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Alaska

Alaska isn’t thrilled with the 2024 presidential candidates | #alaska | #politics

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 is not pleased with the 2024 presidential candidates. For now, it looks like this year’s election will be a repeat of 2020 as President Joe Biden faces off against likely Republican candidate former President Donald Trump. As an outspoken drag performer and member of the LGBTQ+ community, Alaska […]

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Mayor

You’re RACIST, Mayor Wu! A ‘No Whites’ party is against everything my heroic white grandmother and black grandfather fought for. How dare you drag us back to segregation

Eli Steele is a documentary filmmaker and writer.    When I learned that Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu hosted a racially segregated holiday party for the city council’s ‘Electeds of Color,’ I wondered: would I have been invited? After all, my father is black, but my skin looks white. The ‘no whites’ gathering was exposed this […]

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Alabama

Republicans advance bills targeting transgender care and drag shows at contentious first hearings | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Blaise GaineyWPLN News Advocates for LGBTQ rights fill a committee room during a bill hearing on a bill preventing gender-affirming care for minors. Two bills opposed by LGBTQ advocates are already advancing in the state legislature in the early days of session. One prevents minors from being at drag shows, and the other would stop […]

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Arkansas

Arkansas Senate Approves Bill Classifying Drag Performances as Adult Entertainment

The Arkansas Senate voted on Jan. 24 to approve legislation that would classify drag performances as an “adult-oriented business” in the same way as strip clubs and escort services. Senate Bill 43 (pdf), sponsored by Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield and state Rep. Mary Bentley, would ban drag performances from being carried out on public property that are “intended […]

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