Politics
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I Kept Hearing My Masculinity Was Under Attack by 'The Gay Agenda,' So I Went to Pride to Test This Theory
On June 11, 2016, Omar Mateen—armed with a semi-automatic assault rifle, a 9mm Glock and an insatiable disregard for human life—destroyed 49 innocent lives while causing irreparable harm and suffering to 53 others. The attack has lived on in infamy as the Orlando Nightclub Shooting, site of the deadliest act of violence carried out against…
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Nation’s Treasury Department Is Said to Be a Bastion of White Male Privilege
The Trump administration is well known to be well-stocked in rich, white males, but it turns out the Treasury Department, headed by Steve Mnuchin—himself a rich, white male—may be the richest, whitest and most male of them all. According to Politico, over the last two years, there have been “deepening tensions […] over the diversity…
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Trump Just Held Up a Folded Piece of Paper Claiming It's the Deal With Mexico
I’m a great uncle. As such, I’ve used every tactic in the uncle handbook to bribe my nieces into doing something they don’t want to do. Whom amongst us hasn’t faked like they’ve got Disney World tickets in their pockets to get the little ones to eat their Brussels sprouts? Well, President Trump was in…
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Janet Mock: Why Gender Pronouns Matter
What’s in a name? A hell of a lot when it comes to someone’s identity. Pose’s writer, director and producer Janet Mock speaks on the use of preferred gender pronouns, how they are building blocks in communication, and how they help people feel fully seen and heard. Watch the complete video above. Pose returns to…
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Philadelphia's First Openly Gay Deputy Sheriff Found Dead of Apparent Suicide
On Friday, Deputy Sheriff Dante Austin was found dead inside the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 27. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the city’s first openly gay deputy sheriff died by suicide, according to findings confirmed by the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office. Amber Kee, one of…
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Alabama Governor Signs Bill Requiring 'Chemical Castration' for Some Sex Offenders
Alabama is continuing its ascension to the weirdest state in the country, coming in a close second to Florida, as the governor signed legislation Monday that would require some sex offenders to be chemically castrated before parole. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Kay Ivey—the same governor that signed a near total abortion ban into…
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FX’s Pose Is Not Only Entertaining, But Saving Lives—One Episode at a Time
When I was a wee, young, gay whippersnapper, I didn’t have any representation of myself on television. With this lack of being seen, I instead found myself in the various black women that paraded themselves ever so elegantly across my screens. These women showed me the power of resilience and strength, but there was always…
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New Poll Shows That Black Voters Favor Former Vice President Joe Biden in 2020
A new poll has shown what we all feared—fine, maybe it’s just me—but black folks, at least the ones polled, have declared that Vice President Joe Biden is the frontrunner out of all the Destiny’s Child members that make up the Democratic nominees vying to become president. Some “seventy-six percent of African American Democrats who…
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President Trump Told Aides to Lie About Internal Polling Data That Showed Him Trailing Joe Biden
President Donald Trump is a lot like the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wiz as he too doesn’t like bad news: The difference, of course, is that the Wicked Witch of the West just didn’t want people to bring her bad news; the Wicked Witch of the White House wants his staff to…
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Rep. Steve King Trots Out Diamond and Silk in Legislative Announcement
Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican deemed so racist by his own GOP that party leaders removed him from all the House committees on which he sat, has found a new cause: championing vets and homeless people in the name of two of Donald Trump’s most favorite “blacks,” Diamond and Silk. According to the Washington…