News + Politics
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Betsy DeVos admits she knew transgender students would be harmed by revoking Obama-era guidelines
In a rare moment of transparency, DeVos said that she knew revoking protections for transgender students would impact their mental health
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Taylor Swift donated $113,000 to combat anti-LGBTQ hate in Tennessee
Swift thanked the Tennessee Equality Project for its efforts to combat a "Slate of Hate" -- six bills designed to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination
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Tennessee man pleads guilty to homophobic attack after “bragging about beating up a gay man”
Brandon Wiley shared photos of himself covered in the victim's blood after the attack
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Massachusetts bans conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed the ban into law to protect LGBTQ minors in the state
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Tennessee lawmakers pushing “Slate of Hate” that targets the LGBTQ community for discrimination
Bills would allow adoption agencies, businesses, school districts and more entities to discriminate against LGBTQ people
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Lesbian mothers killed their six children in murder-suicide after driving off cliff, coroner rules
Jennifer Hart drove her family's SUV over a cliff in California last year, killing everyone onboard
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Mike Huckabee calls LGBTQ rights ‘biggest threat’ to American morality, slams ‘gender illusion’
Huckabee blames Christian churches for their "failure to apply a biblical standard of maleness and femaleness"
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Pete Buttigieg: My marriage to my husband has brought me “closer to God”
Gay presidential candidate takes swipes at Mike Pence, Donald Trump, and the proposed transgender military ban
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California bans state-funded travel to South Carolina to protest anti-gay adoption law
Palmetto State becomes 10th state on California's travel ban list
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Texas Republicans want to allow anyone with a license to deny sevice to LGBTQ people
People in hundreds of professions across the state would be protected from legal action if they discriminate
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New HIV therapy ‘kicks’ virus out of hiding and ‘kills’ it
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are calling it the "Swiss Army knife" of immunotherapies
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Montana Human Rights Bureau finds Yellowstone County discriminated against trans employee
Complaint alleges county's insurance exclusion on transition-related care constitutes a form of sex discrimination
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A Wyoming teacher complained about anti-gay flyers appearing in school. The principal fired her.
Kaycee Cook was told she was "no longer welcome" in school after reporting the flyers to Wyoming Equality
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Mormon Church will no longer refuse to baptize children of same-sex Mormon couples
Under old policy, same-sex couples were considered "apostates" and could be threatened with excommunication
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Congressman’s bill would prohibit taxpayer dollars paying for conversion therapy
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney's measure would crack down on fraudulent Medicaid billing practices
