News + Politics
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LGBTQ advocate Donna Red Wing passes away after battle with cancer
Donna Red Wing, a civil rights activists and LGBTQ advocated, passed away on Monday afternoon at her home in Des Moines, Iowa, following an eight-month...
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GoFundMe pages started for victims of anti-gay beating at 10th & U Streets NW
One of the men was knocked unconscious, while the other suffered facial injuries in the attack
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Chinese social network Weibo drops plans to erase gay content
Weibo originally planned to purge gay content along with pornography and bloody violence
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National child welfare and mental health organizations back conversion therapy bans
A coalition of child welfare, educational, and mental health organizations has come out strongly opposing conversion therapy and supporting attempts by states to ban it. ...
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LGBTQ rights lawyer David Buckel dies after setting himself on fire in NYC park
Buckel apparently committed suicide by self-immolation to protest humanity's dependence on fossil fuels
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Brother, Help Thyself receives $20,000 to support LGBTQ youth groups
American Leatherwoman Jackie Thompson announced the landmark donation last week in honor of her late brother
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Police searching for 3 suspects in anti-gay beating near U and 10th Street NW
MPD says attack that left two gay men severely injured appears to have been "unprovoked"
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Judge rules to keep injunction blocking Trump’s transgender ban in place
A federal judge has ruled to keep in place an injunction that she had previously issued to halt the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military members...
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Senators tell Trump to stop censoring LGBTQ health information on federal websites
A group of U.S. senators wrote a letter to President Trump asking him to stop censoring important LGBTQ health information and resources on federal websites....
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Alabama Sen. Doug Jones co-sponsors Equality Act
LGBTQ advocates won a moral victory on Thursday when U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) signed on as a co-sponsor of the Equality Act. The Equality...
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Maine House of Representatives passes conversion therapy ban amid heated debate
Maine lawmakers had one of their most contentious legislative sessions in recent memory as they debated, and eventually approved, a bill banning the practice of...
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VIDEO: Cory Booker grills Mike Pompeo on whether being gay is a “perversion”
CIA Director Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s next Secretary of State, was lambasted for his views on homosexuality during his confirmation...
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LA prosecutors review 1992 allegation of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey
A man alleged the incident took place in 1992, though no other details have been released
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Judge strikes down sodomy law in Trinidad and Tobago
Court will meet again to decide whether to repeal sodomy prohibitions in full and decriminalize homosexuality
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Illinois could make teaching LGBTQ history mandatory in public schools
A new bill would require Illinois schools to teach a unit on LGBTQ history and social contributions
