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 Skid Row Votes on Election Day
  These voters may be living on the streets of Los Angeles but they are making their vote count. 
 
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        Rudy Giuliani launches bizarre anti-trans rant over Zohran Mamdani’s child care plan
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Skid Row Votes on Election Day

These voters may be living on the streets of Los Angeles but they are making their vote count.

The Latest

Don’t give Todd Blanche a ‘promotion,’ national civil rights organization warns Republican senators

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.

Olympic ice skating champion Alysa Liu's teenage trans sibling outed by far-right media

Despite claiming to be a “pro-woman, pro-child” website, Reduxx went on to share more sensitive information about a minor.

Rudy Giuliani launches bizarre anti-trans rant over Zohran Mamdani’s child care plan

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.

The fight for trans athletes isn't about fairness. It's about who gets to belong

Opinion: Transgender athletes are the latest target in a broader political effort to decide who gets to be part of American public life.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

Seth Moulton’s anti-trans rhetoric comes back to haunt him in Senate debate with Ed Markey

James Talarico tells Rachel Maddow how bigoted, anti-trans politics distract from GOP corruption

How JD Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to being an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist

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Nancy Mace remade herself as an anti-trans culture warrior. Trump chose her opponent for governor

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Lindsey Graham may have lived deep in the closet. He made others suffer for it

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Donald Trump’s 10 most humiliating presidential moments — among many

The commander in chief is no stranger to making a fool of himself, but we narrowed down a few instances.

Great Britain now bars trans people from many public bathrooms and changing rooms

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.

If anyone should get a motel room, it’s Senator John Kennedy and Donald Trump

The Louisiana Republican's Obama and Colbert antigay smear campaign surely earned Trump’s undying love.

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Skid Row Votes on Election Day

These voters may be living on the streets of Los Angeles but they are making their vote count.

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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.

Despite claiming to be a “pro-woman, pro-child” website, Reduxx went on to share more sensitive information about a minor.

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.

Opinion: Transgender athletes are the latest target in a broader political effort to decide who gets to be part of American public life.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

More For You

Most Popular

The stories about the late Republican senator's sexuality may multiply after his death. None of them changes who he chose to be, writes John Casey

The commander in chief is no stranger to making a fool of himself, but we narrowed down a few instances.

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.

The Louisiana Republican's Obama and Colbert antigay smear campaign surely earned Trump’s undying love.

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.

A new trial found a technique similar to blood cancer treatment that kept two patients at undetectable levels for extended periods.