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News (USA)
Louisiana Senate rejects religious-objections bill
Senators refused to enact a new law declaring that pastors and churches don’t have to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies.
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News (USA)
Awesome: Transgender shopper utterly wrecks antigay Target protester
“There’s a transgender person right here, so you can just keep on walking!”
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Life
Trump: Gender neutral bathrooms are ‘too expensive’
It’s not worth the cost because transgender people are “such a tiny part of our population.”
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Commentary
Is empathy the antidote to bullying?
As former Utah Republican Senator, Bob Bennett, lay dying, he called his wife and son over to his bed to express his last wish.
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News (USA)
Stepfather admits to sexually assaulting trans daughter for 13 years
“I know you’ve wanted this since your operation,” he told her.
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News (USA)
Alabama GOP passes resolution to support nation’s most anti-gay judge
The resolution asks lawmakers to pass legislation preventing the removal of statewide elected officials unless done so by the legislature.
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News (USA)
Actress Helen Hunt mistaken for Jodie Foster (again)
A Starbucks barista was certain the actress was Jodie Foster, and she’s hardly the first.
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News (World)
Sir Ian McKellen: ‘India needs to grow up’ about gays
“It is appalling and ironical that India would use a colonial law to oppress its homosexuals.”
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Commentary
Is this the true cause of the uptick in anti-trans laws?
“The success of gay marriage is not the counterpoint to the rise of legislative transphobia, it is part of the cause.”
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News (USA)
Texas immigration facility to house transgender detainees
The agency didn’t provide details about how the facility for trans detainees would be different than other centers, but you can guess it’ll be horrible too.
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News (USA)
Republicans seek to combine North Carolina bathroom lawsuits
The move could help steer the cases to a judge who twice ruled against the federal government in recent years.
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News (USA)
Tweet goes viral after gay student secretly takes boyfriend to prom
This image has been retweeted over 18,000 times since Saturday.
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News (USA)
‘Family’ group promotes Target protest with offensive anti-trans vid
They’ve decreed June 4th is “Don’t Target Our Daughters” day.
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Life
Could this scientific breakthrough lead to the end of HIV?
For the first time, genes that cause HIV have been edited out by scientists working on lab rats and mice, and researchers hope to someday do the same for humans.
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News (USA)
San Diego Padres take action, apologize for humiliating gay chrous
The team apologized for an embarrassing technical error that led some homophobic fans to taunt the chorus for singing “like a girl.”
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Life
Suspected arson attack: Utah man ‘burnt his ex-husband to death’
The victim, 72-year-old John Williams, was in the process of obtaining a restraining order.
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News (USA)
Gang of men attack trans woman in Brooklyn
She says a man approached her after she exited the subway as the others surrounded her from behind.
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News (USA)
Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner: Sansa should become a lesbian
Turner has an even cheekier proposition for Sansa’s sex life – and you won’t believe it.
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Life
Church of Scotland votes to allow gay marriage for clergy
Even though minsters can marry now, it “maintains its traditional view of marriage between a man and woman.”
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News (USA)
North Carolina musician boycott is decimating local businesses
The impact is likely to affect the live music industry for months as artists waver on whether to schedule shows in North Carolina four to six months from now.