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Arkansas governor vetoes cruel bill banning healthcare for trans kids

In a televised appearance Monday, Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that he had vetoed HB 1570, legislation that would have made Arkansas the first state to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth. According to the Governor, the legislation…

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NCAA finally condemns anti-trans student athletes bills

After weeks of silence regarding the unprecedented tide of transphobic bills sweeping the country, the NCAA has condemned efforts to discriminate against trans athletes. In a Friday letter to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), NCAA president Mark Emmert claimed the…

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Anti-LGBT activists are now funding voter suppression

Apparently, attacking LGBTQ rights isn’t enough full-time work for a variety of right-wing groups. So they’ve taken up other projects, adding voter suppression efforts and disinformation about the COVID vaccine to their portfolio. In addition to fundraising for themselves…

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History lesson for Sony and Amazon: Da Vinci was gay!

The fact that LGBTQ people have traditionally been erased from history is well known. People today generally don’t like it. We want to know about Alexander the Great’s passionate affairs with handsome Hephaestion and beautiful Bagoas the gender-bending eunuch twink. That Roman…