“Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture,” Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles bizarrely said, after seeing two men dancing and Ricky Martin singing.
“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
What started as curiosity and flirtation turned into something far more unsettling when Randell Smith’s digital companion suddenly decided he’d crossed a line.
The Rutherford County Library System has been roiled by a book purge scandal.
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On the first night of December in Rutherford County, Tennessee, a newly hired library director stood before her governing board and did something almost unheard of in American public librarianship: She asked for whistleblower protection. Keep Reading →
A North Carolina library board was dissolved after members refused to pull a book about a trans boy from the collection.
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A county government in central North Carolina has dissolved its entire public library board after trustees voted to keep a children’s picture book about a transgender character on library shelves, turning a local book challenge into one of the most severe reprisals yet in the national campaign against LGBTQ-inclusive materials. Keep Reading →
Multiple southern states have recently ordered the purge of books related to transgender identity from youth and even teen sections in public libraries.
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Multiple southern states have recently ordered the purge of books related to transgender identity from youth and even teen sections in public libraries. Keep Reading →
The former White House press secretary's new memoir doesn't pull punches. Karine Jean-Pierre (pictured right)
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On the back cover of Independent, Rachel Maddow calls Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir “not your typical Washington book,” praising it as “a brave firecracker of a book” that “[cuts] a swath through the political class, telling blunt, gritty truths and sparing no one.” Keep Reading →
Opinion: "I have no problem with lip syncing, but you'd think the side that hates drag queens so much would have a little more shame about it," writes Ryan Adamczeski.