News + Politics
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Atlantic Coast Conference yanks 10 championships from North Carolina
Right on the heels of the NCAA’s announcement that it was pulling seven sports championship games from North Carolina — including the first and second rounds of the...
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Man who threatened Pulse copycat shooting transferred to South Florida
Craig Jungwirth reportedly said in the course of a Facebook argument he had a "better solution to exterminate" gays
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North Carolina state senator who voted for HB 2 calls for its repeal
–North Carolina State Sen. Tamara Barringer (R-Cary), the first Republican to call for the repeal of the state’s anti-LGBT HB 2 law, which restricts transgender...
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Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after being promised transition surgery
Transgender soldier and inmate at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks Chelsea Manning announced late Tuesday night that she had ended a five-day hunger strike after receiving...
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ACLU asks Supreme Court not to review 4th Circuit ruling in Grimm lawsuit
Lawyers representing transgender student Gavin Grimm have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that it should not review an appeals court ruling that...
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Transgender man sues Indiana over citizenship requirement for legal name change
A transgender man who has been granted asylum in the United States is suing over an Indiana state law that requires him to provide proof...
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Anti-gay U.S. pastor, now banned from South Africa, eyes Botswana
–Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., in a Facebook post explaining that he has been banned from South Africa...
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Virginia Supreme Court to take up challenge to Fairfax County nondiscrimination policy
In a move that could signal its desire to overrule a lower court decision, the Virginia Supreme Court has decided to take up a challenge...
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NCAA pulls seven sports championships from North Carolina over HB 2
The NCAA has pulled seven collegiate championship events from North Carolina and will relocate them to other states in protest of the Tar Heel State’s...
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Trump demands Clinton apologize for “basket of deplorables” statement
Donald Trump is demanding that Hillary Clinton apologize for comments she made at an LGBT fundraiser where she called half of his supporters a “basket...
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Gay Homeland Foundation’s leader proposes a separate country for gay people
—Viktor Zimmermann, executive officer of the Gay Homeland Foundation, a separatist organization that advocates for the creation of an gay nation-state where homosexuality would be allowed to...
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Chelsea Manning goes on hunger strike to protest denial of treatment for gender dysphoria
Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier behind one of the largest leaks of classified information in history, has begun a hunger strike to protest the military’s...
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Alexis Arquette, actor and trans activist, passes away at 47
Film roles included Last Exit to Brooklyn, Pulp Fiction and The Wedding Singer
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John Lewis to LGBT community: “We are one people. We are one family.”
Civil rights icon says LGBT community must vote and do all it can to ensure Trump is not elected president
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Tim Kaine contrasts Trump and Clinton at HRC National Dinner
Tim Kaine paints sharp contrast between his running mate and Donald Trump
