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Kelly Ripa, John Oliver, Thomas Roberts among recipients of GLAAD awards
The awards honor those who further GLAAD’s mission of ensuring that stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are heard through media outlets.
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News (USA)
Tulsa students suspended after LGBT poster defaced
Nearly a dozen students were suspended after a poster encouraging awareness about bullying and harassment of LGBT students was defaced.
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International study reports widespread anti-gay discrimination in sports
The findings were contained in “Out on the Fields,” released Sunday, which officials said was the first international study and the largest conducted on discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual participants in sports.
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News (World)
Castro’s daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban same-sex couples
Nearly two dozen gay couples held hands or embraced, some crying, as Protestant clergymen from the U.S. and Canada blessed them as part of official ceremonies leading up to the Global Day against Homophobia on May 17.
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Pennsylvania school suspends students over Chick-fil-A t-shirt backlash
A Pennsylvania school district suspended about 15 students who took to social media during schools hours after two classmates wore Chick-fil-A shirts during a Gay-Straight Alliance event.
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Virginia’s largest school district bans gender identity discrimination
The Fairfax County school board has voted to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity in the school system.
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Guam same-sex marriage case won’t wait for Supreme Court ruling
A lawsuit challenging Guam’s same-sex marriage ban will move forward after a federal judge decided against postponing it until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on later this summer.
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Christian Right leaders escalate anti‑LGBT threats
As marriage equality has advanced around the country, and the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the issue in June, threatening language is escalating on the Christian Right.
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California attorney general granted more time to stop ‘shoot the gays’ ballot initiative
California Attorney General Kamala Harris was granted an extension to the deadline her office faced next week for processing a proposed ballot initiative that advocates killing anyone who engages in gay sex.
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Tulsa County to pay $300K in fees in same-sex marriage case
A judge awarded attorneys for a lesbian couple almost $300,000 in fees and costs related to the county’s appeal of a lower court ruling.
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News (USA)
Six Idaho same-sex couples offered ‘do-over’ marriage license applications
Six couples who received marriage licenses before Idaho officials say a federal court made such unions legal are being given a unique state-approved opportunity for a do-over.
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News (World)
Gay Luxembourg Prime Minister to marry partner: Sources
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is to wed his partner Gauthier Destenay next week, just a few months after the tiny country legalized same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
California transgender inmate’s lawyers seek swift sex reassignment surgery
The state has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay as it appeals the San Francisco-based judge’s order.
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Bullied Wisconsin transgender teen dies by suicide
Just days after Cameron Langrell announced to friends and classmates online that she identified as a transgender girl, the 15-year-old took her own life.
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News (USA)
Teacher suspended for showing 1959 anti-gay film as part of history lesson
The film, titled “Boys Beware,” was produced in 1959 and warns students to avoid strangers “because they might be homosexual.”
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News (USA)
Federal judge tosses lawsuit filed by ‘God’s ambassador’ against ‘all homosexuals’
In a 3-page response, U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard dismissed the case, citing among his reasons, that “a federal court is not a forum for debate or discourse on theological matters.”
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Oregon state Senate approves bill banning conversion therapy on LGBT youth
If signed into law, Oregon would become the fourth jurisdiction — behind California, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia — to pass such legislation
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U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy: Time to strengthen transgender protections
The Massachusetts Democrat says his state is lagging behind 17 other states and Washington, D.C., which have extended public accommodations laws to transgender people.
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News (USA)
Arkansas court: Current justices should hear same-sex marriage case
The ruling doesn’t guarantee that the Arkansas court will decide before the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments last week on whether to legalize same-sex marriage and is expected to rule by late June.
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Study: Gay, bisexual kids bullied more, even at early age
Gay and bisexual kids are more likely to be bullied as they’re growing up — even at an early age, according to the first large U.S. study to look at the problem.