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jason collins signed his will a month after the diagnosis, and left part of it to the kids
Court documents obtained by TMZ Sports show the late NBA center left more than $1.8 million to his parents, his twin brother, a cousin, an aunt, his husband William Brunson Green, and two organizations that work with LGBTQ students. He...
jon husted's political director spent 2018 dressed as an ss soldier, and the firing came the hour a reporter called
The Washington Post found that Stephen Woytek, 25, hired in August as political director of Sen. Jon Husted's Ohio reelection campaign, used a photo of Leibstandarte SS soldiers as his Facebook profile picture and built a public playlist of Rhodesia...
five months in, hungary's new government named the first orbán law it will undo, and it's the gay adoption one
Prime Minister Péter Magyar said Saturday that Hungary will scrap the 2020 rule that let a cabinet minister personally approve or deny every single-person adoption, the mechanism that quietly ended gay adoption in Hungary. It is the first piece of...
580 boxes went to trans ohioans this year, from a nonprofit two people started with $500
Ohio banned gender-affirming care for trans youth in 2024 and the clinics stopped. The Queer Trans Project, run out of Jacksonville, Florida, shipped more than 580 free customized kits into the state this year. People there found it on their...
a christian fund with $5.4 billion asked nike's shareholders to come for trans healthcare and got under one percent
Inspire Investing has lined up the Southern Baptists, the state of Nebraska and more than $100 billion to pressure 242 employers over gender-transition coverage. At Nike's annual meeting on September 8 their proposal failed with less than one percent of...
a denver judge closed the courtroom so colorado's doctors could testify without their names on it
Children's Hospital Colorado is on trial for contempt because it still is not providing the care the state Supreme Court ordered it to provide in May. On Thursday its lawyers revealed a second federal investigation, and the judge cleared the...
grindr is paying 26 million pounds over the hiv status it handed to advertisers
Norwegian researchers found it in 2018: HIV status and date last tested, going out of the app to two analytics firms. Grindr has now settled the British group claim for 26 million pounds, with no admission of liability and a...
the bbc cancelled drag race uk while season eight was still airing on iplayer
New episodes are still going out every Thursday. On Wednesday the BBC said this season is the last it will make, citing significant financial pressures. A day later World of Wonder confirmed the show lives, as the first ever UK...
trump told a half-empty arena in dallas that we are one of his great sound bites
On Wednesday night in Dallas the president explained his own trick out loud: he saves the trans attacks for about a week before an election, and he is only going early this time because he is worried Democrats might move....
lilly wachowski said harry potter money is trans genocide money, and rowling's agent answered within hours
Asked about HBO's Harry Potter series, the woman who made The Matrix called it funding for her own eradication. By that evening J.K. Rowling's agent had a statement out calling the accusation fabricated and defamatory. The show premieres in December.
a cree nation read its 1876 treaty, found a medicine chest in it, and told alberta no
Alberta bans puberty blockers and hormones for trans kids under 16 and used the notwithstanding clause to keep courts away from it. Saddle Lake Cree Nation says Treaty 6 promised its people a medicine chest, that gender-affirming care is in...
connecticut children's signed away a decade of trans care, and the fine was $60,000
The hospital's deal with the Trump administration was announced in August with no terms attached. Connecticut lawmakers threatened a subpoena, got the documents, and handed them to a reporter. Ten years. Sixty thousand dollars. And a clause that lets the...
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