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Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors

08/27/2024

Advocates say transgender patients are facing barriers to “potentially life-saving health care” after a federal appeals court ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be…

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Added on: 08/27/2024

Colorado Republicans remove party chair after his email attacking LGBTQ people, call for Pride flag to be burned

08/26/2024

Colorado Republicans overwhelmingly voted to remove state party chairman Dave Williams by a vote of 161.66 to 12 on Saturday. Some people’s votes only counted for a…

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Added on: 08/26/2024

Supreme Court leaves LGBTQ+ students without crucial civil rights protections ahead of school year

08/25/2024

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold injunctions on the Biden administration’s latest education regulations in 10 states and hundreds of schools and university campuses nationwide leaves transgender,…

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Added on: 08/26/2024

‘A victory’: Canada halts planned deportation of bisexual man to Kenya

08/25/2024

A bisexual man in Canada has been granted one-year temporary residency just a day before his scheduled deportation to Kenya — an outcome his supporters call “a…

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Added on: 08/24/2024

LGBTQ Dems celebrate likely election of first openly transgender person to Congress

08/23/2024

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, who in November is expected to become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told LGBTQ+ delegates to the Democratic National…

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Added on: 08/23/2024

LGBTQ Dems stress importance of representation, allyship in Harris-Walz ticket

08/22/2024

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, who in November is expected to become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told LGBTQ delegates to the Democratic National…

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Added on: 08/22/2024

Judge rules transgender teen can temporarily play on girls’ soccer team amid new law

08/21/2024

When the girls’ soccer team at Plymouth Regional High School in New Hampshire began practice on Monday to prepare for the start of the official season on…

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Added on: 08/21/2024

Canada: Anti-Israeli statement from major LGBT group causes rift among local progressives

08/20/2024

An anti-Israeli statement issued in early August by Capital Pride in Ottawa, Canada, has sparked a major controversy and a rift among local progressives. In fact, some…

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Added on: 08/21/2024

Trump-stacked appeals court overturns trans worker’s court victory

08/20/2024

A Georgia anti-trans discrimination ruling from May has been voided by an appeals court, half of whose judges were appointed by former President Donald Trump. The ruling…

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Added on: 08/20/2024

Did the Supreme Court just overrule one of its most important LGBTQ rights decisions?

08/19/2024

The Supreme Court handed down a brief and very odd opinion on Friday that seemed to abandon its landmark civil rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County…

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Added on: 08/17/2024

Supreme Court rejects Biden administration’s request to enforce new civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ students

08/16/2024

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Biden administration to enforce parts of a new federal rule meant to protect LGBTQ+ and pregnant…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

OAS Creates New Position on Prostitute Rights

08/15/2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 16 (C-Fam) The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) announced the appointment of a lesbian activist to the newly-created position of OAS Commissioner…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

Texas sues Biden again to block federal protections for transgender workers

08/15/2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to court on Thursday to press his case against the Biden administration’s workforce protections for transgender employees. Texas’s lawsuit, filed in federal court on…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

Canada | Rights that are “becoming fragile”, the LGBT+ community on alert

08/14/2024

The country and many of its major cities have for years been considered safe havens for freely living one’s sexual and gender identity. And Canada is one…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

LGBTQ asylum-seekers chase a life of safety and peace after rape and death threats

08/13/2024

Michelle Carranza, 22, did not want to be another trans woman murdered in her native Honduras. “They don’t accept us there. They kill us, they discriminate us,…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Ballroom Is Still About Black Queer Joy

08/12/2024

Every Saturday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., the Washington Neighborhood Center in Sacramento, California, vibrates with house beats. Unknowing neighbors peer in curiously, but for those…

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Added on: 08/12/2024

The trans community experiences a surge of hope within deep election anxiety, report finds

08/11/2024

With so much talk about the trans community, much of it in the form of vitriol from the right, there are few platforms for the actual voices of…

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Added on: 08/11/2024

Tim Walz’s Gay-Straight Alliance students remember him as accepting and goofy

08/10/2024

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and now Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, was a high school teacher and football coach in rural Minnesota nearly two decades ago….

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Federal judge rules that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees

08/09/2024

A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees and violates their civil rights. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Mexico City will now give harsher punishments to anti-trans murderers

08/09/2024

Mexico City, Mexico has passed a local law banning murders against transgender women, a practice referred to in the country as transfemicidio (transfemicide). Murderers convicted under the…

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Added on: 08/09/2024

Transgender voters more ‘hopeful’ about election following Biden exit, poll shows

08/08/2024

WASHINGTON (TND) — Transgender Americans have a more “hopeful” emotional state following President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential election, according to a new poll by LGBT health…

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Added on: 08/07/2024

LGBTQ rights groups celebrate Walz as Harris VP pick

08/06/2024

LGBTQ rights groups on Tuesday celebrated Vice President Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, highlighting his longtime support for LGBTQ equality. Walz,…

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Added on: 08/06/2024

As LGBTQ library material comes under fire, California may ban book bans

08/05/2024

The presentation was unassuming, just a handful of picture books arrayed on the side of a bookcase — the ABCs of a Pride parade, biographies of the…

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Added on: 08/05/2024

Trump-appointed judge bars 4 red states from unraveling LGBTQ+ student protections

08/04/2024

Four Republican states have failed in their effort to dismantle protections for LGBTQ+ students. A federal judge broke with six others to uphold court precedent and continue…

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Added on: 08/04/2024

Pope Francis acknowledges conference for ‘LGBT Catholics’

08/03/2024

Pope Francis this week said he is “united in prayer” with those participating in a conference for Catholics who identify as LGBT taking place this weekend in…

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Added on: 08/03/2024

A right-wing influencer accused a gay dad of raping his own kids. Now he’ll face the music

08/02/2024

Gay dad José Rolón, a widower raising three kids on his own, faced a choice. The social media influencer, who covers gay family life and is known…

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Added on: 08/02/2024

Biden administration rule protecting LGBT students blocked in 26 states

08/01/2024

Aug 1 (Reuters) – A new federal rule protecting LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on gender identity that took effect on Thursday remained…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

US judge upholds protections for LGBTQ students in first win for Biden administration

07/30/2024

A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students in four Republican-led states, breaking with…

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Added on: 07/31/2024

Killers of trans people face 70 years in jail under reformed Mexico City law

07/30/2024

Following years of campaigns, the changes, promoted by the ruling Morena Party, were passed by 45 votes to one, making make Mexico City the second of the…

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Added on: 07/30/2024

How do LGBTQ+ groups feel about Kamala Harris’ campaign? ‘Re-energized’

07/29/2024

LGBTQ+ rights groups are praising Vice President Kamala Harris’ “historic” presidential campaign, and what it means for the queer community. Democrats and human rights groups celebrated Harris’…