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Photo: Screenshot Fox News In an appearance at a Fox town hall event hosted by Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he could ban transgender women from playing women’s sports in the U.S., an authority he wouldn’t have as president. “You just ban it. The president bans it.

Sec. Pete Buttigieg speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention Photo: Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for saying that he does not think Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election despite numerous courts finding no evidence of

For years, lesbian TV screenwriter Elisabeth Finch told her wife, friends, and co-workers that she had chondrosarcoma, a rare cancer. The cancer, she said, required chemotherapy which forced her to have an abortion, and later resulted in her developing a spinal tumor and losing a kidney. Her employers at the TV medical drama Grey’s Anatomy

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni In Italy on Wednesday, the Italian Senate pushed forward the West’s most restrictive ban on international surrogacy, making it a crime punishable by prison time for Italians to use surrogates in another country. The move closes the door on same-sex couples’ last, best option to start a family in the

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) walks into the Capitol prior to the House approving a bill Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Boebert was hospitalized for a blood clot on April 1 and diagnosed with May-Thurner Syndrome. Photo: Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) tried to stand up for a women’s volleyball

Gavin Grimm, the now-25-year-old trans man who made headlines for suing his Virginia school district over its transphobic bathroom policies, is struggling with mental health challenges, poverty and looming homelessness, according to The Guardian Grimm sued the district after the Gloucester County School Board voted to ban him as a 15-year-old from using the boys’

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies in front of the House Armed Services Committee in Washington on Feb 29, 2024. Photo: Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK The Department of Defense announced that the records of 800 members of the military who were kicked out under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) have been upgraded to

Nazis waving Trump flags Photo: Screenshot/PatriotTakes Neo-Nazis crashed a boat rally for GOP candidate Donald Trump in Jupiter, Florida, this past Sunday, flying swastika flags while shouting racial slurs. And one of the neo-Nazis was spotted wearing a “Moms for Liberty” shirt, showing a possible connection to the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group. “What the f**k are

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