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For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has accused academia, journalism or science of having a “liberal bias” if it reveals absolutely anything the right wing doesn’t like. It’s an easy way to quickly discredit any critics of your worldview without having to engage in thinking, introspection, or debate, and it’s been on display for longer than many of us have been alive:
Media scholars will tell you that U.S. media is, indisputably, center-right and corporatist. As it consolidates, it increasingly serves billionaire and corporate ownership, not the public interest. Layer on fifty years of bullying over nonexistent “liberal bias,” and you get the kind of journalistic fecklessness that was on proud display last election season as the country stared down the barrel of authoritarianism.
A media that routinely coddles Republicans and corporate power and refuses to cover them honestly isn’t enough for folks like FCC boss Brendan Carr, who has been busy trampling the First Amendment during Trump’s second term. Whether it’s his bungled attempt to censor comedians, or his bullying of news outlets that tell the truth, Carr and his ilk demand absolute fealty by the entirety of modern culture and media.
Clearly, Carr is disinterested in learning from his stupid mistakes. In a post to the X right wing propaganda website last week, he took a break from destroying consumer protection standards to once again issue vague and baseless threats against talk shows that refuse to coddle Republicans:
If you can’t read it, Carr is threatening to leverage the “equal time” rule embedded in Section 315 of the Communications Act to take action against talk shows that don’t provide “equal” time to Republican ideology. Carr’s goal isn’t equality; it’s the disproportionate coddling and normalization of an extremist U.S. right wing political movement that’s increasingly despised by the actual public.
The “equal time” rule is a dated relic that would be largely impossible for the Trump court-eviscerated FCC to actually enforce. Republicans like Carr historically despised the equal time rule — an offshoot of the long-defunct Fairness Doctrine, a problematic effort to ensure media fairness (specifically on broadcast TV) that Republicans have long complained was unconstitutional.
The rule was originally created to apply specifically to political candidate appearances on broadcast television, since back then, a TV appearance on one of the big three networks could make or break and politician attempting to run for office.
In the years since, the rule has seen numerous exemptions and, with the steady evisceration of the regulatory state by the right wing, is not something viewed as seriously enforceable. Enter Carr, who is distorting this rule to suggest that it needs to apply to every guest a late-night talk show has. It’s a lazy effort by Carr to pretend his censorship effort sits on solid legal footing. It does not.
Late night comedians had, well, thoughts:
It’s worth remembering that the Trump administration has consistently lobotomized FCC and FTC authority over corporations with one hand, at the behest of their corporate paymasters, while pretending agencies like the FCC have unlimited authority over those same companies. So even if Carr filed any sort of complaint against these companies, his lawyers wouldn’t have fun defending it in court.
It’s more broadly designed to warn major networks that they’re subject to costly and pointless legal headaches if they don’t take the more efficient and cost-effective route of kissing the unpopular president’s ass. Which, as we’ve seen with the CBS takeover and their firing of Stephen Colbert, and the bribes ABC has thrown at our mad idiot king, has been embarrassingly effective… so far.
It’s just another example of this administration’s weird hypocrisy when it comes to government power, free speech, and regulatory attempts to shape or stifle speech. But it’s also important to not see this as entirely new; right wing billionaires — often arm in arm with corporate power — have been attempting, with notable success, to dominate U.S. media and befuddle the electorate for generations.
It was that steady media deterioration at the hands of the right wing and corporate power that opened the door to Trump’s buffoonery in the first place. And, without a serious progressive media reform movement (which needs to include publicly funded media, serious media consolidation limits, and creative new funding models for real journalism), it’s only going to continue to get worse.
The obvious end point, if we can’t galvanize some form of reform resistance, will be the sort of state media control we seen in countries like Russia and Hungary. At which point all of the problems we’re seeing now at the hands of our violent, dim autocrats will only get worse.
As the Department of Homeland Security deploys thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, residents are fighting back — but not just in the streets.Rapper Chingy says he almost stopped taking photos with gay fans after a transgender social media and reality TV personality claimed they had dated.
As Complex notes, during a recent appearance on the Willie D Live podcast, the “Right Thurr” rapper opened up about how the controversy had impacted his relationship with LGBTQ+ fans.
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“Somebody took a picture of me being nice to a fan who came up and was excited to meet me, and saying how much of a fan they was and just wanted a picture because they loved my music and stuff. And I took the picture,” Chingy recalled. “And they based a two-year relationship line off of that.”
The rapper was likely referring to Sidney Starr, a cast member on the first season of reality series Baddies. In 2010, a photo of the two appeared online, and Starr went on to claim that she and Chingy had been in a relationship. Starr later claimed that she had made the whole thing up to advance her career.
“In life people make mistakes – big mistakes – and I’m one of those people,” Starr said in a video in 2012. “And I want to give a huge apology to Chingy for anything I caused to throw dirt on your name I was wrong. I want to say I was wrong 100,000 times and I want to get off my chest.”
In the wake of the controversy, Chingy told host Willie D, “I was going to stop taking pictures with homosexuals — homosexual individuals.”
“And nothing against them, but I thought — now I thought, like, that’s what they going to do,” he explained. “But then, you know what, the type of individual I am, I said to myself, ‘All of them didn’t do that to me. They don’t deserve that.’ And so I still took pictures with homosexual people when they wanted to take a picture with me.”
“That’s the type of heart I got,” he continued. “I ain’t going to stop being me because somebody decides to be evil. That’s going to come back on them at some point.”
Chingy has claimed that the controversy involving Starr derailed his career and led to him being “blackballed” in the music industry. The rapper has only released a handful of non-album singles since 2010, with a 10-year gap between his 2013 EP Chingology (9 Year Theory) and his most recent, 2023’s Chinglish.
In 2024, fans speculated that this apparent ebb in his career was what led Chingy to accept a gig performing at a Long Cabin Republicans event in Nashville, Tennessee, where Donald Trump Jr. and then-partner Kimberly Guilfoyle were scheduled to speak. Ahead of the event, the rapper responded to backlash on social media, writing in one comment, “I’m a performers wether theses [sic] people political, homosexual or whetever they all love music. I have classic records they all love and I will perform them for them.”
He later claimed to have backed out of the performance, but his rep confirmed to TMZ that he would, in fact, perform. An October 11, 2024, post on Log Cabin Republicans’ Instagram appears to show Chingy performing for the crowd at the group’s Red, White & Rock concert at anti-LGBTQ+ musician Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk & Steakhouse in Nashville the previous month.
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The BAFTA nominations are in and ‘Thank Goodness’ Wicked: For Good has actually been recognised, as has the BDSM rom-com, Pillion.
The nominations for 2026 were announced on Tuesday (27 January) ahead of the ceremony due to take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 22 February.
Much like the Oscars, Sinners is one of the most recognised films this year with 13 nominations. That’s beaten only by One Battle After Another which has 14.
Wicked: For Good managed to secure two nominations at the BAFTAs – one for Costume Design and another for Make-up and Hair. There was an outcry last week when the Oscar nominations were announced and the sequel to 2024’s Wicked failed to pick up a single nod.
Though, we’re still sad that neither Cynthia Erivo nor Ariana Grande, who were up for the Leading Actress and Supporting Actress categories last year were recognised for their work in the sequel.
Some experts have wondered if the reason why Wicked: For Good has failed to make much traction during this awards season is partly due to a historic lack of recognition for sequels, as well as the source musical’s second act never having really lived up to the first.
Meanwhile, it’s good news too for Pillion, the gay BDSM rom-com starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling. The film, which follows the love story between the dom biker, Ray (Skarsgård) and his sub, Colin (Melling) has been recognised in the Outstanding British Film, Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, and Adapted Screenplay categories.
If won, the last two would go to the out-gay director, Harry Lighton, who made his feature debut with the film based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Lighton is also named in the Outstanding British Film category alongside Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe.
Also recognised for Sound is Warfare, which starred Heartstopper‘s Kit Connor among others. And Ethan Hawke is also up for Leading Actor for his turn as lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon. Hart is reported to have been gay despite proposing to women.
Queer filmmaker Adrian Molina and Pixar’s Elio is nominated for Animated Film. Following the film’s release, it came out that the titular character was explicitly “queer-coded” but that got “sanded down”.
The nominations might just be enough to allay the frustration of those accusing the Academy Awards of being “Oscars so straight”.
The 2026 BAFTA nominees in full are:
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Lindsay Church never saw themself as a politician, but – amid their identity being bureaucratically erased, masked ICE agents stalking their neighbourhood and the incumbent Democrat representative locking out all other party members from running this November – stranger things have happened.
A veteran, non-profit leader, parent and non-binary person, Church and their wife – who was six months pregnant at the time – fled Richmond, Virginia in 2023 amid ongoing anti-queer harassment and set up just outside Chicago in Illinois, some 800 miles away.
It was a place they had a family connection to, where they no longer heard gun shots at night or felt like they could not use the bathroom for fear of being questioned about their gender. It became home, a safe space that allowed Church to “take some of that armour off” and just enjoy the simplicity of visiting local restaurants, walking around the neighbourhood and taking their child to the park.
Increasingly, as the federal government cracks down on LGBTQ+ rights, immigrants and US citizens alike are violently detained – and shot – and the voices of local voters are effectively silenced by those in power, the newfound safety Church and their family found in Illinois is under threat.
They are not planning on standing by, though.
They have launched a campaign for federal office in the state’s 4th congressional district, forthright in their belief that “safety has never been so important, as it has been in the last few years”, not just for themselves, but their neighbours and all Americans.
“I love the people that live around the community that I get to call home because I have spent a lot of my life as a military family, never knowing where home was,” Church told PinkNews in an exclusive interview.
“We bought this home 16 days before my baby was born. We had 16 days to get everything together and being able to bring them home and know that this was a community that would love them, support them, and that they could grow in, meant everything to me.
“Forever I’m going to fight for this district, because this district brought me home.”
Covering parts of Chicago’s Southwest side, Cook County and DuPage County, Illinois’s 4th congressional district is staunchly blue and has not elected a Republican since 1986. An area with a predominantly working class, Hispanic population, it has elevated poverty levels where around 12.8 per cent of people live below the poverty line – this rises to 18 per cent for children under the age of 18.
The area was long notable for its downright bizarre design as one of the most gerrymandered congressional districts in the country, with gerrymandering being the term used to describe the manipulation of electoral boundaries to advantage a party. So odd was its shape that it inspired the Ugly Gerry font type, a front created in protest against gerrymandering by using different, unusually shaped US congressional districts as the characters for each letter. The 4th, given its shape, represented the letter ‘U’.
The district has been represented by Jesús “Chuy” García since 2018, who has easily kept a Democrat stronghold in the area and commanded a huge majority victory in each subsequent election.
In November, however, García was widely lambasted for announcing his retirement after the filing deadline had closed for the 2026 mid-term elections. It was a ploy that set up his chief of staff – who filed her own application just before the deadline – to be elected as his successor without competition, because it kept all other Democrats out of the race.
The Democrat voting population were, therefore, left with only that choice and that choice alone – hardly democratic.
That did not sit right with Church.
“Our community and our country deserves real choice. In the district that we live in, we are so heavily Democratic that the Democratic nominee genuinely goes on to win the election, which means that this decision was made for us without us casting a single ballot,” they explained.
“I’m a person that believes that democracy is worth fighting for and that it requires talking to your neighbours, your communities, the cities, everyone, in order to gain the support necessary to run.”
They continued: “Like I said, I did not imagine myself to be a politician or somebody that would run for office, but if not us, then who? And if not now, when?”
Church is no stranger to having their voice silenced.
They are a veteran who served under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, a non-binary person whose identity was legislated out of existence last year by a stroke of Trump’s signature on an executive order, and in recent months they have watched as their friends who are still serving are purged from the military under the Trump administration’s re-instated trans ban.
Church was part of the original push to overturn ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and watching the ban return – which has been estimated to impact around 15,000 service people – has put their heart “at a place [they] can’t explain”.
“We don’t have representation on the floor. There’s no trans service member that has made it through to the floor of Congress. We have been fighting from outside the doors and it’s so important for us to be there, to be talking about these issues, to be representing ourselves and to see ourselves in this tapestry of America,” they explained.
“Our administration has made it so dangerous to be just a person in general,” Church continued, going on to admit that they do feel scared of what will happen to them for speaking out.
“What will the administration try to do to me? What will the media turn me into?” they questioned.
“All of it is connected to this bigger attempt to scare us into compliance and to make us so small that we don’t try to make history, that we don’t try to fight these fights.”
“This is existential for me,” Church said. “I’ve watched my existence and my communities, my friends, trans youth, literally lose every bit of their rights while we also don’t have the representation we need to fight back.”
Currently, Delaware representative Sarah McBride – who was sworn-in as the first ever out trans member of Congress in January – is the only political representation trans people have in the Legislative branch of US government.
Since her election, McBride has been subject to threats to her life and vile transphobic abuse by other elected-representatives, with South Carolina Republican and anti-trans MAGA stalwart Nancy Mace tabling a trans bathroom ban for the whole of the US Capitol just to keep McBride from using the female toilets.
That is just for being an out and visible trans person in politics, an elected representative who beyond fighting for trans rights is there to advocate for her constituents on kitchen table issues that impact everyone in her state and beyond: the inflation, job stability, living standards, quality education, healthcare access and so much more.
People like McBride, Church said, are a “crack in the ceiling” and an “opportunity for us to see that we might be able to have a future here”.
“It can’t be one person that’s out here trying to fight back against all of this because this is an onslaught that not one person can handle or what not one person can be the fighter for.”
For Church, and all others who have found themselves the fervent target of the Trump administration’s anti-trans rhetoric, winning looks different: it is about showcasing LGBTQ+ people cannot be erased and their voices cannot be silenced.
“At this moment in time when they’re trying to tell us that people like me don’t exist and that we can’t exist, standing up and saying: ‘I don’t care what you do, I don’t care what you say, we’re not going to be erased, we’re not going to go away’.
“This is our country and we deserve to be a part of it.”
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Out MS Now host Rachel Maddow praised Minneapolis protestors for successfully intimidating the Trump administration into scaling back ICE operations in the city.
News broke Monday night that Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino – the face of Trump’s violent ICE campaign – is not only leaving Minneapolis but is also being demoted back to his old job as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California. The administration also reportedly plans to reduce the number of agents in the city, though it is unclear by how much.
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The news comes after Minneapolis residents have peacefully and relentlessly resisted ICE’s out-of-control actions in the city, which have resulted in the deaths of two people.
“After months of protest, what happened when they killed Alex Pretti?” Maddow said. “There was a small-d democratic flex against which the Trump administration just crumbled.”
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She lauded the fact that even Republicans in the Minnesota legislature are calling for an end to ICE operations in Minneapolis. She also spoke about the shocking withdrawal of leading Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Madel from the race. “I cannot support the national Republicans’ stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so,” he said.
He said what’s happening is “wrong” and called ICE actions in Minnesota an “unmitigated disaster.”
“I have to look my daughters in the eye and tell them, ‘I believe I did what was right.’ And I am doing that today,” said Madel, who also provided legal counsel for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed queer wife and mother Renee Good earlier this month.
I am ending my campaign for Minnesota Governor. I describe why in the below video. Please watch until the end. (It is 10 minutes, 52 seconds.)
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Maddow also praised the fact that Congressional Republicans and Republican governors are increasingly speaking out against ICE.
Republicans in Congress are calling for investigations into the administration’s actions, something that was unimaginable even earlier this month. This includes Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) called the situation in Minnesota “a real tragedy.”
“I think the death of Americans, what we’re seeing on TV, it’s causing deep concerns over federal tactics and accountability,” he said. “Americans don’t like what they’re seeing right now.” As chair of the National Governors Association, Stitt also spearheaded a statement urging “leaders at all levels to exercise wisdom and consider a reset of strategy toward a unified vision for immigration enforcement. “
“Scenes of violence and chaos on our streets are unacceptable and do not reflect who we are,” it declared.
And Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) also spoke out after Pretti’s death, calling it “not acceptable for American citizens to be killed by federal agents for exercising their god-given and constitutional rights to protest their government.”
“At best, these federal immigration operations are a complete failure of coordination of acceptable public safety and law enforcement practices, training, and leadership,” Scott said. “At worst, it’s a deliberate federal intimidation and incitement of American citizens that’s resulting in the murder of Americans.”
“Enough,” he declared, urging Trump to “reset the federal government’s focus on truly criminal illegal immigrants.” He also called on Congress and the courts to “restore constitutionality” if the president won’t act.
— Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) January 25, 2026
And there is more.
Maddow reported that Senate Democrats, even some moderates who have voted alongside Republicans in the past to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said they will not vote to fund it this week. She said the House resolution to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has garnered over 140 cosponsors and noted that some Democrats who voted last week to fund DHS are now apologizing for doing so.
“This is called political change,” she said, adding that there has even been discomfort with the Trump administration expressed from “the sinkhole of sniveling cowardice that has been America’s business so-called leaders.”
More than 60 Minnesota companies – including Target, Best Buy, General Mills, and Cargill – signed on to a letter calling for “immediate de-escalation of tensions” in the city. It was a significant move because big business has generally been caving to
“And yes, that is too little and yes, that is too late,” Maddow said of the statement, “but it is way more than they were willing to do before.”
Maddow went on to remind viewers of the significance of all these developments.
“We are conditioned to expect that the actions of anyone in politics who is not currently the president are just not very powerful actions… but we are conditioned to believe that in a way that is not actually keeping faith with who we are as a country,” she said. “Because what we inherited from the Founding Fathers of this country is a democracy that was explicitly and purposefully designed to be decentralized and divided and responsive to the people.”
“And when the people push in a concerted way, what we are seeing is that the country is working the way its supposed to, the levers of power are moving, there is a political response, a small-d democratic response, and yes, that means the president’s poll numbers sink further into the bedrock, including on immigration, which he really at one point wanted to be his signature issue, and he is now running from it.”
She explained that “political gravity” is starting to work on the Trump administration – and it’s all because of on-the-ground resistance.
“You are seeing a political shift happening,” she said, “and that is because of the people. It starts with the people; it starts with the protests that we have seen. Principled, peaceful, relentless protest – it works. That is the source of this shift: peaceful, powerful, relentless, principled protest works. It uses democratic means to save democracy. That has what has made all of this political shifting happen. That is what has forced the
She said it was important to be very clear about Bovino’s leaving Minneapolis and why the administration is reducing the number of ICE agents in the city.
“If you were part of these protests, if you were part of the peaceful democratic advocacy to get ICE out of Minneapolis tonight, you are winning.”
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In 1993, DOOM was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, you can play it on a set of earbuds instead, if for some reason that’s something you’ve always dreamed of doing.
The project comes to us from [Arin Sarkisian], who figured out that the Pinebuds Pro had enough processing power to run one of the seminal FPS games from the 1990s. Inside these earbuds is a Cortex-M4F, which is set to run at 100 MHz. [Arin] figured out it could easily be cranked up to 300 MHz with low power mode switched off, which would come in handy for one main reason. See, the earbuds might be able to run the DOOM engine, but they don’t have a display.
Thus, [Arin] figured the easiest way to get the video data out would be via the Cortex-M4F’s serial UART running at 2.4 mbps. Running the game at a resolution of 320 x 200 at 3 frames per second would consume this entire bandwidth. However, all those extra clock cycles allow running an MJPEG compression algorithm that allow spitting out up to 18 frames per second. Much better!
All that was left to do was to figure out a control scheme. To that end, a web server is set up off-board that passes key presses to the buds and accepts and displays the MJPEG stream to the player. If you’re so inclined you can even play the game yourself on the project website, though you might just have to get in a queue. In the meantime, you can watch the Twitch stream of whoever else is playing at the time.
Files are on GitHub—both the earbud firmware and the web interface used to play the game. It was perhaps only a matter of time until we saw DOOM on earbuds; no surprise given that we’ve already seen it played on everything from receipt printers to cookware. No matter how cliche, we’re going to keep publishing interesting DOOM ports—so keep them coming to the tipsline.
Thanks to [alialiali] for the tip!
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The reviews are in and people have some mixed feelings about Charli XCX‘s, The Moment which has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
The mockumentary follows a version of the brat creator as she prepares to embark upon a world tour in connection with the 2024 hit album.
As well as Charli, the film stars Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Isaac Powell, Rachel Sennott, Rish Shah, and Alexander Skarsgård.
Aidan Zamiri, who directed Charli’s music videos for “360” and “Guess”, returns as director in the film slated for release in UK cinemas on 20 February.
Since the weekend, reviews have been pouring in for the film, which currently has a 54% approval rating on review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes.
The Hollywood Reporter praised Charli, who also stars in 100 Nights of Hero, as a “natural, engaging actor”. But it also skewers the film for coming across as confused as to what its message is – “a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry? Or is it an earnest reflection on what it was to live at the center of this good-natured but still highly pressurized mania?”
Similarly, Deadline celebrated Charli’s “heightened, dynamic performance” and called the film “a spiritual sequel to Spice World“. Giving The Moment three stars, The Guardian called it a “defanged satire” and “less Spinal Tap and more Black Swan“.
Variety offered praise for Zamiri, who makes his feature debut with The Moment, but said the film “should have pushed further into crackpot satirical extreme”. Vulture has described the fictionalised version of Charli on screen as being “not a cinematically interesting version”. It later wonders whether anyone has “thought the film through”.
Offering the film 7/10 on Rotten Tomatoes, Collider said the “365” singer is “wonderful” in the film, “especially in the more frantic, anxiety-inducing moments.” Of the film’s problems, the outlet wrote: “Everything feels fine and fun, but often scattered and not willing to go too far with its concept.”
And The Daily Beast has described the film as a “flop”, picking at the “problematic” screenplay as well as “one-note” characters like Skarsgård’s Johannes, a director who disagrees with Charli’s brat vision.
The Moment is out in UK cinemas on 20 February.
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With increased visibility comes increased danger as anti-LGBTQ+ incidents continue to rise throughout the United States.As the second Trump administration passes the one-year mark, LGBTQ+ people across the United States are living through a profound and destabilizing shift. What has unfolded over the past year is a deliberate reorientation of federal power away from civil rights and toward state-sanctioned exclusion.
According to advocates at the Human Rights Campaign, this moment is best understood not as a collection of disconnected policy fights, but as a coordinated effort to roll back decades of progress.
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“This administration has shown a glaring lack of care for human life,” Bentley Hudson, Georgia State Director for the Human Rights Campaign, told LGBTQ Nation. “Anything that affirms the dignity of another human being is being undermined because human dignity and connection are the antithesis of authoritarianism.”
From the first week of the administration, that posture was made clear. President Trump immediately signed a barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ executive actions, including a reversal of federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people and the dismantling of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives across the federal government.
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According to prior estimates from the Williams Institute, nearly 14,000 transgender federal employees and more than 100,000 LGBTQ+ employees of federal contractors had previously benefited from these protections. Their removal created immediate uncertainty in workplaces where discrimination was already widely underreported.
Miriam, a 42-year-old lesbian federal contractor in Washington, D.C., says the shift has been immediate and chilling. “Before, there was at least a sense that HR had your back,” she said. “Now, I don’t know if reporting something would protect me, or paint a target on me.”
Miriam noted that several LGBTQ+ coworkers have quietly removed pronouns from email signatures and stopped attending employee resource group meetings. “It feels like we’re shrinking again,” she added. “Like we’re back in a time we thought we had moved past, where to be safe we have to go invisible.”
Compounding this retreat is the rollback of federal data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity. Changes to surveys and reporting practices mean fewer reliable statistics on LGBTQ+ populations, making it harder to document disparities in health care, housing, employment, and education. Advocates warn that when communities are not counted, their needs are easier to ignore.
One year into Trump’s second term, LGBTQ+ people face an unmistakable contraction of federal protection. Yet the movement for equality has adapted. In the absence of reliable federal leadership, communities are organizing locally, building people power, and linking LGBTQ+ liberation to the broader defense of democracy and human dignity.
Hudson emphasized that HRC does not attempt to rank harm because harm is experienced differently across communities. Instead, the organization tracks patterns.
“What we have seen is the executive branch using its power to try to prevent people from accessing healthcare, from participating in public life, from being safe at work or at school,” Hudson said. “That includes federal workers, parents, children, doctors, and educators.”
Health care has emerged as one of the most consequential battlegrounds. HRC has filed litigation to protect access to gender-affirming care for federal workers after the administration moved to exclude coverage under federal health benefit programs. Federal agencies have also sought to reinterpret civil rights statutes in ways that weaken protections for transgender people in federally funded health programs, a shift documented by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“When you say a trans person should not have access to healthcare because of who they are,” Hudson explained, “you open the door to denying healthcare to anyone because of who they are.”
Elena, a mother of a 14-year-old transgender boy in Texas, says her family’s clinic has warned them that care may not continue. “They couldn’t give us answers, only ‘maybe’ and ‘We’ll see,’ Elena said.
“How do you explain that to a kid who already feels like the world doesn’t want him?” She described watching her son’s mental health improve after beginning gender-affirming care, and the fear of what could happen if that care is interrupted. “This isn’t politics to us,” she said. “It’s my child’s health. It’s whether he feels safe in his own body.” Medical providers report delaying or limiting services out of fear of regulatory consequences, leaving families to travel long distances or turn to overburdened clinics.
Education policy has followed a similar trajectory. With weakened federal guidance, protections for LGBTQ+ students now vary drastically by state and district. Issues such as bathroom access, participation in school activities, and responses to bullying are increasingly left to local discretion. Internal directives within the Department of Education instructed staff to halt programs that supported transgender students.
Avery, a 17-year-old transgender student in Ohio, says the difference is palpable. “Before, I felt like the school had to take me seriously,” Avery explained. “Now, when kids make comments or use the wrong pronouns on purpose, it’s like administrators don’t know what they’re supposed to do – or they just don’t want to deal with it.”
Avery described avoiding school bathrooms entirely, timing their day around when they can safely go at home. “It sounds small, but it controls your whole day,” they said. “You’re constantly thinking about where you’re allowed to exist.”
Advocates warn that this uncertainty creates fertile ground for harassment and isolation, particularly as national rhetoric emboldens anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment.
Beyond health care and education, the administration has targeted LGBTQ+ people’s presence in public life. The reinstatement of the ban on transgender military service has placed thousands of service members in professional limbo. In early 2025, the administration issued an executive order barring transgender people from military service, and the U.S. Supreme Court allowed enforcement to proceed while legal challenges continue. Thousands of transgender service members now face halted medical care and potential discharge.
At the same time, LGBTQ+ and HIV-related resources have quietly disappeared from federal websites, eliminating access to reliable public health information and sending a symbolic message about whose lives are valued.
“Erasure is not neutral,” Hudson said. “When the government removes information about a community, it tells people that they do not exist or do not matter.”
Jamal, a 29-year-old gay man living with HIV in Georgia, noticed the changes immediately.
“It might seem symbolic, but symbols matter,” he said. “When the government removes information about you, it feels like they’re saying you don’t exist, or you don’t deserve help.” Jamal, who volunteers with an HIV outreach organization, worries that misinformation spreads when official resources disappear. “People start trusting rumors instead of facts,” he explained. “That can be dangerous.”
Crucially, Hudson situates these actions within a broader political project. Rather than viewing attacks on LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, unhoused people, or disabled communities as separate agendas, HRC understands them as interconnected.
“This is not just about LGBTQ people,” Hudson said. “We share human rights with everyone in this country.”
Scholars and organizers increasingly describe this moment as part of what Reverend Dr. William Barber II has termed the Third Reconstruction, a renewed struggle for racial, economic, and civil justice following the unfinished work of the Civil War and Civil Rights eras.
Despite the scale of the challenges, Hudson stressed that the past year has also revealed resilience. HRC now counts over 3.6 million members and supporters nationwide. It has expanded rapid response efforts, pursued litigation, and invested heavily in state-level political organizing.
“Voters are rejecting the message that hating your neighbor makes your life better,” Hudson said.
Rosa, a queer organizer in Arizona, describes a shift in strategy. “We’re no longer assuming federal protection will save us,” she said. “We’re building safety at the community level, know-your-rights training, mutual aid, and rapid response networks.”
Rosa noted that younger activists are organizing with fewer illusions about political permanence. “They understand that rights can be taken away,” she said. “So they’re organizing like it matters, because it does.” Advocates are also urging politicians to change how they frame LGBTQ+ equality, connecting it to broader democratic values such as privacy, bodily autonomy, and freedom from government intrusion. “When LGBTQ+ rights are attacked,” Rosa added, “it’s a warning sign for everyone.”
For Hudson, the lesson of the past year is clear.
“Visibility alone isn’t protection,” he said. “Laws matter. Community matters. And we can’t afford to be complacent.”
In short, the fight has changed. But it is far from over.
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