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News (USA)
Obama tells schools they must accommodate trans students
Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts Senate approves transgender rights bill
The Senate passed the bill with a 33-4 vote Thursday.
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Commentary
Donald Trump and the politics of bullying
It wouldn’t be so concerning if it had not resonated with a significant majority of the Republican electorate.
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News (USA)
Federal agencies won’t hold up money amid NC anti-trans law battle
The Justice Department and North Carolina’s governor sued each other on Monday.
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News (USA)
Antigay pastor accused of child pornography possession
Police received a tip that his social media account was storing pages and pages of child pornography.
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News (USA)
Azealia Banks banned from Twitter for homophobic Zayn Malik rant
Twitter has taken action since Banks’ latest tweet storm, in which she called the One Direction a “fag*ot”.
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News (USA)
Will Ohio vote on so-called ‘Pastor Protection Act’?
Opponents say the state and U.S. constitutions already protect religious freedom and the bill’s unnecessary.
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News (World)
Italy joins rest of Europe in giving rights to gay couples
Italy was the last of the European Union’s 28 nations to grant legal recognition to civil unions.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts Senate to debate trans rights bill today
The measure has the strong support of the Democratic senate president.
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News (USA)
To uphold transgender bathroom ban, N.C. college allows pepper spray
Board members say this could help female students if they go to the bathroom and “don’t know who’s coming in after them.”
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News (USA)
Navigating gay club life as a blind man
“We negotiate life differently,” says 35-year-old Belo Cipirani.
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Life
Transgender man gives birth following surprise pregnancy
“It was a bit of a shock when I started suspecting it,” he says.
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Life
Phil Robertson: We ‘priss around and parade our perversion’
And that’s why God is going to punish us hardcore.
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News (USA)
His Christian parents told him his gay brother was ‘missing’
Several decades later, they had an incredibly moving reunion.
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Life
Azealia Banks fired from festival for calling Zayn Malik ‘fag*ot’
A series of unbelievably hateful Tweets directed at the One Direction singer has cost her a major gig.
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News (USA)
Watch: Trevor Noah takes on North Carolina’s anti-trans law
Everyone’s least favorite Daily Show host took aim at North Carolina’s new law dictating where transgender people can pee.
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News (USA)
Sanders’ West Virginia win makes up little ground on Clinton
Hillary Clinton could lose all the states left to vote by a landslide and still emerge as the nominee.
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News (USA)
Debate over transgender bathroom access spreads nationwide
The surge began last year after social conservatives lost a long battle to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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News (World)
Will Germany annul post-World War II homosexuality convictions?
Thousands of gay men were convicted under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-World War II West Germany.
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News (World)
Philippines elects first transgender politician to Congress
She hopes her win shows that people like her can contribute to nation-building in a country where LGBT people are still publicly ridiculed.