Right-wing politicians, media, and activists are pushing a false claim that the suspect in Monday’s mass shooting in Philadelphia is transgender and politically liberal. Read on » The American people need to read more writings and quotations by Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Josef Stalin. That’s according to North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who spoke in front of a crowd during a Moms for Liberty convention in Philadelphia last weekend. According to him, dictators like Hitler and Mao are being taken out of context, and their work needs to be reconsidered. Read on » Artem Savinovsky, the CEO of the Russian Internet and technology company Yandex, has been charged with violating Russia’s stringent new “LGBT propaganda” law. Read on » Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, who lost his seat representing a New York congressional district in the Democratic primary last year, is running for Congress again. Read on » A national fracture has erupted between two far-right groups quarreling at an Oregon LGBTQ+ Pride event, with threats of violence against each other. Read on » Read on » Donald Trump, Jr., the former president's eldest son, seems to have been supportive of LGBTQ+ people at one point — or at least enough to hang out in a gay club. Trump even spent time one night at a packed gay club where he and reality star and pop musician Aubrey O'Day hooked up, according to O'Day. The singer and television personality also claims to have had an affair with him. Read on » In New York, the Democratic-led government has announced that millions of dollars will be made available to benefit the LGBTQ+ community in the state. Read on » Gloria Carter, mother to rapper and business mogul Jay-Z, married her longtime partner, Roxanne Wiltshire, over the weekend. Read on » Award-winning gay adult film actor Roman Todd claimed he was clinically dead for five minutes after snorting a fentanyl-laced pill reportedly given to him by fellow porn star Ricky Larkin. Read on » In what can only be called a significant lack of self-awareness, New York U.S. Rep. George Santos, the serial fabulist under federal indictment on fraud charges, is crying foul. According to him, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the GOP nomination for president, presented himself one way only to reveal he was totally different later on — in this case, a homophobe. Read on »
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