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The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to roll back restrictions on extremist symbols such as swastikas and nooses, even as it continues enforcing the nation’s restrictive ban on transgender military service. The shift was first reported by The Washington Post and is now reflected in newly issued internal policy documents.

In a rare show of bipartisan unity amid intensifying global hostility toward LGBTQ+ people, Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride, a Democrat, on Thursday reintroduced the Global Respect Act, human rights legislation designed to hold accountable the individuals who carry out torture, imprisonment, and violence against LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

A transgender member of the Illinois National Guard is suing the Trump administration over its policy barring trans and intersex federal employees from using restrooms aligned with their gender.

This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th. Meet Orion and read more of his reporting on gender, politics and policy.

Susan Powter still has no desire to get married — or to be around men.

In her first year in Congress, Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride says she’s tried to do something that feels almost impossible in American politics: lower the temperature in a political environment built to reward outrage. As one of the most visible transgender people in the country, and the first out trans member of the U.S. House …

Avec les workshops « EKOS DEM A MOVE : Baddie’s Diasporic Lab », la chanteuse, danseuse et performeuse Lateena Plummer crée à l’Arsenic un espace où les personnes queers et racisées peuvent pratiquer le dancehall et le twerk. Un laboratoire de puissance, de soin et de joie qui va plus loin que la simple pratique …

Col. Anne McClain, an astronaut most recently deployed as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 at the International Space Station, was accused by her estranged wife (now ex-wife), Summer Heather Worden, of illegally accessing Worden’s bank account from space during an earlier mission. Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer and fellow astronaut, has admitted the …

Girlalala, a 21-year old Black transgender social media influencer, was shot to death Friday in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing. Police took Whyte into custody at the scene, and he has now been charged with first-degree murder …

➡️ A gay former FBI official was fired by the Trump administration for having a Pride flag on his desk during the Biden administration — and now he’s suing. We have the details, plus an interview with the official on the “Lavender Scare” currently spreading through the FBI.