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Hollywood's Women Demand Equal Pay
The industry used to condescend and call them "starlets," but now more and more of the ladies who appear on the big screen and on television want to be paid the same as their male costars.
 Dawn Ennis
          
          Dec 15, 2016
          
        
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The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans staffer in any major TV network newsroom. As the first out transgender editor at The Advocate, the native New Yorker continues her 30-year media career, in which she has earned more than a dozen awards, including two Emmys. With the blessing of her three children, Dawn retains the most important job title she's ever held: Dad.
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Hollywood's Women Demand Equal Pay

The industry used to condescend and call them "starlets," but now more and more of the ladies who appear on the big screen and on television want to be paid the same as their male costars.

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“Today, as he is facing domestic political disaster in this year’s elections, our wildly unpopular U.S. president has started that war himself,” the MS NOW host said.

"Congress must use all available power to prevent him from further committing us to this conflict," the former vice president said.

“The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice," the Afghanistan War veteran and former transportation secretary said.

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

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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“These and other changes that scouting America’s leadership committed to,” the Defense Secretary said in a grievance-filled video.

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

Radko Gudas made the remark while representing Czechia in Milan.

The California governor urged Democrats to be more "culturally normal."

“This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans,” Monica Bennett, ACLU of Kansas legal director, said.

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