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Rocketman is everything Bohemian Rhapsody wasn’t.

Elton John and Freddie Mercury are rock and roll’s two most enduring queer legends, and with their big-screen biopics being released less than a year apart, the films were always going to be compared to one another. Bohemian Rhapsody was…

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Homeless shelters won’t have to protect transgender people.

Advocates say that a Trump administration proposal unveiled Wednesday would gut protections for homeless transgender people. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) proposed rule would allow single-gender taxpayer-funded shelters “to consider a range of factors” such as…

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Mormon Republican lawmaker in Utah comes out as gay.

A Republican lawmaker who is a Mormon has come out as gay, saying it took him more than 20 years to do so. Nathan Ivie, a 40-year-old Utah county commissioner and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints…

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If Roe falls, same-sex marriage could be next.

In the past several weeks, Republicans in Alabama, Missouri, and Georgia have pushed through a series of horrifying bills that effectively ban abortion and criminalize the procedure, a bald attempt to trigger a legal challenge with the hope of eroding…

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The White Night Riots happened 40 years ago. What has changed?

On November 27, 1978, Dan White walked into San Francisco City Hall with a loaded gun. Moments later, Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, a politician and gay rights activist, had been murdered. White was convicted six months later, not of…

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What’s in Elizabeth Warren’s plan for LGBT rights?

Despite the fact that she’s one of roughly 23 candidates running for president, Elizabeth Warren has quickly carved a prominent place for herself in the American consciousness thanks to her wholehearted embrace of social media and, of course, the fact that…