News + Politics
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BloominGays, Bloomingdale’s LGBTQ community group, hosts 4th annual “Pride in the Park”
LGBTQ-friendly event serves as a fundraiser for Crispus Attucks Park and local nonprofits
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Taylor Swift celebrates LGBTQ people, GLAAD, and slaps down homophobia in new song “You Need To Calm Down”
GLAAD thanked Swift for promoting "inclusivity, equality, and acceptance this Pride month"
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Tennessee detective placed on leave after saying LGBTQ people should be executed
The detective said LGBTQ people are "worthy of death" and that he hates homosexuals
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DC Center hosts discussion for trauma survivors in wake of Capital Pride Parade disruption
Social workers will be on hand to help people suffering from trauma to work out their feelings
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62% of Americans say they’ve become more supportive of transgender rights over past 5 years
63% of Americans say they support transgender people serving openly in the military, PRRI survey finds
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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
