News + Politics
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Unsung Heroes/Sheroes Awards Dinner honors DC’s transgender advocates and allies
The dinner also raises funds for Empowering the Transgender Community's burial fund
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California Democrat introduces bill to end insurance discrimination against people with HIV
A California state senator has introduced legislation to stop insurance companies from denying life and disability income insurance based solely on HIV status. On Tuesday,...
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Three female athletes sue Connecticut over transgender women competing in sports
Lawsuit claims Connecticut's policy violates Title IX by disadvantaging biological females in sports
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Texas sues California over law banning official travel to anti-LGBTQ states
Ken Paxton says the travel ban is a form of "economic sanctions" against Texas, and should be overturned
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Sanders wins New Hampshire, Buttigieg continues to lead in overall delegates
Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate to lead the Democratic nominees for president -- and sustain that lead
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Jussie Smollett indicted by special prosecutor in Chicago
Special prosecutor Dan Webb clams there's no evidence to suggest past charges against Smollett should have been dropped
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Switzerland approves law banning anti-gay discrimination
Referendum passed with 63% despite opposition from the country's most popular political party
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Idaho man who beat Oregon transgender woman for using the restroom sentenced to 6 years in prison
Victim says she hopes to use her experience to "make the world safer for transgender people"
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Gay Salvadoran asylum seeker sues Trump administration for deporting him to Guatemala
Lawsuit challenges "safe third country" policy that puts asylum seekers into similar circumstances that caused them to flee
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Man who threatened to kill ‘thousands of homos’ at London Pride found guilty of terror offences
Mohiussunnath Chowdhur told police that LGBTQ people at Pride "are asking to get hit by some jihadist"
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WATCH: California student arrested after racist, homophobic rant
Dayton Kingery is "no longer a student" at Chapman University after his slur-filled tirade
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South Dakota Senate kills bill to ban medical treatments for transgender youth
HRC calls on other states with similar anti-transgender bills to follow South Dakota's lead in rejecting them
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Trump is “too much of a man” for LGBTQ people, Christian pundit claims
E. W. Jackson also called former President Barack Obama "light in the loafers"
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Federal court rules against Christian school suing over exclusion from Maryland’s voucher program
Judge rules Bethel Christian Academy did not prove it was excluded "solely" because of its religious beliefs
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Russian reporter who broke story on Chechnya’s torture of gay men attacked by gang
Elena Milashina claims the attack against her appeared "coordinated, orchestrated"
