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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast Holy War The GOP’s Anti-LGBT, Anti-Women ‘Religious Freedom’ Law on Steroids The First Amendment Defense Act would allow hospitals, governments, universities, and businesses to ignore same-sex marriage, deny women health care, and fire gay people. The First Amendment Defense Act is the nuclear version of the so-called “religious…
LGBT people have been freaking out about Donald Trump. Many are hurrying to plan weddings before Inauguration Day, afraid the president-elect will overturn marriage equality immediately. courtenay and I are considering getting married before January and trump tries to take it away. Y’all want an invite, let me know. 🙆🏻 — SuperSarah🏳️🌈 (@its_supersarah) ID: 9970321…
Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…
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.entry-header It should come as no surprise that reliance on canon creates an orthodoxy which harms and marginalizes perfectly valid queer readings. – Emma Houxbois, Comicosity (née The Rainbow Hub) The power of stories like these, whether it’s a deep and personal tale wrought with emotion, or some fun and flirty fan art, cannot be…
In March, North Carolina state legislators banned transgender people from peeing in the bathroom of their choosing. According to the law, HB2 or the “bathroom bill,” when you’re in public building—a government agency, a public school, whatever—the gender listed on your birth certificate is the only one that matters. You remember the initial hubbub: North…
Someone recently asked me if I had done theater in high school, to which I replied, “Oh yeah, I was acting 24/7 back then.” Actually, I played sports: soccer, basketball, and track. I came from an athletic family, so that wasn’t a surprise. When we are growing up, trans people like me learn early on…
These stories do not reflect my life, nor the lives of most of the queer women I know. But life has a frightening tendency to imitate art. The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported that 2015 had the highest levels of violence against the L.G.B.T. community since 2011, the most frequent victims being transgender women…
Athletes (not featured in the Daily Beast article) at the Olympics.Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose. The entire piece is an astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting,…
Ahem. Let’s look at the Washington Post, so we can learn a really great #SlatePitch from a writer called Jeff Guo, about how Donald Trump doesn’t hate gays, but is rather doing the yeoman’s work of teaching the GOP how to love them in their own way: … Trump has refrained from launching barbs at one particular…