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Vice President Harris Delivers a Keynote Speech at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Election

Kamala Harris defends LGBTQ+ teachers & condemns book bans at teacher labor union conference

“We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books. Can you imagine?” Harris said of her opponents.

Kamala Harris gives powerful speech at AKA convention days after sorors complaints got hundreds of gays evicted from Dallas hotel
Politics

Kamala Harris gives AKA convention speech days after sorors got hundreds of gays evicted from Dallas hotel

She gave a powerful speech to her sisters and celebrated equality and warned of ‘dictator on day one’ Donald Trump.

Texas Children's Hospital
Crime

Texas doctor charged for leaking health records of transgender kids to far-right extremist

Eithan Haim allegedly stole private health records of transgender kids who weren’t his patients and gave their medical information to an anti-trans activist.

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Texas Lauren Ashley Simmons running against State Representative Shawn Thierry
Politics

Texas Democrat who supported gender-affirming care ban loses to queer progressive candidate

Rep. Shawn Thierry broke with the Democratic Party to vote for a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Now she's lost her primary to Black queer woman Lauren Ashley Simmons

Molly Cook for Texas Senate celebrating election win
Politics

Texas's first LGBTQ+ state senator, Molly Cook, wins primary for full term

Cook had won a special election to finish the term of a senator who resigned, but now she's won a primary runoff that will likely keep her representing her heavily Democratic district.

Molly Cook Texas First LGBTQ State Senator
Politics

Molly Cook, Texas's first out LGBTQ+ state senator, is ready to make change (exclusive)

The emergency room nurse and grassroots organizer will advocate for both incremental and revolutionary change.

Diamond Brigman black transgender woman murdered Houston Police Car night
Crime

‘Courageous’ witness stayed with Black transgender woman gunned down in Texas

Diamond Brigman was only 36 years old. Police say the Good Samaritan witness provided “crucial” information in the case.

Lakewood Church Shooter Genesse Ivonne Moreno Mugshot
News

Fox News and GOP politicians falsely claim Lakewood Church shooter was transgender

The suspected shooter was a 36-year-old who police identified as the mother of a 7-year-old boy who was shot in the incident.

David Daniels and Scott Walters
Crime

Opera Star David Daniels, Husband Plead Guilty to Sexual Assaulting Young Man

The two reached a plea deal in a case involving an assault on a graduate student in Houston in 2010.

Maria Jose Rivera Rivera
Crime

Latinx Trans Woman Killed in Houston in Apparent Murder-Suicide

Maria Jose Rivera Rivera was killed in January, most likely by her intimate partner.