharing social network TikTok, posted to the site last week about her experience at the Soho gay

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Fresh off of posting an image of himself as Jesus and attacking the pope for being “soft on crime,” on Tuesday night, Christian nationalist President Donald Trump shared a pre-recorded a video of himself reading 2 Chronicles from the Bible for a livestream event called “America Reads the Bible.” The event was organized by Bunni

The president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain, said at a book-signing event this week that saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god. While speaking during the event, White-Cain recounted how the president asked her to join his Evangelical advisory board before his 2016 inauguration, saying,

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson is now having a sad about the most powerful military in the world being controlled by a doddering narcissist who couldn’t point to Iran on a map. “You and I and everyone else who supported him, you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him, I mean, we’re implicated in this

John Lawrence, a devotee of white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes, recently posted a picture of himself and another devotee speaking with CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan while wearing black suits, “America First” baseball caps, and casual shoes. Lawrence, who regularly shares clips of Fuentes’ broadcast to his 40,000+ Instagram followers, wrote in the caption that he

Online donors have raised over $71,000 for the legal costs of David Vulin, a gay dad who was arrested and charged with a felony after his physical altercation with a right-wing media personality who suggested on-camera that he and his husband would molest their newborn son. “We were targeted in a way that was deeply

Jenna Karvunidis, who is credited with inventing the gender reveal party, has long spoken out about how out of hand the phenomenon has gotten, and in a recent interview with Nexstar Media, she expressed how strongly she does not want her name to be connected with the trend. “I’m kind of horrified, going ‘Oh no,

Tim Cook, the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out as gay, will no longer serve as the head of Apple computing as of September 2026. Afterward, he’ll serve as Apple’s executive board chairman. The new CEO will be Johnny Ternus, a hardware engineer who has been with Apple for 25

Kash Patel, the 46-year-old man whom Donald Trump appointed as FBI director, is suing The Atlantic for $250 million over its recent bombshell article which cited over 24 sources alleging Patel’s heavy drinking, chronic absenteeism, and erratic behavior. Kash hired lawyer Jesse Binnall to sue the publication for allegedly making false and defamatory statements. However,