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Politics

Out gay Colorado Gov. Jared Polis mocks Donald Trump's 'unflattering painting'

Jared Polis' April Fools joke paid homage to a famous show set in Colorado — while mocking Trump.

Tom Hearn
Comedy

Meet Tom Hearn, the risqué comedian with a thirst for daddies

"I'm into daddies, especially if they know how to pay the bill," the viral star tells Pride's Ricky Cornish.
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Comedy

'Platinum star gay' Matt Matthews wants your deepest & darkest secrets

The comedian is rocking his robe and getting all of the tea.

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Election

Laverne Cox mocks the GOP's $65 million anti-trans ad buy: 'Made-up fearmongering'

"It doesn't even work," the trans actor reminded viewers on The Daily Show.

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Voices

15 of the gayest Summer Olympic sports

All sports are homoerotic, honestly, but these 15 Olympic contests take the gold.

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Arts & Entertainment

Talking ‘Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?!’ podcast with Ted Malawer and Frankie Grande

The pair is involved in a new podcast that tells the queer story of a murder mystery.

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News

Jon Lovett and Tim Miller team up to ‘raise hell’ over gay asylum-seeker vanished to El Salvador by Trump

Andry Hernández Romero entered the U.S. legally, fleeing persecution for being gay. Then the Trump administration disappeared him, sending him to a dystopian prison. They’re trying to get him back.
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News

20 things we have more of than transgender NCAA athletes: From Trump felonies to measles cases

Donald Trump has been convicted of more felonies than the number of trans athletes in the NCAA.

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Arts & Entertainment

John Oliver slams Democrats who think transgender people lost them the election

"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues ... that candidate existed, and she just lost," Oliver said during a recent episode of Last Week Tonight.

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Election

Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner are 'Loud White Men For Kamala' in hilarious new video

“Would you have sex with a Trump voter?” Billy on the Street is back to answer the hard-hitting questions one week out from the elections.
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Voices

19 vice president picks for Donald Trump that would be better than JD Vance

These picks may seem nonsensical, but we guarantee that we put more thought into them than Trump did his.

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People

Joel Kim Booster opens up about 'imposter syndrome' and feeling like a 'fraud'

"I wish I had half the confidence I had at 26 that I do at 36, because the impostor syndrome is real," the comedian recently told Out Magazine.

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News

‘Too strong for sports, too weak to serve?’ Trans troops challenge Trump’s military ban on ‘The Daily Show’

These trans folks explain why they're ready to serve like anyone else.

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Politics

JD 'Just Drop It' Vance fumbled a college football trophy, and the internet has memes

The vice president is being widely mocked online (again) after fumbling the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy.

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News

Trump's DOD censored the Enola Gay. Here's 11 things his moronic DEI purge could also remove

Just what is next after censoring the Enola Gay? We have some predictions equally ridiculous to real life.

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Voices

10 things to do instead of doomscrolling on Election Day

Stop refreshing the news, you obsessive freaks. Put your time to better use and try one of these other things.

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Comedy

Vatican gay sex hits rock bottom, and the Internet responds

Is this why young people are leaving the church?

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television

Here's the Menéndez brothers sketch too controversial for 'SNL'

"Turns out, people like the Menéndez brothers wayyy more than doctors."

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television

Bowen Yang shuts down claims that he 'mocked' Chappell Roan on 'SNL'

It's pretty wild to assume that Bowen Yang's Moo Deng sketch on Saturday Night Live was "mocking" Chappell Roan — and here's why.