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The deplorable way House Republicans are treating Rep. Sarah McBride knows no historical equal

Opinion: History will honor McBride's courage and integrity while condemning the House Republicans' current cruelty, writes John Casey.

For Presidents' Day, 10 political movies and TV shows to give us hope in a trying time

These films and series show that just sometimes, the good people win.

Roy Cohn and Donald Trump: Mentor and Protégé

Trump learned much from the closeted gay communist-hunter and counsel to the rich and infamous.

How the Lavender Scare Created a Gay Work of Art

Secretary of State John Kerry just apologized for the department's 20th-century purge of LGBT employees. Now a new opera brings the lamentable Lavender Scare to life.

Trump Fumigated Mar-a-Lago After HIV+ Roy Cohn Visited, Book Claims

The closeted, odious lawyer served as Trump's role model, but the future president was allegedly disgusted by him because he had HIV.

Purging the gays McCarthy style

The scapegoating of gay people in light of the scandal surrounding disgraced former congressman Mark Foley is nothing new. It is a tactic honed in the dark days of the Cold War during the McCarthy-led "purge of the perverts."

Pro-Trump Candidate Calls for Executing Parents of LGBTQ+ Kids

Mark Burns described the fight for LGBTQ+ rights as a treasonous attempt to "destabilize the republic."

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Who was Roy Cohn? All about the closeted gay lawyer who mentored Donald Trump

Cohn, being portrayed by Jeremy Strong in the new film The Apprentice, has been called "a Jewish anti-Semite and a homosexual homophobe."

Trump campaign outraged over queer Apprentice film, calling it ‘garbage’ and ‘pure fiction’

The notoriously thin-skinned former president’s campaign said that Trump would sue.

The Lavender Scare's New Relevance

The Human Rights Campaign is calling on the State Department to apologize for all the gays and lesbians it fired in the 1950s. 

The bigots hall of shame

What is going on in Tampa? In June the county commission dissed gay and lesbian pride. Now they're insulting Muslims in the name of the United States. Shame on them for twisting true liberty

Trump appointee uses death of president's 46-year-old son to tilt election

Special Counsel Robert Hur outrageously clears and smears President Biden. Another gift from one of Trump's "best people."

This Is How 'The Gays' Really Feel About Trump

No, Donald, "the gays" don't love you.

Brent Bozell, anti-LGBTQ+ activist and father of January 6 rioter, to head U.S. media agency

Donald Trump has picked Bozell to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the Voice of America and other federally funded news outlets.

Trump's obsession with hate and lies could kill LGBTQ+ people

Donald Trump only cares about power, writes Karen Ocamb.

Patricia Clarkson

She seduced us as a German lesbian junkie in High Art, upbraided us as a prudish neighbor in Far From Heaven, and made us giddy as eccentric Aunt Sarah in Six Feet Under. Now she's messing with our minds as the wife of an unfaithful bisexual in The Dying Gaul. We caught up with the New Orleans native after she returned from a visit to her recovering hometown