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Added on: 02/05/2023

How antisemitic tropes are being used to target the LGBTQ community

02/04/2023

Over the past year, a new front for hate has opened up across Canada and the United States, with drag performances and gender-affirming care providers becoming targets…

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Added on: 01/03/2023

Missouri inmate may be 1st openly transgender woman executed in U.S.

01/02/2023

Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first openly transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by…

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Added on: 01/02/2023

How new Title IX rules could affect California’s transgender and nonbinary students

01/01/2023

It took Xander nearly a decade to try community college again. The incoming American River College student first attempted higher education in North Carolina in 2013. But…

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Added on: 12/31/2022

U.S. appeals court upholds Florida high school’s transgender bathroom ban

12/30/2022

A sharply divided federal appeals court on Friday upheld a Florida high school’s policy forbidding transgender students from using bathrooms that accord with their chosen identities. In…

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Added on: 12/30/2022

2021 was supposed to be the ‘worst year’ for LGBTQ rights — then came 2022

12/29/2022

Last year, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, the Human Rights Campaign, labeled 2021 the “worst year” for LGBTQ rights in modern U.S. history, citing a record…

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Added on: 12/29/2022

3 Major LGBT Developments Of 2022 You Need To Know

12/28/2022

As the year 2022 comes into an end, the LGBTQ community has found itself in upheaval in the United States and in the world as many continue…

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Added on: 12/27/2022

Queering the family farm: Despite obstacles, LGBTQ farmers find fertile ground in Midwest

12/26/2022

Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth is “very gay.” They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for…

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Added on: 12/27/2022

Remote same-sex marriage breaks international boundaries

12/26/2022

Same-sex couples in China are making their love official in the United States — all from the comfort of their own homes. Yi Yang and Johny Ni…

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Added on: 12/26/2022

Dani Oliva is 1st trans executive at major music company

12/25/2022

Music and technology company Venice Music has named Dani Oliva as their vice president of legal and business affairs. He is the first openly transgender person to become…

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Added on: 12/25/2022

Elon Musk challenged by Tesla investor with trans child: ‘You’re punching down’

12/24/2022

In the same month that he tweeted mocking pronouns, and urged people to follow conspiracy theorists QAnon, Musk reportedly told investors he would not “censor” his views…

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Added on: 12/23/2022

28 Republicans Who Call Gay People ‘Groomers’ Just Voted Against a Bill Addressing Child Sex Abuse

12/22/2022

For the past year, we’ve been subjected to an endless, escalating right-wing fearmongering campaign presenting LGBTQ adults as innate child sexual predators, or “groomers,” and any children…

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Added on: 12/20/2022

Exclusive: Biden administration pressed Uganda president on anti-LGBTQ record

12/19/2022

During last week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., Biden administration officials pressed Uganda President Yoweri Museveni on his country’s anti-LGBTQ policies, theGrio exclusively reports. An anonymous…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

Court upholds Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy

12/16/2022

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

A new report proves that online anti-LGBTQ2S+ hate turns into real-life violence

12/16/2022

Coordinated online hate targeting doctors and hospitals providing gender-affirming care to youth leads to real-life violence, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)….

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Added on: 12/16/2022

Drag Queens Were Targeted by the Proud Boys. Whom Did the Police Support?

12/15/2022

In November, the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Red Oak Community School in Columbus, Ohio, announced a “Holi-Drag Storytime” event where drag queens would read books to…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Club Q Shooting Survivors Press Congress To Act On Guns

12/14/2022

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub testified Wednesday to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Biden signs landmark law protecting same-sex and interracial marriages

12/13/2022

Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law landmark legislation protecting same-sex marriages, hailing it as a step toward building a nation where “decency, dignity and love are…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Orthodox Judaism can be difficult for LGBT Jews, but the tide is slowly turning

12/11/2022

Yeshiva University, the storied modern Orthodox Jewish university in New York, is in the midst of a legal battle over its refusal to recognize the YU Pride…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Anti-Gay Bill: Ghanaian MPs must respect peoples’ rights – US Ambassador

12/11/2022

United States Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer has advised Ghanaians and their representatives in Parliament to respect international obligations and Domestic laws which centre on the need…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises

12/10/2022

Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

Colorado shooter’s 2021 case dropped for lack of cooperation

12/09/2022

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter had charges dropped in a 2021 bomb threat case after family members who were terrorized in the…

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Added on: 12/09/2022

RUSSIA FREES OUT GAY BASKETBALL STAR BRITTNEY GRINER IN PRISONER SWAP FOR ARMS DEALER

12/09/2022

Out gay American basketball star Brittney Griner was freed by Russia, in exchange for the US releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of…

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Added on: 12/06/2022

Conservative justices show sympathy for case that could undercut LGBTQ rights

12/5/2022

The Supreme Court’ s conservative majority seemed to be searching Monday for a way to allow religious business owners to opt out of providing certain kinds of…

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Added on: 12/05/2022

With Passage of Respect for Marriage Act, Searches Surge for ‘Gay Superheroes’

12/04/2022

The pro-equality heroes of the U.S. Senate seem to have inspired online searches for the comic book variety. The internet lit up after the Nov. 29 Senate passage of…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community has long struggled to find a ‘safe space’

12/03/2022

Finding a place for rainbows in a sea of red has often been a struggle for those who identify as LGBTQ+ in Colorado Springs, a city with…

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Added on: 12/03/2022

This man fled Qatar in fear of persecution because he’s gay. Now he’s pushing back

12/02/2022

Having been referred to as Qatar’s first person to come out publicly as gay, Dr. Nasser Mohamed thought having the World Cup on his home soil was…

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Added on: 12/01/2022

Rainbow flag-waving protester invades World Cup pitch

11/30/2022

A man ran onto the pitch during Monday’s World Cup group-stage match between Portugal and Uruguay, holding up a rainbow flag to protest Qatar’s anti-LGBT laws. The…

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Added on: 11/29/2022

Anti-LGBTQ group sparks queer-affirming clergy response at Club Q memorial

11/28/2022

An evangelical group with anti-LGBTQ beliefs showed up at the Club Q memorial. Now a group of queer affirming clergy is standing watch in response….

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Added on: 11/28/2022

Military dad & trans daughter sue for right of military dependents to get gender-affirming surgery

11/27/2022

A 21-year-old transgender college student is suing the Department of Defense (D0D) and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for denying her gender-affirming surgery under her dad’s military health…

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Added on: 11/28/2022

How the American anti-LGBTQ hate machine is posing a threat to Canadians

11/27/2022

Seth Compton woke early one morning in July to his phone buzzing furiously with new messages. A wave of hate, stirred up far away, was starting to…