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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…

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Added on: 08/14/2019

Fear: If unchained, faith-based bias would crush LGBT medical care

08/13/2019

Gay Africans barred from medical care. A rise in HIV infections in homophobic countries. Reduced access to health care for LGBTI people both in the United States…

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Added on: 08/11/2019

Modesto denies permit for ‘straight pride’ rally

08/10/2019

A Northern California city has denied a request to hold a so-called straight pride rally at a local park. Modesto city officials on Friday denied an application…

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Added on: 08/11/2019

LGBTQ asylum seekers persecuted at home and in U.S. custody

08/10/2019

With more than 800,000 migrants currently applying for asylum in the U.S., a growing number of immigrants rights groups are calling attention to the plight of LGBTQ…

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Added on: 08/07/2019

Religious activist fined for burning library’s LGBTQ books

08/07/2019

A religious activist accused of burning four LGBTQ children’s books that he checked out of a library in Iowa has been convicted of criminal mischief and fined….

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Added on: 08/07/2019

Sonoran marriage equality measure begins legislative journey

08/06/2019

For the time being at least, Sonora’s family code defines marriage as the “legitimate union of a man and a woman,” and further states that same-sex marriages…

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Added on: 08/06/2019

Ohio GOP chair calls for state lawmaker who blamed mass shootings on gay marriage

08/05/2019

Ohio Republican Party Chairwoman Jane Murphy Timken on Monday called for GOP state Rep. Candice Keller to resign after the lawmaker linked mass shootings in the U.S….

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Added on: 08/03/2019

Radical Baptist church preaches LGBTQ hate just miles from California’s Capitol

08/02/2019

Pastor Roger Jimenez implored his congregation at Verity Baptist Church to separate themselves from the ways of a modern, wicked world. Burn your Harry Potter books. Trash…

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Added on: 08/01/2019

ORAM appoints new ED

07/31/2019

Steve Roth has been tapped to head the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration. ORAM announced Roth’s appointment as the LGBT refugee and asylum organization’s new executive…

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Added on: 07/31/2019

‘GLOBOHOMO AGENDA’: UW COLLEGE REPUBLICANS DEMAND GOP STOP EMBRACING LGBT COMMUNITY

07/30/2019

Both Democrat and GOP state officials have denounced a tweet from the University of Washington College Republicans warning that conservatives—including President Donald Trump—are embracing the “cosmopolitan, GloboHomo…

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Added on: 07/31/2019

Hate crimes rise to decade high in US with LGBT people among most targeted, finds report

07/31/2019

Hate crimes have risen across the USA to a decade high, with most extremist homicides carried out by white nationalists or those in the far right, according…

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Added on: 07/28/2019

Dallas police offer free self-defense class after attacks targeting LGBTQ community

07/27/2019

It can take years to master a martial art form, but learning a few simple moves can keep people safe on the streets, a self-defense instructor told…

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Added on: 07/21/2019

Native lesbian couple overjoyed about Oglala Sioux Tribe same-sex marriage ruling

07/20/2019

The Oglala Sioux Tribe says they’re making history by becoming the first tribe in South Dakota to legalize same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court…

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Added on: 07/19/2019

Ricky Martin joins mass protest against Puerto Rico’s anti-LGBT governor

07/18/2019

Ricky Martin joined Puerto Rican protestors to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló, who has been accused of degrading women, the LGBT+ community and other disadvantaged…

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Added on: 07/16/2019

LGBT asylum-seekers exempt from ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy and can stay in US

07/16/2019

Asylum-seekers who arrive at the southern border and claim to be LGBT are exempt from the U.S.-Mexico “Remain in Mexico” policy and will not be returned to…

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Added on: 07/13/2019

Puyallup Indians recognize their gay and lesbian members with Pride events

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Glaad’s bold new mission: An LGBT constitutional amendment

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…