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"The first place I learned to be funny was on the schoolyard trying to defuse this weird tension around my body, says Ian Karmel. He won an Emmy Award in 2019 for his work on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" special with Paul McCartney.
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Pedestrians walk past the Fabulosa Books store in San Francisco's Castro District on Thursday. The bookstore is sending LGBTQ+ books to parts of the country where they are censored to counter the rapidly growing effort by anti-LGBTQ+ activists and lawmakers to ban queer-friendly books from public schools and libraries.
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In Jonathan Merritt's new book My Guncle and Me, a little boy's gay uncle helps him understand that being different makes him special.
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Freelance science writer Sadie Dingfelder is the author of the new book Do I Know You?, which explores human sight, memory and imagination.
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Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Ferris Jabr's book Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life examines the ways life and Earth have shaped each other.
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Author Jules Gill-Peterson poses next to her book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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Headshot by Kadji Amin and book cover design by Angela Lorenzo for Verso
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on June 3.
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