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Jill Soloway Steps Down as Transparent Showrunner Due to Busy Schedule
Soloway will still be a writer and executive producer on the hit series.
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Jill Soloway Steps Down as Transparent Showrunner Due to Busy Schedule

Soloway will still be a writer and executive producer on the hit series.

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Jill Soloway Steps Down as Transparent Showrunner Due to Busy Schedule

Soloway will still be a writer and executive producer on the hit series.

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The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview.

Andre Karlow, who said, "Trump should kill them all," appeared defiant as the judge imposed years of confinement for the attack.

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Women, young people, and high school finishers were more likely to view homosexuality favorably.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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Most Popular

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

Well before he became Texas’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, James Talarico helped a nervous student leader find the courage to wear a rainbow Pride pin to meet Barack Obama writes Nathan Barrera-Bunch.

Cal Calamia won the race again, but left mostly empty handed.

Andry Hernández Romero and five other Venezuelan men accuse the Department of Homeland Secuirity of unlawfully deporting them to El Salvador’s CECOT prison.

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.

Not in a place that will win her friends among progressives.