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Gay Rights Activist iO Tillet Wright Speaks Out About Amber Heard and Johnny Depp

There may be no one who knew them better when they were a couple, and now that they are divorced he is telling all, revealing he no longer talks to Depp but calling Heard, "one of my best friends."

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Remembering Jesse Jackson's longtime advocacy for LGBTQ+ equality

Jackson was the first person to mention gays and lesbians in a national convention speech, and he marched on Washington for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Crime

Rhode Island hockey mass shooting leaves family shattered and shooter’s identity in the spotlight

The shooter's history includes a Nazi tattoo and amplifying far-right conspiracy theories online.

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Transgender Health

Activists protest HHS rules against gender-affirming care; 25 arrested

The protest, organized by the Gender Liberation Movement, took place Tuesday at Health and Human Services headquarters.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, trailblazing civil rights icon and LGBTQ+ rights ally, dead at 84

Jackson was the first presidential candidate to include support for LGBTQ+ rights in their campaign platform.

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For New Yorkers, Stonewall’s new Pride flag is only step one

A person in a black jacket and rainbow accessories holds up a sign that reads "Stonewall Is Not Over" and raises their opposite fist in the air.

Susan Breindel, an activist with New York City's Downtown Nasty Women Social Group, poses outside Stonewall Inn on Feb. 12, 2026.

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As local leaders raised a new Pride flag at Stonewall Thursday afternoon, Kiki Ball-Change watched through sunglasses, bundled up in a matching fur coat. Replacing it was one piece of the puzzle, she said. More important was that hundreds of people rallied against the federal crackdown on LGBTQ civil liberties. Keep Reading →

These LGBTQ+ married couples aren’t afraid to show their love

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A new campaign from GLAAD aims to spotlight queer married couples, asking for submissions from those whose lives have been made better by having the legal right to marry.

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As conservatives push to overturn marriage equality, LGBTQ+ couples are uniting to show that their love is stronger. Keep Reading →

This trans street medic was among 67 protesters arrested at Minneapolis hotel hosting ICE agents

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Anti-ICE demonstrators protest outside the Graduate Hotel where federal immigration agents are staying during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota (January 13, 2026).

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Police at the University of Minnesota arrested 67 protestors two weeks ago during a demonstration outside a hotel where ICE agents were staying, among them a street medic, a volunteer who is trained to assist protesters related to medical matters, who was there to "make sure that nobody got hurt." Keep Reading →

MS NOW hosts leak their group chat conversation about politics & culture in new ‘Clock It’ podcast

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MS NOW's new podcast 'Clock It' features Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels.

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Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels spend their days immersed in politics on television. But the conversations that led them to launch a new podcast, they said, were already happening off camera, by text, on FaceTime, and in the moments after their shows ended. Keep Reading →

New Yorkers rally in solidarity with LGBTQ+ community after Trump ordered Stonewall Pride flag removed

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Stonewall Inn owner Stacy Lentz speaks during a protest in front of the Stonewall Monument in Manhattan in New York, on February 10, 2026, after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the removal of a Pride flag at the site.

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By the time dusk settled over Christopher Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood on Tuesday, the narrow triangle of green across from the Stonewall Inn had become a small, loud commons. Rainbow flags were draped over shoulders. Chants rose and fell between the park’s statues. Attendees estimated that 500 to 750 people attended the protest against the National Park Service’s removal of the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument, a memorial dedicated to LGBTQ+ history. Keep Reading →
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