News + Politics
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Gay California State Senator Receives Bomb Threat
A gay California state senator received a death threat from someone calling him a “pedophile” and a “groomer,” claiming they had placed bombs at his...
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DNA Evidence May Identify Additional Victims of Indiana Gay Serial Killer
New DNA testing may soon identify more of the victims of Indiana’s most prolific serial killer. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Herb Baumeister is believed...
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Australian Accused of Killing Gay American Has Conviction Overturned
A man convicted of killing gay 27-year-old U.S. mathematician Scott Johnson in 1988 had his conviction overturned on appeal last month. For years, Johnson’s death...
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The DC Center and Capital Pride Alliance Find New Home
The DC Center for the LGBT Community, the District’s LGBTQ-specific community center, and Capital Pride Alliance have jointly signed a lease for a new headquarters...
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Senator Raphael Warnock Re-Elected Over Anti-LGBTQ Opponent
On Tuesday, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) was re-elected to a full six-year term, defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker despite the latter’s embrace of “culture war”...
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Signs Agreements with Anti-LGBTQ Groups
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party came in first during the country’s November 1 election — officially setting them up to retake control of...
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Drag Queens Are Hiring More Security Following Club Q Shooting
A number of prominent drag queens are taking extra steps to protect themselves following last month’s mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in...
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Club Q Shooter Formally Charged with First-Degree Murder
The alleged shooter in the November mass shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been formally charged with 305 counts...
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Anti-Drag Activist Claims God is Behind North Carolina Power Outage
Police are investigating whether an attack on a power grid that left 45,000 households dark may be linked to a much-protested local drag show.
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Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex Wedding Refusal Case
On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in the case of a graphic designer who refuses to create custom-made wedding websites...
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Indonesian Soldiers Jailed for Consensual Gay Sex
Two Indonesian male soldiers have been sentenced to seven months in prison for engaging in consensual sex, which is considered a form of “inappropriate behavior”...
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Herschel Walker Campaigns with North Carolina’s Anti-Gay Lieutenant Governor
Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat representing Georgia, has doubled down on anti-LGBTQ attacks ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff election...
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Virginia Reports First Death from Monkeypox (MPOX)
Virginia public health officials have reported that an individual in the state has died from complications related to mpox, the disease that was formerly known...
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A Revolutionary Approach to Finding a Cure for HIV
Excision BioTherapeutics is testing a gene editing therapeutic “designed to cure HIV infections after a single intravenous infusion.”
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Man Brandishes Gun, Threatens Staff at Minneapolis Gay Bar
A Minneapolis man has been arrested and charged with felonies after allegedly pulling out a gun and threatening staff at a historic gay bar in...
