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Added on: 03/20/2019

Presidential Hopeful Cory Booker Pledges to Reverse Trump’s anti-LGBTI Policies

03/19/2019

Presidential challenger Cory Booker has pledged to reverse a number of Trump administration policies undermining LGBT+ rights. The Democratic senator, one of 14 candidates who are seeking…

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Added on: 03/20/2019

U.S. Top Court Hands Defeat to Hawaii B&B That Spurned Lesbian Couple

03/18/2019

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a defeat on Monday to a bed and breakfast owner in Hawaii who turned away a lesbian couple due to her Christian…

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Added on: 03/19/2019

Google’s queer female pi world record breaker hopes to inspire LGBT community

03/18/2019

Emma Haruka Iwao, a queer software engineer at Google, who calculated pi to a new world record, has said that she hopes her achievement will inspire others…

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Added on: 03/16/2019

Fresno’s LGBT community ‘outraged’ over plea deal for man in transgender woman’s death

03/15/2019

Members of Fresno’s LGBT community are “outraged” over a plea deal reached with a man charged in the fatal stabbing of a transgender woman nearly four years…

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Added on: 03/15/2019

How ‘Real America’ Became Queer America

03/13/2019

This may seem like a strange time to feel optimistic about the future of L.G.B.T. rights in America. But as a queer transgender woman who has spent…

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Added on: 03/12/2019

American Transgender ‘Woman’ Named ‘Miss International Queen’

03/09/2019

American contestant Jazell Barbie Royale was crowned “Miss International Queen” in Thailand on Friday at a beauty pageant for transgender women, becoming the first person of colour…

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Added on: 03/12/2019

Trump to host Brazil’s anti-gay president Jair Bolsonaro at White House

03/09/2019

Donald Trump has invited Brazil’s anti-LGBT president Jair Bolsonaro to the White House. The far-right Brazilian leader, who holds extreme anti-LGBT beliefs, will meet with Trump at…

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Added on: 03/12/2019

After decades-long legal battle, gay couple’s 1971 marriage officially recognized

03/07/2019

In 1971, gay couple Michael McConnell and Jack Baker applied for a marriage license from Blue Earth County, Minnesota. The clerk, not realizing one of the individuals…

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Added on: 03/10/2019

Equality Florida Sounds Alarm Over Preemption Bill

03/07/2019

Equality Florida, the only statewide LGBT rights group, is sounding an alarm over HB 3, which could threaten local LGBT rights protections if passed. “So House Bill…

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Added on: 03/08/2019

Trump’s newly confirmed federal judge has ties to anti-gay ‘hate group’

03/06/2019

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, handing the 36-year-old judge a lifetime seat on one…

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Added on: 03/07/2019

Author Samantha Allen’s Road Trip Through Red States Reveals LGBTI Communities Everywhere

03/05/2019

Author and journalist Samantha Allen wanted to go beyond the headlines in her new book, “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.” “Often the stories we hear…

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Added on: 03/05/2019

In a Virginia school, a celebration of transgender students in a kindergarten class

03/03/2019

When Jaim Foster began teaching nearly two decades ago in Nebraska, he said he was discouraged from being an openly gay educator. He had championed LGBT causes…

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Added on: 03/04/2019

Study highlights differences between gay, straight suicides

03/01/2019

While research has determined that gays and lesbians are among the U.S. subgroups at an increased risk of suicidal behavior, a new study shines a spotlight on…

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Added on: 03/03/2019

3 big US churches in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy

03/02/2019

It has been a wrenching season for three of America’s largest religious denominations, as sex-abuse scandals and a schism over LGBT inclusion fuel anguish and anger within…

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Added on: 03/02/2019

Undocumented LGBT ‘Dreamer’ Shares His Story at 4Ward Symposium

02/28/2019

Candelario Saldana is a leader who is making strides and causing a few waves at the University of Miami for LGBT lawyers. Saldana’s mother brought him to…

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Added on: 02/28/2019

LGBT Oscar winners: ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘The Favourite’ make history as 3 of 4 acting awards go to queer roles

02/25/2019

The 2019 Oscars turned out to be better than ever for LGBT movies. Eight total awards went to movies with queer themes, which is more than ever…

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Added on: 02/27/2019

Drag queens protest at border wall to raise money for LGBTQ asylum-seekers

02/25/2019

Beatrix Lestrange stood in front of a crowd wearing a multicolored dress, red wig, black pumps and a choker with studs. “Who’s ready to have a political…

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Added on: 02/26/2019

Kids Love Drag Queen Storytime. Anti-LGBT Groups Want To Shut Them Down

02/23/2019

The children who listen to the drag queens reading stories in Houston, Michigan, and South Carolina love it. Anti-LGBT groups are mobilizing to menace the events out…

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Added on: 02/25/2019

GOP lawmakers push to ban LGBT conversion therapy in Utah

02/21/2019

Two Republican lawmakers proposed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors in conservative Utah on Thursday, a plan that’s been hailed as a milestone by advocates…

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Added on: 02/24/2019

Donald Trump doesn’t appear to know about his own administration’s efforts to decriminalize homosexuality around the world

02/20/2019

The Trump administration is reportedly set to launch a worldwide campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of countries where its still against the law,…

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Added on: 02/23/2019

Can the United Methodist Church stay united? LGBT issues may lead to a split

02/21/2019

At a high-stakes gathering starting Saturday in St. Louis, the United Methodist Church’s legislative assembly will debate the place of LGBT people in the church knowing that…

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Added on: 02/22/2019

One in four pre-teen suicides may be LGBT youth

02/22/2019

Youth 12 to 14 years old LGBT are much more likely to die by suicide than their heterosexual peers, a disparity that persists but becomes less pronounced…

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Added on: 02/20/2019

Kenyan United Methodists oppose allowing LGBT clergy, pray for church unity worldwide

02/18/2019

During a recent prayer service here at the Kayole St. John’s United Methodist Church, more than a hundred worshippers followed Rev. Wilton Odongo, one of the church’s…

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Added on: 02/20/2019

Inside Monica Roberts’ Mission to Identify Transgender Murder Victims

02/19/2019

Monica Roberts does in 30 minutes what reporters have been failing to do for years. She identifies murder victims who are transgender. Whenever she discovers through Facebook…

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Added on: 02/18/2019

Federal judge temporarily blocks military from forcing out HIV-positive airmen

02/15/2019

A federal judge on Friday blocked the military from forcing out a pair of HIV-positive airmen, saying she had seen no evidence that the disease should prevent…

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Added on: 02/18/2019

Outing the Irish LGBT past, telling the truth to the present at New York Irish Center

02/15/2019

For most of the 20th century, LGBT Irish citizens were forced to live in a kind of exile in their own country, with the laws, the church…

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Added on: 02/16/2019

Black queer people are victimized every day

02/14/2019

Stacey Long Simmons, director of advocacy at the National LGBTQ Task Force, vividly recalls the time, as a young college student, she was walking outside of campus…

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Added on: 02/16/2019

Lawmaker pulls proposed transgender birth certificate ban

02/14/2019

A proposal that would have blocked transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates in Utah was shelved Thursday, prompting relief from LGBT advocates…

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Added on: 02/15/2019

Dems introduce bill to take gender-specific terms out of tax code to make it LGBT-inclusive

02/14/2019

A bill introduced by two Democratic lawmakers Thursday would update the U.S. tax code to remove gender-specific references such as “husband” and “wife” and would replace the…

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Added on: 02/11/2019

Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

02/10/2019

Moments before paramedics rushed Roxsana Hernandez out of an ICE jail in New Mexico, Charlotte consoled her dying friend. They’d known each other only a few months,…