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Survey indicates just how many gays are working on Capitol Hill

A new survey from the Senate Democrats highlights the diversity of each senator’s staff using race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation (unsurprisingly, Senate Republicans don’t produce a comparable list). While all of those numbers are interesting, we’re focused…

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Twitter’s death spiral and what it means for LGBT rights

For more than a decade, Twitter has been a place where LGBTQ+ people can organise, connect and call out injustices. But as the platform appears to be circling the plughole, what does the future hold for queer activists, journalists and…

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Where are the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guys now?

When Queer Eye for the Straight Guy premiered in July 2003, there was nothing like it on television. Five gay men — Carson Kressley, Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, and Jai Rodriquez — surprised a schlubby (almost always) straight man…

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The new rise of the anti-LGBT religious right

Throughout Mike Pompeo’s tenure as Secretary of State in the Trump administration, PGN reported on his gutting of State as well as his efforts to turn U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — the State Department’s foreign aid arm — into an…