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Added on: 03/19/2021

Poll Shows 70 Percent Of Voters Support LGBT Protections Bill Equality Act

On Top Magazine
03/18/2021
A new poll released Tuesday found overwhelming support for the Equality Act. The legislation cleared the House last month and is currently being considered in the Senate….
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Added on: 03/18/2021

Mississippi governor signs bill banning trans athletes from school sports

NBC News
03/11/2021
On Thursday, Gov. Tate Reeves signed “the Mississippi Fairness Act” into law, requiring the state’s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender…
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Added on: 03/17/2021

Equality Act is creating a historic face-off between religious exemptions and LGBTQ rights

Washington Post
03/16/2021
In some ways, full LGBTQ rights has never seemed more within reach. First came the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Then its decision last year…
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Added on: 03/16/2021

“Ex-gay” pastor loses lawsuit against Vimeo for taking down videos promoting conversion therapy

LGBTQ Nation
03/14/2021
A pastor who identifies as a “former homosexual” has officially lost his lawsuit attempting to force the video streaming service to host his videos promoting so-called conversion…
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Added on: 03/14/2021

Sponsors of North Dakota’s transgender athletes bill have ties to anti-LGBT organizations

Grand Forks Herald
3/14/21
When state Sen. Janne Myrdal testified before the North Dakota House Human Services Committee in support of HB 1298, she said she believes the bill has little…
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Added on: 03/06/2021

American Psychological Association opposes transgender conversion “therapy” in historic statement

LGBTQ Nation
03/05/2021
The biggest professional psychologist organization in the U.S. has come out against transgender conversion therapy in a new statement, saying that the practice puts “individuals at significant…
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Added on: 03/05/2021

Mississippi governor to sign bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

ABC
03/04/2021
Mississippi legislators have passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities — one of over two dozen…
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Added on: 03/04/2021

The Trailer: Why Republicans keep running against trans rights

Washington Post
03/04/2021
In this edition: The GOP’s transgender politics, lessons from CPAC and a sit-down with a Republican running for Congress against Trump. We don’t have the Kraken anymore,…
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Added on: 03/03/2021

United Methodist conservatives detail breakaway plans over gay inclusion

NBC News
03/02/2021
Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex…
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Added on: 03/02/2021

Crowd in Mexico stops gay couple from being arrested as they chant ‘I’m gay too’ at cops

Independent
03/01/2021
A gay couple were handcuffed by armed police “for kissing” on a beach in Mexico. A series of videos of the incident, posted to Facebook, appear to…
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Added on: 03/01/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

NBC News
02/28/2021
On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refused to leave Dewey’s Restaurant in Philadelphia after employees repeatedly denied service to “homosexuals and persons wearing nonconformist clothing,” according to…
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Added on: 02/28/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

NBC News
2/28/21
On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refused to leave Dewey’s Restaurant in Philadelphia after employees repeatedly denied service to “homosexuals and persons wearing nonconformist clothing,” according to…
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Added on: 02/28/2021

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

The New Yorker
2/28/21
When Don Ward was a child, in Seattle, in the nineteen-sixties, his mother, each December, would hand him the Sears catalogue and ask him to pick Christmas…
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Added on: 02/28/2021

Beach erupts in protest as armed police arrest gay couple ‘for kissing’

Yahoo News
02/28/21
Two gay men were arrested after kissing on a public Mexico beach but were freed after fellow sunbathers charged after the police vehicle and demanded their release….
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Added on: 02/27/2021

More young people identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before, poll finds

The 19th
2/26/21
More young people are out than ever before, and most people who identify as LGBTQ+ are attracted to more than one gender, according to new data. A…
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Added on: 02/26/2021

LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act

Reuters
02/25/2021
By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender…
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Added on: 02/26/2021

Outrage as Marjorie Taylor Greene displays transphobic sign in Congress

The Guardian
02/25/2021
The Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene attracted widespread condemnation – from transgender groups, Democrats and her own party – after she hung a transphobic sign outside her…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

American anti-trans activist invited to give Singaporeans a ‘better understanding’

Coconuts Singapore
02/24/2021
An American doctor who believes transgenderism as a “myth” and has supported the forced “conversion” of homosexuals has been invited to lead a discussion of the issue…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

Transgender Arkansan killed in Pennsylvania

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
02/24/2021
A 24-year-old transgender woman from Springdale was killed Thursday in Pennsylvania , according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Chyna Carrillo’s death is at least the seventh killing…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

Mexico’s top court to vote on gay marriage in Yucatan state

Reuters
02/24/2021
MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico’s top court is due to vote Wednesday whether to order the state of Yucatan to legalize gay marriage, a move…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

A record 5.6% of Americans identify as LGBT+, Gallup poll finds

Reuters
02/24/2021
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A record 5.6% of Americans – or 18 million people – are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, a Gallup poll found…
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Added on: 02/24/2021

‘I’m still here’: Transgender troops begin new era of open military service

ABC News
02/23/2021
As the U.S. military adapts to evolving and increasingly complex global threats, highly-trained cyber warriors like Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brock Stone are at the tip…
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Added on: 02/23/2021

New LGBTQ society gets off the ground in Iqaluit

Nunatsiaq News
02/22/2021
Branching off from a high school club, Positive Space Nunavut aims to create inclusive spaces, culturally relevant resources and eventually jobs for sexually and gender-diverse Nunavummiut. The…
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Added on: 02/22/2021

Housing for transgender, two-spirit people opens in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

CBC
02/21/2021
New housing for transgender, two-spirit and gender-diverse people is set to start accepting residents in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Ross-Aoki House, a century-old 24-room hotel, was purchased by…
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Added on: 02/22/2021

Guam LGBTQ leaders target ‘systemic discrimination’

Guam Daily Post
02/21/2021
More LGBTQ candidates for public office and more local policy reforms will be sought through Equality Guam, a new LGBTQ advocacy group supported by the island’s lieutenant…
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Added on: 02/18/2021

State anti-transgender bills represent coordinated attack, advocates say

NBC News
02/17/2021
Bills in at least 20 states are targeting the transgender community in what LGBTQ advocates say is an organized assault by conservative groups. On Thursday, the North…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

Transgender Woman Is Killed in ‘Vicious and Violent Attack’ in Her Miami Apartment

People
02/16/2021
An attack that a police detective describes as “very vicious and violent” has authorities searching for the killer of a 45-year-old transgender woman found dead two weeks…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

LGBTQ people now protected under the Fair Housing Act

Marketplace
02/15/2021
For the first time, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are now protected from housing discrimination under federal law. The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

A Support Group for Trans Newcomers that Goes ‘Beyond Borders and Binaries’

The Tyee
02/15/2021
Trans, non-binary and gender divergent immigrants and refugees living in British Columbia now have a support group to call their very own. Beyond Borders and Binaries, a…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

A wave of killings against transgender people in Puerto Rico

Al Jazeera
02/15/2021
Forty-four transgender or gender non-conforming people were killed in the United States in 2020. Six of those people were killed in Puerto Rico alone. This January, the…
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