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18-year-old transgender woman Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson An 18-year-old Black transgender woman named Cameron Jamal Miikquise Thompson was shot to death in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on Monday. Police have arrested an unnamed underage suspect and charged him with murder as an adult. Thompson’s family suspects her murder was a hate crime, and police suspect it may

State Sen. Molly Cook, 33, a sixth-generation Texan and former ER nurse, starts a new term in January after multiple campaigns in a single year that would have left a less energetic candidate exhausted on a beach on South Padre Island. Not so for Cook, who has only upped her game with every electoral challenge.

President-elect Donald Trump picked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as his attorney general on Nov. 13, 2024. Gaetz is being probed by the House Ethics Committee as a part of an ongoing investigation that includes allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is freaking out over the fact that members

Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two preemptory challenges to a new “gay propaganda” law unanimously approved by the country’s Parliament and awaiting signature by the president. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill imposes a prison sentence of up to five years for the “willful promotion, sponsorship, or support of LGBTQ+ activities.” The

A 22-year-old Michigan man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime for planning to carry out a mass killing of gay people. Mack Davis spent a year July 2023 to June 2024 planning his crime while researching other mass killers and amassing weapons, even inscribing “F***OT Killer” into one of his knives, according to the

Bill White, nominated for Ambassador to Belgium On Saturday, Donald Trump announced his selection of Bill White — a gay businessperson and Republican donor who dropped Hillary Clinton the night she lost the 2016 election — as Ambassador to Belgium. White, 57, along with his husband, Bryan Eure, were once fixtures among Manhattan’s liberal elite; now White

Fearing a backlash from parents, Disney has cut a transgender storyline from Pixar’s upcoming original animated sports series Win or Lose, a show about a co-ed middle school softball team. Pixar employees have previously accused Disney of censoring LGBTQ+ content from its animated projects. LGBTQ Nation contacted Disney and Pixar for comment and will update

Protestors outside the Supreme court during oral arguments for United States v. Skrmetti A few weeks ago, I attended the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in United States v. Skrmetti, a landmark transgender discrimination case that could have lasting impacts on the personal freedoms of transgender people and our families nationwide. The energy outside the Court was

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New York City Council member Chi Ossé Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos. Ossé, an anti-police brutality activist who

Three more men stepped forward on Thursday to accuse rapper and music producer Sean “P. Diddy” Combs of drugging and raping them. The civil lawsuits follow four others filed by men last month, including one victim who was 16 at the time of his alleged assault. “It was a usual thing. Come for a meeting,

A gay police officer is suing the city of Oceanside, California, alleging he faced both anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and retaliation after he reported it. NBC 7 San Diego reports that Sgt. Tyler Peppard filed a lawsuit against the city on November 22. According to court documents, Peppard joined the Oceanside Police Department (OPD) as a recruit

This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. —  it then appeared on Mother Jones and has been republished with the publication’s permission. A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What remains is

LOS ANGELES, CA. November 09, 2024: Jonathan Bailey at the premiere for Wicked at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Wicked star Jonathan Bailey did not come out as gay until his mid-20s, but he had inklings about his sexuality throughout his childhood. Bailey, who plays straight heartthrob Fiyero in the film, recently told British Vogue that

The ACLU of Florida is suing the state’s Department of Corrections over a new anti-transgender policy that will restrict trans prisoners’ access to gender-affirming medical care as well as their ability to express their gender identity. According to a report from The Marshall Project and the Tampa Bay Times, a federal judge in Tallahassee held

Uproar Lounge in Washington, DC A neighborhood leather bar in Washington, DC is struggling in the aftermath of a massive insurance rate hike, and they’re asking for help from the community. Uproar, a bar for bears, their admirers and the leather community located on Florida Ave. in Northwest DC, has been a fixture in the

Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, is trying to delay his federal sex-trafficking case. As Business Insider reports, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office of the Eastern District of New York said that Jeffries’s attorneys asked a Manhattan judge on Monday to schedule a hearing to determine whether their client is

In a highly contentious move, the Republican-led Warren County Virginia Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 earlier this week to take control of Samuels Public Library after local community members pushed back against book bans, The Washington Post reports. Nearly 100 residents of the local community attended a six-hour hearing discussing whether to take control of

“How many of you have been in group therapy?” That was the first question writer and filmmaker John Waters asked when he sat down recently with a group of superfans in Brookline, Massachusetts. He had just received a prestigious industry honor called the Coolidge Award and concluded an onstage ‘conversation’ with arts journalist Jared Bowen

In his run for the Wisconsin State Assembly this year, 31-year-old Christian Phelps identified with a political tradition that predates the young, gay candidate by over a hundred years: Progressivism, a reform movement born on college campuses in his home state at the height of the Gilded Age. It was an economic and political era

A Wisconsin man will soon face a new trial for allegedly assaulting a prison guard while currently serving two life sentences for ending the life of his girlfriend and her female best friend after he allegedly discovered them being physically intimate together. Richard Wendell Sotka will be tried in Green Bay, Wisconsin on January 8,

Congressman Chris Pappas speaks at the ribbon-cutting of Apple Ridge Apartments in Rochester on Thursday, August 18, 2022. Out gay Rep. Chris Pappas was one of 81 Democrats who voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday, a $895.2 billion military bill that included a provision restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Pappas

Yes, Luigi Mangione is super-hot, highly educated, and super-rich, and he may have acted out the rage many of us have against mega-insurance companies and other blood-sucking corporations when he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A cursory glance on social media makes clear the extent to which Mangione has already become a

A trans flag on a military outfit The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a 281 – 140 vote. The annual military budget contains a provision banning gender-affirming care for military members with trans children; nonetheless, 81 Democratic representatives voted in favor of the NDAA. Trans activists and

With a record number of social and political stressors facing young LGBTQ+ people, the Trevor Project has released a collection of advice given by young queers to their peers. The responses were taken from the organization’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People which made the following open-ended request to

The Trump campaign and allied Republicans spent roughly $215 million on anti-trans advertising in the 2024 election and the impact on the results will be debated for years to come. But for trans rights activist Mara Keisling, the effect was profoundly personal. Keisling, a transgender woman, was the interviewer who asked Vice President Kamala Harris

The Vatican is organizing its first-ever pilgrimage for LGBTQ+ Christians, their relatives and allies during its 2025 celebration of Jubilee, a Holy Year that only occurs every 50 years. The historic event is just the latest in numerous recent pro-LGBTQ+ overtures made by Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church. The pilgrimage — which is

A 20-year-old California woman has sued a San Francisco hospital for allegedly rushing her into gender transition during her pre-teen and early teenage years. Her lawsuit claims the care was “life-altering,” “irreversibly damaging” and conducted before properly informing her of the risks. She is suing for unspecified damages. Her experience runs counter to the pre-treatment

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