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a federal agency opened a deported man's asylum file and posted "fake & gay!" about it. the official account. of the government. On Oct. 26, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's official X account posted "Fake & Gay!" about Moussa Diawara, a deported Houston father profiled by 60 Minutes, after DHS general counsel James Percival said he had "pulled his file" and... october 27 a republican governor and the democrat who took his job in 1998 just made a buddy ad for annie andrews. i would watch the sitcom. On Oct. 26, 2026, former South Carolina governors David Beasley, a Republican, and Jim Hodges, a Democrat, endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews for the U.S. Senate in a one-minute video posted by her campaign. Andrews faces Republican Sen. Darline Graham, whom... october 27 coming to atlanta? here are the 11 gay bars to know, and the oldest has been on peachtree since 1978 Atlanta has 11 gay bars we could confirm open in October 2026. Four are in Midtown: Blake's on the Park, Bulldogs, open on Peachtree since 1978, X Midtown and the lesbian bar My Sister's Room. Four are north in Ansley... october 27 washington might make every girl athlete get her sex verified to catch a handful of trans kids. be so for real. Washington's Initiative 638, on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot, would bar transgender girls from girls' school sports and require a healthcare provider to verify each student's biological sex. Colorado votes on a similar ban the same day; AP says it... october 26 a trans woman was shot in a chicago alley in 2018. eight years later, a jury acquitted the only man ever charged. her mom is still waiting. A Cook County jury on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 found Tremon Hill, 25, not guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 30, 2018 shooting death of Dejanay Stanton, a 24-year-old Black transgender woman, in an alley in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood,... october 26 a trans teenager was shot in belle glade in july and almost nobody wrote it down. two people are now charged. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Elijah McClorin III and Tomiah Duhart on Oct. 22, 2026, in the July 5 shooting death of Jayla McGee, a 19-year-old transgender woman, in Belle Glade, Florida. McClorin is charged with first-degree murder... october 26 the bbc digitally scrubbed pride pins off a university challenge contestant. starter for ten: why? Two University of Leicester students, Samuel Carlier and Emmeline Hague-Wright, told the Leicester Gazette that the BBC digitally removed their LGBTQ+ Pride pins and a rainbow feather from their University Challenge episode, which aired on BBC Two on Sept. 7,... october 26 a gay man drove to a missouri park to meet his date. police say his date said "i actually hate gay people" and four men came out of the bushes. Abdulwareth A. Alahmad, 18, of Ellisville, Missouri, is charged with first-degree assault and first-degree property damage motivated by discrimination after police say he lured a gay man to Bluebird Park through a dating site on Oct. 21, 2026, where four... october 26 a republican attacked this iowa democrat over "sex changes" in june. now he's running on the same two words. sir. Josh Turek, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a 30-second ad on Oct. 24, 2026 saying he opposes "males competing in female sports" and is "against taxpayers paying for sex changes too." In June, PolitiFact rated False... october 26 the internet's most famous lesbian bar raised $21,600 in a month. it's closing anyway. i need to lie down. Last Ditch, the lesbian bar and arts venue at 10 Fiske Ave. in Greenfield, Massachusetts that went viral in September over a mask-optional night, announced on Oct. 26, 2026 that it is soft-closing and will close this winter unless someone... october 26 a republican ad used ai to put a real drag queen at a barn dance with a democrat. she has never met him, or been to a barn dance. iconic. A TV ad for Republican Jennifer Balkcom in North Carolina's 11th congressional district, paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee, uses AI-generated footage to show Democrat Jamie Ager dancing with drag queens in a barn. Asheville drag queen Nova,... october 26 the selling sunset star and g flip are over after four years. she filmed it instead of writing it. nobody talk to me. Chrishell Stause, the former Selling Sunset star, and her spouse, the Australian musician G Flip, announced on Instagram on Oct. 26, 2026 that they have separated after more than four years together. Stause posted a tearful video; G Flip posted... october 26