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Grindr finally drops its much-reviled ethnicity filter in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

06/01/2020

Grindr responded to yearslong accusations of racism levelled at the dating app popular among queer folk for its premium “ethnicity feature” by removing it altogether. For years,…

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Added on: 06/01/2020

Minneapolis Queer Business Owners Watch Protests And Worry

05/31/2020

As the world watches live television coverage of night after night of demonstrations in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in dozens of cities across the U.S., so have the…

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Added on: 06/01/2020

Pride is a feeling, not a parade

05/31/2020

The sight of thousands of topless women marching smack dab down the middle of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan would be a pretty provocative thing for the average…

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Added on: 05/30/2020

Fact check: The LGBTQ community is not adding “P” to their acronym

05/29/2020

Social media users have been sharing posts online that falsely imply the LGBTQ community is accepting of “pedosexuals”. There are different versions of the posts, but most…

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Added on: 05/30/2020

Dozens of LGBTQ Groups Denounce Racist Violence

05/29/2020

Following a series of racist incidents and fatal police shootings targeting Black individuals, a coalition of leaders representing at least 75 LGBTQ organizations signed a joint statement…

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Added on: 05/29/2020

Pride, Juneteenth flags to be raised at Richmond City Hall

05/28/2020

The Juneteenth and LGBT Pride flags will be raised at Richmond City Hall on Monday, June 1, in a ceremony that the public can view via Zoom…

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Added on: 05/29/2020

Widower’s U.S. court win secures social security benefits for LGBT+ couples

05/28/2020

Gay and lesbian spouses in the United States can claim social security survivor’s benefits even if they were married for less than nine months, a federal court…

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Added on: 05/28/2020

LGBT+ visibility builds acceptance, research finds

05/27/2020

Americans are more likely to accept LGBT+ people if they see them portrayed in film, television and advertisements, said a survey released on Wednesday, findings that supporters…

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Added on: 05/28/2020

Larry Kramer, Pioneering AIDS Activist And Writer, Dies At 84

05/27/2020

Larry Kramer was one of the first activists against AIDS, back when the disease didn’t even have a name. In the early 1980s, Kramer witnessed hundreds, then…

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Added on: 05/27/2020

‘We were so ready’: LGBT refugees in Kenya live in fear as global resettlement is put on hold

05/26/2020

After four years of waiting, he had the ticket booked: Nairobi, Frankfurt, Toronto. He had fled Uganda’s violent homophobia, survived in neighboring Kenya, where it’s only a…

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Added on: 05/25/2020

Anti-LGBT+ church sued over historic child sex abuse and ‘protecting abusers’

05/24/2020

An anti-LGBT+ California church is being sued for allegedly failing to protect two young boys from sexual abuse more than 30 years ago. Carl Epperson and Larry…

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Added on: 05/24/2020

K-Quarantine: The Condemnation or Resurgence of LGBTQ Rights in South Korea

05/23/2020

The United States and South Korea sit on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the successful containment of COVID-19. As South Korea enters its…

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Added on: 05/23/2020

Mexico City’s Casa Frida Offers Refuge to the LGBTQ Community During the Pandemic

05/22/2020

Shelter-in-place measures limit coronavirus numbers, but they also expose the ugly side of staying at home. Calls to domestic violence hotlines have been up across the globe…

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Added on: 05/23/2020

Christian Activist Calls For Violence Against Those Who Use Pandemic To Impose Socialism

05/22/2020

Trump-loving radical right-wing activist Scott Lively warned listeners during an online Bible study yesterday that they need to establish a modern-day Underground Railroad for Christians to escape…

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Added on: 05/22/2020

Coronavirus claims San Francisco’s oldest gay bar

05/21/2020

San Francisco’s oldest gay bar, The Stud, has fallen victim to the coronavirus. “We want to let you know that we are not reopening our location at…

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Added on: 05/21/2020

COVID-19 delayed a United Methodist schism. But it has left LGBT members in limbo.

02/20/2020

Rebecca Bernstein says she wants to go to a United Methodist seminary. But her dreams of becoming an ordained Methodist minister are on hold for now. That’s…

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Added on: 05/19/2020

How Mexico Can Keep LGBT Rights On Track

05/18/2020

Mexico officially recognized the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia for the first time last year. On May 17, 2019, I spoke at President Andrés Manuel…

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Added on: 05/16/2020

Mexico sees deadliest year for LGBT+ people in five years

05/15/2020

Mexico is seeing a surge of extreme violence toward LGBT+ people in its deadliest year in half a decade, a leading rights group said on Friday, citing…

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Added on: 05/15/2020

US Navy grants first waiver for transgender service member to serve under their preferred gender

05/14/2020

The US Navy has granted a waiver allowing a transgender service member to serve “in their preferred gender” for the first time since the military enacted a…

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Added on: 05/13/2020

Michigan woman at center of transgender civil rights case dies at 59

05/12/2020

The Michigan woman at the center of a high-profile transgender rights case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has died, her family said. Aimee Stephens, 59, who…

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Added on: 05/12/2020

LGBT+ adults in US are more than twice as likely to be homeless

05/11/2020

Almost one in five LGB adults in the US has experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. Moreover, trans people are even more likely to be…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Opinion: Little Richard’s Queer Triumph

05/10/2020

It was during a 1966 concert in Paris when Little Richard, drenched in sweat, told a mostly white audience, “I’m ready, ready, ready teddy, I’m ready, ready,…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Canada to memorialize LGBT victims of Cold War-era ‘gay purge’

05/10/2020

Todd Ross was a naval combat information operator on the HMCS Saskatchewan in 1989 when he was called out over the public address system, escorted off the…

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Added on: 05/11/2020

Franklin Graham Is Taking Down His N.Y. Hospital, but Not Going Quietly

05/10/2020

The last patients have been discharged from the Central Park field hospital run by Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical organization led by the Rev. Franklin Graham. Its white…

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Added on: 05/10/2020

Flexible Salafis: The Growing Political Power of ‘Woke,’ Modernist Islamism

05/09/2020

Imam Omar Suleiman rarely talks about da’wah – the Islamic duty of proselytization. He never talks about Islamist designs for an Islamic state. Instead, America’s leading Islamic…

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Added on: 05/09/2020

Aimee Stephens, transgender woman at center of pending landmark Supreme Court case, is in hospice care

05/08/2020

Aimee Stephens made national headlines when she said she was fired from her job at metro Detroit-based GR & RG Funeral Homes in 2013 after coming out…

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Added on: 05/08/2020

Activists call on Tinley Park to show support for gay rights in Polish Sister City

05/07/2020

Activists in Europe are calling on Tinley Park residents and village officials to show support for gay rights in a Sister City community in Poland. European rights…

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Added on: 05/06/2020

U.S. lawmakers push for ‘invisible’ LGBT+ coronavirus patients to be counted

05/05/2020

Authorities must count how many novel coronavirus patients are LGBT+ as they face greater health risks than the population at large, a California lawmaker said on Tuesday,…

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Added on: 05/06/2020

Famed NYC Lesbian Bar Seeks Community Help After Feds Deny Aid

05/05/2020

Henrietta Hudson, the country’s longest operating bar for queer women, is pleading for financial help from the LGBTQ community after requests for government aid went unanswered. “Over…

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Added on: 05/04/2020

Hate crime or stray bullet? Kansas City man’s death stirs fears in LGBTQ communities

05/03/2020

Ta’Ron Carson knew how to apply makeup, so his expertly contoured jawline and highlighted cheekbones stood out as he twirled along the sidewalk on Main Street in…