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You’re not being told the whole story when it comes to LGBTQ+ immigration

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Immigration narratives in politics and media mostly focus on the southern border, with the current U.S. president evoking racist images of Mexican gang members invading, South American cartels smuggling drugs, and Black immigrants eating cats and dogs in the United States. These narratives are, in a word, bullshit. At various times, majorities of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. didn’t cross the southern border, they overstayed their visas. Most fentanyl brought into the U.S. was smuggled in by U.S. citizens. Immigrants commit crimes at a much lower rate than U.S. citizens. And as for cats and dogs, the vice president and others have admitted that the story is […]

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Book bans in schools are more widespread than ever. Which states have had the most?

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In 2025, book bans in schools are more common than ever. “Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country,” says a new report from PEN America, “The Normalization of Book Banning: Banned in the USA, 2024-2025.” “Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide. Never before have so many politicians sought to bully school leaders into censoring according to their ideological preferences, even threatening public funding to exact compliance. Never before has access to so many stories been stolen from so […]

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Plane forced to land after passenger wearing 15 masks claims LGBTQ+ people are giving him cancer

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A domestic flight in the US was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a passenger shouted out that LGBTQ+ people were giving him cancer and that “the plane is going down”. The Sun Country Airlines plane left Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport at around at 7.15am on Friday (3 October) bound for Newark, New Jersey, but was forced to land in Chicago little more than an hour later – about halfway through the scheduled flight time.  Speaking to The Minnesota Star Tribune, passenger Seth Evans said the unruly man was sitting across the aisle from him and acted erratically throughout the […]

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Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA’s Complete Track Record on LGBTQ Issues: What You Need to Know

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Following the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) co-founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, there’s been significant posthumous discussion about who he was and what he left behind. President Trump and the Republican Party have described him as a martyr, making his funeral into a 200,000-person event comparable to those of deceased presidents, while calling for retribution against the “radical left” and trans people, despite the fact that the man who killed him is cisgender and his political affiliation is unclear. Some liberals have mourned Kirk, casting him as a champion of civil dialogue. Meanwhile, critics of his often hateful beliefs have faced repercussions, with retaliatory firings of educators, writers and reporters. In the midst […]

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Meet Gerhard Hernández, Costa Rica’s first trans elected official — and a Gen Z Coldplay fan

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 Costa Rica‘s first out transgender elected official, Gerhard Phillip Hernández Padilla, is more than just a historic politician — he’s a member of Gen Z who loves Coldplay, art history, and tattoos.  The 25-year-old trans man was elected in February last year as second vice mayor of Moravia, a smaller municipality in the San José province in central Costa Rica with a population of more than 50,000. He will serve the district until the end of his four-year term in 2028, after which he plans to continue his career in politics. “What I would like to do in politics is bring in opportunities […]

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Milwaukee Gets Two New Rainbow Crosswalks

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: New street art in Walker’s Point commemorates the neighorhood’s rich LGBTQ history. Crosswalks at the intersection of 2nd Street and National Avenue are now painted rainbow, in a design by street artist Jeremy Novy. The project was led by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, as a way to show the neighborhood’s pride and inclusiveness as a safe space for all. The new artwork was unveiled at a dedication ceremony Oct. 6, with remarks from Milwaukee leaders including Mayor Cavalier Johnson. “Today we’re here to celebrate legacy. For more than 80 years, the Walker’s Point neighborhood has been […]

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Facts and Action for Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week takes place October 5-11, 2025. The annual event raises awareness of the harm and the rising trend of book challenges and bans, especially targeting books by and about LGBTQ people and books about race and racism.  Why are book bans happening? Book bans are part of a sweeping crackdown aimed at censoring and limiting the rising visibility and acceptance of LGBTQ people and youth.  The book ban surge of the last few years coincided with a steady increase in LGBTQ visibility and acceptance over the past decade. LGBTQ people now make up 9.3% of the overall population, up from […]

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Over 200 arrested at NYC gay cruising site

A gay elected official is sounding the alarm that a string of arrests at a New York City cruising site revives “the dark days” of queer entrapment. Last week, The City broke the news that the Amtrak Police Department — a federal police force that operates outside New York City’s sanctuary city laws — had targeted a Penn Station bathroom in arrests for public lewdness. The bathroom was listed as a “hotspot” on Sniffies, a map-based digital platform for queer hookups.  These enforcement efforts have led to over 200 arrests since June 1, an Amtrak representative confirmed to Out. And The Gothamist reports that at […]

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How LGBTQ+ people are stepping up to run for school board seats on the front lines of America’s culture wars

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As the Trump administration continues waging an unprecedented war on transgender people in every facet of American society, local school boards have continued to serve as crucial battlegrounds. In the face of escalating attacks on LGBTQ+ students and teachers, curricula, books, and diversity initiatives, queer leaders are not retreating. They are stepping up to serve and lead in some of the most embattled public institutions in America. In California, for Culver City school board president Triston Ezidore, the battle is not abstract. Elected in 2022 at just 22 years old, Ezidore quickly saw how national talking points about vaccines, “critical race theory,” and transgenderyouth filtered into even his West […]

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Anti-trans Republican John Reid accused of running NSFW racist fetish Tumblr blog

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An anti-trans Republican running for Virginia lieutenant governor has been accused of having a Tumblr account filled with content fetishising white supremacy. WARNING: This article contains deeply offensive, racist, and homophobic slurs, as well as descriptions of graphic sexual content. Reader discretion is advised. GOP candidate John Reid has denied any association with an online blog which regularly shared sexual content fetishising Nazism and violence against non-white people. The out gay WRVA radio host, who announced his candidacy for Virginia’s lieutenant governor in January, has vowed to “defend Virginia’s cultural heritage, promote civic education, and stand up for the values that make our […]

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