President Donald Trump’s assault on the LGBTQ+ community will continue through Pride month. According to a Tuesday report from Military.com, the U.S. Navy is preparing to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy support ship christened in honor of the assassinated gay rights icon. The report was confirmed by CBS …
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LGBTQ audiences who wanted visibility in pop culture had it tough for most of 1995, when Morrissey’s “Boy Racer” was about as explicit as things got (“He’s just too good-looking…”). Two years before Ellen DeGeneres came out to a network TV audience of millions, several fresh shoots appeared in an …
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The Kennedy Center’s war on the performing arts continues to wage on under the Trump administration as a series of events planned around Pride Month have quietly been canceled or relocated. According to The Associated Press, artists involved with the Kennedy Center’s Tapestry of Pride — scheduled for June 5 …
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A few years ago, Jasmine Cruickshank found herself adrift. After coming out as trans, the English singer-songwriter got divorced and decamped from Bristol to Manchester, where she slept on floors and discovered a new wellspring of inspiration: her true self. “I really struggled, in the years leading up to my …
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Get a whiff of this: the feds are coming for your poppers. In recent weeks, federal investigators have been cracking down on manufactures of the popular liquids commonly used as inhalants in the queer community, seizing supplies and forcing businesses to shutter. The clampdown on poppers, which have long occupied …
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The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to a Colorado law banning the use of conversion therapy on minors. Conversion therapy is a discredited practice that seeks to change the gender or sexual identity of LGBTQ+ individuals. Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based professional counselor, challenged the state’s law banning conversion …
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Two children were forced to participate in acts of torture that led to the death of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old trans man, prosecutors investigating the killing in upstate New York have alleged. The shocking new allegations were revealed in an 11-count indictment that charged the seven people allegedly involved in …
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Police are still investigating the brutal death of 24-year-old transgender man Sam Nordquist, a death xthat has rocked the LGBTQ+ community amid heightened political hostility for transgender people. Nordquist, originally from Minnesota, was first reported missing by family on Feb. 9, after his family became concerned that they hadn’t heard …
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It’s easy to get tongue-tied when you’re on the phone talking to Janis Ian. This is the woman whose introduction to the cultural zeitgeist as a guitar-toting child of liberal Jewish atheists was met with death threats; the prolific writer who gave voice to girls who yearn for a friend, …
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Mandy Moen’s children didn’t get Christmas presents this year, but their family tried to make the best of the situation. They fastened a long string of beads to the wall in the shape of a Douglas fir, and thumbtacked ornaments to the living room drywall, including a miniature plastic TV …
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