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Israel court allows transgender woman’s cremation
The body of an Israeli transgender woman who committed suicide will be cremated despite her ultra-Orthodox family’s wishes.
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Vietnam’s transgender say new law paves way for surgeries
A new law will pave the way for gender reassignment surgery in the communist country and reduce discrimination.
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News (USA)
This teen accidentally came out to his conservative father. His dad’s response is perfect.
What happens when one young man unwittingly comes out to his dad on Snapchat?
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Venue owners appeal fine for denying lesbian couple wedding
Owners of a wedding venue — fined $13,000 for violating the New York’s anti-discrimination law — feel they should be allowed to follow their faith.
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ACLU-TN lawsuit supports students’ right to free speech
A senior at Richland High in Nashville, Tennessee was censored for wearing a T-shirt that read “Some People Are Gay, Get Over It.”
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Charlie Sheen allegedly paid millions to hide a gay sex tape
Sheen’s lawyers are telling a different story.
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Kevin Swanson: The gay community is ‘the catalyst by which nations are destroyed’
Swanson is certain the LGBTQ community will destroy the world because “they don’t believe that God exists, and they don’t believe God is judge.”
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Judy Garland’s “Wizard of Oz” dress sells for $1.56M
The famous blue and white gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was sold at auction yesterday, but the buyer was not identified.
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‘Pastafarian’ gets to wear strainer on head in license photo
Lindsay Miller says wearing the spaghetti strainer allows her to express her beliefs, like other religions are allowed to do.
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McCrory asks Cooper to oppose transgender bathroom lawsuit
Attorney General Roy Cooper has rejected a call by Governor Pat McCrory to side with a Virginia school district against a discrimination lawsuit.
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News (USA)
Judge: 3 gay couples can amend kids’ birth certificates
The three couples who filed suit can go to the Arkansas Department of Health to change the documents immediately.
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Woman who killed random shopper in supermarket gets life
Connor MacCalister told police she was angry with life and had gone to the store to kill “several random people.”
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Bette Midler sharply critiques Caitlyn Jenner’s Republican views
“Regardless of gender identity,” Midler tweeted, “I guess she identifies most as ‘uninformed.”
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St. Louis observes Transgender Day of Remembrance; Caitlyn Jenner attends
The evening saw the dedication of the first-in-the-nation Transgender Memorial Garden in the Grove neighborhood and a subsequent candlelight march.
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KKK to Floridians: End AIDS by ‘bashing gays”
The KKK has been distributing batches of fliers throughout which claim “homosexual men and their sexual acts are disgusting and inhuman.”
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News (USA)
Dallas neighborhood on “lock-down” after 12 antigay hate crimes
Last Thursday, Geoffrey Hubbard (pictured) became at least the twelfth victim in three months of an antigay hate crime.
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Manhattan dentist arrested for meth use, child porn, and poking holes in condoms to spread HIV
The FBI say they had been watching Dr. John Wolf for two months before arresting him at 5 a.m. Friday morning.
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Commentary
What a transphobic teacher needs to learn from an amazing 5-year-old transgender girl
In Texas, the latest punch in the “religious freedom” strategy has been thrown. Previously, the anti-gay movement enlisted cake bakers, florists and a hapless county clerk. The latest to step up to the victim mouthpiece is a teacher named Madeline Kirksey.
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Ugandan gays hope Pope will speak out on their behalf
LGBT rights activists are hoping Pope Francis will preach tolerance toward gays, and even go so far as to condemn violent attacks against gays during his upcoming visit to Uganda.