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Utah detectives say accused stalker told victim he ‘couldn’t wait to kill a gay person’

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A Provo, Utah, man accused of stalking a former high school classmate and threatening to kill him and his family now faces charges carrying hate crimeenhancements after allegedly saying he “couldn’t wait to kill a gay person.” Damyen Vainuku, 18, was charged Thursday in Utah’s 3rd District Court with stalking, a second-degree felony; six counts of being a restricted person in possession of a weapon, a third-degree felony; and one count each of making a threat of violence and harassment, both class A misdemeanors, according to KSL Media. The stalking, threat and harassment charges carry “targeting” enhancements — Utah’s equivalent of a hate […]

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Hackers Breach Dallas LGBTQ Resource Center

The Dallas Morning News reports: The Resource Center of Dallas, one of the largest LGBTQ organizations in Texas, was hit by a data breach earlier this year. The breach was reported to the Texas Attorney General’s Office in July, with that filing indicating that the breach impacted more than 9,000 people, although other information indicates the scope may have been somewhat wider. The breach potentially exposed people’s names, Social Security and government ID numbers, as well as financial and medical information, including health insurance information. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the breach at The Resource Center of Dallas. The […]

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Airline Duct-Tapes Anti-Gay Man Shouting About Jesus

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: A disruptive passenger on an American Airlines flight Thursday night who was reportedly screaming racial and anti-gay slurs at a flight attendant ended up getting bound to his seat with duct tape, according to TMZ. TMZ obtained video and photos of the incident, which happened on a flight from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport. It all started when the man, who witnesses say appeared drunk, allegedly started yelling at a male passenger seated next to him. The man was screaming about Jesus and going to hell, which prompted a Black […]

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Mike Johnson swore Everton Blair in as the South’s first Black gay congressman

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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson stood beside Everton Blair Jr. on the House floor Tuesday and swore the Georgia Democrat into Congress, formally making Blair the first out gay Black person from the South to serve in the chamber. The oath was routine. The pairing was anything but. For Johnson, it was an official duty of the speakership. For Blair, it was the culmination of a political ascent built around education, generational change, and the argument that representation is more than symbolism. The moment also produced an unavoidable contrast: One of the country’s most prominent opponents of LGBTQ+ equality was welcoming a Black gay lawmaker into an institution that, for most […]

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Take Part In HRC’s 2026 Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey

For almost 20 years, LGBTQ+ people from all over the country have shared their stories in the Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey. Together, we’ve built one of the longest-running records of LGBTQ+ life in the United States. This is your last chance to take part in this year’s survey. The survey closes on September 8, and we still want to hear from you. Every response helps us better understand our community, including all identities, ages, races, ethnicities, regions, and experiences. It only takes about 10 to 15 minutes. If you complete the survey, you may be entered into a drawing for one of 100 $35 […]

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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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Conversion therapy is evolving. Here’s how the religious right is reaching modern youth.

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While there is still a group of people who believe adolescents experiencing same-sex attractions can actually overcome their identities to become heterosexual, the overall mindset among the religious right has shifted.  Nowadays, the thinking tends to be that just because a person is LGBTQ+ does not mean they have to act on their desires (e.g., love the sinner, hate the sin). Prominent Christian apologist William Lane Craig has consistently espoused this belief both on his website and at public speaking events. Craig, who has had a profound influence on the field of conservative Christianity in academic settings and the growing […]

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US To Revoke Visas Of 200,000 Asylum Seekers

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges. Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents […]

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“Tired but undeterred”: A Smithsonian curator refuses to let this administration erase queer history

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In the 200s AD, the Roman emperor Elagabalus was known for dressing in women’s clothing and requesting to be called “Lady” instead of “Lord.”  In the mid 1600s, Queen Christina’s decision to abdicate the Swedish throne rather than marry a man fueled rumors that she was attracted to women.  But would Elagabalus have identified with the modern definition of trans? Would Queen Christina have called herself a lesbian? It’s impossible to know. One of the major challenges with queer history is how we attribute our current understanding of gender and sexuality to people of the past, who might not have […]

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Librarian Fired For Opposing Book Bans Wins $275,000

The Arkansas Advocate reports: A central Arkansas county agreed this week to pay $275,000 to the former library director who was fired after speaking against local conservatives’ push to limit children’s access to books. Saline County announced Thursday it had reached a settlement with Patty Hector, who had been the county library’s executive director when she was fired in October 2023. County Judge Matt Brumley’s firing power came from an ordinance approved by the all-Republican quorum court, which previously urged Hector to move books with “sexual content or imagery” out of children’s reach. Hector alleged in her 2025 legal complaint that her […]

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