News + Politics
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Trump picks Nikki Haley to be next UN ambassador
Trump Cabinet, Cabinet-Level and Adviser Threat Gauge Name: Nikki Haley Position: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations LGBT record: Generally opposed LGBT rights as governor of South Carolina, including defending...
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Woman whose Michaels tirade went viral made homophobic comments at Peet’s Coffee shop
The Chicago woman who went on a pro-Trump tirade at a Michaels store, during which she referred to two store employees as “animals,” has previously...
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Jerry Falwell, Jr. claims Trump offered him Education Secretary post
Prominent evangelical leader and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. says he was offered the position of Secretary of Education under President-elect Donald Trump’s new...
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Trump taps billionaire GOP donor Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary
Trump Cabinet and Adviser Threat Gauge Name: Betsy DeVos Position: Secretary of Education LGBT record: Personally donated to Focus on the Family, an organization opposing LGBT rights and pushing the...
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Two gay men in Sydney say they were attacked by homophobic Trump supporter
Two Australian men say they were set upon by an intoxicated, homophobic Donald Trump supporter outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Newtown, a suburb of Sydney....
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Gender nonconforming man followed from bar and shot in West Philadelphia
A 21-year-old person has been hospitalized after being stalked by two men and shot in the Overbrook section of West Philadelphia, according to ABC Philadelphia. News...
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Colorado store manager calls customer “faggot who voted for Hillary”
An employee at a Highlands Ranch, Colo., Floor & Decor store has reportedly been fired after verbally insulting a gay customer in front of his...
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Robbers using Grindr to ensnare victims, Baltimore police say
Baltimore police are searching for three men who they say used Grindr and other social media apps to lure people to Northeast Baltimore and rob...
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President Obama: Ellen DeGeneres’ coming out was courageous
Obama praised Ellen DeGeneres while awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Judge: State Department’s rejection of intersex passport violates federal law
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. State Department violated federal law when it denied Dana Zzyym, an intersex Navy veteran, a passport after...
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Iowa trans man will get surgery, but Medicaid ban on surgery remains
A transgender Iowa man will receive medically necessary surgery under the state’s Medicaid program due to a claims processing error, but other transgender people will continue to...
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Openly gay N.Y. state senator targeted with anti-Semitic literature
It’s looking like it’s been a bad couple of weeks for New York State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan). The openly gay Democrat has once again...
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Gay Florida couple receives harassing note from anonymous neighbor
In yet another sign of the heightened emotions stirred up by the most recent presidential campaign, a gay couple in St. Petersburg, Fla., says they...
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Texas bill could force teachers to out LGBT students to their parents
LGBT leaders and allies are balking at a proposed bill in Texas that critics say will force schools to out LGBT students against their will...
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Anti-gay Georgia congressman could head Dept. of Health and Human Services
Tom Price has a long history of opposing LGBT rights
