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Added on: 06/24/2022

Is the LGBT Community Doing Enough to Fight Monkeypox?

06/23/2022

“Monkeypox is not a gay disease.” “Anyone can get monkeypox.” We’ve heard this ad infinitum—and it’s accurate—but as we attempt to avoid stoking stigma and homophobia, I fear…

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Added on: 06/23/2022

Get up, walk the dog – my life is mundane, but because I’m gay Texas Republicans think I’m abnormal

06/22/2022

This morning, I woke up earlier than I wanted to, fed the baby, walked the dog, chatted with my wife and procrastinated over some work. Yawningly mundane,…

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Added on: 06/22/2022

Leading Colorado LGBTQ lawmakers find Pride — and insight — in Israel

06/21/2022

State Rep. Brianna Titone was a grand marshal of the Denver Pride Parade in 2019 and has walked in Pride parades in New York and Copenhagen, but…

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Added on: 06/21/2022

LGBTQ rap collectives are here to stay – and we couldn’t be more proud.

06/20/22

Something close to alchemy happens when rap collectives make music together. Differing voices, perspectives, and styles collide over the beat, materializing in fresh, exciting musical ideas. Often,…

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Added on: 06/20/2022

How Henna Is Helping Proudly Brown And Queer Individuals Reconnect With Their Heritage

06/19/2022

In a rebellious move against the gender binary, as well as notions of toxic masculinity imposed by their South Asian heritage, brown gay men and non-binary individuals…

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Added on: 06/19/2022

Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks by US extremist groups surge as right spews vitriol

6/18/22

In Idaho, police recently found 31 members of a white supremacist group packed into the back of a U-Haul truck, apparently on their way to an LGBTQ+…

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Added on: 06/17/2022

Right-Wing Groups Target Pride Events Amid Rising Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

06/16/2022

Panda Dulce was just about to begin her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday in San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched…

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Added on: 06/16/2022

Biden targets conversion therapy, transgender bans in Pride Month order

06/15/2022

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at curbing discrimination against transgender youth and drying up federal funding for the controversial practice of…

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Added on: 06/16/2022

7 LGBTQ Uprisings Before Stonewall

06/15/2022

The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are arguably the most famous and impactful uprisings for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) rights. But they are not the…

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Added on: 06/14/2022

In the wake of ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ LGBTQ students won’t be silenced.

06/13/2022

Nearly a dozen Winter Park High School students settled into a classroom, forming a semi-circle around 17-year-old Will Larkins, who sat cross-legged on a desk. It was…

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Added on: 06/13/2022

LGBTQ-affirming high school in Alabama has its first graduating class

06/12/2022

In Birmingham, Alabama, families, and friends of students of Magic City Acceptance Academy attended the charter school’s inaugural graduation ceremony. MCAA is a charter school that promises…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Congressional candidate pledges to ‘start executing’ Americans promoting ‘LGBTQ indoctrination’ for ‘treason’

6/11/22

Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist MAGA pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, declared that if he is elected, he will reinstate the House…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Meet the group that works to crack transgender cold cases

6/10/22

The walls of Anthony Redgrave’s office are filled with people whose stories have been cut short. He is a forensic genealogist. “We have to take care of…

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Added on: 06/10/2022

Texas pastor says gay people should be ‘shot in the back of the head’ in shocking sermon

06/09/2022

A Texas baptist church — labeled an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has caused outrage after a pastor said gay people should…

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Added on: 06/09/2022

Yass marine! Here come rainbow bullets and brunches for Pride’s annual pinkwashing

06/08/2022

Last Thursday, Ihop tweeted out what may be the most half-hearted appeal to queer liberation in the history of corporate America. “S/O to everyone who puts the pan in…

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Added on: 06/08/2022

Inside Mexico City’s First LGBTQ Soup Kitchen.

06/07/2022

Like many parts of Mexico City, the Guerrero neighborhood feels simultaneously bustling and relaxed. Just northwest of the city’s historic center, kids play in the street as…

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Added on: 06/08/2022

Sheila Lopez’s Children Led Her to a Navajo Tradition of Acceptance.

06/07/2022

When Sheila Lopez, 48, realized that her two older children identified as LGBTQ, the information set her on a path to rediscovering her Native American cultural traditions…

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Added on: 06/07/2022

Fight looms over transgender treatments in Medicaid.

06/06/2022

National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups are preparing to fight a move by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone…

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Added on: 06/06/2022

Sit-in over anti-LGBTQ policy surpasses 300 hours at SPU

06/05/2022

SEATTLE – Students at Seattle Pacific University have crossed the 300 hour mark of a sit-in over an anti-LGBTQ policy. The sit-in began as a direct response to the…

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Added on: 06/05/2022

GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection

6/3/22

House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college…

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Added on: 06/05/2022

85 YEARS ON, A PIONEERING LGBTQ RESEARCHER’S IDEAS ABOUT SEXUALITY TAKE ON NEW MEANING

6/3/22

Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century — an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know…

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Added on: 06/05/2022

Mexican LGBTQ group rallies support for beach ‘paradise’ battered by storm

6/3/22

When Hurricane Agatha battered a Mexican beach hamlet popular with LGBTQ residents and visitors earlier this week, members of the community sprang into action to help the…

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Added on: 06/03/2022

Kuwait’s foreign ministry summons U.S. Embassy official over tweets

06/02/2022

June 2 (Reuters) – Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the United States Embassy’s acting charge d’affaires over tweets the embassy published that “support homosexuality”, the ministry…

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Added on: 06/03/2022

After years fighting for the ‘little guy’, Hong Kong crackdown forces UK lawyer to flee

06/02/2022

Michael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the “little guy” in Hong Kong, from high-profile street protesters such as Joshua Wong to little-known LGBT activists. But…

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Added on: 06/02/2022

Meet Charlie Amáyá Scott, a transgender Indigenous scholar and social influencer

06/01/2022

Navajo Nation citizen Charlie Amáyá Scott, 27, is a transgender social media influencer, scholar and advocate. Scott, of Aurora, Colorado, who uses she and they pronouns, leverages her…

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Added on: 06/01/2022

Gay/Trans ‘Panic’ Defense Leads to Accused Killer’s Acquittal.

05/31/2022

A Virginia man has been acquitted of murder after using what amounted to a gay/trans “panic” defense, outlawed in the state just a month after the victim’s…

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Added on: 05/31/2022

Youth group’s new zine showcases 2SLGBTQ+ talent in rural Ontario.

05/30/2022

When Mabe Kyle was in their teens, they didn’t think that 2SLGBTQ+ people existed in rural Ontario, but years later, the youth group that Kyle co-founded has…

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Added on: 05/30/2022

At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who

05/29/2022

On a recent Sunday afternoon at Finnish Hall, Mira Barakat, a tango instructor, demonstrated a connection exercise designed to help students be more responsive to their partner’s…

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Added on: 05/28/2022

NYU’s Nursing School Finally Has a Course on Queer and Trans Health

5/27/22

LGBTQ+ people across the U.S. are facing bigger challenges than ever before in obtaining necessary and competent healthcare, but students at one nursing school want to change…

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Added on: 05/28/2022

Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world.’

5/27/22

Students come to Jewish Queer Youth secretively — through a Google search, a meme on social media, a pamphlet in their local pizzeria, a chat between two…