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➡️ A Methodist minister in upstate New York came out as transgender to her congregation during a Sunday service. “The best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man,” Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf says in a video posted to Facebook.

The largest women’s membership organization in the United Kingdom says it has been forced to ban transgender women after the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled they are not legally considered women earlier this year.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani‘s record as an LGBTQ+ ally is fierce — and his campaign platform promises to keep delivering for his queer constituents.

Du 5 au 7 décembre, Les Urbaines reviennent avec une édition qui interroge le moment culturel et politique avec lucidité. À travers performances, installations et propositions transdisciplinaires, le festival offre un terrain où se dessinent des formes nouvelles, sensibles aux violences systémiques, aux luttes contemporaines et aux imaginaires émergents. L’article Les Urbaines 2025 et les …

The sanctuary at North Chili United Methodist Church in upstate New York near Rochester was quiet at first. It was one of those anticipatory silences that falls when a pastor stands before the congregation with “a special announcement.” Then, with a gentleness that belied the gravity of the moment, Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf opened a …

In one of Maryland’s most reliably Republican legislative districts, a fast-growing, exurban area just 40 miles from the nation’s capital, transgender U.S. Army veteran Alleria Stanley is mounting a campaign that challenges both political expectations and the boundaries of representation. With anti-trans legislation surging nationwide and local offices becoming flashpoints in the culture wars, her …

Out former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, will become chief medical officer of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, which focuses on LGBTQ+ health care, in New York City starting in February.

Le rapport GLAAD annonce qu’en 2026, 41 % des personnages LGBTIQ+ vus cette année à la télévision ne seront plus à l’écran. Un recul qui dépasse la simple logique audiovisuelle : la représentation queer joue un rôle essentiel pour la sécurité, l’éducation et la projection des personnes LGBTIQ+, et influence directement leur acceptation sociale. L’article 41% …

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Despite recent wins by individual Democratic candidates in elections that focused on the issue of affordability, the Democratic Party is still in trouble. And it’s not just the current state of Republican control of the White House and Congress, but also a supermajority of conservatives on the Supreme Court, seemingly hellbent on overturning hard-fought liberties …