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Added on: 08/12/2022
08/10/2022
Jessica Stern, a special envoy of the US, will embark on a 8-day trip to India and Nepal in order to promote the human rights of the…

Global News

Added on: 08/11/2022
08/10/2022
Aug 9 (Reuters) – Drugmaker Gilead Sciences (GILD.O) plans to announce on Tuesday that it will provide up to $5 million in grants to help a coalition of…

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Added on: 08/10/2022
08/09/2022
When Sylvia Ximi was in middle school, she recalls looking around her hometown of Prescott, Arizona, for any sign there were other queer people around. One low-slung…

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Added on: 08/09/2022
08/08/2022
LGBTQ rights activists are renewing their push for a repeal of the Navajo Nation’s same-sex marriage ban. While the United States Supreme Court declared marriage equality the…

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Added on: 08/08/2022
08/07/2022
U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers ruled this week that West Virginia’s Medicaid program can no longer exclude gender-affirming medical care for its transgender members. The…

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Added on: 08/06/2022
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims,…

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Added on: 08/05/2022
08/04/2022
“Social contagion” is not driving an increasing number of adolescents to come out as transgender, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics. The study also…

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Added on: 08/03/2022
08/02/2022
Senators are working behind the scenes on changes to a House-passed bill codifying marriage equality to get it across the finish line, Axios has learned. Why it…

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Added on: 08/02/2022
Minutes after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the country’s full-fledged attack on bodily autonomy reached new proportions in the…

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Added on: 07/30/2022
President Joe Biden has nominated a gay California state superior court judge to the federal bench. It follows criticism that the Biden administration has been slow to…

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Added on: 07/27/2022
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and…

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Added on: 07/26/2022
07/25/2022
GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson attended his gay son’s wedding last week, three days after opposing a bill in the US House that would enshrine protections for same-sex…

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Added on: 07/25/2022
The U.S. Congress may be on the cusp of passing legislation that would codify recognition of same-sex marriages under federal law, solidifying the right of LGBTQ couples…

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Added on: 07/25/2022
07/23/2022
In his decision to help gut Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,…

World Voices

Added on: 07/24/2022
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Past I believe art can be the artist’s response to the reality and time surrounding us. I think my work emerged as a voice as I grew…

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Added on: 07/23/2022
In the wake of the toppling of Roe v. Wade and with Justice Clarence Thomas urging the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit rulings on gay sex and…

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Added on: 07/21/2022
07/19/2022
Adam Graham, the first openly gay mayor of The Village, a town just outside Oklahoma City, has resigned, writing in a resignation letter that he no longer…

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Added on: 07/20/2022
07/19/2022
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill protecting gay marriage rights, after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade imperiled similar precedents…

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Added on: 07/19/2022
07/18/2022
A military training instructor at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland not only serves our country by training the best in the United States Air Force, but also…

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Added on: 07/17/2022
07/13/2022
With the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month, the architect of a controversial Texas abortion law has already aimed at marriage equality, and his next…

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Added on: 07/17/2022
07/15/2022
A White House adviser and his partner have called on the United Nations to move a key climate change summit from Egypt due to the country’s treatment…

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Added on: 07/15/2022
07/14/2022
While COVID-19 continues to be top of mind for public health officials, dozens of monkeypox cases have been confirmed in LA so far, and they appear to…

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Added on: 07/15/2022
07/14/2022
The images of Brittney Griner from 15 April 2013 are striking. It was the night of the annual WNBA draft, and Griner was beaming from ear to ear….

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Added on: 07/13/2022
07/12/2022
NASA released the first, highly-anticipated deep space images from its James Webb Space Telescope this week. But the arrival also spotlights continued calls to rename the groundbreaking…

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Added on: 07/09/2022
Growing up on her family’s farm in Coggon, Iowa, Shae Pesek couldn’t envision being able to have the life she wanted here. She didn’t know any queer…

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Added on: 07/06/2022
07/05/2022
Military families can move to new bases if they’re stationed in states with laws hostile to LGBTQ people. But families who try to take advantage of the…

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Added on: 07/05/2022
07/03/2022
In Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon, lines of marble rise row on row above acres of vivid green. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Linda Campbell knew the…

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Added on: 07/02/2022
Just because June is over, it doesn’t mean we stop commemorating Pride. It’s actually more important to not contain our celebration to one singular month, and we…

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Added on: 07/02/2022
Over the past 19 years, Alleria Stanley’s family has grown accustomed to packing up and moving wherever the Army tells them to go, measuring time by all…

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Added on: 07/01/2022
06/30/2022
The world is at an inflection point for LBGTQ rights, as a mixture of opportunities and crises converge, according to an assessment from one of the world’s…