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Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Trump’s handpicked board has devised a new way to put it back.

Minnesota Democrats chose a progressive ally over an LGBTQ+ history-maker Tuesday, handing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan victory against lesbian U.S. Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for U.S. Senate.

Two failed NBA players have found a new way to make a mockery of transgender people, and they’re using women’s professional basketball to do it. And just like every other attempt to delegitimize trans human beings, it will fail.

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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post at the end of August, closing a tenure in which the administration’s youngest-ever chief spokesperson became one of its most aggressive defenders — including when the facts did not support what she was saying and when transgender Americans …

A new ranking of cities throughout the world by how sexually liberated they are has just been published.

Seattle leaders could soon distribute $300,000 to LGBTQ+ organizations to welcome displaced transgender people to the city. The boost for local nonprofits comes as social services feel the strain of a massive influx of people fleeing persecution in Republican-led states.