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Ricky Martin tells Ellen DeGeneres he is engaged, shares all the details
Ricky Martin announced on ‘Ellen’ that he is engaged to marry his partner, artist Jwan Yosef.
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2016 is the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans
This year has set a new record for transgender homicides, with 24 reported, two more than in 2015.
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News (USA)
Samantha Bee explains why your fears of a Trump administration are all too real
Progressives, you can stop shaming your more politically astute friends for their fears and anxiety over what life will look like under a President Donald Trump.
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News (USA)
Twitter suspends alt-right white nationalist accounts in hate speech crack down
Twitter released a statement pledging to act more strongly against bullying and then suspended numerous accounts on the same day to prove it wasn’t just talk.
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America’s Dad Tom Hanks wants you to know: ‘We are going to be all right’
“We, who are a week into wondering what the hell just happened, will continue to move forward. We have to choose to do so.”
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News (USA)
West Virginia town reels after ‘Ape in heels’ racist rant against Michelle Obama
A nonprofit official was removed for the racist post, and Clay’s Mayor resigned after getting flak for her comment, “Just made my day.”
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Commentary
The Sorcerer on the Apprentice: A view from above
The election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States was a traumatizing event. But there is an upside.
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News (USA)
Jim Obergefell doesn’t believe Trump when he says gay marriage law is ‘settled’
The plaintiff who brought the landmark same-sex marriage case to the Supreme Court, worries what Donald Trump’s picks for judges will mean for marriage equality.
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Troubled times in Trump Tower as transition team stumbles forward
GOP insiders are warning friends “stay away” if they’re offered jobs in the “angry, arrogant” Trump Administration.
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News (USA)
5 real winners of the 2016 Election: HRC, Lambda Legal, ACLU, ADL and NAACP
And five is just the beginning. Many progressive organizations are seeing a boost in funding since the election of Donald Trump.
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News (USA)
This ‘Beauty and the Beast’ trailer is what we needed right now
Although, is it just Dan Stevens, or does the Beast remind you of someone?
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News (USA)
Bernie Sanders gives worst case scenario after Trump win, talks moving forward
Sen. Bernie Sanders worries that Donald Trump and the Republican Party could “change the rules of the game so that we don’t lose anymore.”
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News (USA)
Sarah McBride is becoming the face of HRC since the election of Donald Trump
HRC’s National Press Secretary kicked off Trans Awareness Week announcing a new coalition of the nation’s leading parent-advocates.
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News (USA)
West Virginia gay couple warned: ‘get out of our neighborhood’ because Trump
Cropped from the photograph of the note left on their doorstep is the slur, “FAGGOTS!!”
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Life
North Carolina teens busted for chasing and attacking trans woman with hatchet
“After that third time of that knife being stabbed in my back, I’m just like, ‘Oh, I don’t think I can do it,'” said 24-year-old Ralayzia Taylor.
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News (USA)
Sen. Chuck Schumer writes plea to the LGBTQ community to ‘keep fighting’
The senior senator from NY says he’s “worried about what tomorrow holds and what this new administration may attempt to roll back.”
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News (USA)
Wanda Sykes: ‘I was not booed off stage’ for Donald Trump jokes
Raising her middle finger, Sykes yelled “Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you,” at the audience for the Boston cancer benefit.
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News (USA)
VA abandons plan to allow gender confirmation surgery for veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs are abandoning the plan to pay for gender confirmation surgery for vets over funding concerns.
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News (USA)
Thousands of students walk out of classrooms in protests against Donald Trump
HIgh school students in California, Colorado, Maryland, Washington and other states walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest.
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News (USA)
Chelsea Manning asks President Obama to commute her sentence to time served
Transgender soldier Chelsea Manning has served over six years of a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents and has twice attempted suicide while in military custody.