Chelsea Manning Enjoys Her First Pride Since Prison

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Chelsea Manning Enjoys Her First Pride Since Prison
The ACLU invited Chelsea Manning to join its float as it made way through New York City.
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Chelsea Manning Enjoys Her First Pride Since Prison

The ACLU invited Chelsea Manning to join its float as it made way through New York City.

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Chelsea Manning Enjoys Her First Pride Since Prison

The ACLU invited Chelsea Manning to join its float as it made way through New York City.

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“Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture,” Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles bizarrely said, after seeing two men dancing and Ricky Martin singing.

“New York is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, and no act of erasure will ever change, or silence, that history,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

What started as curiosity and flirtation turned into something far more unsettling when Randell Smith’s digital companion suddenly decided he’d crossed a line.

Bottcher, a gay Democrat, easily won the state Senate seat last week.

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It was supposed to be the event's 35th anniversary in June.

Opinion: "I have no problem with lip syncing, but you'd think the side that hates drag queens so much would have a little more shame about it," writes Ryan Adamczeski.

A Capitol Hill staffer called the exchange "gay on gay violence."

Pascal Kaiser was attacked by three men outside his house just days after his public proposal.

Turning Point USA is organizing a show headlined by Kid Rock for right-wingers upset with Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show.

The gay actor delivered a 400-year-old monologue on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that fiercely confronts American cruelty toward immigrants in 2026.