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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.

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News

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.

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Politics

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.

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Opinion

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.

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Democratic congresswoman calls out Pete Hegseth’s ‘intense, homoerotic feelings towards men’

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 2026.

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U.S. Rep. Becca Balint offered a pointed queer critique of President Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new testosterone initiative Thursday, comparing the Pentagon chief’s cultivated “rugged macho man” image to the hypermasculine figures drawn by the gay erotic artist Tom of Finland. Keep Reading →

Dispatches from Route 66: What I found at the end of the Mother Road

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Road art along Route 66.

Alysse Dalessandro for The Advocate
Walking down Santa Monica Boulevard, I pass a man sitting on the fence of a crowded gay bar, a hot pink thong peeking out from his shorts as go-go dancers in Speedos dance for tips inside. To my left, a sign fastened to a light pole reads “Route 66,” surrounded by a burst of rainbow colors. A man jumps into another man’s arms and wraps his legs around the other man's waist. After an intense but brief make-out session, he says to his friends, “What?! We’re just giving them what they want.” Keep Reading →

LGBTQ+ group backs Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for Senate over lesbian Rep. Angie Craig

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Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who is a candidate for U.S. Senate, runs towards the stage after receiving the DFL endorsement for U.S. Senate during Day 2 of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Convention in the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn. on Saturday, May 30, 2026.

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The Christopher Street Project has endorsed Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary, choosing a longtime LGBTQ+ ally over lesbian Rep. Angie Craig. Keep Reading →

Martina Navratilova wants Billie Jean King to explain her support for transgender athletes

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Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King during Sports Icons Press Conference Unveiling Plans for the Museum's Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center at National Sports Museum on October 17, 2006, in New York City, New York, United States.

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Martina Navratilova is calling “foul" on her longtime friend, Billie Jean King, over the issue of transgender women’s participation in women’s sports. The two lesbian icons, who faced each other 16 times in their professional careers, have both blazed trails for human rights and supported women’s causes in sports and society. But this topic has divided them for more than five years. Keep Reading →

The queer joy of WeHo Pride’s Women’s Freedom Festival

The queer joy of WeHo Pride’s Women’s Freedom Festival
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In 2019, activist, inventor, and chief operating officer of the nonprofit L-Project, Chris Baldwin, had a vision to create a more inclusive, female-centric Pride event after finding a lack of spaces in the L.A. area specifically for queer women. And so, the Women’s Freedom Festival was born — which now dovetails annually with WeHo Pride’s Dyke March. Keep Reading →
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