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Photo of assaulted transgender teen goes viral as aunt pleads for justice
A 13-year-old transgender girl was punched in the face repeatedly by a male classmate and her family says the school isn’t doing enough to keep her safe.
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News (USA)
Oregon lawmakers prepare to protect LGBTQ people, women from Trump
The proposed law would ban interference in terminating a pregnancy, and would ensure full reproductive health care coverage, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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News (USA)
Tampa moves to ban gay conversion therapy — unless you’re a member of the clergy
The measure imposes fines for mental health professionals caught trying to change minors’ sexual orientations.
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News (USA)
Duke and UNC tip off March Madness in South Carolina thanks to HB2
The NCAA Tournament, a spring fixture in basketball-crazed North Carolina, is tipping off in South Carolina on Friday due to North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law.
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News (USA)
Father of girl bullied over sexuality releases photo to raise awareness
Adrian Derbyshire released a photo of his daughter on a ventilator after she committed suicide in honor of what would have been her 18th birthday.
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News (USA)
Oklahoma senator charged with child prostitution, soliciting sex with teen boy
Police said they caught the Republican Sen. Ralph Shortey in a Super 8 Hotel room with a 17-year-old boy he allegedly intended to pay for sex.
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News (USA)
Joe Rogan, TJ Kirk discuss how their podcasts led to Milo Yiannopoulos’ downfall
Comments Yiannopoulos made on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and “Drunken Peasants” about sexual abuse put the breaks on his career.
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News (USA)
Alabama House passes anti-gay adoption bill despite protest by lesbian lawmaker
Lesbian Rep. Patricia Todd said she’s tired of dealing with institutions that know nothing about her “but make a judgment that I’m a bad person because I am gay.”
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News (USA)
Trump administration sends hate group members to UN for women’s rights meeting
Why were the groups Family and Human Rights and the Heritage Foundation part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women?
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News (World)
Netherlands voters reject anti-Islam populist who claimed to be pro-LGBTQ
Like Donald Trump, Geert Wilders had campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform promising to protect the Dutch LGBTQ community from Islamic terrorists.
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News (USA)
Restaurant posts transphobic, threatening bathroom sign
The owner doesn’t understand why the sign about transgender bathrooms that he calls “a warning” is causing concern.
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News (USA)
Arkansas inches closer to transgender ‘bathroom bill’
Republican state senator Linda Collins-Smith wants facilities in government buildings limited to members of only one sex if multiple people will use it at the same time.
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News (USA)
Man pulls down Congressman’s rainbow flag and stomps on it
The unidentified man told staff members that the rainbow flag is “immoral” and “disgusting.”
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News (USA)
Florida court defines sexual intercourse to include same-sex couples
A lawyer recently argued that the laws were so narrowly defined that “sexual intercourse” didn’t apply to same-sex partners.
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News (USA)
Watch internet trolls explain themselves in their own homes in new documentary
Go inside the homes and heads of internet trolls to find out why they do what they do and how they defend themselves.
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News (USA)
‘Empire’ star Jussie Smollett’s new single is the ultimate Trump diss track
The music video for the song also holds no punches, and includes a scene where a disabled man rolls over a Trump mask in his wheelchair.
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Commentary
Donald Trump wants to eliminate the Meals on Wheels program
In order to free up money for the border wall, Donald Trump has called for taking food away from the elderly and people living with HIV/AIDS.
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News (USA)
Man charged with hate crime for attack on transgender woman after tryst
King County prosecutors on Monday charged Anthony Del-Toro with malicious harassment and felony harassment.
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News (USA)
Charlotte mayoral candidate sends a pooping dog GIF to defend his LGBT record
Sen. Joel Ford’s campaign manager is now limiting his use of GIFs on Twitter.
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News (USA)
Randy Rainbow makes fun of Kellyanne Conway’s spy microwaves
Microwaves are watching you. They see your every move.