How Right Wingers in Congress Came to Represent a Whole Different Country

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        How Right Wingers in Congress Came to Represent a Whole Different Country
     
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          Apr 15, 2013
          
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The new film shines a light on queer bodybuilding and the pressures on men to seek physical perfection.

Three intelligence veterans say the agency’s dismantling of LGBTQ+ programs threatens national security and reverses decades of hard-won progress.

Asked about Taiwan and the South China Sea, Trump’s endorsed candidate conceded that she was uninformed — before attempting to change the subject to transgender people.

Behind barbed wire and glass, organizers found a queer Cameroonian mother exhausted, fearful of medical care, and determined not to lose hope.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

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The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

A group of transgender men who call themselves the "SB244 compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.

The Norfolk Police Department said the recruit’s presence broke no rules. Former officer Meghan Grabow claims she was told to “learn to deal with it.”

Five out Democrats advanced in Florida House races as Equality Florida-backed school board candidates defeated extreme conservative rivals.

The defense secretary used the slur while campaigning for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, then called the military “gender-neutral.”

Over 40 years ago, Tony Powell left the U.K. for a new life in West Hollywood.The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel explores just what, or who, he was running from.