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Added on: 06/04/2024

Biden campaign launches Pride Month push as allies work to shore up LGBTQ support

06/03/2024

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is launching an effort at the start of National Pride Month to try to shore up support from LGBTQ voters. The campaign…

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Added on: 06/03/2024

Science alone can’t solve fairness debate on transgender athletes, says expert endocrinologist and UW professor

06/02/2024

In recent years, debate has gripped society regarding whether it is fair to allow transgender women to participate in women’s sports. One University of Washington professor believes…

Global News

Added on: 06/01/2024

Biden State Department Spending Millions on Foreign LGBTQ Events as ‘Pride Month’ Approaches

05/31/2024

The State Department is funding an array of LGBTQI+ pride events across the globe ahead of June, some of which include events focused on children, federal grant…

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Added on: 05/30/2024

Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa

05/30/2024

A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by…

Global News

Added on: 05/29/2024

Active Court Cases that Will Influence the State of LGBTQ+ Rights

05/28/2024

As the LGBTQ+ community continues to face discriminatory legislation across the country, there are also a number of active court cases making their way through the court…

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Added on: 05/28/2024

FDA Maintains Discriminatory Rules on Donated Tissue for Gay and Bisexual Men

05/27/2024

The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed who it said could safely donate organs and blood, reducing the restrictions on men who have had sex with…

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Added on: 05/27/2024

California evangelical seminary ponders changes that would make it more welcoming to LGBTQ students

05/26/2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating whether to become more open to LGBTQ+ students who previously faced possible…

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Added on: 05/26/2024

Users Report Google’s AI Overview Thinks Tons of Fictional Characters Are Gay

05/25/2024

Listen, we’re big fans of underrated and lesser-known LGBTQ+ fictional characters here at Them, but we have to be the bearer of bad news: despite what Google’s…

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Added on: 05/26/2024

Ex-KKK leader’s child comes out as transgender in new memoir

05/25/2024

R. Derek Black’s coming out story is complicated. As a child, Black came out to the world as a white nationalist on the syndicated daytime talk program…

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Added on: 05/25/2024

It’s now illegal for Minnesota libraries to ban LGBTQ+ books under this new law

05/24/2024

Minnesota has banned book bans, making it illegal for libraries to remove titles based on ideology. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed HF3782 into law last week, which…

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Added on: 05/24/2024

Republican candidate’s ‘weak and gay’ campaign ad sparks comedic pushback

05/23/2024

Her message? “Don’t be weak and gay.” In turn, the response on social media was strong and decidedly gay. Valentina Gomez, one of eight Republican candidates in the…

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Added on: 05/22/2024

Trump-appointed Alabama judge threatens to jail LGBTQ+ rights lawyers; attorneys fight back

05/21/2024

A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Alabama has threatened to jail several prominent LGBTQ+ civil rights lawyers involved in a long-running forum-shopping dispute. U.S. District Judge Liles…

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Added on: 05/21/2024

Supreme Court Turns Down Case Challenging School District’s Transgender Policies

05/20/2024

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case about a Maryland school district’s policies to support transgender students and when parents may challenge…

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Added on: 05/19/2024

US State Dept issues worldwide alert amid threat of violence against LGBTQ+ community

05/18/2024

The U.S. State Department on Friday issued a worldwide caution security alert, saying it is aware of increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQ+ people…

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Added on: 05/18/2024

Court rejects parents’ attempt to opt kids out of LGBTQ-inclusive reading assignments

05/17/2024

A federal appeals court rejected a bid from a group of Maryland parents to require Montgomery County Public Schools to allow them to opt their children out…

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Added on: 05/17/2024

Botswana deports U.S. pastor Steven Anderson over anti-gay views

05/16/2024

GABORONE (Reuters) – President Ian Khama of Botswana said on Tuesday he had ordered the arrest and deportation of U.S. pastor Steven Anderson, who was banned from…

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Added on: 05/15/2024

18 states sue the Biden administration over transgender worker protections

05/14/2024

Eighteen Republican-led states sued the Biden administration late Monday over new federal guidance that aims to protect transgender Americans from workplace discrimination. In a lawsuit filed against…

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Added on: 05/14/2024

This small town in Ohio had its first Pride celebration last year & the community loved it

05/13/2024

In the bucolic, and conservative, small town of Broadview Heights, Ohio — south of Cleveland, north of Akron and right next door to the spectacular Cuyahoga Valley…

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Added on: 05/13/2024

A college athletics association banned transgender women from women’s sports. Now all eyes are on the NCAA

05/12/2024

Like any competitive swimmer, Meghan Cortez-Fields knows how high the stakes can be in a sport where mere hundredths of a second can mean the difference between…

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Added on: 05/12/2024

Trump vows to reverse transgender student protections ‘on day one’

05/11/2024

Former President Trump said Friday he would roll back transgender student protections enacted last month by the Biden administration “on day one” of his presidency if he…

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Added on: 05/12/2024

Out in the World: Bay Area fundraiser for LGBTQ refugee group ORAM features gay Ugandan

05/11/2024

The Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration had a homecoming in the San Francisco Bay Area in an effort to drum up support and talk about its…

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Added on: 05/11/2024

David Duke’s godchild comes out as transgender in new memoir about leaving white nationalism

05/10/2024

In a revealing new memoir titled The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism, R. Derek Black, once known as a figurehead of American white…

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Added on: 05/09/2024

Boy Scouts of America announces new gender-neutral name – and conservatives aren’t taking it well

05/08/2024

The largest scouting organisation in the US announced on Tuesday (7 May) that it will change its name to Scouting America as part of an initiative to…

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Added on: 05/08/2024

More GOP states challenge federal rules protecting transgender students

05/07/2024

Seven more Republican-led states sued Tuesday to challenge a new federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools. Republican plaintiffs…

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Added on: 05/07/2024

Research shows LGBTQI+ health-related content in medical school has increased

05/06/2024

Reducing barriers to comprehensive and affirming health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations requires physicians to receive LGBTQI+ health content during undergraduate…

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Added on: 05/05/2024

Austin City Council passes transgender protections

05/04/2024

Members of the Austin City Council voted Thursday afternoon to approve offering some protections to local transgender people seeking gender-affirming care, though it may lead to more…

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Added on: 05/04/2024

Aetna agrees to settle lawsuit over fertility coverage for LGBTQ+ customers

05/03/2024

Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit that accused the health insurer of discriminating against LGBTQ+ customers in need of fertility treatment. Under the deal announced Friday,…

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Added on: 05/02/2024

United Methodists in US repeal longstanding ban on LGBT clergy

05/01/2024

United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practising homosexuals” from…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/01/2024

MONEY UNLOCKS THREATS: UGANDAN LGBTQ PEOPLE AT RISK

Annie Clark

Alturi Contributor

In 2013, Uganda passed one of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world. Under the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which took effect in February 2014, conduct between same-sex individuals…

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Added on: 05/01/2024

Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students

04/30/2024

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools by banning blanket policies…