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Calls grow for police to be banned from Pride marches

06/08/2020

Calls are growing for police to be banned from marching in Pride parades and for the LGBT+ events to return to their roots as rebellions against police…

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Added on: 06/07/2020

We are all George Floyd!

06/06/2020

Most of us must have been troubled by the news of what is happening in the US in the aftermath of the horrific death of George Floyd,…

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Added on: 06/07/2020

For Pride, NOM’s Brian Brown Touts Trump’s Rolling Back Of LGBT ‘Victories’ Under Obama

06/06/2020

In a fundraising email to supporters, Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), touted President Donald Trump’s rolling back of LGBT “victories” under former…

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Added on: 06/07/2020

20 photos that chronicle America’s iconic history of activism

06/06/2020

Tens of thousands of Americans have been marching in the streets daily, demanding an end to police brutality and racism. Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna…

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Added on: 06/06/2020

Celebrating Pride Month and rallying for racial equality: LGBTQ groups seek ‘to stand in solidarity with the black community’

06/05/2020

Pride Month began Monday. Many in the LGBTQ community, however, were unsure how to celebrate without overshadowing the ongoing nationwide protests over racial injustice spurred by the…

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Added on: 06/06/2020

Black transgender community to march against injustice

06/05/2020

The LGBTQ community typically marches in June to celebrate pride. This year, some in St. Louis will gather with a different tone. Charles Buchanan with Flower Boi…

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Added on: 06/06/2020

Iowa police raid gay bar for providing first aid supplies to protestors

06/05/2020

An LGBTQ venue was raided by police earlier this week for providing first aid for protestors. The Blazing Saddle, an LGBTQ bar in Des Moines, posted a…

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Added on: 06/05/2020

New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire”

06/04/2020

Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.”…

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Added on: 06/05/2020

LGBT+ Pride events turning focus to racial injustice in U.S

06/04/2020

Organizers of LGBT+ Pride events in major U.S. cities are shifting their focus to racism and police violence, they said this week, addressing the concerns and demands…

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Added on: 06/02/2020

LGBTQ Groups Call to Bring Into Movement Anti-racism, End to White Supremacy

06/01/2020

Amid the national horror following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, LGBTQ and civil rights groups have issued a joint statement declaring anti-racism and an…

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Added on: 06/02/2020

As protests roar, LGBT+ activists see chance to return to ‘radical roots’

06/01/2020

As widespread protests over racial injustice roiled the country, LGBT+ campaigners on Monday, the start of the annual Pride month, called for a return to the rebellious…

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Added on: 06/02/2020

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

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: 05/28/2020

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: 05/25/2020

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

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: 05/15/2020

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

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…