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Playing for both teams: 6 LGBTQ+ spies from history

From the world wars and Red Scare to the fight for Irish independence, here are some queer spies worth knowing.

Talap Mamyrkanov fixes Nolan Hanson's glove at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn

This transgender boxer is fighting to save his mentor — and unlikely friend — from ICE captivity

Trans boxer Nolan Hanson tells The Advocate about his fight to get his mentor, Talap Mamyrkanov, out of ICE detention.

US President Donald Trump White House press briefing January 2025

38 years in the media industry, and I never thought the U.S. media would crumble like this

Opinion: The autocratic assault on the media Is personal for me and for democracy as Trump seeks to extort, choke, twist, and erase it, writes John Casey.

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80 years after Hiroshima, Trump’s ‘gut’ is in charge of the nuclear codes, and it's dangerous

Opinion: In 1945, the world crossed a line. In 2025, one man might erase it altogether, writes John Casey.

Budapest Hungary LGBTQIA Pride March across the Széchenyi Chain Bridge June 2021

Budapest Pride to proceed despite Hungary's LGBTQ+ event ban

A Pride parade protesting Hungary's LGBTQ+ crack down has been backed by over 30 foreign embassies – but not the United States.

Trump’s deranged robot Biden rant was fueled by Jake Tapper’s hypocrisy and Karoline Leavitt’s lies

Trump’s deranged robot Biden rant was fueled by Jake Tapper’s hypocrisy and Karoline Leavitt’s lies

Opinion: Tapper's sensationalism and Leavitt's smears propel Trump’s wacko conspiracy theory, writes John Casey.

CBS News report Macron shove caught on camera

When push comes to shove, Brigitte Macron’s swat was more a mirror than a meme

Opinion: The French president isn’t the only one being batted around in a world gone enraged and violent, writes John Casey.

Donald Trump followed by Billy Bush coming out of the Access Hollywood truck alongside Joseph McCarthy is shown as charged that three of the six Senators who investigated censure charges against him committed a fraud upon the Senate by not admitting bias

Trump’s tariff on foreign films is his revenge on Hollywood, a Red Scare redux, and an autocratic power move

Opinion: A wanna-be authoritarian leader like Trump cannot tolerate dissident artists, which inevitably means he can’t tolerate his citizens either, writes John Casey.

budapest gray march ironic counter protest LGBTQIA pride banned

Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBTQ+ events

The law also allows the government to use facial recognition technology to identify those who attend prohibited events

Kabul Afghanistan women in burqas and men with traditional dress outside a mosque surrounded by white birds

From Afghanistan to Malaysia, these are the 61 countries that still criminalize homosexuality

Today, over five dozen countries still have laws making same-sex sexual relations illegal. Many of these laws stem from colonial rule.

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Daria Kasatkina WTA Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2025 tennis tournament

Out lesbian tennis star Daria Kasatkina flees Russia for Australia: 'I want to be myself'

Daria Kasatkina will be representing her "new homeland" from now on.