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The right-wing representative launched a campaign following Angela Carini's loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman.
The internet is CACKLING over the possibility that the Olympic gold medal winner could take down Musk and Rowling!
Various celebrities and politicians are issuing hateful, transphobic remarks about the Algerian boxer competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Campbell Harrison is all for queer visibility, even kissing his boyfriend on camera when he scored his spot in the Olympics.
His story is the subject of the new Netflix documentary Stay On Board.
Women killed it in sports this year!
While international homophobia sometimes takes center-stage, don't count out good ol' America's ability to be just as bigoted as our friends across the pond.
Billie Jean King made it to Sochi in time for Closing Ceremonies.
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz says the IOC should have made a better choice than Russia for the games, while LGBT athlete ally Hudson Taylor gives a glimpse into what it's like to be gay in Sochi.
There may only be six out athletes at Sochi, but they are making a good showing!
This week's collection of outrage-inducing news spans the globe, from antigay psuedoscientists in Uganda, to proudly bigoted restaurateurs in Oklahoma.
Lesbian-on-lesbian cage matches, a $7 million payout in pro poker, and Abby Wambach's legs made 2013 a kickass year to be a female athlete.
Now wouldn't this be nice?
Russian president Vladimir Putin told national sports officials today that his administration will 'do everything' to make sure LGBT athletes and spectators are 'comfortable' at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The United States Olympic Committee announced that it has expanded its existing nondiscrimination policy to include protections for sexual orientation.
Welcome to SheWired 's weekly round-up of the most infuriating bits of news from the past seven days.
"The athletes who have the most to derive from it" should be the ones to decide if a boycott of the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia is appropriate, says the out tennis legend.
The International Olympic Committee says it plans to stop any athlete from showing support of LGBT Russians at the Sochi Winter Games.
Responding to the International Olympic Committee's request for "clarification" about how Russia's anti-LGBT laws will affect Olympic athletes at the Winter Games in Sochi next year, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs today issued a statement confirming that LGBT athletes and spectators will be safe — as long as they don't discuss or disclose their orientation.
I like a good boycott. Chick-fil-A's CEO is an unabashed antigay donor? Fine, I don't need his deep-fried, sodium-chicken anyway. We even un-registered from Target for my 2010 wedding and switched to Bed Bath & Beyond because the CEO had donated to an antigay organization. The spouse and I are gangster like that. Quite frankly, I can thoroughly live the rest of my life without Russian vodka. I'm more of a craft beer or tiny winery type of gal, anyway.
