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LGBTQ+ people are going back into the closet during Donald Trump‘s second term as queer visibility decreases across the board, new research has found.

Renee Nicole Good wasn’t following ICE agents « all day » before she was killed — she had just dropped her son off at school in the morning when she randomly encountered them, her family maintains.

Just days before LGBTQ+ ally, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, is set to replace Virginia’s anti-trans Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, when she is sworn in on Saturday, a rural school board has adopted a sweeping new policy restricting transgender students, while simultaneously continuing to block a proposed middle school Gender and Sexualities Alliance.

From arrests during sit-ins at Capitol Hill bathrooms to injecting hormones on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Gender Liberation Movement’s freshman year has been defined by defiance.

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Donald Trump threatened in a social media post on Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to stop protests in Minneapolis after the killing of queer woman Renee Good by ICE on January 7.

➡️ A gay couple in Washington, D.C. is stuck in limbo after ICE detained one husband, a Panamanian immigrant, during what had long been treated as a routine immigration check-in.

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Virginia police have arrested a suspect after a video went viral online showing a woman assault a gay man while shopping at a grocery store.

U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, introduced articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Wednesday.