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Added on: 06/05/2022

Mexican LGBTQ group rallies support for beach ‘paradise’ battered by storm

6/3/22

When Hurricane Agatha battered a Mexican beach hamlet popular with LGBTQ residents and visitors earlier this week, members of the community sprang into action to help the…

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Added on: 06/03/2022

Kuwait’s foreign ministry summons U.S. Embassy official over tweets

06/02/2022

June 2 (Reuters) – Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the United States Embassy’s acting charge d’affaires over tweets the embassy published that “support homosexuality”, the ministry…

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Added on: 06/03/2022

After years fighting for the ‘little guy’, Hong Kong crackdown forces UK lawyer to flee

06/02/2022

Michael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the “little guy” in Hong Kong, from high-profile street protesters such as Joshua Wong to little-known LGBT activists. But…

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Added on: 06/02/2022

Meet Charlie Amáyá Scott, a transgender Indigenous scholar and social influencer

06/01/2022

Navajo Nation citizen Charlie Amáyá Scott, 27, is a transgender social media influencer, scholar and advocate. Scott, of Aurora, Colorado, who uses she and they pronouns, leverages her…

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Added on: 06/01/2022

Gay/Trans ‘Panic’ Defense Leads to Accused Killer’s Acquittal.

05/31/2022

A Virginia man has been acquitted of murder after using what amounted to a gay/trans “panic” defense, outlawed in the state just a month after the victim’s…

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Added on: 05/31/2022

Youth group’s new zine showcases 2SLGBTQ+ talent in rural Ontario.

05/30/2022

When Mabe Kyle was in their teens, they didn’t think that 2SLGBTQ+ people existed in rural Ontario, but years later, the youth group that Kyle co-founded has…

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Added on: 05/30/2022

At Berkeley’s queer tango class, it takes 2 but it doesn’t matter who

05/29/2022

On a recent Sunday afternoon at Finnish Hall, Mira Barakat, a tango instructor, demonstrated a connection exercise designed to help students be more responsive to their partner’s…

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Added on: 05/28/2022

NYU’s Nursing School Finally Has a Course on Queer and Trans Health

5/27/22

LGBTQ+ people across the U.S. are facing bigger challenges than ever before in obtaining necessary and competent healthcare, but students at one nursing school want to change…

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Added on: 05/28/2022

Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world.’

5/27/22

Students come to Jewish Queer Youth secretively — through a Google search, a meme on social media, a pamphlet in their local pizzeria, a chat between two…

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Added on: 05/27/2022

As monkeypox cases grow, so do fears of a return of gay blame and stigma

05/226/2022

BERLIN — As mysterious cases of a rare and ominously named virus began surfacing in Europe, Germany’s disease-control center quickly told people to be on the lookout. In a May…

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Added on: 05/26/2022

Trans woman’s photo used to spread baseless online theory about Texas shooter

05/25/2022

Sam, a transgender woman who lives in Georgia, said that on Tuesday evening, Reddit users started commenting on a photo of her that she had shared on…

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Added on: 05/25/2022

Montana bars birth certificate changes, even with surgery.

05/24/2022

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration says transgender people can not change their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery, in defiance of a court order that…

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Added on: 05/23/2022

Starbucks to pay travel costs for trans employees getting gender-affirming care

05/22/2022

Starbucks has announced plans to cover travel costs for employees who must travel more than 100 miles to access gender-affirming care in the wake of multiple state-led…

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Added on: 05/21/2022

A crutch to continue to prejudice’: Montreal’s LGBTQ community fears stigma from monkeypox

5/20/22

David Hawkins wasn’t alive during the height of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, but decades later, his organization is still working on dispelling harmful myths associated…

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Added on: 05/21/2022

2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year testifies to Congress about LGBTQ inclusion

5/20/22

When it comes to his Montgomery County High School classroom, French and English teacher Willie Carver likes to let the students take the lead. “When I see…

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Added on: 05/19/2022

Queer camp counselor was told not to come back. So they opened their own camp.

05/18/2022

Shira Berkowitz loved being a counselor at an overnight summer camp in Minnesota. In 2007, Berkowitz, then 22, was primed to become the program director for ninth-graders,…

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Added on: 05/18/2022

Mexico seeks to bring those excluded due to LGBT-phobia into labor force.

05/17/2022

In a country where discrimination prevails despite legal advances, Contrata LGBTIQ has become one of the first Mexican initiatives to integrate the LGBT community, including migrants, into…

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Added on: 05/18/2022

Judge strikes down Tennessee’s transgender bathroom sign law.

05/17/2022

A federal judge struck down a Tennessee law Tuesday that would have required businesses in the state to post warning notices on their public restrooms if they…

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Added on: 05/16/2022

MEN HAVING SEX WITH WOMEN IS GAY, CLAIMS ‘STRAIGHT’ RIGHT-WING PODCASTER NICK FUENTES

05/15/2022

‘America First’ leader, extreme right-wing, white nationalist, and anti-LGBTQI podcaster Nick Fuentes has a reason for being an involuntary celibate heterosexual. Fuentes, who considers himself the “straightest…

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Added on: 05/12/2022

Out in the World: 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees arrive in Canada

05/11/2022

The Canadian government has quietly relocated 60 LGBTQ Afghan refugees from Pakistan to the North American country. Afghan refugees flew out of Islamabad to Nova Scotia around…

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Added on: 05/11/2022

Gender Queer’ to stay on school library shelf, Hudson Board of Education decides.

05/10/2022

After months of discussion and debate, the Hudson City Schools Board of Education has decided to keep a popular LGBTQ+ book on the library shelves. Hudson students,…

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Added on: 05/10/2022

Kansas’ first transgender lawmaker reflects on ‘emotionally charged’ legislative session.

05/09/2022

State Rep. Stephanie Byers of Wichita has endured a session in which Republicans tried to pass bills curbing rights of trans kids and a fellow lawmaker complained…

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Added on: 05/09/2022

Buttigieg on abortion-LGBTQ+ rights as new poll shows 64% support Roe

05/08/2022

CHICAGO – U. S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg delivering remarks at a symposium at The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on Wednesday blasted Republicans for…

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Added on: 05/07/2022

Federal judge leaves open possibility Alabama transgender medicine law could go into effect

5/6/22

A federal judge Friday afternoon floated the possibility that state law making medication for transgender youth illegal could go into effect on Sunday without a ruling on…

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Added on: 05/07/2022

Appeals Court Rejects Ruling That Gay Nigerian Didn’t Prove He’s Gay

5/6/22

A Nigerian man’s asylum bid has been revived after a ruling by a U.S. appeals court Wednesday. The man said he was applying for asylum because of…

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Added on: 05/06/2022

Biden taps 1st Black woman, LGBT White House press secretary

05/05/2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ person…

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Added on: 05/06/2022

Obergefell was central to the Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage. Now he’s terrified

05/05/2022

In his draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito tries to limit the blast radius of his ruling by writing that abortion is…

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Added on: 05/05/2022

From Ugandan Oppression To Detroit Freedom: One Gay Immigrant’s Story

05/05/2022

Things were never great between Alistair Kiyingi and his father, but by 2017, they were getting worse, fast. In Kampala, Uganda, where his family lived, “there are…

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Added on: 05/04/2022

LGBTQ Agenda: 19 states plan laws to support trans kids.

05/03/2022

LGBTQ lawmakers from 19 states have or will introduce laws to protect trans kids from civil and criminal penalties when seeking gender-affirming care. At a virtual press…

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Added on: 05/03/2022

Anti-LGBTQ laws inspire many LGBTQ people to seek public office.

05/02/2022

The avalanche of anti-LGBTQ laws before state legislatures this year is inspiring LGBTQ candidates to seek office. This is even happening in smaller cities and rural parts…