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The Best Queer Country Artists, From Amythyst Kiah to Trixie Mattel

LGBT country music artists are flourishing from Brooklyn to Birmingham.

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Queer country music?! Yes, it's a thing! Advocate contributor Cal Goodin demonstrates how we've infiltrated the seemingly very white, very straight, very cisgender genre.

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Kamala Harris calls Donald Trump’s Iran strikes ‘recklessness dressed as resolve’, dragging U.S. into war

"Congress must use all available power to prevent him from further committing us to this conflict," the former vice president said.

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Pete Buttigieg & Robert Garcia join chorus of leaders condemning Donald Trump’s ‘war of choice’ with Iran

“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice," the Afghanistan War veteran and former transportation secretary said.

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Florida suddenly cuts off 12,000 people from receiving their HIV meds


In a shocking move, the state’s Department of Health utilized its “11th hour” emergency rule just one day ahead of a lawsuit hearing.

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Two transgender men sue Kansas government over law voiding driver's licenses

“This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans,” Monica Bennett, ACLU of Kansas legal director, said.

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TN Republican demands official probe after calling Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show 'gay pornography'

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U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, is calling for a congressional investigation into the Apple Music Super Bowl LX halftime show headlined by Puerto Rican megastar Bad Bunny, falsely accusing the National Football League and broadcaster NBC of airing what he said was “gay pornography” and other explicit content during one of the most-watched television events in the country. Keep Reading →

Editor’s Letter: “It’s hard enough being human”

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Just before casting my vote in the 2024 election in my hometown in South Carolina, I turned on Brandi Carlile’s “The Joke” from her album By the Way I Forgive You, which was written in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2016 win. I needed to listen to it before I went into the voting booth. Carlile’s soaring vocals and poignant lyrics about hope in the face of persecution comforted me as I pulled into the parking lot of a former Walmart turned megachurch that served as my polling station. I parked my Subaru and cried, singing along between quiet sobs. Keep Reading →

Zohran Mamdani: Save a horse, play a yet-unreleased Kim Petras album

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Zohran Mamdani; Kim Petras
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If Zohran Mamdani is a BunHead, then Kim Petras can be an animal rights activist. That's how pop music and politics work in 2025, after all. Keep Reading →

LE SSERAFIM’s new music video has 3 drag queens—major queer moment in K-pop

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Drag queen NANA Youngrong Kim is seen eating spaghetti in the new music video for by LE SSERAFIM.

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The popular K-pop group LE SSERAFIM is gearing up for the release of their upcoming single, "SPAGHETTI," and fans were pleasantly surprised to see that the teaser video that they released on Tuesday featured a drag queen. Keep Reading →
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