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who supports a ban on trans athletes competing in women’s sports… Our Black president was half White and our Black vice president is half Asian.” “My point is look, you’re still building your politics around slicing and dicing people into these fixed categories. Democrats need to get the memo that you can’t win elections anymore by automatically assuming you’re going to get every voter who’s not these guys,” Maher said while showing a photo of White men in suits from the 1950s.

2 Live Crew rapper Luther Campbell is planning to run for Congress to rep his home state of Florida — accompanied by a flashy documentary film to chronicle his challenge to the Washington establishment, The Post can confirm.Campbell, 63, the frontman of the hip-hop legends whose 1989 album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” was the center of a landmark obscenity case, told Page Six last week that he was plotting a run for federal office.“I’m gonna make an announcement in a couple of weeks,” he said. “I think I have a great chance of winning.”Campbell, also known as “Uncle Luke,” officially launched a political committee in January to explore unseating incumbent Rep.

Editor’s Note: This in-depth interview with David Mixner, who passed away on Monday, March 11, 2024, at the age of 77, originally appeared in the issue of July 29, 2004. Photography by Todd Franson.“You want a soundbite?”David Mixner grins.“I’ll give you a soundbite. I’m a man who’s devoted forty years of his life — sometimes at great validation and sometimes at great pain — to the struggle for freedom and human rights.“You know, when I was a child growing up,” he continues, “we didn’t have television, but we got Life magazine.

Some congressional Republicans are flaming mad about a proposed federal rule requiring child welfare agencies to place LGBTQ youths in foster environments “free of hostility, mistreatment, or abuse” that are based on the child’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression. As a result, these GOP members have introduced or sponsored legislation that would outlaw elements of the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposal. Photo: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

As Democrats look to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, one of the candidates that may help them do that is a gay former federal prosecutor. That candidate, 38-year-old Will Rollins, is again running against Republican incumbent Ken Calvert in California’s 41st Congressional District in Riverside County. Rollins narrowly lost to Calvert in 2022. Photo: Will Rollins for Congress

scathing report from the House Ethics Committee that found Santos had violated various ethical and campaign finance laws.That report, which has been made public, accuses the openly gay Republican lawmaker of deceiving donors into contributing to him, ostensibly to help pay for campaign expenses, only to use that money on personal expenses, including luxury clothing brands, Botox, spa treatments, and porn subscriptions.He also reported fictitious loans to political committees to encourage donors to continue contributing to him, and to convince Republican Party officials that he should qualify for special campaign funding.Following the report’s release, House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.) filed a resolution calling for Santos’s expulsion. But that resolution has not yet been filed as privileged, meaning that the Republican-led House could choose to delay a vote.Because Garcia and Goldman’s resolution is privileged, House leaders must schedule a vote on the matter within two legislative days, in this case by the end of Thursday.“The time has finally come to remove George Santos from Congress,” Garcia said in a statement.

Jirair Ratevosian, is Armenian and identifies as gay, is a candidate in the 2024 election for the House of Representatives in California’s 30th Congressional District, which has the largest population of Armenian Americans in the nation. Photo: Provided by Jirair Ratevosian campaign

one-minute ad, by the right-wing American Principles Project — a “pro-family” political organization that has focused much of its political messaging on opposing LGBTQ rights — alleges that if Beshear wins re-election in November, non-affirming parents will soon lose custody of their children. In the ad, “Dinner Table,” a mother, father, and teenage girl are eating dinner when the teenager says, “Mom, Dad, I’m transgender. I think I might be a boy.”“Honey,” the mother says, “you know we love you no matter what, but, you’re a girl, so why would you say that?”A short-haired woman in a black blazer appears and interrupts her.“Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Laphonza Butler, the first Black LGBTQ+ U.S. senator, won’t run in 2024 for the California seat to which she was recently appointed. Photo: Power Summit 2022

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed three anti-LGBTQ+ bills Wednesday in defiance of veto-proof Republican majorities in the state legislature. Photo: North Carolina Governor’s Office.

estimates that 29 bills seeking to ban gender-affirming treatments — mostly for youth, though some seek to ban Medicaid and private insurers from covering transition-related procedures — have been passed into law this year.“We should not be in the business of telling low-income or impoverished people that they don’t deserve access to the same level of care that every other Maryland resident has access to,” Del. Kris Fair (D-Frederick Co.), the chair of the Maryland LGBTQ+ Caucus, told The Washington Post.

GOP lawmakers in the Montana House of Representatives on Wednesday banned the state’s only transgender legislator from speaking on the chamber floor for the remainder of the legislative session after she called out her GOP colleagues last week during a debate on access to gender-affirming care.

Republican Assembly member Bill Essayli, who represents the 63rd District in western Riverside County, introduced Assembly Bill 1314. The bill would give school districts three days to notify parents, in writing, once a school employee learns a student identifies as a gender that doesn’t align with their birth certificate or other official records. For example, asking to be identified by a different gender or participating in sports of the opposite gender. The bill died in the education committee after the chair refused to give the legislation a hearing. Photo: Office of Bill Essayli

Republican Assembly member Bill Essayli, who represents the 63rd District in western Riverside County, introduced Assembly Bill 1314. The bill would give school districts three days to notify parents, in writing, once a school employee learns a student identifies as a gender that doesn’t align with their birth certificate or other official records. For example, asking to be identified by a different gender or participating in sports of the opposite gender. The bill is stuck in the education committee after the chair refused to give the legislation a hearing. Photo: Office of Bill Essayli

ban on transgender service members instituted by the Trump administration, in which some individuals who had transitioned prior to the ban were “grandfathered” in, meaning they could continue serving without incident, while those wishing to transition in the future or currently in the process of transitioning could not.Under the Rubio-Banks bill, the Department of Defense would be forced to adopt regulations prohibiting people who identify as transgender or have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria from serving, except in rare circumstances.Those exempt from the ban are people who may identify as transgender but have remained stable in their assigned sex at birth for 36 months prior to joining the military, and members who are diagnosed after entering the military but who do not attempt to medically transition.Under the bill, those who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria may only serve in their assigned sex at birth.

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page

injected itself into culture-war battles over curriculum content, student privacy policies, special accommodations for LGBTQ students, and what books or materials are accessible in school libraries.The House approved the bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep.

Florida Republican Congressman Greg Steube, wants to amend Title IX — the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on sex — to carve out an exception and discriminate by recognizing one’s sex as “based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Photo: Office of Greg Steube

transgender athletes from competing in sports that match their gender identity; and ban gender-affirming care, not only for minors, but some legally recognized adults in their twenties.Narissa Rahaman, the executive director of Equality Virginia, told Metro Weekly that some of the “forced outing” bills were especially pernicious.One measure would have required school administrators to out students to their parents, regardless of whether trans-identifying students have discussed their identities with their parents or whether they may be living in a home with parents who are not supportive of LGBTQ identity.“There was one forced outing bill that would require a court order for a student to be able to update their name in their school record,” Rahaman said.  “And not just their official school record, like a roster, but just any sort of school document, like a library card reflecting their correct gender, would have required a court order.”Rahaman said the organization’s priority this year was primarily aimed at defeating such bills, although Equality Virginia was monitoring other pro-LGBTQ measures that were introduced, including three bills — one introduced by Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), one introduced by Del.

Respect for Marriage Act, which would require the federal government and states to recognize same-sex marriage licenses issued in states with laws that allow same-sex nuptials. The Act is a safeguard in case the conservative-leaning Supreme Court reverses its own decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide.She also attacked Democrats for their support of a bill to guarantee a right to an abortion, falsely repeating a Republican talking point that the bill would allow abortions up until the moment of birth (in fact, the bill would only allow such extreme cases to occur in cases where the mother’s life is at risk). “The truth has to be told. And we’re down to a point in America where the truth is being canceled.

Carl Levin was a prominent Democratic senator from Michigan who served in the senate for 36 years.Carl Levin was the longest-serving senator in Michigan’s history when he retired from office in 2015. The Harvard law graduate and Detroit public defender was first elected to the senate in 1978.

Edwin Edwards was the Democratic governor of Louisiana for four terms in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s.After serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps during World War II, Edwards became a lawyer and began serving on the city council in Crowley, Louisiana.

campaigned for Biden during the election — has been confirmed to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the swearing-in ceremony next Wednesday, the inaugural committee told Variety.Fellow New Yorker Jennifer Lopez is another star name involved, although details of her performance were not revealed.Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has long backed Biden, and even hit the campaign trail for him in Pittsburgh in November, saying, “Vote for Joe.

The Hill.Each man would bring different perspectives and qualities to the job. Maloney, the son of a military veteran and lumberjack who represents a swing district in the lower Hudson Valley, just north of New York City, has proven an ability to consistently win in a conservative-leaning district ever since his first election in 2012.

Miami Herald about Jones, a survivor of COVID-19, being unable to donate his antibody-rich plasma to assist others suffering from the disease.

signature baggy shirt and neon-green dyed roots, Eilish declared that “Silence is not an option, and we cannot sit this one out.”“The only way to be certain of the future is to make it ourselves,” she said, before imploring people at home to register to vote.Her performance was the first of three musical interludes on the docket for night three of the convention.Prince Royce followed soon after Eilish with a cover of “Stand by Me” and Jennifer Hudson is set to sing later in the night, too.

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