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Gay WA State Trooper Sues Over “Demeaning” AI Video

The Tacoma News Tribune reports: A veteran Washington State Patrol trooper claims he’s faced discrimination and hostility in the agency due to his sexual orientation — issues that reportedly reached a breaking point when WSP personnel created and circulated a demeaning video of him generated by artificial intelligence. Collin Overend Pearson, who’s a Pierce County resident and gay, alleges that he’s been subjected to “repeated instances of discriminatory and unconstitutional conduct by WSP and its officers” during nearly two decades of employment, according to a lawsuit filed Dec. 19 in Pierce County Superior Court. In December, WSP personnel created an AI-generated video […]

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Why Queer Spaces Often Fail South Asian Women

Patel felt a wave of grief wash over her. “I [have] to give up my South Asian-ness in order to be in a queer relationship,” she remembers thinking. Patel and her girlfriend had been dating for some time and were sketching out a future together, even starting sentences with, “When we get married.” But as they built a foundation, she continued to feel marginalized because of her Indo-African heritage. “I remember I was in [my girlfriend’s] household, and her father made a comment that was racist to brown people,” Patel told Uncloseted Media. When her girlfriend called him out, Patel […]

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Dominican Republic: Court Ends Security Forces Gay Sex Ban

(New York) – The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court has struck down provisions in the Codes of Justice of the National Police and the Armed Forces that criminalized consensual same-sex conduct by officers, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling, made public on November 18, 2025, is a landmark victory for equality, ending a regime of state-sanctioned discrimination that violated the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) officers.  In Judgment TC/1225/25, the court held that article 210 of the Code of Justice of the National Policeand article 260 of the Code of Justice of the Armed Forces violate constitutional guarantees to nondiscrimination, privacy, free development of […]

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MAGA influencers at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest fight & accuse each other of being gay

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MAGA infighting erupted at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona, as conservative broadcaster Ben Shapiro blasted Candace Owens for spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Turning Point’s founder Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson for platforming neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, and Steve Bannon for aiding the president’s poor handling of files related to convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “The conservative movement is in serious danger… from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty,” Shapiro said, according to Politico. Elsewhere, both ex-gay provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos said that Fuentes is gay and MAGA broadcaster Benny […]

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Who is Judge Dianne Hensley and why is she trying to overturn same-sex marriage in the US?

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Judge Dianne Hensley has filed a lawsuit asking courts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, in the latest attack on gay marriage in the US. Judge Hensley filed the lawsuit on Friday (19 December), according to The Texas Tribune. The document asks for an overturn of Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that established same-sex marriage nationwide. The lawsuit continues the ongoing legal dispute between Hensley and the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, an independent Texas state agency responsible for investigating allegations of judicial misconduct. This all began when Hensley wanted to be allowed to perform marriages for opposite-sex couples, but not same-sex couples. […]

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20 police raided a gay bar for a “compliance check.” Then the patrons did something surprising.

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In a moment of resistance and queer solidarity, a drag show went on despite patrons and performers being kicked out of a bar by about 20 police officers in bulletproof vests.  Police raided Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ venue P Town Bar on Friday in the middle of a drag event. Drag artist Indica was performing alongside trans model and nightlife legend Amanda Lepore when police began to gather in the back of the establishment, QBurgh reported. When Indica finished her rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” police directed patrons to exit the bar but did not explain why beyond saying it was a “compliance check.” “We […]

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Gen Z women are more likely to identify as bisexual but still embrace lesbian label: study

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Gen Z women aren’t trying to cancel the lesbian label — they’re just more likely to identify as bisexual.  Among 913,253 international users of the queer women’s and nonbinary dating app Zoe (71.1 percent of whom identify as female), 48.3 percent identify as lesbian, 39.8 percent as bisexual, 6.6 percent as pansexual, 3.4 percent as queer, 1.2 percent as gay, and 0.7 percent as asexual, according to a new report in Demographic Research.  Gen Z users — those born between 1997 and 2006 — were slightly more likely to identify as bisexual than lesbian, with 45 percent of users ages 20 to 29 using the bisexual […]

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After 30 years in uniform, a veteran in Nebraska who survived ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is running for Congress

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When Kishla Askins talks about why she is running for Congress in Nebraska, she does not begin with polling or party. She begins with the people she could not bring home. Askins, a retired U.S. Navy veteran and former senior Pentagon and Veterans Affairs official, spent more than 30 years in uniform, first as an enlisted sailor, then as a Navy corpsman and emergency medicine physician assistant who deployed with the Marine Corps to combat zones. Some of the service members under her care died. That loss, she said, still guides her. “I made a sacred promise,” Askins said in an interview with The […]

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California hospital will continue youth gender-affirming care after families protest

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When Sutter Health told its patients in late November that it would no longer be providing gender-affirming care services for those 19 and under, their families began organizing.  The largest hospital system in Northern California didn’t announce the policy change publicly, but quietly informed those receiving the care — right around Transgender Day of Remembrance — that the treatment would stop as of December 10. While it put a damper on their Thanksgiving holidays, the families of the affected transgender youth weren’t going to take it lying down. Rainbow Families Action, a collective of families in the Bay Area who have trans children, put out a call to […]

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