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** Ron DeSantis humiliated as appeals court rules against his drag ban ([link removed])
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Courts just keep blocking his drag ban despite his repeated efforts.
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** How Laura M. Esquivel helped defeat the constitutional same-sex marriage ban ([link removed])
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"La madre of the Latino LGBT Movement" was no stranger to activism by the time she began lobbying Latino lawmakers on marriage equality.
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** Wisconsin Republicans advance trans sports & gender-affirming care bans ([link removed])
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Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vowed to veto the bills.
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** LGBTQ+ history didn’t start with Stonewall: Connecting with my queer Latin American roots ([link removed])
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LGBTQ+ history is too often remembered through the lens of the gay white man. I mistakenly grew up believing he represented me as well.
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** Anti-LGBTQ+ troll Matt Walsh says the lack of gay babies is proof you can’t be born gay ([link removed])
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He used this argument as evidence that conversion therapy works.
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** How Walter Mercado went from TV actor to a flamboyantly world-famous psychic ([link removed])
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It all started with what was supposed to be a poetry reading.
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** This makeup artist has the most horrific Halloween transformations ([link removed])
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Michael Chezzi is the master of mascara - and monsters.
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** Ron DeSantis tried to make a Florida college conservative. Now the students are fleeing. ([link removed])
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The school lost a large percentage of its faculty this year after DeSantis's "hostile takeover" of the school.
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** LGBTQ+ youth center vandalized with paint & slurs three nights in a row ([link removed])
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The leader of the org. said the acts were clearly meant to make LGBTQ+ youth feel unwelcome.
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** Book banning fever breaks in town torn apart by conservative Christians’ opposition to LGBTQ+ books ([link removed])
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Residents and staff on both sides of the issue are exhausted, and free speech, for the most part, has prevailed.
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