Greg Owen

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Trump adds anti-trans provisions to voter ID bill that could disenfranchise millions of Americans

For months now, President Trump has been pushing legislation that would federally mandate voter ID nationwide, baselessly claiming elections are rife with fraud, non-citizens are voting in extraordinary numbers, and Democrats “want to cheat,” as he put it at a news conference from his Doral golf resort in Florida on Tuesday. House Republicans passed the bill in February, and it’s now in the Senate, where it faces long odds overcoming a 60-vote threshold in the face of united Democratic opposition. Over the last week, however — at the same time he’s taken America into war with Iran — Trump has added demands […]

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Qatar’s only out gay citizen says seeking asylum in the US is a “rough” & “intrusive” process

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Dr. Nasser Mohamed is the first person from Qatar to publicly come out as gay, after being granted asylum in the U.S. based on the likely prospect he’d be persecuted for his sexual orientation at home. He’s currently a physician in San Francisco serving a primarily LGBTQ+ clientele. Mohamed, 38, went public in 2022 at the start of the World Cup in Qatar, to highlight LGBTQ+ rights abuses in the wealthy Gulf State. Many of those have been documented by the Alwan Foundation, an advocacy group founded by Mohamed to collect evidence-based data that “accurately reflects the circumstances and living […]

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2 celebrities among 12 people arrested in anti-gay sweep in Senegal

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Two of Senegal’s highest-profile celebrities were among 12 people rounded up and charged with committing “unnatural,” or homosexual, acts, among other crimes, police in the capital of Dakar announced Sunday. Pape Cheikh Diallo, a widely admired TV and radio presenter, and Djiby Dramé, a popular musician, were two of the men charged in the case linked to an individual who has admitted to knowingly spreading HIV, according to The New York Times. An HIV-positive individual “confessed to knowingly infecting about ten people he had contacted, primarily through WhatsApp groups,” authorities said. Police didn’t elaborate on who the individual is or his […]

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Jail workers mocked a gay guard & threatened his life. Now he’s getting his payback.

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Sgt. Deon Jones, a gay, 24-year veteran officer with the Department of Corrections (DOC) in Washington, D.C. got a big payout with the district’s decision last week to award him $500,000 to resign, effectively immediately. The city admitted no fault in a lawsuit Jones brought that accused department and city officials of anti-gay discrimination. It’s the third lawsuit Jones has filed against the same parties over his long tenure with the department, and the latest to yield a settlement. He previously sued in 2006 for discrimination and harassment, with the city settling in 2011. They settled another dispute over his […]

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Wyoming sorority members who harassed a trans sister are back in court, with a Trump ally’s help

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The case of the Wyoming sorority that admitted a transgender member several years ago — which was twice dismissed — keeps on giving, now in an Ohio federal court. An aggrieved and dissident group of sisters in the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) first made headlines in 2023 when they sued the Greek organization for offering membership to a transgender student at the University of Wyoming. The vicious complaint — which a judge later said devoted about 95% of its text to simply maligning the trans student, and the rest making its dubious legal argument — was written by May Mailman, a lawyer who later went […]

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“Dystopian”: Trans radio host Ellie Krug explains what it’s like in Minnesota right now

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Trans radio host Ellie Krug is an eyewitness to the chaos the Trump administration has unleashed on Minnesota with its nativist immigration dragnet. In an interview from her home in Victoria, Minnesota, pop. 10,546, Krug is quick to point out that Trump’s immigration raids aren’t just happening in Minneapolis, but in small towns like hers across the state. “This is red country,” she says of Carver County, about 40 miles southwest of the Twin Cities. “It’s everywhere.” Krug is a lawyer by training and the author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change and Being Ellen: A Second […]

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These 4 promising breakthroughs are bringing HIV researchers closer to a cure

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Nearly 45 years after the first HIV diagnosis, science is closer than ever to a cure for the virus that causes AIDS — but we’re not there yet, researchers say. While perhaps a dozen people worldwide have been declared free of the virus, those results haven’t been replicated widely, and treatments for some involve continuing therapies or procedures, like stem cell and bone marrow transplants, that aren’t feasible for widespread use. So far, there is no “magic bullet” to cure HIV for good. But scientists are making rapid progress on several fronts and say a cure is within reach. Here’s a […]

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Out Apple CEO schmoozed at White House ‘Melania’ screening hours after ICE killed Alex Pretti

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Tim Cook, the gay CEO of Apple, made an obsequious appearance at the White House on Saturday night to join Trump loyalists for a screening of the First Lady’s new feature-length documentary, Melania. The black-tie event saw Cook, champagne in hand, celebrating the moment with the movie’s disgraced director, one-time box-office draw Brett Ratner, who was ostracized by Hollywood following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017. Cook’s appearance at the premiere was a particularly disappointing sight for the LGBTQ+ Apple users who are appalled by recent events in Minneapolis. The screening took place the same day that intensive care nurse Alex […]

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Landmark commission unanimously approves church’s rainbow steps: “This is religious expression”

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Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas received formal approval from the city’s Landmark Commission last week after officials, members, and volunteers painted the Late Gothic Revival building’s staircase the colors of the rainbow in October. The building has local landmark status, and it’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dramatic gesture reimagining the church steps was executed as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) carried out the Trump administration’s order to tear up rainbow crosswalks across the state, including one in front of the church’s historic building, home to a large and welcoming Methodist congregation. The city of Arlington, […]

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Trump’s firehose attacks make resistance difficult. These queer student activists won’t surrender.

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When Amaka Agwu’s little brother was three years old, he turned to his darker-skinned father one night and warned that his lighter-skinned grandmother was coming to get him. “That’s what white people do to Black people,” the little boy said.   “It was a very funny thing to hear a three-year-old say,” Agwu reflected, “and very interesting to tell him, ‘That’s not how that works.’” Agwu, an 18-year-old gay student activist at George Washington University in D.C., laughed at the recollection, but who could blame a young person today for thinking that white people are coming after people of color? Or, […]

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