Sex and the City's Gilles Marini Joins #MeToo Movement

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Sex and the City's Gilles Marini Joins #MeToo Movement 
The actor discussed being treated "like a piece of meat" by Hollywood executives.
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Sex and the City's Gilles Marini Joins #MeToo Movement

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Sex and the City's Gilles Marini Joins #MeToo Movement

The actor discussed being treated "like a piece of meat" by Hollywood executives.

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The Texas Republican championed a federal ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for minors.

"I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here," Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told the DHS secretary.

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His attendance at this year's White House Correspondents' Association event comes amid his administration's unprecedented war on the media.

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Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

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The rideshare company is helping trans Kansans get around after the Republican-controlled legislature immediately took their ability to drive away.

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The far-right influencer for months accused the CEO of Turning Point USA of being involved in her husband, Charlie Kirk's, murder.