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Which states have the most same-sex couples? Here are the top 10

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Your love isn’t one in a million — more like one in a thousand.  There are 1,168,566 same-sex couples living together in the United States, according to a snapshot of the 2020 census by the Williams Institute, 57 percent of whom are married and 22 percent of whom are raising their own children. Among the couples, 52.4 percent are female and 47.7 percent are male.  California has the largest overall population of any state, so it also has the most same-sex couples (162,914). However, California’s same-sex couples make up a relatively smaller portion of the state’s total population than others (12.09 for every […]

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Crew Jackhammers Miami Beach’s Rainbow Crosswalk

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The Miami Herald reports: The Florida Department of Transportation on Sunday evening began removing the pride-themed crosswalk on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. The Herald observed workers removing the rainbow pavers from the LGBTQ+ crosswalk at the intersection of Ocean Drive and 12th Street shortly after 6 p.m. The crew was seen operating an excavator, and slamming what appeared to be a sledgehammer, to pull out the colorful sidewalk pavers. A crowd of onlookers — beachgoers, residents and drag queens — formed as the workers removed the crosswalk. “Put a mask on so nobody sees who you are! You’re ashamed!” one man […]

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BOYCOTT: Anti-trans queer journalist Bari Weiss named editor in chief of CBS News

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In a move shaking the foundations of American broadcast journalism, Paramount Skydance announced Monday that it has acquired The Free Press, the digital media company founded by out journalist Bari Weiss, and appointed her as the new editor in chief of CBS News. The deal, valued at roughly $150 million in cash and stock, brings Weiss’s growing subscriber-driven platform under the same corporate roof as CBS, Showtime, and Paramount, according to CBS News. It also places Weiss, who rose to prominence as a conservative-leaning critic of liberal media culture, at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest and most trusted news brands. As The Advocate noted […]

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Pennsylvania families fight Trump Justice Department subpoenas for their trans kids’ private medical records

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In Pennsylvania, two federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama are now at the center of a fight over whether the U.S. government can seize the private medical records of transgender youth. The battle, two legal cases unfolding in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, pits families and hospitals against the Department of Justice and raises fundamental questions about constitutional privacy, federal power, and the future of gender-affirming health care in the United States. The cases stem from a series of administrative subpoenas issued by the Justice Department this summer as part of the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care. Families and their attorneys argue that the government is not attempting to root […]

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Clarence Thomas says past SCOTUS rulings, like marriage equality, aren’t ‘the gospel’ and can be overturned

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Clarence Thomas has said that U.S. Supreme Court precedent isn’t “the gospel” and that it can be overturned as the court weighs whether or not to revisit marriage equality. The conservative Justice said during a recent appearance at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. that he would not follow court precedent “if I find it doesn’t make any sense.” “I think we should demand that, no matter what the case is, that it has more than just a simple theoretical basis,” Thomas said, via legal news outlet Above the Law. “[If it’s] totally stupid, and that’s what they’ve decided, you don’t go […]

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Transgender runner sues NCAA, New York state university after being barred from tournament

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A transgender runner is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a New York state university for denying her a spot in a tournament. Sadie Schreiner, a runner on Rochester Institute of Technology’s track and field team during the 2023-2024 season, said she was turned away from the women’s 200-meter and 400-meter races at SUNY Geneseo’s Early Invitational in March. That was despite Schreiner having qualifying times to make her eligible to race. “As stated in the complaint, the track meet at issue was open to members of the public. SUNY Geneseo violated New York state law when it excluded Sadie because she is […]

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Missouri LGBTQ+ center receives threat but will carry on with Pride event

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The GLO Center, an LGBTQ+ community center in Springfield, Missouri, closed for the day Monday after receiving a threat of violence, but it will go on with a Pride event Saturday as planned. Executive Director Aaron Schekorra found two bullets on the ground when he opened the center Monday. “Scratched on them — there’s a word on each of them. One of them says in all caps, ‘DIE,’ and the other one says a slur for queer people, and it starts with an f, that I’d rather not repeat on the radio,” he told public radio station KCUR. “We realized that these were left — they were […]

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Feds quietly scrub transgender people from national security reports on threats to LGBTQ+ community

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The Trump administration’s campaign to extinguish transgender visibility has moved into the mechanics of national security, stripping transgender people from federal intelligence bulletins that are supposed to keep all Americans safe. As first reported by investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, federal threat assessments drafted ahead of Pride Month this year omitted any mention of transgender people, instead referring to the “LGB+ community.” Klippenstein, a Washington-based reporter known for exposing government secrecy, obtained the documents through public records requests and published them on Wednesday. Historically, these assessments used “LGBTQ+” or “LGBTQIA+.” The sudden absence of the “T” is part of a broader project by Republicans to erase transgender people from public […]

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Heritage Foundation uses false data to smear trans people as school shooters

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The Heritage Foundation, the extreme right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, has issued a report claiming half of recent school shootings are linked to “transgender ideology” to back up its call for the FBI to investigate “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism” as a domestic terrorist threat. But Wired magazine has analyzed the report and found it doesn’t align with the facts. The report from the Heritage Foundation and its spin-off organization, the Oversight Project, defines “transgender ideology” as “a belief that wholly or partially rejects fundamental science about human sex being biologically determined before birth, binary, and immutable.” The foundation has a history of demonizing trans people. […]

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Pope Leo says blessing same-sex weddings is ‘not what the Church teaches’

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Pope Leo is continuing his predecessor’s decision to bless same-sex couples — so long as they don’t look too much like a wedding. The new pontiff recently said in an interview with Christian newspaper Crux that “the church’s teaching will continue as it is” in regards to marriage equality, while criticizing some ceremonies in which priests have blessed couples as they legally marry. “I’ve already spoken about marriage, as did Pope Francis when he was pope, about a family being a man and a woman in solemn commitment, blessed in the sacrament of marriage,” Leo said. “But even to say that, I understand […]

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