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LGBTQ+ community during Donald Trump's second term, if he is reelected in November.The 900-page document, produced by the Conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, was designed as a road map for a conversative president. It proposes an overhaul of the federal government and includes a plan to fire government workers.Experts have highlighted a wide range of policies in the project that would affect LGBTQ+ individuals.Trump has attempted to distance himself from the project, writing on social media in July, "I know nothing about Project 2025." Earlier this month, he repeated his statement on Lex Fridman's podcast, adding that he "purposefully" hadn't read it.A spokesperson for Project 2025 did not respond to a request for comment for this article.If implemented, Project 2025 would dismantle antidiscrimination protections by removing terms such as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" from federal laws, allowing for legal discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals.It also seeks to restrict the Supreme Court's decision in Bostock vs. Clayton County, which extended workplace protections to LGBTQ+ employees.The plan further seeks to block access to health care for transgender individuals, particularly through Medicare and Medicaid, and it would reinstate the ban on transgender people serving in the military.

If the straight boys are exploring a softer masculinity, queer fashion is embracing kinky leathers.

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Created by LGBTQ+ therapists, the app Voda has just launched Trans Library, the world’s largest free mental health resource offering support to trans folks. The Trans Library includes 52 self-led mental health programmes, covering topics ranging from coping with gender dysphoria, misgendering, social media abuse and medical stigma.

Many comic book geeks are super excited about the new Disney+ series Agatha All Along for a variety of reasons. For me, it is mainly due to the speculation around who exactly Heartstopper’s Joe Locke is playing.

Donald Trump wins the election in November, he may get to choose the heads of several big federal health agencies. These could include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).RFK Jr. suspended his long-shot campaign for the Presidency in August.

The D.C.-based LGBTQ youth services organization SMYAL was founded in 1984.

report from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.Additionally, no openly transgender or nonbinary judge has ever been nominated, let alone confirmed, to the federal bench. An openly LGBTQ person has never served on nine of the 13 federal circuit courts, or on 77 of the country’s 94 federal district courts.An openly LGBTQ person has also never served as a lifetime district court judge in 39 states — or within the borders of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction extends to the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.“Having more judges, including openly LGBTQ judges, who come from all of our communities helps to build more trust in the judiciary and brings vitally important perspectives into our justice system,” Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement.“As LGBTQ rights are being subject to litigation across the country, it is increasingly clear that we need judges at all levels of the judiciary who understand what’s at stake.

Project 2025.More than 92% of LGBTQ adults have heard about Project 2025.