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thenation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt |Adelaide Parker
The Gutting of the Department of Education Is Worse Than You ThinkFour experts on public education in the US spoke to The Nation about how the dismantling of the Department of Education will hurt students immediately and in the years to come. Ad Policy President Donald Trump signs an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
thenation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Politics / April 28, 2025 Justice Democrats Launches Its First Primary Challenge In Four YearsThe group has recruited Donavan McKinney, a 32-year-old Detroiter, to unseat incumbent congressman Shri Thanedar.
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2 months ago | 
newwaysministry.org | Elsie Carson-Holt
LGBTQ+ rights in light of the 2024 US presidential election was the focus of a recent symposium at Fordham Law School, a Catholic law school based in New York CityThe event was sponsored by Fordham OUTLaws, the LGBTQ+ student group at the law school, reported s the Fordham Observer. Students, legal professionals, and activists attended the symposium which was The event, a key part of Fordham’s 2025 Week of Abolition, a time dedicated to fostering justice and advocacy within the legal field.
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2 months ago | 
thenation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Politics / April 7, 2025 What’s Kat Abughazaleh’s Deal? She’s a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn’t live in yet. We asked her why. Ad Policy
(YouTube)Kat Abughazaleh isn’t your typical congressional candidate. For one thing, she doesn’t live in Illinois’s Ninth District, the place she’s running to represent. She only moved to the Chicago area less than a year ago.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Henrietta Hudson is the oldest continuously running lesbian bar in the country. It sits in the midst of Greenwich Village on a quieter street, where it has been since 1991. In that time, it has seen a lot of changes, including the legalization of same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay relationships and people into mainstream culture. The clientele of Henrietta Hudson skews more Gen Z due to several factors, including its proximity to New York University.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
David Raven, the man behind Maisie Trollette, the United Kingdom’s oldest performing drag queen, has died in Brighton, England. He was 91. Trollette was a fixture on seaside Brighton’s drag scene for more than five decades, and a centerpiece of Brighton Pride from the first time it was held in 1973.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Lawmakers and community members in Wisconsin are clashing over a Republican-backed bill aimed at transgender students, which would restrict students’ ability to change their legal names and pronouns on school records. The anti-trans bill, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Dittrich, (R), and Sen. André Jacque, (R), would require legal documentation and parental consent for a student to change their name in school records.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
An annual shot to protect against HIV infection has successfully passed an early safety trial, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. The drug lenacapavir passed a critical Phase I testing trial and now may become a highly-effective and convenient form of HIV prevention. Lenacapavir works by stopping HIV from replicating inside cells. PrEP delivered with a daily pill or bi-monthly injections already drastically reduces the risk of contracting or spreading HIV.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Dylan Mulvaney is blossoming. Two years after the trans influencer and model became the public face of a conservative-led hate campaign against Bud Light, Mulvaney is opening up about the experience and how it devastated her mental health in her new memoir, Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer. On Tuesday, she joined the women of The View to talk about the book and her role in the escalating fight for trans rights. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg brought up recent comments by Gov.
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2 months ago | 
lgbtqnation.com | Elsie Carson-Holt
Nathan Barrera-Bunch took a job as a management analyst at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after watching his grandfather, a Vietnam War veteran, struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. His boyfriend, also a government worker, encouraged the move, telling Barerra-Bunch that public service would offer greater stability than the private sector.
