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Jesuit-run Georgetown University celebrates pro-LGBT ‘OUTober’ Some of Georgetown's upcoming 'OUTober' celebrations include a Catholic 'Mass of Belonging,' a Jewish 'Pride Shabbat,' and 'Queer Space Pumpkin Decorating.'Georgetown University, the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university, is hosting several pro-LGBT events as part of its celebration of “LGBTQ+ History Month,” or “OUTober,” while trying to claim a Catholic identity.In an October 1 announcement, the university touted the fact that it was the first “Catholic, Jesuit higher education institution” to create an “LGBTQ Resource Center,” and emphasized that it is proud to celebrate the “LGBTQIA+ community” throughout “OUTober,” which the Church commemorates...

In 2026, political views are a major indicator of compatibility in dating. But most people aren't exactly disclosing this information on a first date, which means you're often left decoding subtle cues to gauge which side of the aisle someone's on. This detective work can be exhausting, so we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share the telltale signs that a man is liberal. If you're tired of reading between the lines, here's your checklist of 27 things to look out for on your next date: 1. "He’s definitely left-leaning if he's not afraid of the word tampons." —Anonymous,...

A Long Island Democratic congressional hopeful has made it clear in a recent interview that he is not ashamed of his past bondage modeling photos uncovered by The Post last month. Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) in the NY-01 district says he chose to pose for the racy photos almost 17 years ago because he was into it — not because he was manipulated — and he bragged that he thought he looked great, he told The New York Times. “I mean, all my friends know I’m kinky” as hell, he told the...

The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries both left the court before the national anthem ahead of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday at Chase Center. And they were back within seconds of it ending.

Chances are, you haven’t heard of this case out of Loudon, Virginia. Why, you might ask? Well, likely because it involves a male teacher parading around as a woman, who threatened to murder and then reportedly “eat” his student. In other words, more trans-related violence that the mainstream media loves to sweep under the rug. In a case that’s received little media attention, a cross-dressing teacher has been found guilty of making credible threats to murder his own pupils, and then even eat one. Hadyn Dollery, who goes by the name ‘Sophie’, faces 25 years in jail. https://t.co/Pn4c95vyYX — ripx4nutmeg...

...Dismantling White Supremacy in Sex Ed”: The Teacher-Training Group Pushing Pronoun Changes Without Parent Permission Teachers rehearse gender lessons and responses to concerned parents in a $325-an-hour virtual classroom ... “Strategies for Dismantling White Supremacy in Sex Ed” “Addressing White Privilege When Teaching Sex Ed” Those are actual offerings on the teacher-training menu at Advocates for Youth, the sex-education organization that partnered with the National Education Association to make its virtual training available to union members....

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 41-year-old Jacksonville woman was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for assaulting officers during an immigration operation, federal authorities announced Wednesday. Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger handed down the sentence to Jennifer Susan Cruz following an investigation into the January 13 incident in Jacksonville. According to court documents, federal immigration officers assisted by the Florida Highway Patrol were conducting an operation in Jacksonville on January 13 to arrest individuals unlawfully present in the United States. Cruz drove past the site while recording on her cellphone, parked nearby and began shouting at a trooper...

A transgender woman allegedly fatally stabbed a stranger she claimed bullied her about her gender in an attack so vicious that the knife broke off in the man’s skull. Kelly Day, 32, was with her partner and 7-year-old stepson when she allegedly launched the brutal assault on 50-year-old Larry Young after being mocked for using a women’s bathroom at McDonald’s earlier that day, the Chicago Tribune reported. Young was not among the separate group of strangers who allegedly insulted Day hours before Wednesday’s deadly stabbing on Chicago’s Far South Side, Assistant State Attorney Sara Grgurovic told the judge during a...

Woke 1 was so crazy? No, Woke 1 is still so crazy. It’s so crazy that not only did the Daughters of the American Revolution accept transgender men as members (that is men who falsely claim to be women), but that the organization leadership threatened and has now moved to disband the Martha Laird Chapter which was fighting to keep men out. A DAR chapter in Texas recently sent a letter to its national leadership pushing back against their decision to allow biological men who identify as transgender to participate in the DAR. On Saturday, however, the DAR National Board...

It wasn’t all that long ago that if The New York Post published photographs of an aspiring congressman wearing a leather collar and a chain-link leash, his campaign would have immediately been over. Yet that doesn’t seem to be the case for Chris Gallant, the gay, gun-toting former Black Hawk pilot who’s running for Congress on eastern Long Island. He still may not win, but these photos alone haven’t sunk his chances. When he was 20, Mr. Gallant modeled for promotional photos for Mr. S Leather, a San Francisco fetish brand; many of the photos, which capture Mr. Gallant engaged...

Zion Teasley, the man who stabbed Phoenix hiker Lauren Heike 15 times on a trail in 2023, has pleaded guilty to her murder in a deal that takes the death penalty off the table and sends him to prison for life. Teasley, 25, killed Heike, a 29-year-old beauty technician, after stalking her on a hiking trail near her home. Neighbors found her body at the foot of a barbed wire fence. Police said he chased her, killed her with a pocketknife, and jumped the fence to get away.

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state on Tuesday in connection with a February school shooting in British Columbia. The U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle says James Cody Bryant of Bellingham, Washington, communicated with the 18-year-old shooter for six months ahead of time. Bryant, who identifies as female, did not report the shooter’s plans to authorities and conspired with her to broadcast the attacks, authorities allege. “Without Bryant’s misplaced loyalty and willingness to operate the livestream, we don’t ultimately know if the shooter would have gone through with the crime,” said W. Mike Herrington,...

In 2022, I went on a French television show to debate what makes a woman a woman. For expressing my opinion, I have been convicted as a criminal. Marie Cau, the first transgender woman elected as mayor in France, poses on May 24, 2020. (François Lo Presti/AFP via Getty Images) The show was Quelle Époque!, a popular talk show, and across from me sat Marie Cau, France’s first transgender mayor. I argued that self-identification laws were potentially dangerous to women. I cited cases of men identifying as trans women who were transferred to women’s prisons, and later committed acts of...

Fall 2026 graduate-course syllabi obtained by The Dallas Express show Texas Christian University placing “settler colonialism,” “structural violence,” decolonial thinking and group “complicity” at the center of two College of Education courses. The documents do not present those concepts only as historical subjects for debate. One syllabus describes a land acknowledgment as part of “the ongoing process of breaking colonial mindsets” and asks how students may perpetuate colonial harm. Another says TCU continues to benefit from the forceful removal of Indigenous people. TCU requires all Curriculum Studies students to take “Curriculum History.” Course connects evil to settler colonialism The three-credit...

The old joke that “whoever said marriage is a 50-50 proposition didn’t know the half of it,” takes on a whole new meaning in a culture flirting with “polyamory.”... Most important in the drive to normalize polyamory is the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision. By legalizing same-sex “marriage” nationwide, the male/female distinction was treated as irrelevant for marriage, which opened the door to additional relational arrangements. In his dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts even questioned whether the arguments for same-sex marriage would justify “people who find fulfillment in polyamorous relationships.” The answer is unfortunately “yes.”

The wife of slain New York Times executive Jonathan McKinsey and daughter of his accused killers was seen strolling with her three young children in their Bay Area neighborhood Wednesday. The sighting came about an hour after Candice Jang’s 77-year-old parents, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, made their first court appearance, each accused of murder and 11 other criminal counts for their alleged part in McKinsey’s shooting death in the parking lot of a local park Saturday afternoon. One of those counts includes 'lying in wait' – a charge that presumes premeditation and carries a life-in-prison sentence with no chance...

New undercover footage shows a minister at Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico’s longtime church describing evangelical churches as “almost cult-like” and claiming white men in Texas are afraid of black and Hispanic Americans gaining political power. Rev. Babs Miller, Minister to the Parish at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, also said some evangelicals treat the Bible as a “magic book” and are “slightly or maybe greatly misguided.” In the footage obtained by Texas Scorecard, Miller was asked, “What is wrong with evangelicals?” Miller responded that some people “pick words over people,” pointing to how evangelicals interpret the Bible....

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with their daughter. Jonathan McKinsey, a 40-year-old gaming engineer for The New York Times, was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a sports complex in Dublin, east of San Francisco. A police sergeant was driving nearby and saw him on the ground as witnesses began calling 911 and pointing out the couple, who were still near the scene, Dublin Police Services said in...

On any given day in San Francisco there’ll be thousands of people out on the street walking their dogs, but only one day a year when you’ll see humans wearing the leashes instead of holding them.

A transgender Florida teenager was sentenced to 50 years behind bars after accepting a plea deal in the grisly 2024 slayings of her mother and her mom’s much-younger boyfriend. Julia Egler, 18, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the killings, in which she lay in wait for the couple to arrive at their Palm Bay home — greeting them with a “welcome home” before opening fire with her mother’s .38 revolver and then staging the scene to look like a burglary. The mom, Kelly McCollom, 38, and her boyfriend Matthew Szejnrok, 22, both died at the scene. Egler, who was...