Daniel Villarreal

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Lindsey’s sister Darline Graham spews transphobia in her first political ad

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In her first political ad, Darline Graham, sister of the recently deceased (and allegedly queer) anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said, “Men don’t belong in women’s sports” and other statements meant to burnish her MAGA conservative credentials, as Republican in her state doubt her chances of winning an election, especially considering that she is widely unknown to voters and has never held an elected office before her brother’s death on July 11. “Thank you all for your prayers. They provided strength through an incredibly difficult time,” she says at the beginning of her 30-second ad. “I’m honored to serve South Carolina […]

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Conservatives want us to forget our own power by erasing LGBTQ+ history. We won’t let them.

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As the Trump administration celebrates America’s historic semiquincentennial – the two and a half centuries that have passed since the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence – it’s important to note that the president and his political party have spent the past several years actively erasing LGBTQ+ Americans and other marginalized groups from public history. The administration removed words like “transgender” and “queer” from the official website for the Stonewall National Monument; it has cut funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and grants that support LGBTQ+ community programs and research of all sorts; Republican school and library boards have removed LGBTQ+-related books from shelves […]

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Trump tried to stop a drag activist group from getting an honorific history marker. He failed.

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Ohio’s lead historical society, the Ohio History Connection (OHC) recently dedicated an official state historical marker to recognize The Rubi Girls, a comedic drag troupe that raised over $3 million for local and region HIV, LGBTQ+, and other community groups over the last 40 years, The Buckeye Flame reported. The OHC unveiled the marker on May 3 outside the Rubi Clubhouse, where the group rehearses, in Dayton’s South Park neighborhood. Tim Farquhar, a Rubi Girls founding member, expressed gratitude that the marker was able to get erected despite the federal government ending funding for LGBTQ+-related historical markers last year. “Ours was the last […]

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Julia Roberts delivers beautiful tribute to queer mom killed by ICE agent

LGBTQ+ ally, actress Julia Roberts, delivered a beautiful tribute to Renee Nicole Good — the 37-year-old queer mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose killing by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer last January began a national outcry against the current president’s anti-immigrant regime — while talking at Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment. The event, held at The Town Hall in New York City, was an occasion “for people around the country to stand up to authoritarian shifts threatening our democracy today,” according to Broadway World.  Roberts spoke alongside other allies like Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, and Joy Reid […]

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Trans teens who receive hormone therapy are less likely to run away from home

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Transgender teens who received hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are less likely to run away from home, according to a new study. Researchers at Southern Oregon University and Rutgers University examined data from about 1,101 respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey who began receiving HRT between the ages of 14 and 18. The survey asked respondents whether they had ever received HRT and whether they had run away from home because of their trans identity. The survey asked respondents who answered yes to either question their ages when both incidents occurred. Researchers then compared the answers of those who received HRT […]

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Queer Sikhs are challenging bigotry by mixing their identities, faith, & cultural traditions

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Followers of the Sikh religion believe in a genderless, eternal, omnipresent God who views all humans as equal; the religion also emphasizes the importance of helping vulnerable people in need, and its central holy religious text, the Guru Granth Sahib, contains no anti-LGBTQ+ scriptures. However, the religion also originates from India — a country with few LGBTQ+ legal protections where 59% of people consider homosexuality “morally unacceptable” — many LGBTQ+ Sikhs, who are part of the estimated 25 million Sikhs worldwide, say they still struggle to find a place in their religious communities.  Gurleen Kaur, a 30-year-old queer Sikh Kaur told Queerbeat that she never felt that […]

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An app banned an LGBTQ+ activist as a “terrorist.” They ignored it for years, until he fought back.

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Waymo, a ride service that uses self-driving “robotaxis,” recently changed its user policies after San Francisco-based LGBTQ+ rights activist Dr. Nasser Mohamed sued the service’s parent company, Alphabet. Waymo had banned and denied him service for years because his name resembled other Middle Eastern names on a government terrorist watchlist. When Mohamed registered his Waymo account in early November 2023, the company forbade him from booking rides in its self-driving cars. For two years, he thought it was a technical error. He submitted numerous support requests, but the company repeatedly closed them without explanation, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. When he complained […]

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Trump DOJ sues Minnesota over its trans-inclusive school sports policies

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it is suing Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) for allowing transgender girls and women to play on school sports teams matching their gender identity. The case, filed in the Minnesota District Court, is just the Trump administration’s latest attempt to impose a nationwide ban on trans student-athletes (without congressional approval) by harassing and blackmailing states into dropping their trans-inclusive policies. The DOJ claims that schools with trans-inclusive sports policies violate Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. President Joe […]

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State bans against conversion therapy are ineffective, argues leading LGBTQ+ activist

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Even though the Supreme Court is currently considering Chiles v. Salazar, a case that could overturn the bans on conversion therapy for minors currently in place in 27 states, longtime LGBTQ+ activist Wayne Besen says these bans don’t stop a majority of those who actually offer services to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity: namely, unlicensed religious counselors and life coaches working with so-called ex-LGBTQ+ organizations. “The term ban is inaccurate,” Besen told LGBTQ Nation. “Show me: Show me one conversion therapist who has been put out of business because of these laws.” Besen is executive director of Truth Wins Out, an […]

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Two Dem Senate candidates stand up for trans athletes in the face of GOP attacks

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Graham Platner, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate who is trying to unseat Maine’s longtime Senator Susan Collins (R), recently said that Republicans have attacked transgender rights as part of an “invented culture-war scare” to distract from economic issues (namely, taxing billionaires). A similar point was recently made by state Rep. and U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico (D-TX). Platner – who has had several of his own scandals – made his comments last week while speaking to Slate’s Death, Sex, and Money podcast. The podcast hosts mentioned how Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s demand that Maine ban all trans female athletes from competing in girls’ and […]

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