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Added on: 12/30/2021
12/29/2021
A group of UPenn swimmers were so upset by transgender athlete Lia Thomas’ advantages that they mulled boycotting their final home meet — but decided not to for…

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Added on: 12/29/2021
12/28/2021
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said it would not reconsider its November decision upholding the release of rare federal court video from the 2010 landmark trial…

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Added on: 12/28/2021
12/27/2021
A viral TikTok video, which offers families to stand in as parents for same-sex couples on their wedding day, has led the creation of an LGBTQ+ Facebook…

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Added on: 12/25/2021
12/24/2021
Students of an Indiana high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance group (GSA) who sued their school for the right to be treated like all other clubs were finally granted…

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Added on: 12/20/2021
The U.S. Senate confirmed Christopher John Lamora’s appointment on Saturday. His was one of dozens of Democratic president Joe Biden’s ambassador nominations that had been stalled since…

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Added on: 12/17/2021
12/16/2021
C says all he can see are tall buildings surrounding him. “It feels like I have escaped death, but now I am in a prison,” he told…

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Added on: 12/16/2021
12/15/2021
A Kansas City-area school district must pay a transgender student $4 million after it refused to let him use the boys’ restrooms or locker rooms, a Jackson…

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Added on: 12/16/2021
12/14/2021
A Methodist church in Boise, Idaho, has sparked controversy by replacing a vast stained glass window that depicted founding fathers Robert E Lee, George Washington, and Abe…

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Added on: 12/14/2021
The church volunteers assembled furniture and hung decorations in the newly renovated apartment building. They laid out nearly every necessity, down to the bath towels, bed linens,…

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Added on: 12/12/2021
12/11/2021
Constitutional scholars in the US said a litany of rights, from same-sex marriage and sex to birth control and in vitro fertilization, could come into question if…

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Added on: 12/11/2021
12/10/21
Gautam Raghavan, a gay Indian-American, will be the highest-ranking out member of the White House staff when he advances to director of the Office of Presidential Personnel….

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Added on: 12/10/2021
12/09/2021
At least 20 million adults in the U.S. could be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new report released by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation….

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Added on: 12/06/2021
12/05/2021
An anti-LGBT+ hate group has asked the US Supreme Court to allow it to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to overturn its hate group status….

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Added on: 12/06/2021
12/5/2021
After years of distance between myself and my hometown of Amityville, Long Island, I returned in the spring for my cousin’s birthday. But this time, I had…

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Added on: 12/05/2021
The Bisexual Pride flag with it’s three stripes of pink, lavender, and blue, was unveiled for the first time on this day in 1998. The flag was…

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Added on: 12/04/2021
12/3/21
Three years ago this week, Leo Allenby arrived in New York, leaving Russia after an attack left him with injuries so severe he required surgery. As the…

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Added on: 12/03/2021
12/2/2021
French-American cabaret star and civil rights activist Josephine Baker has become the first Black woman to enter the Panthéon, nearly 50 years after her death. The bisexual…

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Added on: 12/02/2021
12/1/2021
OTTAWA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday voted unanimously to ban LGBT conversion therapy, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or…

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Added on: 12/01/2021
11/30/2021
As Native American Heritage Month comes to a close, we wanted to honor some of the many LGBTQ and two-spirit Native American people working every day to…

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Added on: 11/29/2021
11/28/2021
Michael Failla doesn’t get much sleep. In the dead of the night, the Seattle resident gets panicked calls and messages from members of the LGBTQ community in…

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Added on: 11/27/2021
11/26/21
Associate Professor Georgiann Davis from the Department of Sociology at The University of New Mexico was an invited speaker at a recent virtual roundtable event with the…

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Added on: 11/26/2021
11/25/2021
In a new LGBT+ glossary, aiming to educate the public and media on LGBT+ language and community, Google has literally erased bisexuality. Last week, the Google News…

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Added on: 11/25/2021
11/23/2021
A mother in Texas last week organized a children’s book reading featuring transgender characters after her local public library canceled their Rainbow Storytime on Transgender Day of…

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Added on: 11/23/2021
11/22/2021
Apetition drive in Nebraska is trying to change the state’s constitution to eliminate the Nebraska State Board of Education and replace it with a new department accountable…

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Added on: 11/22/2021
11/21/2021
Kathy May was getting her four kids ready for another day at school in late October when she got an urgent voicemail from a friend. “OMG, OMG,…

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Added on: 11/21/2021
Joe Biden issued a statement in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, memorializing the dozens of transgender people who were killed this year in America and saying…

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Added on: 11/20/2021
The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is nixing a Trump-era rule that exempted federally-funded foster care providers from following non-discrimination rules in Michigan,…

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Added on: 11/17/2021
11/16/2021
Over three special legislative sessions this year, Texas legislators introduced 47 proposed bills that aimed to restrict transgender kids’ access to sports or gender-affirming care, plus three…

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Added on: 11/16/2021
11/15/2021
A U.S. Army veteran was rejected by dozens of long-term care facilities, with some even saying that she’s being denied care because she’s transgender. When Lisa Oakley…

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Added on: 11/15/2021
11/14/2021
After narrowly winning the Virginia gubernatorial race over a week ago, governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) has begun naming officials to his transition team as he prepares to…