Closets are for cowboy boots: A tribute to David Mixner
A friend remembers the late LGBTQ+ rights activist David Mixner.
May 1, 2024
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TikTok may be banned in the U.S. after Biden signs new law — Why?
What does a TikTok ban actually mean for users and creators? Here's what you need to know.
April 24, 2024
Alex Jones: National Security Adviser Is a 'Leather Daddy'
And no, the wingnut commentator's remark about H.R. McMaster is not a compliment.
May 16, 2017
Out Diplomat Curtis Ried New National Security Council Chief of Staff
Ried, a longtime foreign service officer, is the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to hold the post.
September 19, 2022
'Stone Cold Crazy:' Steve Bannon Gets Seat at National Security Council
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice denounced the latest controversial move by President Trump, and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates called it "a big mistake."
January 29, 2017
Tammy Baldwin Supports Chuck Hagel as Sec. of Defense
The out senator says our nation's security is paramount.
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February 13, 2013
The Closet as Security Risk
The National Security Agency courts openly gay employees.
September 24, 2008
Dear TSA, My Body Is Not an Anomaly
The Transportation Security Administration's uneven, embarrassing 'protocol' for screening transgender passengers isn't about protecting national security, says this trans man.
October 1, 2015
U.N. Reports: ISIS Has Executed 30 LGBT People
For the first time ever, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting regarding LGBT issues.
August 24, 2015
Democrats Introduce International LGBT Rights Bill
The move follows President Obama's State of the Union, which called for protecting LGBT rights as a matter of national security.
January 30, 2015
Bush allows refusal of security clearance for gays
The Bush
administration last year quietly rewrote the rules for
allowing gays and lesbians to receive national
security clearances. Lesbian and gay advocacy groups
recently found the changes in an 18-page document
distributed by national security adviser Stephen Hadley on
December 29, without public notice.
March 15, 2006
Richard Grenell, Trump's Top Gay Appointee, Joins Anti-LGBTQ+ Group
Grenell is now special adviser for national security and foreign policy at the American Center for Law and Justice, founded by Pat Robertson.
September 1, 2020
Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty on Some Charges, to Be Tried on Others
Supporters of the soldier, accused of sharing national security-related documents with website WikiLeaks, say prosecution is unnecessary, given his guilty plea.
March 1, 2013
John Bolton's Book Shows Anew Just How Bad Trump Is
The former national security adviser provides fresh evidence that Trump loves dictators, hates journalists, and knows little about foreign affairs.
June 17, 2020
Op-ed: The LGBT Significance of the State of the Union
Obama made a game-changing argument in his recent speech: that protecting the LGBT community furthers national security, says the deputy director of HRC Global.
January 28, 2015
Bolton, Pompeo Will Make Trump Even More Dangerous
The new national security advisor and secretary of State will destabilize the world even more -- and LGBT people may feel it more than any other group.
April 2, 2018
Flailing Breitbart Launches First Attack on Trump Administration
Days after he was fired as the president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon returns to his troubled alt-right website and oversees an indictment of the national security adviser.
August 21, 2017
Activists: White House Lacks Action on DADT
National security adviser Gen. James Jones has suggested the future of "don't ask, don't tell" is unclear, prompting activists to wonder why the White House isn't focused on repealing the ban on gays in the military.
May 11, 2009
'Hello, Kettle?' Trump Calls Courts 'So Political'
"I think it's sad, I think it's a sad day," President Trump declared, adding that he believes the federal courts have placed our nation's security "at risk" by not immediately reinstating his travel ban edict.
February 8, 2017
McCain: Gay troops pose 'intolerable risk'
Gay troops pose "an intolerable risk" to national security, U.S. senator and Republican presidential hopeful John McCain wrote last month to a gay rights group seeking to change his position on "don't ask, don't tell."
May 4, 2007
Donald Trump endorses pastor who calls for LGBTQ+ executions
On Monday, former President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Burns for South Carolina's Third Congressional District. The pastor has previously called for the execution of LGBTQ "indoctrinators."
April 4, 2024