Extra! Extra!: A Socially Distant Democracy
This week’s Extra! Extra! considers the shocking indictment against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and what democratic action looks like during social distancing.
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Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People
In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.
Trump Administration Continues to Decimate Asylum Process, Putting LGBTQ Migrants at Risk
A new executive order from Trump changes the rules for how someone has to have entered the US to apply for asylum, leaving many immigrants — including LGBT migrants seeking asylum — in dangerous limbo.
“Trans People Don’t Exist” Added to Trump Admin’s Anti-Reality Agenda
This morning, the New York Times broke the story that the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration is “[considering] defining transgender out of existence.”
You Need Help: Your Christian Family Loves Trump’s Debauchery, Hates Your Gayness
Jesus doesn’t have anything to say about gay people, but he has PLENTY to say about the kinds of religious leaders who support a man like Donald Trump.
Billionaire Oil Baron Tillerson Is Out as Secretary of State, Anti-Gay “Traditional Families” Fanboy Mike Pompeo Is In
In a stunning clinic on how to make a major state decision with global implications with less gravitas and forethought than the finale of The Bachelor, Trump announced yesterday via Twitter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was being fired and replaced by Mike Pompeo, who has a concerning anti-LGBT record and sounds a lot like Mike Pence!
GLAAD Survey Finds Straight People Fine with “Equal Rights” in 2018, Not So Much Actual LGBT People
The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum abruptly stopped and swung in the opposite direction.”
Also.Also.Also: You’re Making Straight People Uncomfortable Again :(
You make straights more uncomfortable now, the ‘daddy stitch is real, giving birth while nonbinary, Carrie Brownstein, lesbians in politics, queers in the Olympics, LGBTQ lawyers have gotta spread out, and so much more for you to read!
Also.Also.Also: Oh Wow This Trump Judicial Nominee Is a Real Piece of Work and Other Stories for Your Whole Life
They’re coming for your legal weed, American homophobia, Cuba’s LGBT revolution, growing up gay in the 1960s, Puerto Rico’s mental health crisis, that Coachella guy is still shitty, and so much more!
Also.Also.Also: Entire HIV/AIDS Council Has Been Fired and Other Stories for Lord Please Make It Stop
Look up, Inca knots, criminalized poverty in the US, Erica Garner, trans and NB fitness trainers neat!, and other stories for your last AAA of 2017!
Top 7 Melania Trump Body Double Costumes on Amazon
First Amazon made a Bob’s Burger’s “Supportive Burger Wife” costume, now they’re cashing in on Melania Trump’s body double!
F*cking Hell, Trump Just Signed a Memo Enacting Trans Military Ban
Today Trump signed an official directive that prohibits transgender people from joining the military, and additionally gives Defense Secretary Mattis a great deal of latitude in terms of deciding the fate of transgender people already enlisted.
Also.Also.Also: Trump’s Trans Military Ban Is Now a ‘Guidance Policy’ and Other Stories You Can’t Miss
Climate change is a workplace hazard, female action heroes, disabled LGBTQ clubbers feel left out, Bulleit has more to say, on being matronly, out-of-body experiences, and so much more!
Trump’s White House Turns Its Laser Focus to Solving “Reverse Racism” in Higher Ed
In the middle of a truly banner week for the White House, it seems one of their priorities is… opposing affirmative action programs at universities.
Also.Also.Also: Pretty Uneventful Week, Not Much Going On.
Scaramucci is more unhinged than you thought, Chelsea Manning has words for Trump, BGD is ending, Vivek Shraya and DeAnne Smith in conversation, Trump is just what in the entire fuck, Hillary’s new book, Zoë Quinn, sinister Peter Pan, 4-H, and so much more! Seriously there’s too much in here.
The Babadook or Cuca: More Internet Haikus
here’s a fun idea
mass text your tinder matches
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27 Things That Exude More Positive Energy Than Hope Hicks Thinks Donald Trump Does
“President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him.” ??!!!
Steal Their Looks: The Donald Trump Administration
Not only are they serving up our wholesale demise, they’re serving looks.
Five Lessons Today’s Queer Activists Can Learn From ACT UP
Five lessons that start to explore just how much we can learn from our queer and trans forebears in AIDS activism.
Nationalism Plus States’ Rights Are a Nightmare for Queer People
Maybe the reason Trump wants to pretend nobody has studied the Civil War is because he knows even a cursory look at history will expose his tricks.