LGBTQ Nation

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The far right thinks kids are property, not people. This is the heart of the anti-trans moral panic.

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon got to the heart of the moral panic over trans kids in a statement earlier this week, where she attacked California for protecting trans kids from getting forcibly outed to their parents: “Children do not belong to the State—they belong to families. We will use every available mechanism to hold California accountable for these practices and restore parental rights.”  That is, the right sees children as property, and, to them, the only debate is whose property they are. The possibility that they’re actually human beings who belong to no one is simply unthinkable. Liberals, on the other hand, […]

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“I didn’t lose consciousness”: Gay lawmaker on his resilience as he runs for Congress

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Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss faced two traumatic incidents last fall, just months into his run for U.S. House of Representatives. But the 11-year veteran of the Michigan Legislature remains undeterred in the face of adversity, just as the queer and trans community continues to push forward and resist the scourge of Trumpism. Moss spoke with LGBTQ Nation three months after sustaining a severely broken arm (“shattered”) when his Jeep ran into a minivan that was driving through a red light as he entered an intersection. “I didn’t lose consciousness,” Moss told LGBTQ Nation. “I didn’t hit my head. I remember the whole […]

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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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Veteran politico believes the end is near for Donald Trump: “Your activism is working”

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Political expert Robert Reich believes the tide may finally be turning against Donald Trump.  “The slumbering giant of America is awakening,” wrote Reich – who served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor and is now a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley – in a recent op-ed. He was referring to what he called an “extraordinary week” during which irate Americans “forced Disney to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air” and during which Trump’s “dictatorial narcissism revealed itself nearly as dramatically in the criminal indictment of former FBI director James Comey.” “Over 6 million people […]

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GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he’s going to prison for child porn.

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South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM).  May — who was honored by the anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty in 2023 as its Legislator of the Year — first denied the charges after investigators found evidence that he had shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who sentenced May, said the CSAM he shared was “more […]

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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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Donald Trump wins when he destroys our resolve. But the queer resistance lives on.

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The first time Donald Trump took the oath of office, I felt an overwhelming sense of doom. My whole body somehow felt both impossibly heavy and utterly empty at the same time, like it couldn’t decide whether it’d be safer to sink into the ground or float away into the clouds. I’ll forever remember when Sean Spicer – Trump’s first in what became a revolving door of White House press secretaries – stormed up to the podium, red-faced and fuming, to declare in his first-ever meeting with the American people that no inauguration crowd had ever been as large as […]

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Evil Homo: A flood of Kennedy Center cancellations ruined Ric Grenell’s holiday season

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The fallout from Donald Trump’s decision to illegally rename the Kennedy Center to give himself top billing continues to grow, creating an embarrassing situation for the president. As it turns out, artists don’t want their work associated with Trump, despite legal threats from Ric Grenell, the president’s openly gay factotum who heads the center. On Monday, just days before their scheduled New Year’s Eve concerts, the Cookers, a highly regarded jazz group, announced that they were cancelling their appearance at the Kennedy Center.  “With deep regret, we must share that we are unable to perform as planned on New Year’s Eve,” the group […]

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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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Trans sports ban that could require genital exams will appear on the ballot in Washington

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A far-right political action committee says it has collected enough signatures to potentially get a trans sports ban onto Washington state’s ballot in November, and that ban would require girls to undergo physical examinations to participate in school sports. As the Washington State Standard reports, Let’s Go Washington collected 445,187 signatures in support of Initiative Measure No. IL26-638, exceeding the 386,000 needed to advance the measure. The initiative would ban transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports statewide. IL26-638 interprets existing state law as requiring students “to undergo a routine physical examination prior to participation in interscholastic sports, which includes documentation of […]

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