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Thousands of LGBTQ+ people & allies celebrate Virginia PrideFest — with Gov. Abigail Spanberger among them
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (432+ words) After four years of attacks under Glenn Youngkin, LGBTQ+ Virginians once again have a governor willing to stand beside them....
LGBTQ+ middle schoolers took a conservative Virginia school board to court to protect their rights — and won
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (1253+ words) King George County changed the rules after students tried to establish a GSA. Now it has changed them back, weeks before the dispute was headed to trial....
A First Nation is making itself a safe haven from Alberta’s trans youth care ban
1+ day, 11+ min ago (267+ words) The Saddle Lake Cree Nation is standing up against the Canadian Province of Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban by positioning itself as a safe haven for transgender people seeking medical care....
I fled Lower Manhattan on 9/11. The memory still haunts me
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (434+ words) Opinion: Twenty-five years later, columnist Josh Ackley still can't watch TV on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The Tribute in Light art installation is illuminated over Lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 10, 2026, on the night before…...
Trump’s wild GOP convention speech was a ratings failure
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (551+ words) Apparently TV viewers were not into watching Trump pledge allegiance to himself or doom non-voters “to hell.” President Trump's speech at the GOP National Convention tanked ratings on FOX News and drew criticism from fellow Republicans. A GoFundMe has been…...
Trump’s funding cuts spell disaster for global LGBTQ+ groups, many ‘may not survive the coming year’
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (792+ words) Outright International surveyed hundreds of organizations around the world and found many on the brink of closure. HIV activists protest to demand that the Trump administration and Congress fully restore PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) programming in the…...
The first recorded victim of 9/11 was a gay Catholic priest
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1709+ words) Father Mychal Judge served firefighters, AIDS patients, homeless people, and LGBTQ+ Catholics before walking into the North Tower on September 11, 2001. A poster of the Rev. Mychal Judge, New York's Fire Department chaplain, is part of a memorial to victims of…...
A coming out, the ‘Falling Man’, and 25 years of loneliness since 9/11
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1280+ words) Even when grief is shared by an entire city, each person must carry it alone, writes John Casey. Shocked crowds of downtown Manhattanites observe the burning World Trade Center towers in New York City early September 11, 2001. Apparently TV viewers were…...
Advocate NL 9/11/26
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (343+ words) Father Mychal Judge, the beloved Franciscan chaplain of the New York City Fire Department, was designated Victim No. 1 of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He was not the first of the nearly 3,000 people killed that morning, Christopher Wiggins writes. His was the…...