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News (World)
Russian MPs call FIFA 17 ‘gay propaganda’ and seek to ban it from the country
The game is said to violate the law passed in 2013 banning gay propaganda.
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News (USA)
University of Oklahoma football players targeted with anti-gay abuse
A banner hanging in the Oklahoma State student union proclaimed that two players for their arch-rival’s team “bang dudes” as part of #OUHateWeek.
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News (World)
Ho-ho-hohum or big deal? BBC includes same-sex kiss in its Christmas commercial
And yet, the BBC says not one person has complained about its annual “festive film” ad.
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News (USA)
New Texas pre-abortion ‘facts’ booklet contains outright lies and psuedoscience
The booklet claims there may be a link between terminating pregnancies and increased risks of breast cancer and depression.
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News (USA)
ACLU wants Obama to commute sentence for Chelsea Manning
The ACLU and LGBT-rights groups are lobbying Obama to commute the prison sentence of a trans soldier who leaked classified documents.
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News (USA)
Travel guide picks NC city as ‘Best of US’ because it ‘thrives on diversity’
Lonely Planet has picked Asheville as its top U.S. destination for 2017, despite an anti-LGBT law that has led companies and entertainers to boycott the state.
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News (USA)
Joe Biden: ‘I am going to run in 2020’
“For president. And also, what the hell man, anyway.”
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News (USA)
Buffalo Sabres goalie wears pride flag on mask to show support for gay friends
Anders Nilsson said he has friends who are gay who didn’t have it easy growing up, and that he thinks it’s time hockey started paying attention to that.
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News (USA)
Merry Christmas: Employee who took Trump supporter’s racist tirade gets $32k
It’s going to be a Merry Christmas for the manager of the Chicago area Michaels who was called an “animal” and a “lying piece of shit” by a white customer.
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News (USA)
This dictionary spells out its blatant support for the letters L, G, B, T and Q
Merriam-Webster is having fun defending why it added words like genderqueer and cisgender to its unabridged dictionary.
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Commentary
Mike Pence, Republicans, conservative Christianity, and conversion therapy
Pence and other political “leaders” who support these draconian measures should talk to people who have been impacted the most.
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News (World)
Hundreds rally for antibullying program in Australian schools following suicide
Nearly all of us once felt like Tyrone, a 13-year-old victim of antigay bullies who took his life last month.
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News (USA)
Will Republicans take religious exemptions law to constitutional convention?
The election put Republicans in full control of a record number of state legislatures – giving the party an unprecedented opportunity to change the Constitution.
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News (USA)
Trans activist goes viral for epic slapdown of Trump’s SNL tweets
Danielle Muscato unleashed on the president-elect on Twitter in the most beautiful way, telling him to get his priorities straight.
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News (USA)
Lady Gaga vows to use her voice ‘to protect social progress’ in Trump’s America
Mama Monster pledges she’s “going to do everything that we can to protect the social progress we have made over the last eight years.”
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News (World)
Gambian president who wanted to ‘slit the throats’ of gays loses re-election bid
Thousands celebrated in the streets in an unprecedented display of disdain for the president’s 22 year rule.
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News (USA)
Pulse owner decides not to sell club to city of Orlando
Pulse nightclub owner Barbara Poma said in a statement that she can’t walk away from the property.
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Life
Anti-trans NC governor finally concedes the election to pro-LGBT challenger
McCrory, who became the first sitting North Carolina governor to lose a re-election bid, was weighed down by a series of divisive laws he signed.
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News (USA)
Stall Cop: NC Governor Pat McCrory makes MAD Magazine’s ’20 Dumbest List’
McCrory signed HB2 into law, requiring trans people to use the bathrooms matching the gender identity on their birth certificates, as well as invalidating protections for the LGBTQ community.
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News (USA)
How Supergirl and an out comic book shop clerk saved a closeted Indiana teen
Mary describes in tweets what she calls “probably the greatest single moment I have experienced” at her Fort Wayne comics store.