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📰 ICYMI: Three accomplished journalists, including two out gay Black men, welcome audiences to MSNBC's new iteration of The Weekend. Just don’t expect them to play it safe. The Advocate's Christopher Wiggins spoke to the trio before this weekend's premiere of The Weekend for our latest cover story.
🪖 Thirty-two transgender service members and recruits are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Trump administration request to reinstate the military’s ban on transgender personnel, warning that such a move would amount to an “unprecedented and un-American” purge of honorable, high-performing troops.
🎥 Sue began showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease about ten years ago. Since then, her partner Janice has had to balance her work with caring for the love of her life. A new PBS documentary explores their story.
Have a wonderful weekend, y'all!
Onwards and upwards,
Alex Cooper
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This week's question is: What was the name of the first lesbian rights organization in the United States?
This week's answer is: The Daughters of Bilitis. The organization was named after a lesbian character in an 1894 book of poetry, The Songs of Bilitis, by Frenchman Pierre Louÿs. Louÿs claimed the poems were works by Bilitis, a lover of Sappho, and that he had discovered and translated them, but Bilitis was actually a character he invented. The book became a classic of lesbian erotica nonetheless.
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