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This Week on LGBTQ Nation

These queer organizers in Georgia are working overtime to flip the Senate blue   Billy Porter reminds us that LGBTQ people made the difference in the election. But the work’s not done yet.   Biden & Trump, Pete Buttigieg, Elliot Page… Here’s the top 10 LGBTQ stories of 2020

Here are just six victories for the LGBTQ community that came in 2020   A trans woman’s grandmother thanks Elliot Page for helping them by coming out: “I am proud”   Dr. Alicia Mousseau is the first out person on the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s executive council

New York enacts legislation that requires single-person bathrooms to be gender neutral   A trans woman was murdered on Christmas Day. Police are choosing to misgender her.   A Black gay man was slashed & left for dead by strangers. He spent the holidays in the hospital.

Town wants to name their library after the late RBG for being an “icon” for LGBTQ people   “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” centers a very real & very queer Black woman   2020 was the worst year for LGBTQ rights in Europe. But activists are ready to fight back.

RuPaul drops this gendered “Drag Race” catchphrase in favor of an inclusive one   There are only 15 lesbian bars left in the U.S. & they’re fighting to stay open in 2021   Watch a boat of gay protocol-skirting partygoers sink into the ocean “like the Titanic”