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Kate McKinnon Opens Up About Being Gay During Golden Globes

01/05/2020

Kate McKinnon was not in the closet. She’s been open about being a lesbian for years. She joked about it with Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars…

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Added on: 01/05/2020

Advocates blast $750,000 bail for suspect in transgender teen’s slaying

01/03/2020

Advocates in the Washington LGBTQ community on Thursday blasted a judge’s decision to set bail at $750,000 for a man charged with a hate crime in the…

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Added on: 01/05/2020

Prominent Christian activist says “the Nazi Party started in a gay bar”

01/04/2020

A prominent Christian conservative is now claiming that the Nazi Party was founded and staffed by gay people. “Let’s not forget that the Nazi Party started in…

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Added on: 01/04/2020

Conservative, liberal Methodists to split over gay marriage

01/03/2020

The United Methodist Church plans to split into two later this year, church officials said on Friday, a schism that follows years of contention over whether the…

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Added on: 01/03/2020

A transgender teen helped pass a new birth certificate law. She’s now the first in Colorado to benefit from it.

12/02/2020

Jude spent so many years fighting for the bill to allow transgender Coloradans to more easily change their names and gender designations on identity documents that, eventually,…

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Added on: 01/01/2020

How the U.S. immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart

12/31/2019

After living as an openly gay couple in Honduras, Oscar Juarez Hernandez and Darwin Garcia Portillo thought the United States was the last place where their inability…

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Added on: 12/30/2019

A very LGBTQ decade: Gay marriage, trans rights and a ‘rainbow wave’

12/29/2019

At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

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Added on: 12/28/2019

LGBT Truckers Ride With Pride, Raising Awareness Around Country

12/27/2019

At the wheel of the Rainbow Rider, a semi-tractor truck wrapped in a rainbow-hued road map, the LGBT Truckers can’t help but attract attention. And that’s their…

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Added on: 12/28/2019

Beloved transgender activist who raised awareness about transphobia killed in Toronto

12/27/2019

A Canadian transgender activist who worked to raise awareness about transphobia was killed in Toronto, Canada’s The Globe and Mail reported. Julie Berman was found by police…

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Added on: 12/27/2019

The March For LGBTQ Rights Is Storming Through Trump Country

12/27/2019

Chris Hartman hunched over his laptop keyboard in the corner of a campus classroom late one evening this fall, pondering an unfamiliar but welcome dilemma: Kentucky’s LGBTQ…

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Added on: 12/27/2019

How gender norms affect anti-LBGT prejudice around the world

12/27/2019

A study conducted in 20 countries across the globe has shown that prejudice and discrimination against the LGBT community remains deep-rooted. In order to determine the ways…

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Added on: 12/26/2019

Thirty years ago, gay civil rights campaign set the stage for all that followed

12/25/2019

When Massachusetts enacted a gay and lesbian civil rights bill 30 years ago, opponents warned about the slippery slope of acceptance. Senator David H. Locke, a Wellesley…

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Added on: 12/23/2019

US urges 69 nations, including Iran, to decriminalize homosexuality

12/21/2019

US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell and American Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft used the UN bully pulpit on Wednesday to call on 69 nations,…

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Added on: 12/22/2019

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration’s Assault On the Courts and LGBTQ Protections Intensifies

12/21/2019

Lambda Legal released the third edition of its annual report of judicial nominees revealing the alarming extent to which the Trump-Pence administration, with the help of Senate…

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Added on: 12/22/2019

Buttigieg under attack during Democratic debate

12/20/2019

Openly gay Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was under fierce attack Thursday night in the sixth Democratic debate and, by the end of the evening, there was…

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Added on: 12/20/2019

Will first trans hero mark a new era for LGBT+ roles in video games?

12/19/2019

When Tyler Ronan and his twin sister Alyson ask video gamers to unravel their family’s mysterious past in small-town Alaska next year, the siblings will take followers…

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Added on: 12/20/2019

US Agency Could Pave Way for Anti-LGBT Discrimination

12/19/2019

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funds thousands of organizations that work on important health and social welfare issues including adoption and foster…

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Added on: 12/20/2019

Chinese censors, audiences unfazed by ‘Rise of Skywalker’ gay kiss

12/19/2019

The first gay kiss of the “Star Wars” film franchise has surprisingly survived China’s censors and made it to the big screens across the country. Audiences were…

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Added on: 12/19/2019

Anti-LGBT discrimination has a huge human toll. Research proves it.

12/18/2019

In a trio of cases heard in October, the Supreme Court weighed whether discrimination against LGBT people should be legal. Over the course of those and related…

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Added on: 12/16/2019

Hallmark Channel Reinstates Kissing Brides’ Ads After Backlash

12/15/2019

In a change of heart, the Hallmark Channel will allow television commercials produced by wedding-planning website Zola that show two brides kissing. The cable network had pulled…

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Added on: 12/15/2019

Man Convicted of Hate Crime for Punching Transgender Woman

12/14/2019

An Oregon man convicted of punching a transgender woman has been sentenced to probation. Dominick Gonzales, 38, changed his plea Friday and was convicted of first-degree bias…

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Added on: 12/15/2019

Construction of Navy ship ‘Harvey Milk’ begins at San Diego shipbuilder

12/14/2019

Construction began Friday on a Navy ship named after Harvey Milk, a former San Francisco supervisor and activist who was fatally shot months after becoming the first…

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Added on: 12/14/2019

Advertiser Cuts Ties With Hallmark Channel for Pulling Lesbian Ad

12/13/2019

Following pressure from anti-LGBTQ groups including One Million Moms, the Hallmark Channel pulled four ads from wedding registry site Zola that feature lesbian nuptials, while keeping two…

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Added on: 12/13/2019

Painting of Naked Mexican Revolutionary Hero Unleashes Controversy

12/12/2019

A painting depicting Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata naked but for high heels and a pink sombrero, astride an aroused white horse, has sparked controversy in socially…

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Added on: 12/13/2019

Transgender Latina makes history as Evangelical Lutheran pastor

12/12/2019

Before coming out as transgender, Nicole Garcia prayed daily that God would “fix” her. When her prayers weren’t answered and the feeling in her gut didn’t go…

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Added on: 12/12/2019

Mexico’s president condemns LGBT+ hate crimes after painting row

12/11/2019

Mexico’s president on Wednesday condemned hate crimes against LGBT+ people after a row over a painting of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata naked but for a pink sombrero,…

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Added on: 12/12/2019

You Wanted Same-Sex Marriage? Now You Have Pete Buttigieg.

12/11/2019

To a lot of progressive queer people, Buttigieg’s campaign symbolizes everything the marriage-focused mainstream gay rights movement has failed to deliver. In general, Buttigieg makes the case…

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Added on: 12/11/2019

Dictionary chooses gender-neutral ‘they’ as word of 2019

12/10/2019

The use of “they” to describe someone who does not identify as male or female gained ground on Tuesday, when U.S. dictionary Merriam-Webster picked it as the…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

Attack the OAS: Inside the ultra-conservative war on the Inter-American human rights system

12/05/2019

“The attack first started when I was president”, Margarette May Macaulay, a lawyer and former judge from Jamaica who was elected to the top post at the…

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Added on: 12/09/2019

Facebook ads push misinformation about HIV prevention drugs, LGBT activists say, ‘harming public health’

12/09/2019

Facebook users have been bombarded with misleading ads about medication meant to prevent the transmission of HIV, according to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates, who say…