Alex Bollinger

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Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG’s bill out of the caucus

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Three Democrats crossed party lines yesterday to vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, and the party needs to kick them out. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vincente Gonzalez Jr (D-TX), and Don Davis (D-NC) all voted alongside 213 Republicans yesterday to pass Greene’s anti-trans bill. If they had not voted for it, it would not have passed. Yes, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is generally right that the party needs to be a “big tent” and allow some ideological diversity. But there are some lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of […]

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Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG’s bill out of the caucus

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Three Democrats crossed party lines yesterday to vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, and the party needs to kick them out. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vincente Gonzalez Jr (D-TX), and Don Davis (D-NC) all voted alongside 213 Republicans yesterday to pass Greene’s anti-trans bill. If they had not voted for it, it would not have passed. Yes, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is generally right that the party needs to be a “big tent” and allow some ideological diversity. But there are some lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of […]

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Anti-trans GOP candidate drops out after he was caught following nonbinary adult performer online

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A GOP candidate who was caught following a nonbinary adult performer online dropped out of the race for Wisconsin governor on Friday, about a week after a local paper reported on his online activity. “As a result of our politics today, I cannot focus on the issues I know will turn Wisconsin around. I have come to the conclusion I do not have a path to the nomination,” business owner Bill Berrien said in a statement, which attacked the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel for reporting the story. “It was a major attack piece and we confirmed opposition research started in January of this year, if […]

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The growing LGBTQ+ elder population is shaping what it means to age with dignity

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As the LGBTQ+ population gets older – and many of us within that population get older – we are going to be asking questions about what life will look like for us in the coming decades.  Being queer or trans often means forging one’s own way through unknown territory. Unlike with cisgender/heterosexual people, we’re not often presented with models of how to find and build relationships or build our families, and the same could be said about aging.  But the U.S. population is aging rapidly. The Census Bureau found that around 12% of the population was over the age of […]

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Democratic governor vetoes anti-trans measure passed by Republican legislature

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North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) has vetoed several anti-diversity bills, including one that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in the state prison system. The bill is H.B. 805, which bans the state from paying for gender-affirming hormone replacement therapy and surgeries for transgender inmates. It would have also required the state to keep a copy of a transgender person’s original birth certificate if they have the gender marker on it updated, and it included language saying that there are only two genders, male and female.  According to WPDE, the bill started as a bipartisan measure requiring age […]

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Pete Buttigieg’s replacement begs governors to remove rainbow crosswalks, claiming they kill people

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking governors in all 50 states to remove rainbow crosswalks that were installed to celebrate Pride, arguing without evidence that drivers get so distracted when they see the rainbow that they crash their cars. In a letter addressed to state governors, the governor of Puerto Rico, and the mayor of Washington, D.C., Duffy states that 39,345 people died on roads in the U.S. in 2024, a 3.8% decrease since 2023, but still “unacceptable.” The letter discusses the SAFE ROADS initiative for non-freeway roads. Duffy wrote that the initiative stresses “recognizable traffic control devices including crosswalk […]

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Levi’s releases Pride Collection designed by LGBTQ+ people

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Levi’s has released its annual Pride Collection along with a promotional video entitled “Meet You in the Park.” “We’re taught to not take up space, we’re taught to be quiet,” a voiceover says in the ad, which doesn’t explicitly mention LGBTQ+ identities. “But there’s something about being in your body that makes you want to just like be proud and take up that space.” The collection itself is designed by LGBTQ+ people and includes rainbow colors and triangles, symbols associated with the LGBTQ+ community. “This year, our Pride collection shines a light on togetherness and the importance of safe spaces […]

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Texas Republicans pass bill to ban LGBTQ+ student clubs in schools

Both chambers of the Texas Legislature have passed a bill banning students from forming LGBTQ+-focused clubs like GSAs in schools and have sent it to the governor’s desk. Democratic lawmakers denounced the bill, S.B. 12. “The real monsters are not kids trying to figure out who they are,” said state Rep. Gene Wu (D). “The monsters are not the teachers who love them and encourage them and support them. They are not the books that provide them with some amount of comfort and information. The real monsters are here.” “This bill is hate,” said out state Rep. Erin Zwiener (D). “This is […]

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Caitlyn Jenner is now begging for money online after legal fallout from her memecoin

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Reality TV star and former gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner is now asking her supporters to send her money to support her legal defense fund in response to a lawsuit against her for alleged financial malfeasance. “I have been named a defendant in a lawsuit re: the $Jenner memecoins, alleging ‘securities’ violations,” she posted to X, linking a crowdfunding campaign. “Let’s all be freedom maximalist.” Jenner was sued in November, months after she released her $Jenner meme coin on the Ethereum blockchain. Two people – Nazeem Azad of the United Kingdom and Nihai Caluseru of Romania — alleged that they would not have bought the […]

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Trinidad & Tobago bans homosexuality… again

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Trinidad and Tobago has reinstated its ban on homosexuality, which was lifted by the Caribbean nation’s High Court in 2018. That year, the High Court in the Christian-majority nation ruled in a lawsuit brought by LGBTQ+ activist Jason Jones that Sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offenses Act are “irrational and illegal” because they violate the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. “What I think the judge pointed out was ‘here every creed and race find an equal place,’ and I think we must all come together now and embrace each other in true love and respect,” Jones […]

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