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Added on: 09/11/2019

The first credit union specifically tailored to LGBTQ customers to open in 2020

09/10/2019

The state of Michigan has just approved a new credit union specifically tailored to LGBTQ customers. Superbia Credit Union will be opening its virtual doors in 2020…

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Added on: 09/10/2019

9 LGBTQ Faith Leaders to Watch in 2019

09/09/2019

The past year has posed significant challenges for many LGBTQ members of faith communities. For example, a recent vote in the United Methodist Church strengthened its ban…

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Added on: 09/09/2019

Transgender woman healing after beaten in Oregon over bathroom use

09/08/2019

The attack broke Lauren Jackson’s bones but not her spirit. “Thankfully, I’m still alive. Thankfully, the injuries weren’t worse,” she told The Oregonian/OregonLive. Jackson, a transgender woman,…

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Added on: 09/07/2019

The ex-gay Christianity movement is making a quiet comeback. The effects on LGBTQ youth could be devastating.

09/06/2019

For two decades, McKrae Game was a top-tier figure among ex-gay Christians and a leading advocate for conversion therapy, a counseling practice with the goal of helping…

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Added on: 09/06/2019

Judge has a lawyer arrested for defending the ‘Straight Pride’ protestors

09/06/2019

A judge had a lawyer arrested who was trying to defend her clients who were protesting against Straight Pride. 36 demonstrators were arrested while protesting the Straight Pride…

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Added on: 09/06/2019

2020 Democrat candidates focus on LGBT issues

09/05/2019

Democratic presidential hopefuls will take to another stage in October to discuss their stances on issues pertaining to the LGBT community. CNN and LGBT advocacy group the Human…

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Added on: 09/04/2019

Former Gay Conversion Leader Denounces ‘Harmful’ Movement After Coming Out

09/03/2019

The South Carolina-based founder of one of the nation’s largest “gay conversion” programs issued a formal apology for his role in the discredited movement this weekend ―…

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Added on: 09/04/2019

Conversion Therapy Crusader Comes Out As Gay

09/03/2019

The Post and Courier has reported that the Hope for Wholeness founder 51 year-old McKrae Game came out as gay, nearly two years after he was fired…

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Added on: 09/03/2019

Inside the Supreme Court Discrimination Cases That Could Change LGBTQ Rights

09/03/2019

On Oct. 8, the High Court is set to hear three landmark LGBTQ workplace-discrimination cases. They are as intensely personal as they are political. Until 2012, Aimee…

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Added on: 09/02/2019

Groups argue law doesn’t protect transgender woman from workplace bias

09/02/2019

More than three dozen groups, from Christian colleges to feminists, filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with a Michigan funeral home business that…

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Added on: 09/02/2019

Boston ‘straight pride’ parade dwarfed by large counter-protest

08/31/2019

A controversial “straight pride” parade in Boston on Saturday drew more than 1,000 counter-protesters and a few hundred supporters. The rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was “grand marshal”…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

Parents demand action after students from LGBTQ club in California HS allegedly harassed by group holding MAGA flags

08/30/2019

A high school in Bakersfield, Calif., is investigating an alleged incident of harassment against students who participated in a meeting of an LGBTQ club. According to multiple…

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Added on: 08/31/2019

How Silicon Valley fostered India’s LGBTQ+ movement

08/31/2019

The moment I heard that Section 377 had finally fallen, I wondered if my friends Arvind and Ashok, sitting far away from India in their two-storey house…

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Added on: 08/30/2019

It’s been long march for LGBTQ rights — Straight Pride boosters skip over that

08/29/2019

On Saturday there will be a Straight Pride Parade, where people will be marching many of the same streets as the Boston Pride Parade. The proponents of…

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Added on: 08/30/2019

Principal Who Banned a Book With LGBTQ Themes Arrested for Child Porn

08/298/2019

Phillip Todd Wilson had removed books parents objected to because of gay characters and controversial content. A high school principal who once banned books with LGBTQ content…

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Added on: 08/30/2019

No single ‘gay gene’, reveals the largest-ever study of the genetics of same-sex sexual behaviour

08/29/2019

Scientists have again debunked the idea of a single “gay gene”, in the largest study to date of the genetics of same-sex sexual behaviour. Rather, their findings…

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Added on: 08/29/2019

Another resignation shakes LGBT Republican group after Trump endorsement

08/27/2019

The executive director Jerri Ann Henry of the Log Cabin Republicans, group working with Republicans advocate equal rights for lesbian and gay people, has stepped down from her…

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Added on: 08/27/2019

An Exploration of LGBTQ Jamaican Identity—and Lots of Food

08/26/2019

A giant wall of Chinese takeout boxes was the background to an array of smiling, brown, queer faces — their hands darting to and from trays of…

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Added on: 08/27/2019

Kentucky clerk who refused same-sex marriage licenses can be sued

08/26/2019

The Kentucky county clerk who in 2015 gained widespread attention for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples may be sued for damages by two of…

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Added on: 08/24/2019

‘I-95’ serial killer who murdered six gay men in 1994 executed in Florida

23/08/2019

Serial killer Gary Ray Bowles also known as the “I-95” killer was pronounced dead on Thursday, August 22 at age 57, after receiving a lethal injection, according to…

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Added on: 08/23/2019

US fundamentalists deliver homophobic leaflets across Birmingham

08/22/2019

A US Christian fundamentalist group have been dropping ‘homophobic and transphobic’ leaflets into homes across Birmingham. Singer Janique James, 23, was shocked to receive the Tradition, Family,…

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Added on: 08/22/2019

American-Georgian lawyer seeks prosecution of anti-gay hate leader

08/20/2019

The bullying of Georgia’s gay community has at times taken on a medieval air: A local “knight” and his loyal legion of thugs have for years sought…

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Added on: 08/22/2019

How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba

08/20/2019

Earlier this year, Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdés Moreno and her American-born wife, Hope, welcomed their baby boy into the world. Although they live in Havana, they opted…

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Added on: 08/21/2019

Trump administration says transgender workers aren’t protected by civil rights

08/20/2019

President Trump’s administration has told the Supreme Court that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender. The…

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Added on: 08/21/2019

From Lil Nas X to Frank Ocean, the gay rappers changing hip hop’s homophobic culture

08/20/2019

On June 30, the final day of Pride Month, the young country-rap sensation Lil Nas X came out to his 2.2. million Twitter followers “Some of y’all…

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Added on: 08/20/2019

LGBTQ church vandalized six times in two weeks

08/19/2019

An LGBTQ church has been vandalized six times in the past two weeks and churchgoers are worried their community is the target. “Really the first time, I…

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Added on: 08/19/2019

Two conversion therapy survivors want protections for LGBTQ youth

08/18/2019

For Thomas Argue, growing up in Victoria County in the 1990s was idyllic in some ways, humiliating and painful in others. Argue, who is gay, was raised…

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Added on: 08/18/2019

America Moved On From Its Gay-Rights Moment—And Left a Legal Mess Behind

08/17/2019

Roughly half of americans think federal law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Despite four years of nationwide same-sex marriage, despite rapidly growing cultural acceptance…

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Added on: 08/17/2019

The Trump Administration Asked The Supreme Court To Legalize Firing Workers Just For Being Transgender

08/16/2019

The Trump administration on Friday took one of its most aggressive steps yet to legalize anti-transgender discrimination by telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing…

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Added on: 08/17/2019

Native American Tribes Are Wrestling With Decision To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

08/16/2019

While across the U.S. same-sex marriage has been legal for four years, some Native American tribes still fail to recognize it. Tribes are empowered to make their…