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Watch this town clerk publicly apologize for denying a gay couple a marriage license
Sherrie Eriksen, the clerk for the small town of Root, New York, has done something no other anti-gay clerk has done… She apologized and promised it wouldn’t happen again.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she knew her actions would harm trans students
She knows that transgender students face depression, lower attendance, and suicide when discriminated against. She just doesn’t care.
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One of George Washington’s top generals in the Revolutionary War was likely intersex
Revolutionary War General Casimir Pulaski was one of George Washington’s top commanders, but recent DNA testing on his remains may have solved a mystery that spans decades.
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Over half of the books conservatives most want banned are about LGBTQ people
Several of the books weren’t just challenged as inappropriate for libraries – they were burned.
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Gay fortuneteller sues Virginia town for violating his religious freedom
Town leaders allegedly used zoning and business license regulations to prevent him from opening a tarot reading shop.
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Watered down ‘indecent exposure’ bill passes in Tennessee. It still endangers trans people.
Lawmakers removed elements targeting transgender people, but the trans community isn’t out of the woods just yet.
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He put a gay man in the hospital for flirting & bragged about it online. A judge put him in prison.
After Wiley violently assaulted a gay man, he bragged about the attack on social media and sent people selfies of himself covered in the victim’s blood.
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Nazi woman who spray-painted racist & transphobic messages on Dem headquarters arrested
The hate speech targeted Jews, black people, transgender people, and Chickasaw native Americans.
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Taylor Swift made a major donation to an LGBTQ group to fight Tennessee’s ‘slate of hate’ laws
She told the LGBTQ org that she is “so inspired by the work you do” and sent them a large check.
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He threatened to bomb an apartment building for people with HIV. He got a slap on the wrist.
He has to write the residents a letter of apology and do community service.