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Pope Francis Photo: Shutterstock Pope Francis on Saturday met with a group of LGBTQ+ activists and allies who encouraged him to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people. “I really wanted to share with Pope Francis about the joy that I have being a transgender Catholic person,” Michael Sennett, who took

Kenneth Copeland, an 87-year-old Christian nationalist televangelist who was a member of former President Donald Trump’s Faith Advisory Council, recently led a prayer asking God to “break the power of the homosexual lesbian spirits that are trying to ruin our children and ruin this nation.” Copeland’s prayer — made during a broadcast of the Rescue America

People cannot believe Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) – a known conspiracy theorist – took to X over the weekend to mock none other than conspiracy theorists. The anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman – who has most recently asserted that Democrats control the weather and created brutal hurricanes to ravage red states – posted a meme depicting someone

Mother Jones’ November+December issue investigates the Christian nationalist movement that aspires to take over government at all levels, from school boards and state legislatures to Congress and the Supreme Court. Read their series of stories here. This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. One August evening, I drove through the cornfields and

Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally at the Rawhide Event Center in the Gila River Indian Community on Oct. 10, 2024. Photo: Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Since running for office, Vice President Kamala Harris’s silence on LGBTQ+ issues has been appallingly deafening. Kamala’s website has one sentence

Colin Lovett is a problem solver. The gay 41-year-old Democratic candidate has an undergrad degree in mathematics, a master’s in business administration, and a professional career spanning regulatory rate optimization and corporate pharmacy benefit management. Related: With a knack for numbers, he’s all about finding the most elegant solution to complicated problems. Your LGBTQ+ guide

A European Union (EU) court has ruled that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, cannot target users in the EU with ads based on public statements they’ve made about their sexual orientation. Gay Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems brought the suit against the social media giant after nearly a decade of receiving ads

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Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips Photo: Screenshot This week, the Colorado Supreme Court avoided ruling on whether a Christian baker violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by refusing to bake a cake celebrating the transition of a transgender woman. They did so by dismissing the case solely on procedural and administrative grounds. The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop

A queer bar destroyed by Hurricane Helene in September is getting a new lease on life with the help of thousands of donations from around the world. Nearly $200,000 has poured into a GoFundMe campaign to help rebuild the LGBTQ+ hangout DayTrip in Asheville, North Carolina. Related: Brandon Davis and his husband Davie opened the

Actresses Jane Sibbett and Jessica Hecht as lesbian couple Carol and Susan on Friends Photo: Screenshot, YouTube Actress Jane Sibbett is well-known for portraying Carol, the ex-wife of Ross on the long-running 1990s sitcom Friends. But while the show was lauded for its representation of lesbian characters, Sibbett’s father was no fan of the show.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appearing on Fox News Photo: X video screenshot Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has refuted disinformation and detailed his department’s efforts amid the two back-to-back hurricanes, Helene and Milton, that have recently slammed southeastern states. Speaking with MSNBC anchorwoman Nicolle Wallace on Dateline White House, Buttigieg said hundreds of personnel from

A group of 82 conservative lawmakers from state legislatures across the country joined forces with the far-right Christian fundamentalist American Family Association to author a 42-page brief that cites the Bible to advocate for a total ban on gender-affirming care in relation to the Supreme Court case The United States v. Skrmetti. The brief features

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center. Mandatory Credit: Mike De Sisti-USA TODAY Photo: Mike De Sisti-USA TODAY via IMAGN Colorado’s gay governor, Jared Polis (D), and other state officials have apologized for honoring hate group Gays Against Groomers with flags flown at the

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Photo: Screenshot Republican Florida state Rep. Carlos Gimenez said that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), a fellow Republican, needs to have her head examined for suggesting that Democrats created recent hurricanes in order to harm southern and coastal states. In October 3, Greene wrote on X, “Yes, they can control the weather.

Boston Children’s Hospital A coalition of anti-trans activists has released a list of hospitals and other medical facilities in the U.S. that they say are promoting gender-affirming care for transgender youth for profit. The list, published by Do No Harm — a group that purports to stop “woke activists” and “identity politics” in medicine —

Seven former employees of Executive Recovery Group (ERG), a rehabilitation center based in California, have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of fostering a hostile work environment, according to Law & Crime. The plaintiffs — a group of nurses, aides, and health technicians from diverse backgrounds—say that they endured months of racial, homophobic,

A Little Free Library Photo: Shutterstock The leader of a Utah “parents’ rights” group has suggested using a state anti-pornography law to prosecute people who offer banned books in Little Free Libraries, small public collections of borrowable books. The leader’s suggestion came after a state legislator said she planned on placing recently banned books into

U.S. Republican Presidential former President Donald Trump speaks to attendees in a rally at the Bojangles Coliseum on July 24, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina Photo: Shutterstock Last week, CBS reported that former President Donald Trump had canceled his scheduled appearance on the 60 Minutes October election special – something on which presidential candidates have

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) Photo: Natureofthought/via Wikipedia At an event in September, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MI) claimed that an upcoming Missouri state ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution will also enshrine gender-affirming care by placing it into the state constitution. He argues that this is because gender-affirming care falls under the

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In the midst of an ongoing legal battle over Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care, so-called expert witnesses in favor of the ban have had their credibility called into question, meaning their testimonies may either be thrown out or given little weight in the court’s decisions. John Michael Bailey, a fringe psychologist who promotes the debunked

John Browne was considered one of the titans of the industry when he was the CEO of BP Oil, a multi-billion dollar British multinational oil and gas company. Browne ran BP until 12 years ago, in 2007, when his career abruptly ended after a U.K. newspaper outed him as gay. Browne discussed the experience and its

RIGA, LATVIA. 26th September 2023. Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia., during meeting with Edgars Rinkevics, President of Latvia. Photo: Shutterstock Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili has refused to sign a piece of vicious anti-LGBTQ+ legislation recently passed by the country’s parliament. Modeled on Russian anti-LGBTQ+ laws and proposed by the Georgian Dream Party, the legislation would

As the 2024 election season heats up, many are asking who has publicly endorsed Harris. Kamala Harris, the first female, Black, and South Asian vice president of the United States, has garnered significant support from diverse groups. From Hollywood icons to political and business leaders, her growing list of endorsements reflects her commitment to building

Tommy Davidson on the ‘Touré Show’ Photo: Screenshot / YouTube Comedian Tommy Davidson says it took him no time to accept his transgender son. At the same time, as he recently explained in a candid interview with journalist and critic Touré on his podcast the Touré Show, he’s “still adjusting” to his son’s new name

A Virginia man charged with attacking men he believed to be gay while posing as a police officer has been acquitted. On September 27, a U.S. District Court jury in Washington D.C. found 50-year-old Michael Thomas Pruden not guilty on five counts of assault on federal land, one count of impersonating a federal officer, and

A much-needed affordable housing project for LGBTQ+ seniors in San Francisco’s Castro District has hit a setback, as state agency funding was denied, even though the proposal was described as “a great project,” The Bay Area Reporter wrote. Mercy Housing California, a senior living facility for elderly LGBTQ+ people, had applied for nearly $39 million