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Staff say the Trevor Project is in crisis

The Trevor Project is in crisis, according to many of the organization’s staffers, so they’ve decided to unionize. As the LGBTQ+ community faces attacks on many fronts, the youth-centered organization, best known for its suicide hotline for queer youth…

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Chasten Buttigieg just slammed Pence’s homophobic remarks

Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, said former Vice President Mike Pence has not apologized for homophobic and misogynistic remarks about the couple that he made at a dinner in Washington, DC last weekend…

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Gay Irish leader visits White House on St. Patrick’s Day

President Joe Biden welcomed Ireland’s gay prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day on Friday. In a meeting between the countries that had been postponed due to the pandemic, the two leaders spoke…

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How TN’s drag ban is already causing ‘confusion and fear’

On a Tuesday evening opening for Betty Who at Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl, drag superstar Shea Couleé decided not to mince words when introducing herself. “Some of you may know me from a little show called RuPaul’s Drag Race,” she cheekily…