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Who led the original push for the now-repealed transgender military ban? Suspects include a Congressman, a Vice President, the head of a hate group, and the wife of a Supreme Court justice. It was July 26, 2017. Three and a half years ago, almost to the day, when President Donald Trump shocked the nation with a series of tweets that seemed to...
The Biden Executive Order allows "all qualified persons to serve in the military." President Joe Biden has just signed an executive order reversing President Trump’s total ban on transgender service members. The order “sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States should be able to serve....
President Joe Biden has nominated Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine to become the Assistant Secretary of Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, which will make her the first openly trans presidential cabinet official in United States history. Incoming President Joe Biden will officially nominate Pennsylvania Secretary...
Just in case you didn't already know what kind of people the "straight pride parade" organizers were, it's now come out that they chartered multiple buses to bring hundreds of people to last week's riot at the Capitol. A Massachusetts woman who is a director of the anti-LGBTQ Super Happy Fun America, known for its “Straight Pride” march in...
In this month's Amazon Trail, Lee Lynch explains that the right-wing insurrection we're dealing with now in the United States is nothing new. Oh, hell, what can I say at a time like this? Did we think they’d simply go away? When angry white criminals occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon back on January 2, 2016 and the seven...
At the end of a long, extremely difficult year, Lee Lynch tries to find the silver linings to the many clouds that hung over us all in 2020. The year 2020 wasn’t a total bust, except for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who should not have died or have been permanently harmed by COVID-19. In the U.S., many lay those deaths and disablements...
For many QTPOC and BIPOC folks, there hasn’t been a space that genuinely meets their needs and priorities. The Collab Spot, a social justice-focused Black-centric community hub is opening its doors at the beginning of next year, hoping to change that. The Collab Spot, a coworking space run by and dedicated to queer Black individuals, is expected...
The school is out front with its anti-LGBTQ politics, yet that didn't stop Trump's administration from offering them nearly three-quarters of a million dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program. The Immanuel Christian private school in Springfield, Virginia bans LGBTQ teachers and students because “homosexual acts and lifestyles are clearly...
A lot of shrill voices on the right can't handle the fact that Donald Trump lost the presidential election; if you ask anti-LGBTQ preacher Franklin Graham, Trump's loss should be blamed on the LGBTQ community. Franklin Graham unleashed a vitriolic attack against “sinful,” and “extremely dangerous” LGBTQ Democratic voters over the weekend,...
