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WATCH: The Advocates — How Can We Save the Earth?
Tracy and Jessie sit down with Gerod Rody, founder of Out for Sustainability, to talk about their favorite gay animal and the intersection of environmentalism and being queer.
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WATCH: The Advocates — How Can We Save the Earth?

Tracy and Jessie sit down with Gerod Rody, founder of Out for Sustainability, to talk about their favorite gay animal and the intersection of environmentalism and being queer.

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A year after Iowa stripped gender identity from its civil rights code, Kim Reynolds signed a law barring cities and counties from restoring protections for trans residents.

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WATCH: The Advocates — How Can We Save the Earth?

Tracy and Jessie sit down with Gerod Rody, founder of Out for Sustainability, to talk about their favorite gay animal and the intersection of environmentalism and being queer.

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With his first of now two wins at the games, Jake Adicoff of Team USA becomes the first out gay man to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Paralympics.

A year after Iowa stripped gender identity from its civil rights code, Kim Reynolds signed a law barring cities and counties from restoring protections for trans residents.

The unsolved murder, dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia,” was cracked wide open by filmmaker Rachel Mason.

In Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, the legendary performer details descending into an impassioned, drug-fueled affair with the filmmaker during the filming of the 1977 movie musical New York, New York.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.

A civil rights group claims that backlash to the show's popularity has caused an uptick in anti-LGBTQ+ hate from fellow players and coaches.

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

The Republican-led legislation places the state increasingly out of step with the rest of New England on trans rights.

Conservative lawmakers are attempting to take away protections that some local governments have put in place to prevent discrimination against their LGBTQ+ citizens.

NYU Langone ceased its trans health program for youth two weeks prior.