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News (World)
Drama about ACT UP gets best reviews at Cannes Film Festival
“120 Beats Per Minute” was written by an ACT UP activist and tells a story about ACT UP activism.
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News (World)
1000 people participate in Pride in Romania
The Bucharest Pride festivities took a moment of silence for gay and bisexual people in Chechnya.
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News (World)
Trump in Saudi Arabia speech: The US will not tell you “how to live”
The speech implies that Trump will, like his predecessors, not concern himself with human rights abuses abroad.
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News (World)
Transgender voters being blocked from registering
With the UK’s May 22 voter registration deadline tomorrow, some transgender voters are finding that a computer error and bureaucratic confusion might keep them from voting.
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News (World)
Baseball player apologizes for anti-gay slur
After nearly starting a brawl by calling an opponent an anti-gay slur, Kevin Pillar has apologized.
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News (USA)
New Chicago initiative has served 3600 people living with HIV
The number was announced as the program is set to expand.
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News (USA)
Transgender rights advocate dies at 25
After a legal battle to get his name changed, Rowan Feldhaus passed away.
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News (USA)
Weekend Debrief: US Denying Visas to Chechen Refugees
Support for marriage equality is at an all time high, while the US refuses to take in gay and bi Chechen refugees.
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News (USA)
Pastry chef sues Mario Batali’s restaurant for harassment & discrimination
After being called anti-gay slurs, the worker says that he was set up by his supervisor who wanted him fired.
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Commentary
Man charged with assault for performing orchiectomy on trans woman
The man isn’t a doctor and has been charged with a felony for removing a woman’s testicles.
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News (USA)
North Carolina furniture market loses business… because of HB2?
Registration for the market is down this year.
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News (USA)
Homophobic judge won’t be able to avoid gay adoption cases
Because he thinks that no child should ever be placed with LGBT parents, he didn’t want to hear those cases.
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News (World)
Pride in Kuala Lumpur cancelled following religious complaints
The event was cancelled by administrators at the university that was hosting it.
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News (USA)
University of Iowa pays $6.5 million to settle discrimination cases
The university settled discrimination lawsuits filed by an athletics administrator and her partner, a field hockey coach.
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News (USA)
Anderson Cooper apologizes for ‘crude remark’ to Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord
Cooper apologized both on air and on Twitter for a crude and exasperated remark.
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News (USA)
Oregon governor forgives boy who stole pen & hazelnut
A fourth grader stole a few things on a trip to the state Capitol, but it’s all OK now.
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News (USA)
Trans woman Sherrell Faulkner dies from injuries sustained in November attack
Faulkner is the 11th transgender person to die in the United States as a result of violence in 2017.
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News (USA)
Trans athlete shares journey with side by side prom pictures, goes viral
Check out Schuyler Bailar, the first trans swimmer in Division I, before and after transitioning.
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News (USA)
Oregon theater loses rights to this classic play after casting black actor
Director Michael Streeter says he is “furious and dumbfounded” that he cannot stage “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”