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📺 Rachel Campos-Duffy, a Fox News anchor and the wife of President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appeared to coin a new antigay slur Thursday night during a segment attacking former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Watch the video to see what you think.
🚨 South Carolina’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, sent a letter to the city of Columbia requesting that it overturn its municipal ban on conversion therapy. Wilson said the ban violates a state religious freedom law and is unconstitutional because it violates the religious rights of faith-based counselors. Columbia's mayor is questioning the timing of the letter, and advocates are calling Wilson out for not understanding the harm of conversion therapy.
🌎 How do we save the world from fascism? Writer and cultural critic Marcie Bianco argues that newly published writings from lesbian icons Sarah Schulman and the late Urvashi Vaid offer a blueprint for a common movement to fight against rising authoritarianism.
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Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Monday, you'll get the question. Wednesday, you'll get a hint. And today, you'll get the answer.
This week's question: The origin of the word lesbian comes from the name Lesbos, a Greek island, and home to which famous poet of ancient Greece?
This week's answer: Sappho!
⚡ Congrats to Kerry, Kimi (and Kimi's kitty named Sappho), Louie, and Allison for getting it right! ⚡
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