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BREAKING: Donald Trump signs new executive order on transgender military members

He signed the order Monday night on Air Force 1.

Scott Bessent, gay billionaire hedge fund founder, confirmed as Trump's Treasury secretary

Scott Bessent is the first out Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration.

Capital Pride scrambles after board member joins Trump’s anti-diversity administration

Vince Micone left the LGBTQ+ group ahead of emailing Department of Labor employees that DEI “programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”

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Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel slammed for violent video featuring images of Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Levine, more

The Trump loyalist is expected to speak before a Senate panel on Thursday. Democrats have called him out.

Trump's foreign aid freeze will stop AIDS funding under PEPFAR — a program that's saved millions

Unless there is a waiver, this will stop lifesaving treatment for millions of people in developing countries.

Trans inmate sues over Trump's 'two sexes' order

The order will mean the inmate, identified under the pseudonym Maria Moe, will be transferred to a men's prison, putting her in immediate danger, the lawsuit says.

Trump 'two genders' exec order will hurt millions of Americans: study

Some effects of the order are yet to be known, but most of its impacts will be negative, the Williams Institute reports.

Bishop who confronted Trump led ceremony honoring Matthew Shepard

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and out Bishop V. Gene Robinson presided over a Washington National Cathedral ceremony honoring the hate-crime victim and the interment of his ashes there in 2018.

Brent Bozell, anti-LGBTQ+ activist and father of January 6 rioter, to head U.S. media agency

Donald Trump has picked Bozell to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the Voice of America and other federally funded news outlets.

Target becomes latest corporation to nix DEI programs after once being a champion of equality

The retailer will sunset its REACH program focused on racial fairness and stop participation in HRC's Corporate Equality index.

Trump will ban trans women from women's prisons by removing trans inmates from rape protections

Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

Queer Congresswoman Emily Randall opens office bathroom to everyone in defiance of anti-trans Capitol rules

“All are welcome to use our restroom regardless of gender identity or expression, political ideology, or shoe size,” U.S. Rep. Emily Randall said.

Costco stands by DEI policies, accuses conservative lobbyists of 'broader agenda'

Costco said the group pushing them to cut DEI was not interested in "reducing risk for the company but the abolition of diversity initiatives."

Sam Altman said he wants queers to be comfortable in his industry; supporting Trump goes against that

Altman is heartened by the trajectory of progress for queer youth, but that hit a brick wall this week with Trump’s inauguration.

Eight times Kyrsten Sinema let down the LGBTQ+ community — and others

Sinema, the first out bisexual in the U.S. House and then the Senate, came into office as a liberal but moved to the right.

A January 6 House committee member on the threat of Trump's pardoning 1,500 insurrectionists (exclusive)

“We’re proud of the work we did on the committee. We’re not going to be intimidated by anybody. This fight is far from over," U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren tells The Advocate.

Marco Rubio's State Department won't issue passports with X gender markers

It also has forbidden sex changes on existing passports, in accordance with Donald Trump's "two genders" executive order.

Watch Bishop Budde tell Rachel Maddow she’s received ‘death wishes’ over Trump ‘mercy’ sermon

The Episcopal Bishop of Washington discussed her historic sermon that the president called “nasty.”

Sam Altman, the gay OpenAI CEO who once called Trump 'terrible,' is the latest tech titan to bow to him

The out OpenAI CEO recently said that he "changed my perspective" on Trump, despite previously saying that "I think Trump is terrible and few things would make me happier than him not being president."

'Drag Race' star Kim Chi is 'sad for humanity.' Here's how she's coping (exclusive)

The RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 runner-up tells The Advocate about "giving back to the community" under Donald Trump's regime through her new cannabis campaign, Kim Chi Over Flowers.

Trump revokes LBJ-era civil rights protections in federal government contracting

The rules were in place to protect Americans from discrimination for nearly 60 years.