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Added on: 03/31/2021

Elite Nursing School to Offer Certification in Trans Health Care

03/30/2021

The Columbia School of Nursing in New York is ready to offer a new certificate to its students, one that’s the first of its kind. The Certificate…

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Added on: 03/31/2021

LGBTQ students file class-action lawsuit against Department of Education

03/30/2021

Lucas Wilson said he received conversion therapy from a student club called Band of Brothers at Liberty University from 2008 to 2012, when he was an undergraduate…

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Added on: 03/29/2021

Meet the Jamaican refugee who now runs the community centre that took her in

03/28/2021

Toronto’s Church-Wellesley neighbourhood, bustling and even ebullient in better days, has survived more than a year of COVID-19 lockdown measures, but not without loss. Though a few…

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Added on: 03/28/2021

Majority of Republicans support same-sex marriage for the first time

3/23/21

A majority within all partisan groups, including Republicans, now support same-sex marriage, according to a poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) released on Tuesday. In…

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Added on: 03/27/2021

FIFA threatens sanctions for Mexico after anti-gay chant reemerges

3/26/21

FIFA has officially opened an investigation after anti-gay chants were audible during the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying match between Mexico and the Dominican Republic on March 18. Potential…

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Added on: 03/26/2021

Rachel Levine Becomes First Transgender Person Confirmed By Senate

03/25/2021

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Rachel Levine, President Joe Biden’s pick as assistant secretary of health. Levine is the first transgender person to…

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Added on: 03/25/2021

Bill Would Allow Students to Opt Out of LGBT Curriculum

03/25/2021

A Tennessee Senate panel on Wednesday advanced legislation requiring school districts to alert parents of any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, allowing them to opt…

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Added on: 03/22/2021

Wave Of Bills To Block Trans Athletes Has No Basis In Science, Researcher Says

03/21/2021

Legislation in several states — Including Kansas and Missouri — would limit or prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s athletics. An expert on sex differences in…

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Added on: 03/21/2021

Pathetic right-wing cranks think the new gay Captain America will ‘contract AIDS’

3/20/21

Right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder’s controversial podcast is in hot water for suggesting the new gay Captain American will contract AIDS. Dave Landau hosted the Wednesday (17 March)…

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Added on: 03/20/2021

Amazon no longer sells books framing LGBTQIA identity as mental illness

3/19/21

Amazon is no longer selling books that paint LGBTQIA identities as mental illnesses. This was stated in a letter from the company’s Vice President of Public Policy,…

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Added on: 03/19/2021

Poll Shows 70 Percent Of Voters Support LGBT Protections Bill Equality Act

03/18/2021

A new poll released Tuesday found overwhelming support for the Equality Act. The legislation cleared the House last month and is currently being considered in the Senate….

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Added on: 03/18/2021

Mississippi governor signs bill banning trans athletes from school sports

03/11/2021

On Thursday, Gov. Tate Reeves signed “the Mississippi Fairness Act” into law, requiring the state’s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender…

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Added on: 03/17/2021

Equality Act is creating a historic face-off between religious exemptions and LGBTQ rights

03/16/2021

In some ways, full LGBTQ rights has never seemed more within reach. First came the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Then its decision last year…

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Added on: 03/16/2021

“Ex-gay” pastor loses lawsuit against Vimeo for taking down videos promoting conversion therapy

03/14/2021

A pastor who identifies as a “former homosexual” has officially lost his lawsuit attempting to force the video streaming service to host his videos promoting so-called conversion…

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Added on: 03/14/2021

Sponsors of North Dakota’s transgender athletes bill have ties to anti-LGBT organizations

3/14/21

When state Sen. Janne Myrdal testified before the North Dakota House Human Services Committee in support of HB 1298, she said she believes the bill has little…

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Added on: 03/06/2021

American Psychological Association opposes transgender conversion “therapy” in historic statement

03/05/2021

The biggest professional psychologist organization in the U.S. has come out against transgender conversion therapy in a new statement, saying that the practice puts “individuals at significant…

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Added on: 03/05/2021

Mississippi governor to sign bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

03/04/2021

Mississippi legislators have passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities — one of over two dozen…

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Added on: 03/04/2021

The Trailer: Why Republicans keep running against trans rights

03/04/2021

In this edition: The GOP’s transgender politics, lessons from CPAC and a sit-down with a Republican running for Congress against Trump. We don’t have the Kraken anymore,…

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Added on: 03/03/2021

United Methodist conservatives detail breakaway plans over gay inclusion

03/02/2021

Conservative leaders within the United Methodist Church unveiled plans Monday to form a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, with a doctrine that does not recognize same-sex…

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Added on: 03/02/2021

Crowd in Mexico stops gay couple from being arrested as they chant ‘I’m gay too’ at cops

03/01/2021

A gay couple were handcuffed by armed police “for kissing” on a beach in Mexico. A series of videos of the incident, posted to Facebook, appear to…

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Added on: 03/01/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

02/28/2021

On April 25, 1965, three teenagers refused to leave Dewey’s Restaurant in Philadelphia after employees repeatedly denied service to “homosexuals and persons wearing nonconformist clothing,” according to…

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Added on: 02/28/2021

Different fight, ‘same goal’: How the Black freedom movement inspired early gay activists

2/28/21

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Added on: 02/28/2021

The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families

2/28/21

When Don Ward was a child, in Seattle, in the nineteen-sixties, his mother, each December, would hand him the Sears catalogue and ask him to pick Christmas…

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Added on: 02/28/2021

Beach erupts in protest as armed police arrest gay couple ‘for kissing’

02/28/21

Two gay men were arrested after kissing on a public Mexico beach but were freed after fellow sunbathers charged after the police vehicle and demanded their release….

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Added on: 02/27/2021

More young people identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before, poll finds

2/26/21

More young people are out than ever before, and most people who identify as LGBTQ+ are attracted to more than one gender, according to new data. A…

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Added on: 02/26/2021

LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act

02/25/2021

By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender…

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Added on: 02/26/2021

Outrage as Marjorie Taylor Greene displays transphobic sign in Congress

02/25/2021

The Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene attracted widespread condemnation – from transgender groups, Democrats and her own party – after she hung a transphobic sign outside her…

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Added on: 02/25/2021

American anti-trans activist invited to give Singaporeans a ‘better understanding’

02/24/2021

An American doctor who believes transgenderism as a “myth” and has supported the forced “conversion” of homosexuals has been invited to lead a discussion of the issue…

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Added on: 02/25/2021

Transgender Arkansan killed in Pennsylvania

02/24/2021

A 24-year-old transgender woman from Springdale was killed Thursday in Pennsylvania , according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Chyna Carrillo’s death is at least the seventh killing…

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Added on: 02/25/2021

Mexico’s top court to vote on gay marriage in Yucatan state

02/24/2021

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico’s top court is due to vote Wednesday whether to order the state of Yucatan to legalize gay marriage, a move…