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This story originally appeared on The Advocate. On Karoline Leavitt’s final day as White House press secretary, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, took a black marker to a map and crossed out the name of a 7,300-square-mile Great Lake shared with Canada. “Lake Ontario, that’s gone,” Trump declared as he replaced it with “Lake America.” Then came an emphatic clarification. “Without the ‘of,’” he said.

Love Island USA fans everywhere are vibrating as the reunion of everyone’s favorite heteropessimist reality dating show is set to air on Monday, August 31st. While the American version of the show has yet to include a significant queer storyline within the walls of the villa —and no, Zach and Bryce’s bromance doesn’t count — there have been some contestants who have come out as LGBTQ+ on the show.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s stand-your-ground law protects a transgender activist. Rihanna Kelver has maintained that Scott Durham hurled anti-trans slurs and pushed her to the ground outside the Crowbar & Grille in Laramie before she pulled out a gun. Still, police arrested Kelver on charges including aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both. The former first son declared himself 48.5 percent gay during a recent interview with gay progressive political commentator Luke Beasley — although the figure changed several times as Biden flirted, sparred, and joked his way through the conversation. “Let’s get serious. I am gay,” Beasley told him near the beginning of the 80-minute interview. “Really? Wow. Seriously.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. The Trump administration’s immigration dragnet has caught one of MAGA’s provocateurs. Milo Yiannopoulos, the "ex-gay" British far-right personality who entered the orbits of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ye (formerly Kanye West) after building a career on outrage, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Louisiana airport Friday, TMZ first reported.

This story originally appeared on Out. Dr. Evan Goldstein has been helping make bottoming healthier and more pain-free for years through his practice, Bespoke Surgical, and now his expertise is coming to a CVS store near you. Goldstein, one of the country’s leading anal surgeons, not only offers everything from butt facials and anal Botox to anal fissure treatments and surgical reconstruction, but he’s also worked to perfect anal sex prep through his company Future Method.

This story originally appeared on The Advocate. The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the Pentagon to fire decorated transgender troops who have so far beaten the government in court. The Department of Justice is asking the high court to intervene before a judge can hold a trial on whether the ban forcing them out is constitutional.

It’s time to let the waterbender be a bit more fluid. Gay shippers and fans of the multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch are gobsmacked that a new comic in the game’s lore-widening Overwatch Undivided series has confirmed that support hero Wuyang has a crush on fellow healer Juno, a Martian.

This medical group would like transphobes to keep its name out of their mouth. A right-wing anti-trans campaign seeking to ban trans athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity has decided not to comply with a request from the American Academy of Pediatrics to remove mention of the medical group in a voters’ pamphlet sent to 3.6 million people in Washington State, per a report in the Seattle Times.

There was only one movie I wanted to watch on the day Tim Curry died. Much as I love The Rocky Horror Picture show with its celebration of alterity and sexual liberation, one of the actor’s performances, for me, stands head and shoulders above the rest. I am talking, of course, about 1985’s Clue, the madcap board game adaptation that received middling reviews upon release, failed to make back its budget, and yet somehow went on to become an endlessly quotable and beloved cult comedy.