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Added on: 07/15/2019

Tensions simmer in Hamilton LGBTQ community after Pride festival violence

Globe and Mail
07/13/2019
The groups stand separated by temporary metal fencing and a line of police officers. On one side, Canadian flags and yellow vests. The other, rainbow flags and…
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Added on: 07/13/2019

Puyallup Indians recognize their gay and lesbian members with Pride events

News Tribune
07/12/2019
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is embracing its gay and lesbian members, and it’s doing it in a big way. Although the tribe recognized same-sex unions in…
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Added on: 07/12/2019

Trump’s new ‘rights’ commission is packed with anti-LGBT activists

Pink News
07/11/2019
LGBT+ groups have expressed concern after Donald Trump launched a ‘natural law’ commission that is dominated by members with anti-LGBT beliefs. Trump’s current Secretary of State Mike…
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Added on: 07/12/2019

Navajo Nation’s LGBTQ Pride Event Celebrates A Return To The Culture’s History

KUNC
07/11/2019
As the sun dips below the horizon, the colored lights turn on — bathing the Navajo Nation Council Chambers in rainbow hues as the crowd cheers. On…
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Added on: 07/10/2019

How Schools Reinvigorated the Stonewall Revolution

The Atlantic
07/09/2019
The groups have always been about a simple, key objective: Stop all the dying. The groups are GSAs—Gender-Sexuality Alliances, though they were originally known as Gay-Straight Alliances—and…
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Added on: 07/08/2019

‘A Space Where You Could Be Free’: Puerto Rico’s L.G.B.T. Groups Rebuild After a Hurricane

New York Times
07/07/2019
Puerto Ricans mourned so many losses after Hurricane Maria that the closing of a beloved tiki bar in San Juan might have seemed of little consequence, another…
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Added on: 07/03/2019

New York Pride: Bumper crowds attend LGBT march

BBC
07/01/2019
Around 150,000 people took part in the march, 50 years on from the Stonewall riots, with many more watching. The riots, after a police raid on the…
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Added on: 07/03/2019

More than 200 companies tell Supreme Court to apply job discrimination laws to sexual orientation, gender identity

USA Today
07/02/2019
More than 200 companies urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to apply the nation’s job discrimination laws to sexual orientation and gender identity. In three major civil…
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Added on: 07/02/2019

Anti-LGBT hate crimes are rising, the FBI says. But it gets worse

USA Today
06/28/2019
Friday marked 50 years since protesters fought back against a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn and catalyzed the modern gay rights movement. But despite decades…
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Added on: 07/02/2019

A library canceled an LGBT prom after backlash. Then a church stepped in.

Washington Post
07/01/2019
When the Storybook Pride Prom for LGBT teens in Jacksonville, Fla., was canceled after online conservative backlash, a local church made sure the story had a happy…
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Added on: 07/01/2019

The LGBTQ artists using music as resistance in Latin America

Aj Jazeera
06/30/2019
Over the last decade, several openly queer musicians have emerged in Latin America. They use their music to combat hate. As the region has seen a rise…
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Added on: 07/01/2019

Glaad’s bold new mission: An LGBT constitutional amendment

New York Times
06/29/2019
Glaad almost died in 2014. After years of fighting homophobic news coverage and working to bring about inclusion in the entertainment industry, the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization found…
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Added on: 06/30/2019

Gayborhoods’ used to be a LGBT save haven. Now, many LGBT people have been priced out

USA Today
06/29/2019
For better or worse, iconic “gayborhoods” are getting way more expensive, pricing out LGBT people in the process. Neighborhoods such as San Francisco’s Castro district or New…
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Added on: 06/30/2019

LGBT community demands its rights with massive Mexico City march

Latinx Today
06/30/2019
The Mexican LGBT community showed this Saturday how much it has advanced in demanding its rights with a huge march in the capital of a country where…
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Added on: 06/29/2019

LGBTQ Tour Group Cancels Ethiopia Trip After Death Threats

NBC Chicago
06/25/2019
Death threats force a Chicago-based gay tour group to cancel an upcoming trip to Ethiopia. “One of the emails was you cannot come here you are not…
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Added on: 06/26/2019

Living joyously is a radical act’: why America’s gay bars still matter

The Guardian
06/25/2019
The gay bar is in trouble. Fifty years after the Stonewall Inn in New York became the symbol for a new wave of gay activism, the three…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

Far-Right TFP Funded Launch of Conservative Catholic Activist Group in Netherlands

Right Wing Watch
06/24/2019
In another example of cross-fertilization between right-wing movements in the Americas and Europe, Tradition, Family and Property helped fund and train activists in the Netherlands who created…
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Added on: 06/25/2019

FEWER MILLENNIALS ACCEPTING OF LGBTQ PEOPLE, STUDY FINDS

Newsweek
06/24/2019
Young people are often assumed to be progressive, especially when it comes to gay rights. But a new study reveals that acceptance of the LGBTQ community by…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

New York Times
06/23/2019
The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

With gay couple as stars, Mexican telenovela set to make history

Reuters
06/22/2019
A Mexican soap opera that debuts on Sunday is set to make television history as the country’s first telenovela to feature a gay couple as the leading…
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Added on: 06/23/2019

How the US shapes queer activism in Liberia

The Nation
06/22/2019
As the sun set over the Atlantic Ocean, dozens of queer Liberians and their friends and family gathered on a stretch of beach outside Monrovia, the West…
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Added on: 06/22/2019

Senate confirms judge who’s so anti-LGBTQ even Susan Collins voted no

Salon
06/21/2019
The Senate voted to confirm a Trump-appointed federal judge with a long history of anti-LGBTQ statements to a lifetime appointment Wednesday. The Senate voted to confirm Matthew…
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Added on: 06/20/2019

Transgender migrants find safe haven in Juarez

KTSM
06/19/2019
A rainbow flag sways in the wind outside a pink two-story house in an out-of-the-way Juarez neighborhood. Inside, 38 men and boys tell jokes, try on new…
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Added on: 06/20/2019

Sinaloa Congress says no to same-sex marriage by 20-18

Mexico News Daily
06/19/2019
Sinaloa lawmakers voted Tuesday against a measure that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the state with 20 votes against and 18 in favor. Most of the…
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Added on: 06/18/2019

Scuffles break out at anti-trans rally in Vancouver

Gay Star News
06/17/2019
Tempers flared between pro- and anti-trans rights protestors in Vancouver on Saturday (15 June). Several hundred people from both sides converged outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in…
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Added on: 06/18/2019

The Lavender Scare: the shocking true story of an anti-LGBT witch-hunt

The Guardian
06/18/2019
When Josh Howard began working on his documentary The Lavender Scare, way back in 2009, America was a very different place – not least for its LGBT…
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Added on: 06/17/2019

The Biggest LGBT Center In The World Just Got Bigger — And Better

Huff Post
06/17/2019
The construction wasn’t quite finished on the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s new Anita May Rosenstein Campus in mid-May. There was still caution tape on some of the…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

‘Police are a force of terror’: The LGBT activists who want cops out of Pride

The Guardian
06/14/2019
It took half a century, but this LGBT Pride month, the New York police department (NYPD) finally apologized for the infamous 1969 raid on the Stonewall gay…
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Added on: 06/16/2019

Detective investigated for calling for execution of LGBT people

Pink News
06/13/2019
A church sermon by a sheriff’s detective is being investigated after it called LGBT+ people to be arrested and executed. The Knox County Attorney General’s Office is…
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Added on: 06/15/2019

AP Explains: The rocky rise of LGBT rights in Latin America

Associated Press
06/13/2019
Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws…
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