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Across the U.S., a campaign to seclude and suppress queer and trans lives from public visibility is continuing to spread. In public schools, libraries, universities, art galleries, museums, government websites, and national monuments, we are seeing art, books, terms, and symbols of LGBTQ+ identity disappear at a quickening pace.

As a child in Peoria, Illinois, in the 1980s, Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez couldn’t hide his disappointment when he unwrapped what he had hoped would be an Easy-Bake Oven – finding basketball equipment instead. Like many young queers in the making, he had yet to find words for his feelings. And with a family that belonged …

Happy Wednesday, all. Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez back in your inbox here, and while I try to keep this newsletter as light as possible to prevent news fatigue, some news you can’t mask.

Idaho state officials told a federal judge they can test bathroom users to DNA if necessary to enforce a law segregating stalls by gender.

On the morning of June 6, 2025, Laura Schueler’s body was found near the steps from her home in the Evanston neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. At a court hearing on Tuesday, almost exactly one year later, her killer was sentenced to prison for the crime.

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U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride didn’t have much to say about Rep. Nancy Mace’s humiliating defeat in South Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial primary.

Avec CONFESSIONS II, Madonna rallume le dancefloor, les corps queer, les archives couture et l’ombre bénie de ses années disco. Mais sous le comeback camp de la reine de la pop, un logo surgit comme une tache de fond de teint sur une chemise blanche: DOLCE&GABBANA. Après les scandales homophobes, racistes, les excuses molles et …

Pique-nique, vin nature, balade au bord du lac, discussion intime au bout de vingt minutes: le date lesbien semble parfois avoir compris quelque chose que les autres cherchent encore sur les apps. Mais derrière le cliché se cache peut-être une vraie leçon queer de la rencontre. L’article Les lesbiennes ont-iels inventé le date parfait? est …