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Added on: 11/13/2021
11/12/21
This year proved to be the deadliest on record for transgender and nonbinary people, with at least 45 recorded deaths in 2021. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC)…

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Added on: 11/12/2021
11/11/2021
Navy veteran Rhett Chalk was rendered quadriplegic on Thanksgiving Day in 2003 after his knee — which he severely impaired while serving in Vietnam — gave out,…

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Added on: 11/10/2021
11/09/2021
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) adults have higher levels of mental health issues, physical abuse and economic instability than their non-LGBTQ…

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Added on: 11/08/2021
11/07/2021
For many transgender people, accessing gender-affirming care is a labyrinth of insurance coverage trap doors, referral letter hoops, and discriminatory falling axes. Social media and online communities…

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Added on: 11/07/2021
A Navy ship named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served four years in the Navy before being forced out, was christened and launched in…

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Added on: 11/05/2021
A gay Polish politician is asking the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to reverse a street name change made seven years ago that saw a gay icon…

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Added on: 11/05/2021
11/04/2021
A Texas federal judge recently laid a path allowing for-profit businesses to use religion as a shield against LGBT anti-discrimination claims, but attorneys and academics question whether…

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Added on: 11/04/2021
11/1/2021
Mexico’s men’s national soccer team will be forced to play two more World Cup qualifiers in empty stadiums after its fans continued yelling an anti-gay slur at…

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Added on: 11/03/2021
11/02/2021
“Pray the Gay Away.” These words, plastered on large posters above the face of British alt-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, greeted visitors at Penn State’s HUB-Robeson Center…

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Added on: 11/03/2021
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital…

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Added on: 11/02/2021
11/01/2021
As many of us sit down with friends and family to celebrate Día de Muertos, and honor those we’ve lost, it’s also an important reminder to honor…

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Added on: 10/31/2021
10/29/2021
As someone who identifies as genderqueer, Mestiz@, materialist, and Catholic, L Heidenreich brings a unique perspective to the study of history that is hard to find in…

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Added on: 10/28/2021
10/27/2021
The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify…

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Added on: 10/27/2021
10/26/2021
Bria Brown-King, 29, a Pennsylvania native, was raised as a girl. As Brown-King got older, however, they realized they were developing differently. “I didn’t have the feminizing…

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Added on: 10/26/2021
10/25/2021
Texas’ transgender student athletes will be restricted from playing on K-12 school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed…

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Added on: 10/26/2021
10/25/2021
Former President Barack Obama has criticized Republicans who continue to attack same-sex marriage, six years after the Supreme Court legalized it nationwide. Obama spoke Saturday at a…

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Added on: 10/25/2021
WASHINGTON – The United States has defended its two-decades-old economic sanctions against Zimbabwe saying they only targeted those that undermine democratic processes or facilitate corruption. However, analysts believe…

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Added on: 10/25/2021
10/24/2021
As the father of a transgender child, Mike Lumsden says he’s worried a newly proposed Quebec law will open the door to further discrimination against the trans…

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Added on: 10/22/2021
10/21/2021
October is LGBTQ History Month, a 31-day celebration to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer achievement and influence on the world and a time to learn…

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Added on: 10/21/2021
10/20/2021
About 100 people have protested outside Netflix’s headquarters over the airing of a comedy special by Dave Chappelle, which they say was transphobic. Netflix staff and transgender…

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Added on: 10/21/2021
10/20/2021
Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine made United States history Tuesday as the first openly transgender four-star officer in any of the nation’s eight uniformed services,…

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Added on: 10/20/2021
10/19/2021
In the late nineteen-thirties, Gonzálo Segura, known to his friends as Tony, enrolled at Emory University to study biochemistry. He graduated in 1942, and subsequently took a…

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Added on: 10/19/2021
Around 1979, Dr. Nancey Johnson Bookstein was outed by a fellow faculty member on the quad of the CU School of Medicine. The woman asked her “Well,…

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Added on: 10/18/2021
10/17/2021
Numerous studies have shown how bullying and queerphobia affect LGBTQ people’s physical health, emotional well-being and social functioning. But scientific research on the effects of ongoing trauma…

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Added on: 10/17/2021
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has been on paternity leave since mid-August with newborn twins, called right-wing attacks on his paternity leave “strange” and from “a…

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Added on: 10/16/2021
A Los Angeles group which prides itself as the first and only LGBTQ+ Mariachi in the world is breaking barriers, uniting communities and promoting acceptance….

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Added on: 10/16/2021
10/15/21
The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that bans transgender women and girls from participating in female school sports after three previous attempts failed, all but…

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Added on: 10/15/2021
10/12/2021
(US Mint / Getty) Astronaut Sally Ride will become the first LGBT + person to appear in US currency, as part of the new American Women Quarters…

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Added on: 10/13/2021
Rutgers is endorsing the beta launch of TranZap, a web-based application designed by a Rutgers medical student for the transgender community to leave reviews for health care…

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Added on: 10/12/2021
10/11/2021
Local prosecutors in Wyoming may consider charging librarians for having books in the library’s collection that include information about reproduction, sex, or being gay. The books were…