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A new White House report attacks the Smithsonian Institution’s management of the National Museum of American History. Among its complaints are the inclusion of drag queens, LGBTQ+ icons, and magazines with nude women on the cover.

A Mediterranean cruise chartered for thousands of LGBTQ+ travelers, most of them gay men, has been blocked from docking at a second country along its itinerary because of who the travelers are.

A Republican running for Congress in Florida told a newspaper that you can’t be born gay. He also suggested homosexuality dates back only to the Roman Empire.

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When I decided to invest in Fire Island Pines, I wasn’t just buying a business.

There are some celebrities whose deaths you take personally, as if you knew them or they were connected to something deeply important in your life. That’s what happened when I saw the news this morning about Bonnie Tyler’s death.

Il y a une génération queer qui a appris à se reconnaître dans le sous-texte, faute de mieux. Et une autre qui réclame, à juste titre, des représentations plus claires, plus proches, plus assumées. Mais entre ces deux manières de se voir, quelque chose a peut-être changé: à force de vouloir nous voir partout, savons-nous …

Graham Platner, the scandal-plagued Maine Democrat whose U.S. Senate campaign became a national test of whether an insurgent progressive could survive repeated revelations about his past, said Wednesday night that he is suspending campaign operations and intends to withdraw from the race.

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A coalition of legal and academic freedom groups sued the Texas Tech University System on Wednesday, accusing Chancellor Brandon Creighton and the system’s Board of Regents of turning a conservative political project into campus policy by restricting what professors can teach about race, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.