The Human Rights Campaign says the record of Trump's personal lawyer as acting attorney general shows why senators should reject his nomination to permanently lead the Justice Department.
The former mayor, out of City Hall for nearly 25 years, claimed without evidence that Mamdani’s child care proposal would push transgender identities on children.
Cover art for Jazzed: Jack Cole and Twentieth-Century American Dance; Jack Cole and Marilyn Monroe
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Even if you’ve never seen a Marilyn Monroe movie, you’ve probably, at some point in your life, viewed vintage film clips of the star’s iconic “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” performance from 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In addition to Madonna paying homage to it decades later in her “Material Girl” video, that image of Monroe — dressed in skin-tight pink satin, drenched in jewels, and surrounded by gorgeous male dancers — might be one of the most famous pop-culture moments in history. But many don’t know the renowned queer choreographer behind the legendary number, Jack Cole. Keep Reading →
As a child in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1980s, Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez couldn't hide his disappointment when he unwrapped what he had hoped would be an Easy-Bake Oven – finding basketball equipment instead. Like many young queers in the making, he had yet to find words for his feelings. And with a family that belonged to the evangelical Assemblies of God church, it didn't take long for the inkling to turn to shame. Keep Reading →
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America’s Most Radical Revolutionary by Nina Sankovitch is a thrilling celebration of Public Universal Friend, a forgotten hero from the American Revolution, and a nonbinary renegade whose life illustrates just how radical the American experiment could have been. Their story begins in October 1776, in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, when 23-year-old Jemima Wilkinson nearly died from illness — and Public Universal Friend, who said Wilkinson did indeed die and her body was reanimated with a new spirit, was born. Keep Reading →
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-AZ, speaks at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 12, 2025.
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U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva is calling out congressional Republicans for denying funds for an Arizona library that hosted two drag events in 2019 and 2024. Keep Reading →
Use of single-sex toilets, changing rooms and hospital wards in England, Scotland and Wales is now restricted according to a person’s birth sex, rather than the gender with which they identify.
Opinion: The signs of alcohol addiction and obsession with image control are all too clear to queer people, as is a clear cry for help, writes Josh Ackley.