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Florida Board of Education OK's Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies, Sanitized View of Slavery

Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.The Florida Board of Education Wednesday adopted sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ policies as well as rules restricting teaching about slavery and racism. Read on »

Grindr Employees to Unionize Amid the Rise in Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Tech Layoffs

Grindr pageEmployees at the gay hookup app Grindr announced Thursday that they had launched a union. They also did so in part, they say, due to the company's CEO George Arison's prior backing of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians. Read on »

California to Fine School District $1.5M Over Rejecting Harvey Milk Textbook Materials

Gov. Newsom Fines School District Opposed to TextbooksCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state has levied a $1.5 million fine against the Temecula Valley School District (TVSD) after it refused to carry a textbook that's teaching materials contain a reference to the late gay politician Harvey Milk. One of the school board members had objected to the reference, calling Milk a “pedophile” during a school board meeting earlier this year. Read on »

Lesbian Mothers Are Being Removed From Birth Certificates in Italy

Italy is Removing Lesbian Mothers From Birth CertificateItaly has begun the process of removing the name of non-biological mothers from the birth certificates of children born to lesbian couples. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ordered a stop to the issuance of birth certificates to same-sex couples. Now local prosecutors are systematically changing birth certificates issued in the past to lesbian couples. Read on »

80% of Transgender Americans Have Considered Suicide: Study

Gender Affirmation is Suicide PreventionTransgender people in the U.S. have thought about or attempted suicide in alarming numbers, according to a new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Read on »

Montana City Could Refuse LGBTQ+ Pride Parade Permit Over Drag Ban

Hate is a drag sign.The leading organizers of Montana’s largest LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Helena have joined the lawsuit challenging the state’s drag performance ban. Read on »

Gay Soccer Player Josh Cavallo to Judge 'RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under'

Out Soccer Player Josh Cavallo to Judge RuPaul’s Drag Race Down UnderOut gay Australian soccer player Josh Cavallo announced he will be a judge on the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Read on »

Why Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists Are Embracing 'Sound of Freedom'

Jim CaviezelSound of Freedom, the movie about a heroic American saving children from traffickers in Colombia, is a surprise box-office hit of the summer. But it’s also getting attention because the man at the center of the film and the actor who plays him embrace QAnon conspiracy theories. Read on »

Republicans Go Nuts Over 'Barbie' Film's Trans Inclusion and Alleged Communism

Hari NefSome right-wingers are losing it over the new and inclusive Barbie movie, critiquing its expansive view of gender and even calling it communist propaganda. Read on »

Paris Hilton Is Sliving in Her Best Era Yet

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