Category: Politics

In the 1990s, soft drinks entered a queer “new age” where consumers no longer craved the artificial flavors and same ol’ brands of cola. Instead, they longed for beverage novelties like Crystal Pepsi, energy drinks, and fruit flavor combinations that

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Jamie Lee Curtis definitely had a momentous awards season, picking up both a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar for her supporting role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Recently, a Southern California animal shelter saluted the star with

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling.

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

While right-wingers are blaming Monday’s school shooting in Nashville on the suspected shooter Audrey Hale’s alleged transgender identity, a CNN analyst has called gender identity “a distraction” from the larger issues involved. “Look, pronouns do not kill children,” CNN national

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Erstwhile World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) executive and performer Chris DeJoseph, aka “Big Dick Johnson,” has been banished by far-right advocacy group Turning Point USA’s website after video surfaced showing him “performing” a flagrantly sexual act in public. Before the clip

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

A Kentucky law that aims to increase oversight in public schools by making it easier for parents to file complaints about — and, if desired, shield their children from — “harmful” materials has gone into effect after Democratic Gov. Andy

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March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

Longtime Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso’s abrupt dismissal by Disney last week shocked many in the entertainment business. But even more shocking details have since emerged, suggesting that the entertainment giant may have fired Alonso in part for her criticism

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

While investigators have just started looking into the motivations of the shooter who killed six people – including three children – at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has already decided what the motive is: anti-Christian hate.

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Monday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Under swaying pine boughs and misty stars, I came out as bisexual to my husband in a hot tub at thirty-four years old.  It was early 2021, about a year into the pandemic. I chose the moment for its privacy

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

A transgender woman says she was assaulted and humiliated by a TSA agent at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Saturday, the woman posted a series of tweets describing the incident as well as a photo of herself

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

A more heartrending and quintessentially American scene is hard to imagine.

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Out teen pop performer JoJo Siwa recently revealed that the president of an unnamed company reacted badly when she publicly came out over two years ago. Nickelodeon, one of her former employers, said the incident “certainly did not happen” there.

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Self-described women’s rights advocate Posie Parker was confronted by thousands of transgender rights supporters at a rally in Auckland on Friday, where she was doused with tomato juice and showered with acrimony. She fled the event, and the country, soon

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

The Biden administration issued its latest veto threat Monday, this one targeting a GOP-led bill aimed at energy costs that the House is expected to take up this week.

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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

Fans who flocked to the Manhattan set of Joker: Folie à Deux this weekend to catch a glimpse of Lady Gaga got a little more than they bargained for when the singer locked lips with a female extra. A sequel

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March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

A class of Waukesha, Wisconsin first graders was banned from singing songs about rainbows at their spring concert, and parents say it’s because rainbows are associated with LGBTQ+ people. The Heyer Elementary school class was slated to perform Miley Cyrus

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March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case concerning whether a self-appointed “tester” of the Americans with Disabilities Act has the right to sue hotels over alleged violations of the civil rights law.

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March 27, 2023March 27, 2023