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28 Queer-Owned Alcohol Brands to Drink Year-Round (Not Just in June)
28 queer- and LGBTQ+-owned spirits, wines, beers, canned cocktails and zero-proof brands, with who's behind each one.
The Best of Gay Twitter This Week (Vol. 49)
the funniest gay tweets of the week, vol. 49.
Bulgaria's top court just told the government to recognize trans people
Three years ago the same court effectively banned name and gender changes. Now it says the constitution never did, and EU law requires a procedure.
Trixie Mattel says she and Frankie Grande shared Barry Keoghan. She was the rat boy.
A joke on I Like to Watch became the funniest sentence of the week and a perfect summary of rat boy summer. Nobody is checking with Barry.
Miley went to the leather bar and brought a camera crew
The Bass Persuades video is a dark room full of Muir caps and men in leather pants, directed by the man who did Jeremy Allen White's Calvins. She knows exactly who she is singing to.
she refused to hide the gay books. Arkansas owes her $275,000.
Saline County fired Patty Hector in 2023 for saying LGBTQ picture books belong in the children's section. The ACLU sued. The county just paid.
San Diego finally deleted its 1988 bathhouse law
A staffer found it while reading the municipal code. The council killed it unanimously. Thirty-eight years is a long time to leave the panic on the books.
Switzerland just said it out loud: ban conversion therapy nationwide
The Federal Council's own report calls the practice harmful and the cantonal patchwork not good enough. Parliament has said no before. The pressure just moved.
Seth Moulton threw trans kids under the bus. Massachusetts ran him over by 30 points.
Ed Markey, 80, wore the flag and won the primary going away. The anti-trans pivot did not just fail. It got a number attached to it.
Gloria Steinem showed up for us in 1977 and never left
The Ms. co-founder died at home in Manhattan on Wednesday at 92. She flew to Miami to fight Anita Bryant when it cost something to do so.
a judge told the DOJ it cannot make California ban trans girls from sports
The Justice Department wanted to hold $44 billion in school funding hostage. Judge Cynthia Valenzuela threw the case out, with prejudice.
Hegseth's High-T rules lasted less than a day
The Pentagon published the clinical guidance for its testosterone-testing program on Wednesday and yanked it on Thursday. Trans troops are still being cut off from theirs.
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