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On a D.C. rooftop, prominent authors and activists vowed to ‘save our stories’ from book bans

On a comfortably mild and breezy Monday night in early fall, within steps of Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Penguin Random House transformed a rooftop overlooking the nation’s capital into a rally for the freedom to read.

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Wyoming library director wins $700,000 after being fired for defending LGBTQ+ books

A former library director in Wyoming has won $700,000 in a settlement after she was fired for refusing to remove books containing content about sexual health and LGBTQ+ identities.

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Miles Heizer on playing a closeted Marine cadet in ‘Boots’

The call came two days before the new Netflix series Boots started production. Miles Heizer had landed the lead role of Cameron Cope, a closeted gay teen who in 1990 impulsively joins the Marines and heads to boot camp. The actor had two days to get to New Orleans for the production. As number 1 …

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Donald Trump brags that ‘we took the freedom of speech away’

President Donald Trump, who insists he’s not a dictator, boasted Wednesday that his administration had “taken freedom of speech away,” while defending his executive order directing federal prosecutors to target people who burn or desecrate the American flag.

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Chicago alderperson describes ‘sanctioned violence’ after ICE detained her for simply asking questions

When Alderperson Jessie Fuentes arrived at Humboldt Park Health on Chicago’s West Side last Friday, she expected to de-escalate a tense situation. Instead, she found herself in handcuffs, detained by armed federal agents she identified as Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

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New ‘Late Night’ host Trump kills it with jokes on ending seven wars and GOP shutdown, and his pal Vladimir

It was bound to happen sooner or later. In a year that’s already blurred the line between reality TV and turning the U.S. into a dictatorship, it’s hardly a stretch to imagine Donald Trump debuting his own late-night show, given his obsession with the genre,

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Au milieu de la polarisation, des bancs LGBTIQ+ lausannois

Entre vandalisme, enfarinage et récupération politique, les bancs aux couleurs LGBTIQ+ lausannois révèlent un climat de tension où la visibilité queer devient un champ de bataille symbolique. L’article Au milieu de la polarisation, des bancs LGBTIQ+ lausannois est apparu en premier sur 360°.

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Breaking: Hamas to release all living hostages & Israel to withdraw troops in Gaza peace deal, Trump says

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that Israel and Hamas have “both signed off” on the first phase of a peace deal that will see all remaining Israeli hostages released as soon as this weekend.

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New York Republican Mike Lawler declares trans community is ‘not an enemy or a threat’

In a rare departure from his party’s dominant rhetoric, New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler publicly affirmed that the LGBTQ+ community and transgender people are “not an enemy or a threat” in a statement posted to Facebook last week. The statement drew cautious optimism from local advocates, who praised the sentiment behind it, but warned …

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New York Republican Mike Lawler declares trans community is ‘not an enemy or a threat’

In a rare departure from his party’s dominant rhetoric, New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler publicly affirmed that the LGBTQ+ community and transgender people are “not an enemy or a threat” in a statement posted to Facebook last week. The statement drew cautious optimism from local advocates, who praised the sentiment behind it, but warned …

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