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UN condemns killing of LGBT activist in northern Mexico

09/14/2020

The U.N. human rights agency called on Mexican authorities Thursday to thoroughly investigate the killing of an LGBT rights activist in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua….

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Added on: 09/14/2020

Woman Opens 1st Mississippi Clinic Dedicated to Trans Healthcare

09/13/2020

When Gulf Coast native Stacie Pace decided to open her own clinic, the nurse practitioner carefully considered one question: Whose healthcare needs were not being met? The…

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Added on: 09/13/2020

Meet the South Dakota swimmer who pushed back against homophobia to become Homecoming King

09/12/2020

Meet Josh Sorbe, the 23-year-old swimming champion for the University of South Dakota. Sorbe captained the school’s Division 1 swim team his senior year, leading the men’s…

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Added on: 09/13/2020

Transgender anarchist wins GOP nomination for sheriff in Cheshire County

09/12/2020

Keene’s Aria DiMezzo is the first transgender person to win the GOP’s nomination for Cheshire County sheriff after running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. DiMezzo, associated with the…

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Added on: 09/12/2020

I’m a Muslim Iranian-American With a 9/11 Birthday. Here’s How I’ve Come to Terms With My Identity

09/11/2020

My ninth birthday fell on a school day, a bright and clear-skied Tuesday in September. I expected my mom to bring cupcakes to school during lunch, a…

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Added on: 09/11/2020

Trump rally speaker calls for LGBT Democrats to be murdered. People cheered.

09/10/2020

A Labor Day rally for Trump supporters in Salem, Ore., took a dark turn when a speaker called for the murder of pro-LGBTQ Democratic lawmakers, prompting cheers…

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Added on: 09/10/2020

The conversation surrounding the word ‘queer’ is evolving

09/09/2020

Reclamation is an immensely powerful tool as communities and individuals have been reclaiming hate speech to take the power of these words back. Recently, a large part…

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Added on: 09/10/2020

Trump lists NC native as potential pick for Supreme Court

09/10/2020

A Duke University graduate with ties to an anti-LGBT group has been included in President Donald Trump’s list of nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Allison…

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Added on: 09/06/2020

Mexico’s transgender community in fear after second murder

09/05/2020

The gruesome killing on Saturday of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico has unnerved the local transgender community and amplified calls for greater protections in the…

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White nationalism upsurge in U.S. echoes historical pattern, say scholars

09/05/2020

The first Black woman is on a major party presidential ticket, Americans of all races are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and at…

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Added on: 09/04/2020

Family of transgender woman slain by U.S. Marine in Philippines contests killer’s early release

09/03/2020

A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines will remain behind bars while a court considers an appeal against a decision to release…

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Looking at implementation of an LGBTQ+ curriculum in state public schools

09/01/2020

On Aug. 9, 2019, Gov. JB Pritzker signed Illinois House Bill 246 into law, amending the school code to include contributions of LGBTQ+ figures in public schools…

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Added on: 08/31/2020

Homophobic group’s offices declared COVID-19 outbreak site

08/30/2020

The Colorado headquarters of the viciously anti-LGBT+ organisation Focus on the Family, which insists being gay causes “death and disease”, has been declared a COVID-19 outbreak site….

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Added on: 08/30/2020

Student goes viral after drowning out homophobic, racist demonstrator with his trombone

08/29/2020

A US college student has gone viral after he used his trombone to drown out a homophobic and racist demonstrator on campus. According to WLTX, Trey Hogan…

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Added on: 08/30/2020

‘We Are Making Up For Lost Time’: Tracking Little-Known Stories Of African American, LGBTQ And Women’s Colorado History

08/30/2020

There’s a growing movement to locate places in Colorado where historic events happened but were never recorded. The Colorado Historical Foundation is on a mission to change…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Yurok Tribe joins federal lawsuit over data on tribal, LGBTQ foster youth

08/28/2020

The Yurok Tribe is one of more than half-a-dozen parties that sued the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families on…

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Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection to Be Auctioned for Charity

08/27/2020

Owning a private collection of nearly 140 artworks by luminaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein would be a godsend for most arts organizations, but…

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Teacher ‘put on leave’ after Republican complains about her supporting LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter

08/26/2020

A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Black LGBTQ+ people simultaneously fight for multiple equality movements | March on Washington

08/25/2020

WASHINGTON — Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) people of color have often been involved in equality movements throughout American history. But organizers and LGBTQ+ issues…

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Hollywood Boulevard ‘All Black Lives Matter’ street painting will stay permanently to honour the Black queer community

08/23/2020

The huge, LGBT-inclusive ‘All Black Lives Matter’ installation on Hollywood Boulevard is being made permanent to commemorate the history-making march in Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: 1 in 4 LGBTQ youths use nonbinary pronouns, survey finds

08/22/2020

One in 4 LGBTQ youths use pronouns other than he/him or she/hers, according to a survey released Wednesday by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention and…

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Conversion therapy survivors are turning to TikTok to share their trauma and help other victims

08/22/2020

A growing number of conversion therapy survivors are sharing their trauma on TikTok amid growing efforts to outlaw the discredited practice. Nearly 700,000 Americans have undergone conversion…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

08/22/2020

The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Holland, Michigan adopts anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ, others

08/20/2020

After a seven-hour meeting that went into the night and included several hours of impassioned public comment, Holland City Council voted 8-1 early Thursday morning to approve…

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Added on: 08/21/2020

Capitalism Made Gay Identity Possible. Now We Must Destroy Capitalism.

08/15/2020

Gay identity became possible thanks to capitalism’s emancipatory side: its liberation of the individual from material dependence on the family. But that sexual freedom wasn’t automatic —…

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‘The volume has been turned up on everything’: Pandemic places alarming pressure on transgender mental health

08/19/2020

The surgery was supposed to be a turning point. Brenda Emery spent a year preparing for the vaginoplasty. To save up for it, she took jobs in…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

‘My spirit broken’: Mexicans battle to ban conversion therapy

08/07/2020

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When she was 15 years old, Paola Santillan was raped by two men who claimed they would “take the lesbian” out…

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University that bans gay students on ‘morality’ grounds replaces boss with another homophobe

08/12/2020

Jerry Falwell Jr, a key evangelical Trump ally, agreed to step aside from his position at the private Virginia Christian university this month after long-running concerns about…

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Added on: 08/13/2020

A short history of Kamala Harris’ support for the LGBTQ+ community

08/12/2020

Presidential candidate Joe Biden has named senator Kamala Harris as his Vice President running mate. Harris has made history, becoming the first black South Asian American woman…

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Black LGBT Group Wins Award to Combat Voter Suppression

08/11/2020

LGBT Detroit, the city’s Black LGBTQ+ service provider, has been awarded new grant funding by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan to help eliminate a range…