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The husband of anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Perry Greene, has filed for divorce.According to court documents, Perry Greene filed to divorce the right-wing lawmaker on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reports. The papers said that the couple’s 27-year marriage was “irretrievably broken.” They also indicated that the Greenes had already been separated.Marjorie Taylor and Perry Greene met in college.The outlet reports that Perry Greene has requested the divorce kept under seal.

The husband of anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Perry Greene, has filed for divorce.According to court documents, Perry Greene filed to divorce the right-wing lawmaker on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reports. The papers said that the couple’s 27-year marriage was “irretrievably broken.” They also indicated that the Greenes had already been separated.Marjorie Taylor and Perry Greene met in college.The outlet reports that Perry Greene has requested the divorce kept under seal.

As life seems to imitate art in an ever-increasing way, it has become a part of our collective consciousness that Missouri senator and ultra-MAGA, anti-LGBTQ+ Republican  Josh Hawley seems to have abandoned gender as a construct.In a Wednesday campaign email, the senator — who raised his fist in support of former President Donald Trump's supporters who were outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021 —  implored his supporters to respond to a survey regarding “transgender propaganda” being taught to children “as young as first graders.” A screenshot of the email shared on social media reveals the following irony.“We want to keep socialist lies OUT of the classroom, but we need your help by taking our survey,” the email continued.“Do you want to keep transgender propaganda OUT of our classrooms today?” the prompt asks.“YES — keep transgender propaganda OUT or NO — Teach young children there is more than one gender.”New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel spotted the email and drew attention to it first, tweeting, “JOSH HAWLEY wants to stop schools from teaching “transgender propaganda,” like that “there is more than one gender.” A key issue manufactured wedge issue for the Republican base this election cycle has been opposition to transgender rights, against which Hawley has been railing. During a recent speech at the National Conservatism Conference, he talked about how America is the “heir to revolutionaries of the Bible,” the St.

Reporters in Oklahoma are asking a candidate with a violent past why he refuses to reply to their questions about comments he made years ago suggesting gay people should be executed. Today, Republican Scott Esk faces fellow Republican Gloria Banister in a runoff for a state house seat.Esk, 56, according to LGBTQ Nation, is being confronted by the local press about his previous comments, and, "He's not handling them well."Esk said in a video he disseminated online on Sunday to "set the record straight" for the third time that reports of his views were manufactured to make him appear in a bad light, calling them "hit pieces."As a result of a local news station reporting on his old comments, he responded in a YouTube video on July 15. He said that he believes his stance on homosexuality makes him a "Christian.""I've stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future, and I am right now.

A congresswoman and several of her staff members have died in an accident on a state highway in Indiana.Rep. Jackie Walorski and two staff members were killed in a car crash Wednesday afternoon, said local authorities in Elkhart County, Ind.“It is with a heavy heart that I am sharing this statement from the Office of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in an announcement on Twitter.“Dean Swihart, Jackie’s husband, was just informed by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office that Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon.

voting no on marriage equality three days before? I keep reading the previous sentence over and over, and I still can’t come to grips with what Thompson did. But I have a couple of ideas about why he did what he did and how he'll end up a loser professionally and personally.You don’t have to have experience in politics to understand what Thompson tried to do.

One of two leading Democratic candidates, in a field of 11, vying for the position to replace retiring Missouri U.S. Sen.

After it was announced that two children in the U.S. have contracted monkeypox, GOP Rep.

Editor's Note: The following article references transphobic material, including tweets deadnaming transgender people. In the story below, the reporter describes tweets without quoting them verbatim because The Advocate does not deadname anyone.

A controversial appointee to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Board is out of the position before even beginning.

Missouri activist Justice Horn, who is running for the Jackson County Legislature, said that one of his campaign banners had been defaced with a homophobic slur. Justice Horn, an openly gay former NCAA wrestler, found the banner spray-painted with "fag" in capital letters on Sunday.That evening, he tweeted, "Today, I learned that my campaign banner was defaced with a homophobic slur here in Kansas City. "I'll admit, this one hurt because like so many us of who experience this, this word is used to harm us. Either way, I'm not going to back down, and I'm going to hold my head high." Although Horn did not file a police report, he believes the incident was a hate crime."I don't know how much more blatantly that this was a hate crime," Horn told the Kansas City Star in an interview on Monday.

Florida’s first Black nominee for governor when he ran against Republican Ron DeSantis in 2018. DeSantis won.

The Guardian. The captains regent are the country’s highest elected officials and serve six-month terms.

confirmation wouldn’t come until late December. Gifford had been waiting for 10 months.

When he became the GOP leader in the 1980s, he said, “I don’t wait for the consensus. I try to help build it.” He was not only successful in working with the very liberal Sen.

posted on Facebook.Rasmussen was a self-described “gender anarchist” who used both he/him and she/her pronouns. Assigned male at birth, he served two terms pre-transition, beginning in 1988, as mayor of Silverton, a town of about 10,000 in western Oregon, near the state’s capital city, Salem.

have won reelection — transgender woman Danica Roem, the longest-serving trans elected official in the U.S.; gay man Mark Sickles; and lesbian Dawn Adams. Adams’s race had been undecided Tuesday night, but she was declared the winner Wednesday.

The Observer, a Notre Dame student newspaper. They also noted that a fried chicken restaurant wouldn’t add to the diversity of campus dining options or serve the needs of vegetarians and vegans.They encouraged readers to sign their open letter opposing Chick-fil-A, which is among several restaurants Notre Dame Campus Dining is considering.

Education Week article. And it’s not clear how much K-12 educators are drawing on it, as “much scholarship on CRT is written in academic language or published in journals not easily accessible to K-12 teachers,” the article notes.Greene also uses the opportunity to condemn LGBTQ-inclusive sexuality education and LGBTQ-inclusive curricula in general.

in an op-ed for the Charleston Gazette-Mail, his hometown West Virginia paper, that he would not support House Resolution 1: For the People Act, a sweeping and desperately needed voting rights bill passed by the House earlier this year. Manchin also said he would not get rid of the filibuster to help pass HR 1, or any other legislation, including the Equality Act, which he opposes.This, as his own state legislature in April overwhelmingly passed a law that severely restricts voting options for the state’s residents.

Cuomo Prime Time program, but the arch-conservative didn't apologize for his attack on Native Americans, instead saying the comments were taken "out of context." That sealed his fate, according to a report in HuffPost, which said executives terminated his contract this week.“I think after that appearance, it was pretty clear we couldn’t use him again,” an anonymous CNN executive told HuffPost on Saturday.Many were bewildered that CNN even hired Santorum in the first place, since the former politician built a career demonizing LGBTQ+ people.

experienced antigay blowback). Five years later, he ran successfully for the Arizona House of Representatives, besting a Republican incumbent.

CNBC reports.Pence, 61, needed his heart regulated because of "symptoms associated with slow heart rate." The surgery was performed at a Virginia hospital; Pence will be out of commission for a few days but is expected to fully recover. The onetime governor of Indiana released a statement thanking the staff at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus and the consultation of his Indiana doctors.Even though Pence is despised by most Democrats, partly because of his history of demonizing and targeting LGBTQ+ people, many of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters can't stand him either.

Jordan said. "What metrics, what measures, what has to happen before Americans get more freedoms back?""You're indicating liberty and freedom.

Hawaii State Representative Adrian Tam. At a mere 28 years old, Tam was elected in November to his first term.

The New York Times that revealed Gaetz was being investigated for having a relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and illegally crossing state lines with her. That only elicited a shake of the head.

Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara of Asheville will challenge far-right hatemonger Madison Cawthorn for his 11th District congressional seat.“Some people will say a gay woman who’s a Christian minister just can’t get elected in the South,” Beach-Ferrara said in a campaign video.

made history in November as the first out LGBTQ+ Iranian-American elected to public office in the U.S. Now, as a member of the West Hollywood City Council, where she’s also the first queer woman of color to serve, she’s fighting for social justice and inclusivity as well as changing the narrative around Iranians and Iranian-Americans.Shyne, sworn in as a council member in December, has already spurred the council to create a social justice task force to address social and racial inequalities.

written about his use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to avoid contracting HIV.He has not shied away from controversy. He once posted a photo of him giving Mike Pence the middle finger at a protest where Sims and others were voicing opposition to the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families.

Washington Examiner, “Rep. Gaetz can leave his beauty bag at home.

wrote on Facebook New Year’s Day. “I don’t have all of the details till the autopsy comes back.

International Business Times, the New York Daily News, PinkNews, and others. Gražulis is known for his anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and failed attempts to ban Pride parades, and he’s even been arrested protesting at one.After the meeting — it was livestreamed on YouTube, and video of it remains online — Gražulis received numerous questions about the man’s identity.

caught at a gay orgy was planning a sex party of his own, according to the man who hosted the original event.József Szájer, a Hungarian representative in the European Parliament, was one of about 25 men who attended the party last Friday at the apartment of David Manzheley in Brussels, Belgium. The party was broken up by police for violating restrictions on the size of gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.Now Manzheley has told Polish publication Onet that Szájer was planning to host a gay sex party December 12 but decided to cancel it after being fined for violating the pandemic rules.

Michele Bachmann, who worked tirelessly to attack LGBTQ+ Americans while in office, recorded a video where she prayed to God to use his "iron rod" and "smash the clay iron of deceipt in America."In the video, shared on Twitter by Right Wing Watch, Bachmann's eyes are closed as she leads the "prayer." The former Minneapolis-area politician rails against President-elect Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking God to smash the "clay pot of deceipt.""Smash the delusion father of Joe Biden as our president. He is not.

The Handmaid’s Tale and Mad Men fame will play bisexual former Congresswoman Katie Hill in a film adapted from Hill’s recent memoir, She Will Rise: Becoming a Warrior in the Battle for True Equality.Hill was elected to the U.S. House from a Southern California district in 2018 as an out bi candidate, defeating an anti-LGBTQ+ incumbent and flipping the seat from Republican to Democratic.

out bi woman and won, defeating anti-LGBTQ+ Republican incumbent Steve Knight in California’s 25th Congressional District and flipping the seat from red to blue. She was considered an up-and-comer in the House, working closely with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders.But she ended up resigning in October 2019 after a right-wing blog published a nude photo of her and allegations of relationships with a female campaign staffer (in a “throuple” arrangement involving Hill’s husband) and, separately, with a male House aide.

press release puts it, “a biological male” — to participate in women’s sports.Specifically, Loeffler’s bill would hold the school in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law banning sex discrimination in any education program, including sports, that receives federal funds. Schools that violate Title IX are in danger of losing those funds.Right now the Department of Education is considering stripping federal funds from several Connecticut school districts that let trans girls participate in girls’ sports.

From left: Alison Schumer, Elizabeth Weiland, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerU.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed grave concern over the future of his daughter Alison Schumer’s marriage to Elizabeth Weiland considering the shortlist of anti-LGBTQ+ Supreme Court nominees Donald Trump is considering to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.The New York senator was celebrating Rosh Hashanah with his family when they heard the news of Ginsburg’s death, according to the New York Daily News.His daughter and daughter-in-law, who wed in 2018, were immediately concerned for their future as a married couple.

Tamron Hall Show on Monday.“I don’t identify as gay,” Gillum said, “but I do identify as bisexual. And that is something I have never shared publicly before.”In the interview with Hall, Gillum also addressed a high-profile incident last March, in which Gillum was found nude and drunk while an associate, Travis Dyson, was being treated for an apparent drug overdose at a hotel in Miami Beach.Gillum's wife, R.

press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia.Brown is accused of making false statements about his income and assets when applying to Signature Bank for a loan in 2017.

asked the nation's Constitutional Court to annul it, the measure lit a fire under LGBTQ+ Romanians. Undoubtedly, it inspired Lerca to rise up.“I’d had enough of rich white privileged men making decisions for vulnerable communities in Romania, like the Roma community, transgender community, and sex worker community — the three communities I am part of,” she said to Pink News.

The Bay Area Reporter. He passed at the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.Britt's death was confirmed Wednesday by former San Francisco supervisor and state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones are poised to become the first openly gay Black members of either house of Congress.Both won their Democratic primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives in heavily blue New York districts Tuesday, with Torres defeating notorious homophobe Rubén Díaz Sr., so both are likely winners in the November general election.

Adam Eli, who lives in the 10th Congressional District, spoke with Herzog ahead of Tuesday's election. Eli: I want to talk specifically about trans women and trans people of color. What is your plan to ensure not just that they are safe, but that they also have the opportunities they deserve to thrive in our district and the country? I’ve been in the streets a lot lately, and as you know, we are out here demanding police and criminal justice reforms. What concrete actions would you take to stop

This fall, Indiana could elect its first out LGBTQ+ member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Congressman Steve King of Iowa, known for his long history of horrific racist, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-immigrant comments, has been defeated in the Republican primary.

A new ad opposing the reelection of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina uses his own words against him, noting that he’s gone from calling Donald Trump a “kook” and a “bigot” to deeming him “a damn good president.”