Gen Z has bucked social trends time and time again, often creating their own. But one thing social scientists have yet to fully explain? Gen Z’s increasingly different experience with sexuality. According to a recent PRRI report, nearly 30 percent of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ+. That’s a high figure when you take into account […]
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30% of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ
Nearly 30 percent of Generation Z women identify as a member of the LGBTQ community, according to a new report. The Gallup survey, released Wednesday, found that 28.5 percent of women and 10.6 percent of men born between 1997 and 2012 identify as LGBTQ. In comparison, the same report found that only 12.4 percent of […]
Embattled Harvard President Gay resigns
Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced Tuesday afternoon that she will step aside, following new accusations of plagiarism. Her resignation comes just six months after she was appointed in the top job. Gay’s departure follows heightened scrutiny of allegations that she plagiarized parts of some of her published works and in the wake of a […]
Obama lobbied to save Harvard President Gay
Former President Barack Obama reportedly lobbied to prevent Harvard President Claudine Gay from being forced to resign following her early December testimony before Congress on campus antisemitism. Obama lobbied on behalf of his alma mater’s president when her answers during testimony led to increased calls for her resignation, according to a new report. According to […]
Was Abraham Lincoln a ‘flaming gay queer’?
Discovery+ is the latest brand facing backlash as disgruntled social media users are unhappy with a documentary it produced speculating about Abraham Lincoln’s sexuality. Conservatives have now taken to Twitter to express their anger at the latest brand, Discovery+, over an episode of the streamer’s series, The Book of Queer. Titled What They Didn’t Teach […]
‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill introduced in Congress
House Republicans have introduced legislation that some critics are describing as a national “Don’t Say Gay” bill – inspired by the controversial Florida law that bans instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade classes. If the federal bill were to become law, which is unlikely in the current Congress, its […]
North Carolina To Outlaw Gay Marriage?
A bill filed Tuesday by four N.C. House Republicans would direct state government to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and restore the state constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage. House Bill 780 is titled “Uphold Historical Marriage Act,” and is sponsored by some of the House’s most conservative legislators. They frequently file bills that don’t […]