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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

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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case of an Ohio woman who says she faced workplace discrimination over her heterosexual identity. The case may be the first of its kind. It examines the lengths members of “majority groups” must go to prove that they were discriminated against by “minority” groups. Marlean Ames worked

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that member states must recognize legal documents from other countries that reflect a person’s changed name and gender identity, regardless of the member state’s own laws on changing one’s name and identity. This decision comes in light of a Romanian transgender man, Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi,

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Four out of 26 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Fellowship award — sometimes referred to as the “genius grant” — are LGBTQ+ identified and, of those, two are Black and one is of Asian ethnicity. The fellowship will award each recipient $800,000, paid in quarterly installments over five years. But more importantly, the honor elevates

Pennsylvania’s South Western School District just baffled parents and students alike after they installed windows that allow passers-by to look into restrooms specifically designated for transgender youth. In 2023, the school board tried to appease both trans students and anti-trans activists with its bathroom policy. The board’s solution was to establish five different bathrooms –

Melania Trump and Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attend the Trumpettes Gala at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, February 10, 2024 Photo: JIM RASSOL/PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK Melania Trump, the current wife of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, wrote a stirring defense of reproductive freedom in her new book, a message

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Photo: Shutterstock California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has signed the “California Freedom to Read Act” (Assembly Bill 1825). The law forbids any state-funded public libraries from removing books or refusing to purchase books based on their “views, ideas, or opinions.” “Book-banning proponents are disproportionately targeting materials containing the voices and lived

Cabrel Ngounous, a 19-year-old, fled his native Cameroon after neighbors caught the teenager with his boyfriend. A crowd surrounded his boyfriend’s house and beat him, Ngounou said. His own family learned of the relationship and threw him out. After a dangerous, four-year journey through at least five countries and a sexual assault in a Libyan

In 2017, Charmaine McGuffey, then the highly-decorated Major in Command of jail and court services for the Hamilton County Sheriff in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the highest-ranking woman in the office’s history, was fired by her boss, Sheriff Jim Neil, who had a history of telling her to “sit down and be quiet.” McGuffey was a

Vladimir Putin Photo: Shutterstock Chechen human rights group SK SOS has reported gay men in the Russian republic are being forcibly conscripted into Russia’s war with Ukraine. One man has died in the fighting. As reported in a Telegram post by the outlawed organization — established in 2021 to provide assistance to LGBTQ+ individuals facing life-threatening

Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz takes the stage to give an acceptance speech during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center. Photo: Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK via IMAGN Jason Miller, senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, called Democratic vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (MN) “effeminate”

Harper Steele and Will Ferrell in ‘Will & Harper’ Photo: Netflix Will Ferrell and Harper Steele wanted their new documentary, Will & Harper, to be available to stream ahead of the 2024 election. The film, which follows the long-time friends on a road trip across the U.S. — former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele’s

Corey DeAngelis on Fox News Photo: YouTube screenshot Anti-LGBTQ+ activist Corey DeAngelis has seemingly admitted to having appeared on gay adult website a week after numerous websites noted that he had appeared as “Seth Rose” on the gay adult video website GayHoopla. DeAngelis, who wrote The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our

Photo: Derrick Anderson for Virginia As Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance faces continued controversy over his outrageous claim that “childless cat ladies” are running the country, a childless, single man running for one of Virginia’s U.S. House seats — who lives alone with his dog — has enlisted a woman and her children to pose

Former president Donald J. Trump smiles while delivering remarks on Sept. 12, 2024, at Tucson Music Hall in Tucson, Ariz. Photo: Owen Ziliak/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s campaign claimed that the former president would provide “universal access” to IVF treatment, dangling the prospect of coverage for the

John Raymond, founder of Lakeside Christian Academy Photo: Slidell Police A well-known MAGA pastor in Louisiana has been convicted of three felony counts of child abuse and a fourth for second-degree child cruelty. John Raymond, the founder of Lakeside Christian Academy in St. Tammany Parish, was accused of wrapping packing tape around the mouths and

BOOM! The cannon fired. The man next to me and I both jumped. My husband Brent and I are American expats who have lived outside of our home country for seven years. I was recently standing on the deck of a cruise ship, about to leave Portland, England, our latest port of call. On the

After Little Gay Pub, a beloved gay bar in D.C., was vandalized multiple times, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police has said they have arrested a suspect and are considering hate crime charges. Nicholas Goldstein, 38, from Northwest D.C., was arrested on Monday following an investigation that linked him to two attacks on the pub, according to a

A hairdresser giving a haircut in Louisville Photo: WDRB Barbers and stylists from Louisville, Kentucky, teamed up last Sunday to give free, gender-affirming haircuts for LGBTQ+ youth in the area. “Hair wizards” from across Kentucky’s largest city convened at Werkhaus Barbers on Bardstown Road for the free event aimed at providing “bodily autonomy” for their

Mpox is on the rise again in L.A. County. On Monday, the Los Angeles County Department of Health reported that cases of the disease, formerly known as Monkeypox, had more than doubled over the past four weeks, up to 52 compared to the 24 cases reported during the previous four-week period. Related: As the Los

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