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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Florida education officials must allow a transgender teacher to use she/her pronouns in school. The teacher, Katie Wood, along with a nonbinary teacher, AV Schwandes, filed a lawsuit late last year challenging Florida’s HB 1069. The law, signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last year, states that “an employee

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s reelection campaign has launched “Out for Biden-Harris,” a new national initiative focused on rallying LGBTQ+ voters. The initiative acknowledges the crucial role LGBTQ+ have played in previous electoral wins. “LGBTQ+ voters are a force to be reckoned with,” campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement.

The distance that U.S. families must travel to access gender-affirming care for their transgender children has increased dramatically in recent years, along with associated travel costs, thanks to state laws banning such care for minors, according to a new report from the Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) and the Southern Equality Research & Policy Center.

Photo: Screenshot, Camp Brave Trails Anti-LGBTQ+ activist group Gays Against Groomers is stoking the right-wing outrage machine with calls for a boycott of The North Face, citing the outdoor apparel company’s long-time sponsorship of a youth summer camp.   The self-loathing Gays Against Groomers dredged up a three-year-old tweet from The North Face touting their

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Far-right groups are amping up their efforts to potentially interfere in November’s elections. According to a new report in Wired, several groups with ties to both former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are already organizing on a “hyperlocal level” to get supporters to monitor polling places and ballot drop boxes and potentially

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address Photo: Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK House Republicans have been “dreading” their return to Washington D.C. after a two-week break because now they have to deal with far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

The American Library Association (ALA) has released its top 10 most challenged books of 2023, and seven of them were challenged for LGBTQ+ content. “In looking at the title of the most challenged books from last year, it’s obvious that the pressure groups are targeting books about LGBTQ+ people and people of color,” said ALA

LGBTQ+ adults are twice as likely as non-LGBTQ+ adults to report negative experiences while receiving health care, according to recently released findings from The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a non-partisan organization focused on health policy. KFF’s findings underscore the challenges that queer people face in medical settings, including the higher rates of discrimination

Activists in Hong Kong are incensed over new policies that are supposed to make it easier for trans folks to change the gender marker on their IDs but, in actuality, remain quite stringent. The policy changes came about after what at the time seemed like a landmark victory in 2023, in which Hong Kong’s highest

Ye, formally known as Kanye West Photo: Shutterstock A one-time employee fired by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has accused the singer of homophobic behavior and simulating masturbation on a hotel bed while the man was forced to watch Robert Pattinson in The Batman movie on mute. The bizarre claims come as

Mexican soccer fans have shown once again what it’s like to be sore losers by causing another game to halt for lashing out with a trademark and homophobic chant as they neared defeat, this time against the United States men’s national soccer team No. 1 Matt Turner. With the U.S. leading 2-0 in the final

A mother and son team in the U.K. have launched an app designed to help LGBTQ+ people find safe harbor when they feel endangered. The BOBU app (available via Apple and Google) is an extension of Luciana and Nicholas Cousin’s “Back Off, Back Up” initiative, launched in 2021. The initiative provides training for local businesses

A queer parenting group at Chicago’s Northwestern University has created a vital support system that is helping its members better support their family members. The faculty-only group meets monthly at the University Women’s Center and is comprised of LGBTQ+ parents, parents of LGBTQ+ kids, and parents who want to raise their kids in affirming environments,

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Orville Peck and Willie Nelson in the video for “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other.” Photo: Screenshot Out country star Orville Peck and legendary performer Willie Nelson have teamed up on a queer country song that the 90-year-old icon thinks is “more important than ever.” On Friday, the duo released the video for

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Photo: White House Out White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denounced the Uganda Constitutional Court’s decision to uphold the East African nation’s Anti-Homosexuality Act. The law, which was passed in 2023, faced a constitutional challenge late last year from two law professors at Makerere University in Kampala who argued

Oklahoma’s superintendent of public schools Ryan Walters Photo: WPDE-TV screenshot Voters in Tulsa, Oklahoma recently defeated school board candidates who support Ryan Walters, the anti-LGBTQ+ head of the state’s Department of Education. Concurrently, voters in St. Louis, Missouri rejected 13 right-wing school board candidates endorsed by a local anti-LGBTQ+ radio host. At least two of

The mural of Dorothy outside the Sidewalk bar in Birmingham, U.K. Photo: Screenshot The director of a gay bar in the U.K. has vowed to preserve a Banksy-style mural that he believes is a tribute to the LGBTQ+ community. The image of Judy Garland as Dorothy from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz appeared

Pope Benedict XVI in 2011. Photo: Shutterstock Pope Francis says that his considerably more conservative predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, backed his support for same-sex civil unions. The claim comes in Francis’s new book, The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI, published this week in Spain and based on interviews with journalist Javier Martinez-Brocal. According to

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The states of Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin all held presidential primary elections on Tuesday evening — easily won by President Joe Biden (D) and former president Donald Trump (R). However, protest votes against Biden’s handling of Gaza took center stage on Tuesday. Protest votes in Wisconsin, a swing state, could turn the

Tony Evers Photo: via Wikipedia Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vetoed a Republican-led ban on transgender high school athletes, saying that such legislation would needlessly harm the mental well-being of trans youth and make the state less safe for LGBTQ+ people. State Republicans reportedly lack the votes to override his veto. “This type of

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an important move to make it easier for gender-nonconforming immigrants to apply for naturalization status. The new intake form will include an X gender option to signify “another gender identity.” The move mirrors other options available to transgender people, including using the X marker on U.S. passports.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaking at a press conference. Photo: Screenshot The Ohio legislature banned gender-affirming care for trans minors last January, and a judge has since blocked it from going into effect while considering its constitutionality. However, a new lawsuit says the ban violates a 2011 state constitutional amendment. Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care,

Former President Donald Trump’s net worth skyrocketed to nearly $7.5 billion last week after Trump Media, the parent company for his social media network Truth Social, began publicly trading on the stock market. However, barely one week later, the stock’s price has plummeted after the company publicly revealed just how little money it actually makes.

Dylan Mulvaney Photo: Shutterstock It’s been a year to the day since trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney posted a 50-second video to Instagram where she showed off some custom Bud Light cans, which caused the right to lose its collective mind and start perhaps one of the only successful anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts against a major brand in