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Added on: 02/09/2023
02/08/2023
If you are a queer in India, you have definitely heard of the Naz Foundation. An NGO that works on HIV/AIDS and sexual health, this is also the…

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Added on: 02/08/2023
Missouri school employees would be banned from talking about gender and sexual orientation under a proposal heard by a Senate committee Tuesday morning. Senate Bill 134, put…

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Added on: 02/07/2023
02/06/2023
A resolution asking medical professionals to obtain consent from minors with intersex traits before doing medical or surgical intervention was approved Monday by the ABA House of…

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Added on: 02/06/2023
02/05/2023
Charles Silverstein, who helped remove homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses and coauthored The Joy of Gay Sex, has died at age 87. Silverstein’s death…

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Added on: 02/05/2023
02/04/2023
Over the past year, a new front for hate has opened up across Canada and the United States, with drag performances and gender-affirming care providers becoming targets…

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Added on: 01/03/2023
01/02/2023
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by…

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Added on: 01/02/2023
01/01/2023
It took Xander nearly a decade to try community college again. The incoming American River College student first attempted higher education in North Carolina in 2013. But…

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Added on: 12/31/2022
12/30/2022
A sharply divided federal appeals court on Friday upheld a Florida high school’s policy forbidding transgender students from using bathrooms that accord with their chosen identities. In…

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Added on: 12/30/2022
12/29/2022
Last year, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, labeled 2021 the “worst year” for LGBTQ rights in modern U.S. history, citing a record…

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Added on: 12/29/2022
12/28/2022
As the year 2022 comes into an end, the LGBTQ community has found itself in upheaval in the United States and in the world as many continue…

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Added on: 12/27/2022
12/26/2022
Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is “very gay.” They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for…

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Added on: 12/27/2022
12/26/2022
Same-sex couples in China are making their love official in the United States — all from the comfort of their own homes. Yi Yang and Johny Ni…

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Added on: 12/26/2022
12/25/2022
Music and technology company Venice Music has named Dani Oliva as their vice president of legal and business affairs. He is the first openly transgender person to become…

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Added on: 12/25/2022
12/24/2022
In the same month that he tweeted mocking pronouns, and urged people to follow conspiracy theorists QAnon, Musk reportedly told investors he would not “censor” his views…

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Added on: 12/24/2022
12/23/2022
Every day, in the centre of Mexico City, a flea market takes place. At the market, trans girls and queer folx gather under a railway, selling clothing,…

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Added on: 12/23/2022
12/22/2022
For the past year, we’ve been subjected to an endless, escalating right-wing fearmongering campaign presenting LGBTQ adults as innate child sexual predators, or “groomers,” and any children…

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Added on: 12/20/2022
12/19/2022
During last week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., Biden administration officials pressed Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on his country’s anti-LGBTQ policies, theGrio exclusively reports. An anonymous…

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Added on: 12/17/2022
A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four…

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Added on: 12/17/2022
12/16/2022
Coordinated online hate targeting doctors and hospitals providing gender-affirming care to youth leads to real-life violence, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)….

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Added on: 12/16/2022
12/15/2022
In November, the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Red Oak Community School in Columbus, Ohio, announced a “Holi-Drag Storytime” event where drag queens would read books to…

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Added on: 12/14/2022
Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub testified Wednesday to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the…

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Added on: 12/14/2022
12/13/2022
Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law landmark legislation protecting same-sex marriages, hailing it as a step toward building a nation where “decency, dignity and love are…

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Added on: 12/13/2022
12/12/2022
On a warmer-than-average Dec. 12, 2002, Keith Purdy started his shift like any other. He was the bartender at Texas Lounge in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood — a…

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Added on: 12/12/2022
12/11/2022
Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride…

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Added on: 12/12/2022
12/11/2022
United States Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer has advised Ghanaians and their representatives in Parliament to respect international obligations and Domestic laws which centre on the need…

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Added on: 12/11/2022
12/10/2022
Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family…

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Added on: 12/09/2022
12/09/2022
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the…

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Added on: 12/09/2022
12/09/2022
Out gay American basketball star Brittney Griner was freed by Russia, in exchange for the US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of…

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Added on: 12/06/2022
12/5/2022
The Supreme Court’ s conservative majority seemed to be searching Monday for a way to allow religious business owners to opt out of providing certain kinds of…

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Added on: 12/05/2022
12/04/2022
Saskatchewan resident Dwayne Belcourt is accusing the Saskatchewan Health Authority of discrimination because he says his late husband’s tissues were disqualified due to his same-sex relationship. On Aug. 30, Belcourt’s husband…