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The genesis of a concept

+ History Month, celebrated every October in the United States, sheds light on and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the LGBTQ+ community throughout history. This commemorative month took shape in 1994, thanks to the initiative of a high school teacher named . Here’s an exploration of the . Keep up with the latest in + news and politics.  In January 1994, Rodney Wilson, a history teacher from a suburban St. Louis high school, conceived the idea of a special month dedicated to LGBTQ+ history, inspired by other commemorative months like Women’s and Black History Months. Wilson believed that LGBTQ+ history also warranted its own […]

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Teachers on the Frontlines of LGBTQ Erasure

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As back-to-school season is in full swing, many teachers are on edge. There were 277 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in 2025 that were meant to restrict student and educator rights. These include trans-exclusionary pronoun lawsand so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws, which disallow teachers from educating students about sexual orientation or gender identity. And in June, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents who wanted to opt their children out of classes that featured books with LGBTQ characters. In addition, there have been numerous false claims that teachers are grooming their students by discussing LGBTQ issues in the classroom. Vice President JD Vance has said that childless teachers are “trying to brainwash […]

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Hate Group Blames Kirk Killing On Ex-Gay Torture Bans

From hate group leader Mat Staver: Charlie Kirk’s killer isn’t the only gender-confused individual to act on his rage by killing people. A disturbing number of recent mass shootings have been conducted by “queers” — the “Q” in LGBTQ that covers more than 550 paraphilias — including sexually identifying as “transgendered,” “xenogendered,” or “non-binary” (switching to male or female as the mood hits). In each of these cases, Christian change counseling was BANNED in the shooter’s city or state. Utah banned change counsel by executive order in 2021, and then that ban was codified into law by the legislature and governor […]

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How LGBTQ Journalists Can Protect Themselves Online in an Era of Platform Rollbacks

At this year’s NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Convention, GLAAD and PEN America — a civil society organization that aims to safeguard free expression — came together to lead a critical conversation on digital safety. The session, “De-dox Yourself on Meta: Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp,”explored how LGBTQ journalists can better protect themselves from harassment and hate on social media — particularly as platforms roll back key safety policies under the current political climate. More than 700 journalists attended this year’s convention. The panel featured Jeje Mohamed, Co-founder & Managing Partner at Aegis Safety Alliance; Tat Bellamy-Walker, Program Manager of Digital Safety Training and Resources (Media) at PEN America; and Leanna […]

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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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Liberty Counsel Has Prepared to Take Down Gay Marriage for Years. Their Biggest Attack Is Now

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Last month, it was reported that the Supreme Court will formally consider a petition for a case calling on them to overturn their 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic ruling that made gay marriage legal nationwide. The petition comes from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who has made headlines and been embroiled in legal battles since she refused to sign marriage licenses for gay couples. While Davis has been fighting against gay marriage since it was made legal, her lawyers have been doing it for longer. Davis is being represented by Liberty Counsel, a far-right Christian legal group and Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate […]

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Anti-trans GOP candidate drops out after he was caught following nonbinary adult performer online

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A GOP candidate who was caught following a nonbinary adult performer online dropped out of the race for Wisconsin governor on Friday, about a week after a local paper reported on his online activity. “As a result of our politics today, I cannot focus on the issues I know will turn Wisconsin around. I have come to the conclusion I do not have a path to the nomination,” business owner Bill Berrien said in a statement, which attacked the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel for reporting the story. “It was a major attack piece and we confirmed opposition research started in January of this year, if […]

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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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Slovakia passes constitutional amendment banning “gender ideology” & gay adoption

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Following a playbook from Hungary and Russia’s leaders, Slovakia’s populist government on Friday passed an illiberal ragbag of measures in a constitutional amendment that defines sex as binary, bans adoption by same-sex couples, outlaws surrogacy, and asserts the E.U. member’s “national sovereignty in cultural and ethical matters.” Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose coalition of populist, leftist, and nationalist parties has faced mounting demonstrations in the country’s capital, Bratislava, promoted the amendment as a bulwark against liberal ideology that was “spreading like cancer” in the central European state. His populist-nationalist government argued the amendment was necessary to protect “traditional values.” Fico […]

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Texas Tech chancellor directs faculty to recognize only two genders in classroom instruction

The five public universities within the Texas Tech University System must “recognize only two human sexes” in their classroom instruction, according to a memo released Thursday by the system’s chancellor.  In the memo, Chancellor Tedd L. Mitchell cited a Texas law enacted this month that requires government records to only reflect someone’s “immutable” birth sex as male or female; an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January declaring that the federal government will only recognize two, unchangeable sexes; and a letter from Gov. Greg Abbott that directed state agencies to follow Trump’s order. “Therefore, while recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty […]

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