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Hate Crimes, SCOTUS—and John Waters

November 20, 2020November 18, 2020

Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes against have increased under Trump, plus SCOTUS news, John Waters art donation, and new Andy Warhol book... >> Read More >>

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Biden Victory a Win for LGBTQ Rights

November 20, 2020November 13, 2020

Joe Biden was named winner of the 2020 election by all major TV networks, including Fox News, last Saturday after amassing 273 electoral votes... >> Read more >>

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Election Guide & Noteworthy Articles

October 21, 2020

Election guide, plus ACB’s big lie, photographs by Melissa Ianniello and Sunil Gupta, the WR 2021 calendar—and who knew glitter was bad? >> Read More >>

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Noteworthy Articles

September 23, 2020

Trump races to pack SCOTUS with anti-LGBTQ justice, Pope says gay children are “God’s children,” Schitt’s Creek sweeps Emmys, and more... >> Read More >>

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Noteworthy Articles

October 20, 2020September 16, 2020

One-fifth of queer adults in the U.S. are not registered to vote, going into the most hotly contested election in years... >> Read More >>

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Love & War podcast tells the story of gay WWI poets · Listen
Adam Gopnik on the Verlaine-Rimbaud reburial disbute · Read
Sean Connery dies at 90 · Read
Reflections on Orlando · Read
Lucian Freud biography vol. 2 by William Feaver reviewed · Read
Vintage photographs show male couples in love · View
Oscar Wilde’s Parisian exile chronicled in graphic novel · Read
On TikTok, “everyone is gay,” says New York Times · Read
Bryan Washington’s Memorial hits the bookshelves · Read
My Gay Eye #17 focuses on eroticism, body issues · View
Warwick Rowers’ 2021 calendar released! · Shop
Glitter is destroying our rivers and lakes · Read
400+ Duncan Grant homoerotic drawings rediscovered · Read
Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells RuPaul about his ancestors · Watch
James Beard’s delicious gay life, by John Birdsall · Read
Chalamet Dune release postponed until October 2021 · Read
George Takei and gays reclaim #ProudBoys hashtag · Read
Keith Haring’s art collection sells for $4.6 million · Read
James Baldwin talks about voting rights in Alabama in 1963 · Read
New Boys in the Band cast interviewed by Radio Times · Read
“Y.M.C.A.” not about gay sex, says Victor Willis · Read
Schitt’s Creek sweeps Emmys amid movie rumors · Watch · Read
Gene Kelly wasn’t gay—seriously?!? · Watch
Gore Vidal “never forgave the man who called him queer” · Read
Quentin Crisp is inimitable in Homo Heights · Watch
Speedos are “back in.” Were they ever out, though? · Read
Cher soloes West Side Story in
12 min 45 sec · Watch
Edmund White shares his pandemic reading list · Read
John Waters says gay people can’t whistle—for real? · Read
Bette Midler’s 1971 concert at the Continental Baths · Watch
Andy Warhol’s affair with John Giorno, as told by Giorno · Read

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News & Politics

Georgia runoffs will determine control of Senate · Help Out
Biden wins election, but so far Trump won’t go · Read
Transition team & cabinet to feature LGBTQs · Read · Read
Biden can take many pro-gay actions without Congress · Read
More than 220 LGBTQ candidates won office nationwide · Read
Pope didn’t endorse same-sex civil unions after all · Read
EU unveils new plan to combat homophobia & transphobia · Read
28% of LGBT voters backed Trump, up 2x since 2016 · Read
SCOTUS hears case re religious right to discriminate · Read
Nevada voters protect same-sex marriage in constitution · Read
Charles M. Blow on power of straight white patriarchy · Read
Glenn Greenwald on Buttigieg, Bolsonaro, and politics · Read
61% of U.S. Catholics support same-sex marriage · Read
100,000 celebrate Taiwan pride after 200 virus-free days · Read
State Dept. gives up fight over gay couples’ kids’ citizenship · Read
Texas won’t let social workers discriminate after all · Read
Check out the candidates’ records on gay rights · Trump · Biden
69% of U.S. LGBTQ students experience harrassment · Read
Amy Coney Barrett lies, stumbles on “sexual preference” · Read
Thomas & Alito invite challenges to marriage equality ruling · Read
“U.S. joins...dictatorships seeking to sabotage human rights” · Read
Biden & EU president condemn Polish LGBT-free zones · Read
Pope says God loves gay children “as they are” · Read
Putin orders teachers to report queer students to gov’t · Read
Federal courts pause new anti-LGBTQ health care rules · Read
Thousands march as queers flee Poland · Read 1 · Read 2
Democrats promise action on LGBTQ and race equality · Read

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