AOC Calls Out Democratic Party for Overlooking Latino Voters

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AOC Calls Out Democratic Party for Overlooking Latino Voters

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AOC Calls Out Democratic Party for Overlooking Latino Voters

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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

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.

Two Black gay men share how conversion therapy rooted in religious teachings shaped their lives—and the lasting trauma these practices continue to cause in Black communities.

A Boston-based travel creator says passengers aboard the outbreak-hit vessel are “people with families” as the ship continues toward the Canary Islands. But what is the virus?