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This Midterm Season, 5 States Are Voting on Anti-Trans Ballot Measures. What You Need to Know

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We’re 10 days out from the midterm elections in the U.S., and attacks on trans rights have taken center stage. Repeating a strategy championed by Trump’s presidential campaign in 2024, supporters of the Republican Party have been flooding the internet and airwaves with ads targeting trans people. Some Democrats have also joined in, campaigning on promises to “keep transgender ideology out of our schools” and stop “biological men playing women’s sports.” While congressional and statewide elections are important, trans rights are also at stake in some of the most influential but oft-forgotten elections: ballot measures. These measures, which give voters the opportunity to weigh in […]

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The LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Crisis Persists. What’s Blocking Progress?

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Koda Daily, 23, has been homeless for more than four of the last seven years. He says he left his family home in Hawaii at 16 because his mother, who died last year, had become increasingly absent and both of his parents struggled to accept his gender identity. “I felt really alone and isolated,” Daily, who is transgender, told Uncloseted Media. “It was just me against the world.” For the remainder of his teen years, Daily bounced from one friend’s couch to another with brief stints at his father’s house. He enrolled in college at 18, while simultaneously working two […]

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After 15 years in women’s prison, I realized I was a lesbian

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When I arrived at Virginia’s Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in 2003, carrying a 603-year prison bid for murdering my husband and the trauma of a nightmarish marriage and its apocalyptic conclusion, romance was the last thing on my mind. Growing up in Fredericksburg, Virginia, I had no memory of ever meeting a gay person. The only public acknowledgment of homosexuality I remember was the occasional sneered “faggot!” hurled by the guys in my high school who passed footballs, not classes. My relationships with men were as uncomfortable as ill-fitting shoes. Still, I ended up checking all the boxes: marriage, […]

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At the UN, Plans for a Global Coalition to Attack LGBTQ and Reproductive Rights

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On Sept. 17, while the United Nations (U.N.) was hosting its annual General Assembly for diplomats and leaders from all over the world, several key figures filled a room across the street at the Millennium Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. Attendees included Trump administration officials, leaders of Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate groups, far-right politicians from Latin America and reporters from far-right media. These people were meeting for the Global Forum for Life, Family and Freedoms, a two-day summit of right-wing leaders with an ambitious goal to create a new “pro-life and pro-family” Core Group at the U.N. Since 2008, the U.N. has had […]

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For Lesbian Victims of Domestic Violence, Competent Care Is Scarce

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Claire, a 25-year-old Los Angeles resident, distinctly remembers the night she and her ex-girlfriend broke up. “She was strangling me in a CVS parking lot,” Claire recalls, adding how she was gasping for air as bystanders looked on. “I made eye contact with one man who just kept walking, and we were right behind a car that was trying to reverse out of a parking spot. No one got out of the car. They didn’t honk; they didn’t do anything.” Claire, who asked to use a pseudonym due to safety concerns regarding her ex, says she managed to fight her […]

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Trans Sports Dominate Culture Wars. But What Do Scientists Think?

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The debate over trans athletes has reached a fever pitch. Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer who tied for fifth place with a trans swimmer in 2022, has become a star in the world of conservative politics. Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White recently announced their intentions to enter the WNBA draft and “expose” the league’s lack of policy for transgender players. And less than two months out from the November midterms, trans athletes are shaping up to be an issue on voters’ minds as they head to the polls. All of this noise has created little room for thoughtful conversation. We […]

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Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made

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Over the past 100 days, President Donald Trump and his administration have intensified their campaign against LGBTQ people, with transgender Americans the most consistent target. Federal agencies have threatened schools and healthcare providers with investigations, funding cuts and legal action over gender-affirming policies and trans care. Several lower courts have blocked and limited some of the administration’s efforts while the Supreme Court has upheld Trump-supported state bans on trans athletes. Here is a chronological list of the administration’s latest actions centered on LGBTQ Americans, along with responses to those actions—from court rulings to research reports. June 5, 2026 The Department […]

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As Kids Head Back to School, Anti-LGBTQ Lawmakers Are Forcing Many to Remain Closeted

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My Mom and I agree that no matter how old you are, the week of Labor Day always feels like a new year. That’s because for Canadians and many Americans, it marks the beginning of the new school year. It’s a time of change and disruption that brings with it both a melancholy about the end of summer and the days getting shorter as well as an excitement about seeing all the friends you missed over the last two months. But for many kids, September comes with fear. You’re no longer safe from the classrooms and hallways that can be […]

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In MAGA Country in Missouri’s Ozarks, This Mom Offers a Safe Haven for LGBTQ Youth

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There’s a story I heard growing up about a man walking along a beach covered in starfish. He started picking them up, one by one, and throwing them back into the ocean. Someone stopped him and looked down the beach at all the starfish he could never possibly reach. “Why are you doing that?” they asked. “You can’t save them all.” The man picked up another starfish and threw it into the water. “Well,” he responded. “I saved that one.” I think of this story when people ask me—a 49-year-old straight Midwestern woman—why I keep opening my door to queer […]

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The ‘CEO of Everything Gay’ on How He Manages 68 Businesses and 6 Boyfriends

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Tristan Schukraft started his first business when he was 21, selling Razor scooters out of his pickup truck to help finance his idea for an e-ticketing platform for the airline industry. Now, he boasts a portfolio of 68 businesses, which he says have led him to become a “billionaire.” Schukraft has become widely known as the “CEO of Everything Gay.” He is the CEO of MISTR, a major LGBTQ telehealth platform expanding access to PrEP and STI testing, and he owns Tryst Hospitality, a family of luxury gay hotels with destinations in iconic LGBTQ destinations like San Juan and Puerto Vallarta. And last […]

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