Sen. Toni Atkins was sworn in Wednesday as head of the California Senate, making the San Diego Democrat the first woman and first openly LGBT person to lead the upper house of the state Legislature. Immediately after assuming her post, Atkins noted the ceiling-breaking achievements she had just ushered in, saying, “It’s about time.”
Last Week Tonight is getting the last laugh in its (perhaps one-sided) feud with Mike Pence. On Sunday, John Oliver announced that staff writer _Jill Twiss and illustrator E.G. Keller had penned a picture book that purposefully apes the Pence family’s own children’s book about their bunny, Marlon Bundo.
We forget in the United States how lucky we are that we are arguing over big human rights LGBT issues while our fellow LGBT brothers in other countries are just fighting for visibility. Keep up the fight in South Africa.
While legal and other discrimination against gay people still sadly exists around the world, LGB issues have at least long been part of public discussion. But what about that T? While trans people have always existed, trans issues have only been thrust into the mainstream in recent years.
The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — bankrolled by wealthy Republicans and used by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — was defending itself on multiple fronts this week, after reports questioned the ways it helped sway elections around the globe, including in the U.S. and U.K. British officials launched investigations after the latest report, in which undercover footage from Channel 4 showed…
Since Saturday Night Live premiered in 1975 there have been more than 150 cast members, only two of whom were openly gay. Current cast member, and arguably the show’s MVP, Kate McKinnon was an out lesbian well before she auditioned for the long-running sketch show — but there has not been an openly gay man in the cast in 32 years.
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