News + Politics
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Capital Pride 2019: A parade interrupted and a jam-packed festival
Not even a massive disruption at Saturday's parade could stop D.C.'s LGBTQ community from enjoying Capital Pride weekend
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‘The Notebook’ author Nicholas Sparks accused of banning an LGBTQ club at his Christian school
The romance novelist complained about a former headmaster trying to "make homosexuality open and accepted"
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2 out of every 5 LGBTQ youth have seriously considered suicide, study says
National survey by The Trevor Project finds more than 7 in 10 LGBTQ youth experience discrimination due to their identity
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Botswana High Court strikes down laws banning same-sex relations
On heels of two trans rights cases, high court finds colonial-era law penalizing homosexuality unconstitutional
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Straight “country boy” in rural Oklahoma celebrates Pride Month on his truck
Cody Barlow wrote "Not all country boys are bigots" above a giant rainbow flag
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Lesbian soccer player refuses to sing national anthem to protest Donald Trump
Megan Rapinoe stood still during the national anthem at the Women's World Cup in France
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Philadelphia’s first openly gay deputy sheriff found dead in office
Those close to Dante Austin, who took his own life, believe he was struggling with depression prior to his death
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Congressional bill would ban use of gay and trans panic defenses
Bill would prevent defendants from using a victim's LGBTQ identity to justify crimes like murder and assault
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Confirmed: Straight people ruined the Capital Pride Parade
When is an ally not an ally? When they wave a gun at Pride.
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New Jersey judge orders conversion therapy provider to dissolve — again
Group was ordered to dissolve 4 years ago, but reconstituted under another name to continue promoting conversion therapy
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Trump administration sued for allowing health care workers to deny care to LGBTQ people
Lawsuit argues that the exemption violates federal law and threatens patients' ability to access health care
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Mike Pence says Trump banning embassies from flying Pride flags is “the right decision”
Embassies are banned from flying rainbow flags on flagpoles, unlike during the Obama administration
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AIDS Walk & Music Festival Baltimore raises more than $150,000 for HIV services
Proceeds from event nearly double the amount raised from last year's AIDS Walk and Run
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New Jersey minister accused of using oral sex to extract “evil spirits” from men
Rev. William Weaver allegedly manipulated vulnerable men into letting him perform oral sex during counseling sessions
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Vatican says transgender people ‘annihilate the concept of nature’ in new document
LGBTQ advocates said it would encourage "hatred, bigotry, and violence" towards trans people
