Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer leads Senate Democrats, and Pride Source covers his role in advancing or stalling LGBTQ+ legislation on Capitol Hill. He figures in the paper's national politics reporting.

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Transgender for Everybody or You Can Say Bye-Bye to Your Little Government

We’re headed for a government shutdown and we know who to blame. Republicans have a majority in the U.S. House and Senate. They have the presidency. They even [...]Read more about Transgender for Everybody or You Can Say Bye-Bye to Your Little Government

By D'Anne Witkowski

Drag Icon Murray Hill on His Fight to Put Drag Kings Center Stage

If you’ve spent any time around queer performance, alt-cabaret or downtown New York City nightlife over the past few decades, chances are you’ve come across [...]Read more about Drag Icon Murray Hill on His Fight to Put Drag Kings Center Stage

By Chris Azzopardi

Democrats Counter Republican Screams with Cowardly Silence

I’m watching the United States fall to fascism in real time and yet the alarm bell that I, and so many others, are ringing is being ignored by the majority of [...]Read more about Democrats Counter Republican Screams with Cowardly Silence

By D'Anne Witkowski

Queer Things to Do: Get Billy Porter Tickets, Learn About Adulting with Stand with Trans, Attend an International Animation Festival

Despite what you might have been led to believe, most queer people are up to many things other than discussing Bud Lights on TikTok. In fact, Michigan is alive [...]Read more about Queer Things to Do: Get Billy Porter Tickets, Learn About Adulting with Stand with Trans, Attend an International Animation Festival

By Sarah Bricker Hunt

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A Historic Number of LGBTQ+ Candidates Ran for Elected Office This Year. Here's Who Won.

Progressive LGBTQ+ groups celebrated the pro-equality LGBTQ+ candidates running in key midterm races across the country on Tuesday, several of whom claimed [...]Read more about A Historic Number of LGBTQ+ Candidates Ran for Elected Office This Year. Here's Who Won.

By Christopher Kane

Marco Rubio Celebrates Wedding Anniversary By Telling Wife She Is a 'Stupid Waste of Time'

A bill to protect marriage equality passed in the U.S. House recently and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is raring to get it passed in the Senate. [...]Read more about Marco Rubio Celebrates Wedding Anniversary By Telling Wife She Is a 'Stupid Waste of Time'

By D'Anne Witkowski

People With Uteruses Can't Get Abortions. But Brett Kavanaugh Can't Eat a $20 Sundae in Peace, Either!

I am sure by now you have heard the devastating news about Brett Kavanaugh, credibly-accused sexual assaulter/Supreme Court Justice/man who likes beer.It’s hard [...]Read more about People With Uteruses Can't Get Abortions. But Brett Kavanaugh Can't Eat a $20 Sundae in Peace, Either!

By D'Anne Witkowski

Bridget Everett Takes on Small-Town Queer Chosen Family in One of the Most Moving Shows of the Year

Bridget Everett is surrounded by queer people in her everyday life. She’s got queer friends, queer family, queer fans — the latter of which she courted while [...]Read more about Bridget Everett Takes on Small-Town Queer Chosen Family in One of the Most Moving Shows of the Year

By Chris Azzopardi

5 Queer Things You Can Do Right Now: Local Holiday Festivities, LGBTQ+ Observations and More

Listen, we know you're tired. This year has been relentless. So you can imagine how excited we are about the extended weekends and holiday observances coming [...]Read more about 5 Queer Things You Can Do Right Now: Local Holiday Festivities, LGBTQ+ Observations and More

By Jackie Jones

Equality Act, Contorted as a Danger by Anti-LGBTQ+ Forces, Is All But Dead

Despite having President Biden in the White House and Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress, efforts to update federal civil rights laws to [...]Read more about Equality Act, Contorted as a Danger by Anti-LGBTQ+ Forces, Is All But Dead

By Chris Johnson

Rachel Levine Becomes First Out Transgender Person to Win Senate Confirmation

Rachel Levine made history on Wednesday by becoming the first openly transgender person to obtain Senate confirmation as a presidential appointee, sending an [...]Read more about Rachel Levine Becomes First Out Transgender Person to Win Senate Confirmation

By Chris Johnson

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Buttigieg Starts Path to Confirmation as Transportation Secretary

Fielding questions during his confirmation hearing, Pete Buttigieg started his path Thursday toward becoming the first openly gay Cabinet member confirmed by [...]Read more about Buttigieg Starts Path to Confirmation as Transportation Secretary

By Chris Johnson

Deep Inside Hollywood

By Romeo San Vicente Beanie Feldstein and other 'Humans' Beanie Feldstein, star of "Booksmart" and the super ambitious 20-year-long Richard [...]Read more about Deep Inside Hollywood

By Special To BTL

Creep of the Week: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a very busy man. Granted, it might not seem that way on the surface. After all, the Senate hasn't passed shit when it [...]Read more about Creep of the Week: Mitch McConnell

By D'Anne Witkowski

Q&A: Wanda Sykes Talks New Standup, Walkouts & Ellen's Interview with Kevin Hart

Because according to Trump's America only white het men can exist, now would be a good time to reintroduce Wanda Sykes. She is a black person and a woman and a [...]Read more about Q&A: Wanda Sykes Talks New Standup, Walkouts & Ellen's Interview with Kevin Hart

By Chris Azzopardi

Kavanaugh Hearings to Begin Tuesday Despite Trump Scandals

Despite objections to holding confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court amid the withholding of documents from his time at the Bush [...]Read more about Kavanaugh Hearings to Begin Tuesday Despite Trump Scandals

By Chris Johnson

Log Cabin Assails Dems for Blocking Ric Grenell Nomination

Log Cabin Republicans officials are assailing Democrats for blocking the confirmation of Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to Germany. The Grenell nomination, [...]Read more about Log Cabin Assails Dems for Blocking Ric Grenell Nomination

By Chris Johnson

Dems Seen as Caving After Agreeing to End Gov't Shutdown

Democrats are widely viewed as having caved on their pledge to fight for young, undocumented immigrants to remain in the country, after agreeing to end a U.S. [...]Read more about Dems Seen as Caving After Agreeing to End Gov't Shutdown

By Chris Johnson

Trump Admin Comes Out Against Amendment Protecting Trans Troops

BY CHRIS JOHNSON, WASHINGTON BLADE The Trump administration has come out against the Gillibrand transgender military amendment. (Washington Blade photo by [...]Read more about Trump Admin Comes Out Against Amendment Protecting Trans Troops

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