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Ask an Asexual

It's Asexual Awareness Week. Beth Damiano from Ace Los Angeles answers the questions you're curious about.

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A new eligibility update bans trans women from women’s teams.

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"I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here," Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told the DHS secretary.

A new eligibility update bans trans women from women’s teams.

His attendance at this year's White House Correspondents' Association event comes amid his administration's unprecedented war on the media.

The policy does not negate the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock ruling which found that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

The Beatles star revealed that Yoko Ono once suggested her husband was gay.

The rideshare company is helping trans Kansans get around after the Republican-controlled legislature immediately took their ability to drive away.

MAGA Republican Lauren Boebert's son Tyler Boebert, 20, was cited over the weekend for child abuse without injury.

The far-right influencer for months accused the CEO of Turning Point USA of being involved in her husband, Charlie Kirk's, murder.

In a shocking move, the state’s Department of Health utilized its “11th hour” emergency rule just one day ahead of a lawsuit hearing.