A federal judge in Maryland has denied an effort by President Donald J. Trump’s administration to shield information it used to implement a ban on transgender people in the military. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the administration on behalf of a dozen transgender people who are…
The nation’s first transgender governor, its first Somali-American woman in Congress and its first black woman in Connecticut’s congressional delegation could all be on the horizon after Tuesday’s slate of four primaries. In Wisconsin and Minnesota — two states where Democrats hope to rebound after losing ground to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election — voters chose their nominees for…
There’s a cookbook titled “Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking.” It’s out of print. There are a few, remaining used copies floating around Amazon and eBay, but that’s it. The cover is colorful, a rainbow ending in piles of produce. This cookbook is the stuff of queer, hedonistic kitchen fantasy…
An Oklahoma school has been temporarily closed after a group of parents hurled abuse at a transgender student on Facebook. Twelve-year-old “Maddie” (not her real name) has identified as a girl since 2016. She had previously used the staff bathroom, but following renovations she struggled to find it and instead used the girls’ facilities.
Gay people can act straight convincingly, but the reverse is far trickier – just look at Dominic West dancing in the film Pride. News greets us this week of yet another triumphant milestone for LGBTQ+ rights, with the casting of Disney’s “first openly gay character” (tell that to Ursula from The Little Mermaid), in Jungle Cruise, a film…
On Friday, the Department of Labor issued a directive that would allow federal contractors to discriminate based on religion. The memo, which was sent to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs requests the department “proceed in a manner neutral toward and tolerant of… religious beliefs”…
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