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So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health

Dragula season 7 drops today and Halloween is Friday. 🧛🏳️‍🌈 So, queer fam: what's the gayest horror movie of all time? Wrong answers will be judged. Jennifer's Body fans, we already hear you.

Alaska is about to tour as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola's Oh, Mary!, and she told The Guardian: "A dog would get treated better than a drag queen in Hollywood." 🎭💄 Hollywood's loss. The theater's gain. Hieeee, Mary. 👽

Happy 81st birthday, Lula. 🎂🇧🇷 Two days after pulling off the first-round-loss comeback nobody had managed since 1988, with Erika Hilton, Brazil's trans congresswoman, right there at the count. Best birthday present imaginable.

A federal appeals court just told Trump no, 2-1: California gets to count mail ballots from 20,000+ voters his administration wanted tossed as "likely noncitizens." ⚖️ Every attack on voters starts with deciding who doesn't count. Queer people know that list. Make yours count. 🏳️‍🌈

Trump's in Texas today rallying for Ken Paxton. 🤠 The new ad against Paxton is just Texas Republicans, John Cornyn included: "He's corrupt. And he's unfit for office." Trans Texans didn't need the reminder. Paxton spent years chasing trans kids' medical records. Talarico, Texas. 🗳️

RFK Jr. at a Mike Rogers rally in Michigan: "500 million Arabs... don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize." Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999. Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988. Tawakkol Karman, Peace, 2011. Queer folks know this move: erase a whole people first, then legislate. 🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD MORNING, TRANS PEOPLE. IT'S TUESDAY. 7 DAYS LEFT. THE MAN RUNNING HHS JUST TOLD A RALLY 500 MILLION ARABS "DON'T PRODUCE SCIENCE." HE CAN'T GOOGLE A NOBEL PRIZE, AND HE THINKS HE KNOWS YOUR BODY BETTER THAN YOU? HE DOESN'T. YOU DO. NOW GO VOTE.

Goodnight, queer fam. 🌙🏳️‍🌈 Monday's done. Eight days to go. If the news ate you alive today, log off, drink some water, text your people. Tomorrow we get back to it. What's one thing you're doing to rest tonight?

Cynthia Erivo did a "Nigerian Wicked" sketch on SNL UK, and Queerty's verdict is in: Elphaba and Glinda are FINALLY gay. 💚🩷 Two movies, a Broadway run, and it took a sketch show to say what we all saw. Gelphie rights.

Obama says Trump has the White House "looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." 🍰✨ As gays, we must be clear: the Cheesecake Factory is camp. Gold columns, a menu the length of a novel, total commitment to the bit. The Oval Office isn't camp. It's gold leaf and insecurity.

The Trump administration is reportedly pushing Viktor Orbán, the man who banned Pride in Hungary, to run the United Nations, with Russia and China on board. 🇺🇳 Budapest marched anyway, by the tens of thousands. The world can say no to him too. UK and France: you have vetoes. Use them.

House Judiciary Democrats just released a 50-page report: evidence involving 11 women, five of whom accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's company or presence. 🚨 They want a special counsel and say DOJ buried evidence. Remember this next time they call drag queens a threat to kids.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD EVENING, TRANS PEOPLE. THEY WANT ORBÁN, THE MAN WHO BANNED PRIDE IN HUNGARY, RUNNING THE UN. LET THEM TRY. WE'VE OUTLASTED EVERY ONE OF THEM AND WE'LL OUTLAST HIM. 8 DAYS. REST TONIGHT. VOTE LIKE YOU MEAN IT.

Question for the afternoon, queer fam: 📺🏳️‍🌈 Who was the first queer character you saw on screen who made you think "oh. that's me"? Give us the show, how old you were, and how long you pretended it wasn't a big deal.

Heated Rivalry S2's Justice Smith today: "The root of homophobia is sexism." 🏒💅 He also said queer men shouldn't police each other's masculinity OR femininity. Soft, loud, butch, femme, all of it counts. Harris Drover already has my whole heart.

Turkish police detained 45 people, most of them trans women, in raids across seven cities over social media posts prosecutors called "obscene" and "encouraging gender-neutralization." 🇹🇷 That's "protect the family" politics with a badge. Solidarity with trans women in Turkey. 🏳️‍⚧️

Bloomberg: Trump or his money managers made ~28,700 trades in 17 months. All of Congress combined? ~22,200. 📈 Now Joint Economic Committee Dems say his oil and gas stocks are up ~43% this year, during his Iran war. He wants a trading ban for Congress. Just not for him. 💅

Iowa Democrat Josh Turek, one week out, dropped an ad against trans girls in sports and against "taxpayers paying for sex changes." 🙄 That means cutting off care for trans adults on Medicaid, Medicare and federal plans. You can't say "no Iowan should face discrimination" and then do this.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ HELLO AGAIN, TRANS PEOPLE. TURKEY JUST DETAINED 45 PEOPLE, MOSTLY TRANS WOMEN, FOR "OBSCENITY." AN IOWA DEMOCRAT IS RUNNING ADS AGAINST YOUR HEALTH CARE. NEITHER OF THEM GETS TO DECIDE WHETHER YOU EXIST. YOU DO. AND WE'RE RIGHT HERE. 8 DAYS. 🗳️

Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Chekov, has died at 90. 🖖 That bridge crew told a lot of outsider kids, queer ones included, that the future had room for all of us. Rest easy, Mr. Chekov.

Monday afternoon check-in, queer fam: 🏳️‍🌈 What's one thing getting you through these last 8 days before the election? A show, a song, a friend, a snack. Drop it below so we can all borrow it. 💜

Trump on Fox about Iran: "Do I make a deal with them, or do I finish them off?" That's not foreign policy. That's a reality show cliffhanger with real bombs, while Brent crude sits around $115. 🛢️ And they spent a year telling you trans people were the crisis.

Trump is flying to Mississippi today to rescue Cindy Hyde-Smith. In a state he won by nearly 23 points. 🗳️ You don't spend a Monday in Corinth unless you're nervous. Scott Colom has them sweating. Mississippi queers, this one's yours. 8 days.

A federal judge just ruled the DOJ unlawfully fired Maurene Comey. No cause, no notice, just "came from Washington." ⚖️ Judge Furman says their fire-anyone-we-want theory runs against nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent. Retribution isn't a constitutional power.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD AFTERNOON, TRANS PEOPLE. A JUDGE JUST RULED TRUMP'S DOJ BROKE THE LAW FIRING MAURENE COMEY. THEY DON'T GET TO ERASE PEOPLE BY MEMO. NOT HER. NOT YOU. 8 DAYS. VOTE LIKE YOU'RE STILL HERE. BECAUSE YOU ARE. 💙🩷🤍

Monday question, queer fam: 🗳️🏳️‍🌈 Have you voted yet? If yes, what got you there early? If not, what's the plan: early, mail, or Election Day? Drop it below and let's hold each other to it.

More than 27 million Americans have already voted early. 🗳️ And a federal appeals court sounded skeptical of Trump's DOJ trying to set aside up to 20,000 California mail ballots. They're scared of turnout. Give them more of it. 8 days. 🏳️‍🌈

Nicki Minaj told a Trump rally she doesn't want kids "bombarded with sex changes." The gays built your career, Nicki. The stans, the drag queens, the Pride sets. 💅 Trans kids aren't bombarded by anything except the politicians you were standing next to. 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump stood in Port Huron and called Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist," compared voting against him to fighting the Flight 93 hijackers, and said he wants him to go through a metal detector. 🤢 Zero evidence. Pure bigotry. Queer folks know they start with one group. Michigan, vote. 🏳️‍🌈

Erika Hilton, Brazil's trans congresswoman, watched the count next to Lula last night and posted: "QUE EMOÇÃO! Tudo valeu a pena." 🌟💗 What a feeling. It was all worth it. A trans woman on the winning side of history, on camera. Save that clip for the hard days. 🏳️‍⚧️

Lula just did what no Brazilian candidate had done since 1988: lost the first round, then won the runoff, 51.8% to 48.2%. 🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro wants the result annulled. Of course he does. Queer Brazilians just kept a Bolsonaro out of power. Again. 🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD MORNING, TRANS PEOPLE. IT'S MONDAY. 8 DAYS LEFT. BRAZIL JUST RE-ELECTED LULA, AND ERIKA HILTON, A BLACK TRANS WOMAN IN CONGRESS, WATCHED THE COUNT RIGHT BESIDE HIM. THAT'S WHERE YOU BELONG. IN THE ROOM. ON THE BALLOT. AT THE TABLE. 🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️

Sunday night, queer fam: 🌙🏳️‍🌈 Brazil's counting, Serbia's celebrating, and we've got nine days. Log off for a bit, drink some water, text a friend. What's one thing you're doing for yourself before the week starts?

Katy Perry turns 42 today. 🎂🍒 In 2008 "I Kissed a Girl" was a lot of closeted kids' first secret anthem. Then the queer kids who actually kissed girls (and boys) took it from there. 🏳️‍🌈

Kevin Kruse said it: any politician willing to throw away one group's rights is willing to throw away everyone's. 🏳️‍⚧️ Democrats running anti-trans ads nine days out: trans people aren't your poll-tested sacrifice. Decency isn't a liability. Cowardice is.

TMZ says White House staffers are floating Nicki Minaj for press secretary. 💅 The Barbz deserve better than briefing-room gaslighting, and so do we. This administration treats governing like a reality show casting call.

Brazil's Supreme Court extended voting two hours after reports of buses not running in Lula-friendly areas. 🇧🇷 Early returns have Lula narrowly ahead, but it's early. Voter suppression from the right is never subtle. Thinking of every queer Brazilian tonight. 🏳️‍🌈

Vučić just conceded. A student-led anti-corruption movement beat his 12-year grip on Serbia. 🇷🇸✊ Young people organizing beat an authoritarian machine. Queer kids, take notes: nine days.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD EVENING, TRANS PEOPLE. SERBIA'S STUDENTS JUST BEAT A 12-YEAR STRONGMAN. BRAZIL IS COUNTING RIGHT NOW. 9 DAYS UNTIL IT'S OUR TURN. YOU ARE NOT A WEDGE ISSUE. YOU ARE A PERSON. REST UP. 🏳️‍⚧️

Sunday question, queer fam: 🎃🏳️‍🌈 Halloween is Saturday. What's the costume this year? Group looks, last-minute chaos, deeply niche references, all welcome. Drop it below so we can all steal ideas.

Zara Larsson just backed Lula in Brazil's runoff: "Vamos lá, Brasil!" 🎤🇧🇷 Pedro Pascal, Almodóvar, Tilda, now Zara. When the gays' favorite people all land on the same side, pay attention. Results tonight. Bora, Brasil. 🏳️‍🌈

After days of denials, Elon Musk now admits SpaceX throttled Ukraine's Starlink for more than a week. 🛰️ One unelected billionaire flipping a war zone's internet off and on, while calling himself a free speech warrior. Queer folks know: a billionaire's "freedom" is never ours.

Ohio venues are canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy's bus tour over the ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother. 🚌❌ "It's that damn ad," a top Ohio Republican told Zeteo. A brewery has more decency than his campaign. Every queer kid with a family like that sees you, Amy.

12 Catholic bishops gathered at the Resolute Desk to pray over Trump, less than two weeks before the midterms. The USCCB says it had nothing to do with it. 🙏 The White House then bragged he "stopped the chemical mutilation" of kids. Trans kids deserve shepherds, not photo ops.

Trump says he personally told the DOJ to sue Alaska to block certifying its Senate race if Republican Dan Sullivan loses to Mary Peltola. ⚖️🗳️ The excuse: another man named Sullivan is on the ballot. Queer folks know this move. When you can't win the argument, you go after the count.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ HAPPY SUNDAY, TRANS PEOPLE. THE DOJ WANTS TO BLOCK ALASKA'S SENATE RESULT IF THEIR GUY LOSES. THEY DON'T TRUST VOTERS. WE NEVER NEEDED THEIR PERMISSION TO EXIST. 9 DAYS LEFT. YOU ARE LOVED. YOU ARE NOT A DEBATE. GO VOTE.

Sunday afternoon check-in, queer fam: 💜 What's one small queer thing that made you smile this week? A text, a show, a stranger, a pin on someone's jacket. Drop it below. We could all use the reminder.

Six days until Halloween, aka gay Christmas. 🎃🏳️‍🌈 Reminder: your costume only has to make sense to you and the group chat. Camp is a valid lifestyle choice.

ProPublica/NYT: a tiny Texas town rebuilding from a flood signed its police up for ICE's 287(g) program. Within a year, cops handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town. 💔 Queer and trans immigrants are in those numbers. Deputizing local cops as deportation agents is a choice. Vote it out.

A court says Trump violated the law with his Los Angeles National Guard deployment, and it decided for itself there was no rebellion instead of deferring to him. ⚖️🏳️‍🌈 Queer folks know who fake "emergencies" get aimed at next. Every judge who refuses to rubber-stamp one takes a weapon off the table.