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Cassandra Whitaker
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Poet, Writer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, full length out in 25 with Jackleg Press. https://wolfs-den.page/

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Salisbury's rainbow crosswalk draws a devoted defender before repainting this week
The repainting of Salisbury’s rainbow crosswalks beginning this week has garnered a lot of attention and one devoted defender: K.T. Tuminello.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/10/a...
Plan to remove Salisbury rainbow crosswalk sparks backlash, confusion
Advocate KT Tuminello began a hunger strike in downtown Salisbury to protest the city’s plan to replace Maryland’s first Pride crosswalk.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Democrats, Republicans, Independents — all of us — because that embodies the message we sent tonight, and that is Virginia.

Let’s put Virginia on a path forward. Let's show the world what we're made of. Let's get to work.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history. Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow"
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Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes
Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Every single time, it's a collection of people so bigoted that everyone in their life no longer wanted to be associated with them. Their partners left them, their friends stopped talking to them, their bigoted harassment gets them booted from social media. These are not good people.
Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January. Alt text: Series of screenshots from a Wall Street Journal article discussing internal tensions within the LGBTQ+ community over gender identity and activism. The first section describes a man named Arango rejecting gender identity after reading queer theory, losing his boyfriend and friends as a result, and feeling alienated from the LGBTQ+ community. The next section quotes Ann Menasche, a 72-year-old civil rights lawyer, criticizing gender ideology for erasing the concept of sexual orientation; it notes she was fired from her job in 2022 after objecting to removing the word “women” from a statement and later filed a lawsuit. The following section, titled “Out of the closet,” introduces Nevlene Nnaji, a 35-year-old artist who blogs under the name N3VLYNNN, describing her rejection of gender ideology, loss of friendships, and frustration with comparisons between transgender and racial oppression. The final section says that in 2023, Nnaji lost her Instagram account after expressing support for black lesbian detransitioners; Meta declined to comment but noted its hate-speech policy has since changed and restrictions were lifted on some topics in January.
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM