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roxanne tickle spent five years proving the law already covered her, and australia's highest court just closed the case
Kicked off a women-only app after a manual review of her selfie in 2021, Tickle won in the Federal Court in 2024, won bigger on appeal in May, and on Thursday the High Court of Australia refused the app founder...
james talarico gave away the trans kids on wednesday and ken paxton deepfaked him on thursday anyway
The Texas Democrat running for Senate told Fox News he would oppose trans athletes in girls' sports, and said no, he no longer believes there are six genders. The next day his opponent released an AI-fabricated video of a speech...
the 9/11 fund will take claims until 2090 and still cannot say whether it pays a same-sex partner
Twenty-five years on, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has paid more than $18 billion to over 77,000 people and stays open until October 1, 2090. Asked this week whether a surviving same-sex partner qualifies, the fund's spokesperson said she...
nine out of ten queer organizations on earth have lost funding, and four in ten may not survive it
Outright International surveyed 229 groups in 94 countries. 90 percent have lost, had suspended or had cut funding since January 2025. Half lost more than half their budget. Only 3 percent call themselves stable. More than half named a United...
gillian anderson asked the question out loud in 2024 and answered it herself this morning
Two years ago she wondered aloud in print whether she was pansexual or bisexual. On Thursday, promoting her new book, she gave The Australian the word: pan, as in attracted to all genders. No apology, no announcement, no rush.
nobody will be charged for the lie that took pete buttigieg's kids away for a night
In June a stranger with a documented history of hallucinations called in a child welfare complaint about Pete Buttigieg. Police and a caseworker came to the house. His four-year-old twins slept at their grandparents. An Indiana prosecutor has now decided...
Alan Cumming beat RuPaul for the hosting Emmy, and a lesbian sci-fi show took four
The Creative Arts Emmys ran September 5 and 6. Alan Cumming won Reality TV Host for The Traitors over a field including RuPaul, Pluribus took four for its lesbian-led sci-fi, and Hacks added another on the back of 24 nominations.
nick offerman sat on three years of ben shapiro and then spent it all in one sentence
Three years after Ben Shapiro reviewed The Last of Us' gay episode by counting the strawberries, Offerman got played the clip on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso and said he was embarrassed for Shapiro's reading comprehension. He also confirmed he...
riley gaines went to one wnba game and was shocked to discover lesbians
On Fox News, the woman whose entire career is defending women's sports described a Minneapolis arena full of women's basketball fans as “a bunch of disgruntled lesbians.” Jemele Hill, Brian Tyler Cohen and Martina Navratilova all noticed the same thing...
two women tortured Sam Nordquist for a month. on Tuesday both got life without parole.
Precious Arzuaga, 40, and Jennifer Quijano, 32, were both sentenced at Ontario County Court in Canandaigua on Tuesday to life in prison without parole for the first-degree murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black trans man from Minnesota. Sam's sister...
ten italian bishops sat down in the jesuit headquarters to talk about how to treat us
Italy's first national conference on pastoral work with gay and trans people ran all day on 4 September in Rome, convened by the Italian Bishops' Conference itself. Roughly 200 people, about ten bishops, and four dioceses presenting what they already...
a drag king got into the bake off tent. hours later another one got into drag race españa.
Gabe Capes, the self-described daddy of Birmingham drag, is one of 12 bakers in the Bake Off tent from 22 September. Marcus Massalami is the first full-time drag king in the entire Drag Race franchise. Both announced on the same...
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