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Added on: 07/05/2022

For gay couples hoping for a military burial, the fight for love doesn’t end with death

07/03/2022

In Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon, lines of marble rise row on row above acres of vivid green. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Linda Campbell knew the…

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Added on: 07/02/2022

‘The Book of Queer’ Creator Eric Cervini On The Subversive Joy of Telling Our Own History

7/1/22

Just because June is over, it doesn’t mean we stop commemorating Pride. It’s actually more important to not contain our celebration to one singular month, and we…

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Added on: 07/02/2022

I can’t take my family to Texas,’ or another red state: Military parents fight to protect their transgender kids

7/1/22

Over the past 19 years, Alleria Stanley’s family has grown accustomed to packing up and moving wherever the Army tells them to go, measuring time by all…

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Added on: 07/01/2022

3 LGBTQ diplomats see opportunity and crisis for queer people around the world

06/30/2022

The world is at an inflection point for LBGTQ rights, as a mixture of opportunities and crises converge, according to an assessment from one of the world’s…

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Added on: 06/30/2022

Proud Boys Showed Up To A Pride Month Library Event But Were Met With A “Human Shield” Of LGBTQ Supporters

06/29/2022

Kathryn Vargas wasn’t sure whether she would take her kids to the Pride Month Family Storytime event on Saturday at a public library in McKinney, Texas, a suburb north of…

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Added on: 06/28/2022

How drag is revitalizing queer culture in rural Canada and smaller cities like Kingston.

06/27/2022

There were families, university students, seniors—a kaleidoscope of people draped in rainbow flags. Some arrived in drag, adorned in multicoloured outfits. Saturday’s Pride parade in Kingston, Ontario,…

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Added on: 06/27/2022

Meet the 14-year-old bringing a queer youth conference to rural Texas

06/26/2022

A ninth grader in Mission, Texas is bringing a queer youth conference to his rural hometown after winning a $10,000 grant from the nonprofit group It Gets…

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Added on: 06/26/2022

Mass same-sex wedding in Mexico challenges discrimination

6/25/22

Even after five years of living together in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, something as simple as holding hands or sharing a kiss in public is…

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Added on: 06/25/2022

LGBTQ community braces for rollback of rights after abortion ruling

6/24/22

Abortion rights supporters Courage Universe, left, and Nikki Enfield embrace outside the Supreme Court after it issued a ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade on June 24….

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Added on: 06/24/2022

Is the LGBT Community Doing Enough to Fight Monkeypox?

06/23/2022

“Monkeypox is not a gay disease.” “Anyone can get monkeypox.” We’ve heard this ad infinitum—and it’s accurate—but as we attempt to avoid stoking stigma and homophobia, I fear…

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Added on: 06/23/2022

Get up, walk the dog – my life is mundane, but because I’m gay Texas Republicans think I’m abnormal

06/22/2022

This morning, I woke up earlier than I wanted to, fed the baby, walked the dog, chatted with my wife and procrastinated over some work. Yawningly mundane,…

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Added on: 06/22/2022

Leading Colorado LGBTQ lawmakers find Pride — and insight — in Israel

06/21/2022

State Rep. Brianna Titone was a grand marshal of the Denver Pride Parade in 2019 and has walked in Pride parades in New York and Copenhagen, but…

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Added on: 06/21/2022

LGBTQ rap collectives are here to stay – and we couldn’t be more proud.

06/20/22

Something close to alchemy happens when rap collectives make music together. Differing voices, perspectives, and styles collide over the beat, materializing in fresh, exciting musical ideas. Often,…

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Added on: 06/20/2022

How Henna Is Helping Proudly Brown And Queer Individuals Reconnect With Their Heritage

06/19/2022

In a rebellious move against the gender binary, as well as notions of toxic masculinity imposed by their South Asian heritage, brown gay men and non-binary individuals…

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Added on: 06/19/2022

Anti-LGBTQ+ attacks by US extremist groups surge as right spews vitriol

6/18/22

In Idaho, police recently found 31 members of a white supremacist group packed into the back of a U-Haul truck, apparently on their way to an LGBTQ+…

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Added on: 06/17/2022

Right-Wing Groups Target Pride Events Amid Rising Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

06/16/2022

Panda Dulce was just about to begin her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday in San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched…

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Added on: 06/16/2022

Biden targets conversion therapy, transgender bans in Pride Month order

06/15/2022

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at curbing discrimination against transgender youth and drying up federal funding for the controversial practice of…

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Added on: 06/16/2022

7 LGBTQ Uprisings Before Stonewall

06/15/2022

The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are arguably the most famous and impactful uprisings for lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) rights. But they are not the…

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Added on: 06/14/2022

In the wake of ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ LGBTQ students won’t be silenced.

06/13/2022

Nearly a dozen Winter Park High School students settled into a classroom, forming a semi-circle around 17-year-old Will Larkins, who sat cross-legged on a desk. It was…

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Added on: 06/13/2022

LGBTQ-affirming high school in Alabama has its first graduating class

06/12/2022

In Birmingham, Alabama, families, and friends of students of Magic City Acceptance Academy attended the charter school’s inaugural graduation ceremony. MCAA is a charter school that promises…

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Added on: 06/12/2022

Congressional candidate pledges to ‘start executing’ Americans promoting ‘LGBTQ indoctrination’ for ‘treason’

6/11/22

Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist MAGA pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, declared that if he is elected, he will reinstate the House…

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Added on: 06/11/2022

Meet the group that works to crack transgender cold cases

6/10/22

The walls of Anthony Redgrave’s office are filled with people whose stories have been cut short. He is a forensic genealogist. “We have to take care of…

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Added on: 06/10/2022

Texas pastor says gay people should be ‘shot in the back of the head’ in shocking sermon

06/09/2022

A Texas baptist church — labeled an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has caused outrage after a pastor said gay people should…

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Added on: 06/09/2022

Yass marine! Here come rainbow bullets and brunches for Pride’s annual pinkwashing

06/08/2022

Last Thursday, Ihop tweeted out what may be the most half-hearted appeal to queer liberation in the history of corporate America. “S/O to everyone who puts the pan in…

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Added on: 06/08/2022

Inside Mexico City’s First LGBTQ Soup Kitchen.

06/07/2022

Like many parts of Mexico City, the Guerrero neighborhood feels simultaneously bustling and relaxed. Just northwest of the city’s historic center, kids play in the street as…

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Added on: 06/08/2022

Sheila Lopez’s Children Led Her to a Navajo Tradition of Acceptance.

06/07/2022

When Sheila Lopez, 48, realized that her two older children identified as LGBTQ, the information set her on a path to rediscovering her Native American cultural traditions…

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Added on: 06/07/2022

Fight looms over transgender treatments in Medicaid.

06/06/2022

National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups are preparing to fight a move by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone…

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Added on: 06/06/2022

Sit-in over anti-LGBTQ policy surpasses 300 hours at SPU

06/05/2022

SEATTLE – Students at Seattle Pacific University have crossed the 300 hour mark of a sit-in over an anti-LGBTQ policy. The sit-in began as a direct response to the…

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Added on: 06/05/2022

GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes with genital inspection

6/3/22

House Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college…

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Added on: 06/05/2022

85 YEARS ON, A PIONEERING LGBTQ RESEARCHER’S IDEAS ABOUT SEXUALITY TAKE ON NEW MEANING

6/3/22

Historians are rediscovering one of the most important LGBTQ activists of the early 20th Century — an Asian Canadian named Li Shiu Tong. You probably don’t know…