LGBTQ Nation

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Gay man hospitalized after mob attacks him in McDonald’s while no one helped

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A group of 10 to 15 individuals allegedly attacked Sebastian Thomas Robles Lascarro, a 22-year-old Colombian model, inside a Washington, D.C., McDonald’s fast food restaurant after a member of the group uttered homophobic slurs. The attack left Lascarro hospitalized, and he criticized both emergency personnel and local police for their responses to the violence. The attack allegedly occurred in the early morning hours of Sunday, October 27, after Lascarro and his husband left two nearby LGBTQ+ nightclubs: Crush Bar and Bunker. While Lascarro was in line to use a McDonald’s self-service kiosk to place his order, Lascarro’s spouse, Stuart West, […]

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A principal was fired for his “LGBTQ+ Kindness” class. His community is fighting back.

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A middle school community in Virginia is fighting back after their principal was fired for starting an “LGBTQ+ Kindness” flex-time class to provide a safe space for LGBTQ+ students. Dr. Jerry Putt, Frederick County Middle School’s principal since 2017, has been removed from his role after a divisive debate at the school board over his actions, The Winchester Gazette reports. The controversy erupted on Tuesday at the Frederick County School Board meeting, where a conservative faction of parents and board members argued that the “LGBTQ+ Kindness” class deviated from state-approved curricula and called it “inappropriate.” The leader of the group in opposition to […]

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Teacher banned from profession after outing trans kid by name on social media

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A teacher in the U.K. has been banned from the profession indefinitely for outing a transgender student on social media. According to The Daily Mail, in May 2023, a whistleblower alerted the unnamed Manchester school where 54-year-old Camilla Hannan had been teaching since 2001 that Hannan had posted offensive and anti-trans sentiments on X, then known as Twitter. In one of her posts, Hannan even outed a transgender student by name. “Where I teach we have gender identity policy,” Hannan wrote in one post alongside an eye-roll emoji. “It’s a load of nonsensical rubbish, as you’d imagine.” In another post, Hannan […]

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Police are searching for fugitive convicted of murdering transgender woman

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A Georgia man convicted of murdering a transgender woman is on the run after jumping bail during his trial. Davonte Fore, 26, was convicted along with accomplice JaQuan Brooks, 25, on October 4 of Malice Murder, two counts of Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony for the June 2021 murder of 25-year-old Skyler Gilmore. According to a press release from the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, DeKalb County Police officers found Gilmore unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the torso in her Stone Mountain, Georgia, […]

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A school board member compared the Pride flag to the swastika. She was relieved of her duties.

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A Catholic school board trustee tried to ban the Pride flag after comparing it to the Nazi swastika a second time and got kicked off the board in the process. The Niagara Catholic District School Board in Ontario censured Natalia Benoit in January after an independent investigator agreed she breached the board’s code of conduct by making the hateful comparison. She was relieved of her duties and barred from attending board meetings for six months. Catholic schools in Ontario get public funds. Just weeks after returning, Benoit again introduced a “proposal to amend the flag-flying protocol to exclude the Pride […]

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Conservatives tried to start a boycott of LGBTQ+-friendly businesses. Their efforts backfired.

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Several small business owners in Lancaster, Ohio, say they saw an increase in new customers after a local anti-LGBTQ+ group tried to start a boycott campaign against them. According to local NBC affiliate WCMH, the group Fairfield County Conservatives began circulating a list of local small businesses on social media following two September city council meetings at which members protested drag performances hosted during Lancaster’s family-friendly Pride celebration the same month. Members characterized the events as “pornographic,” an anti-LGBTQ+ tactic that has become all too common in recent years. Fairfield County Conservatives member Chuck Burgoon, who is also the executive director of […]

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Moscow police detained over 50 people in raid on LGBTQ+ venues

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Police in Moscow raided two gay clubs last weekend, detaining over 50 people, in what Novaya Gazeta Europe described as the continued escalation of the Russian government’s crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community. Photos and video from the raids was posted on pro-Russia Telegram channels MSK1 and SHOT on October 12 showing masked police storming into downtown Moscow club Central Station, forcing shouting at patrons and forcing them to lie on the ground. One clip shows officers searching people, with one cop violently kicking a detainee’s leg. Novaya Gazeta Europe reports that the club was holding a Friday, October 11, event marking National Coming Out Day. Police stormed […]

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Anti-trans murderer makes history as first convicted under federal hate crime law

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Convicted killer Daqua Lameek Ritter was sentenced to life in prison following a guilty verdict in the death of Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe, a 24-year-old Black transgender South Carolina woman who Ritter was in a relationship with. Ritter is the first individual to be tried and convicted for a hate crime motivated by gender identity under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. In 2019, Ritter’s relationship with Doe was discovered by his girlfriend, which prosecutors said motivated him to take Doe’s life. Prosecutors said Ritter, in a fit of rage fueled by the news […]

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Donald Trump’s entire education policy is apparently stopping schools from transitioning kids

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In video shared by Fox News on Monday, Donald Trump again claimed schools around the country are “taking” kids and performing “operations” on them. “There are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl,” Trump insisted without proof.  “Okay? Without parental consent. What is that all about? That’s like — when they talk about a threat to democracy, they’re a threat,” Trump continued, apparently referring to his Democratic opponent and clearly rattled that her message about his authoritarian nature and cognitive decline are taking hold. In a rambling answer to a Bronx dad at what the New York Post described as a […]

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LGBTQ+ rights have long been at the mercy of public opinion. This November will be no different.

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LGBTQ+ ballot initiatives have long been used as a wedge issue to turn out the conservative vote and to give or take away freedoms that are usually guaranteed by the government. The 2024 election is no different. This November continues a decades-long tradition of leaving LGBTQ+ civil rights up to public debate. New Yorkers will consider whether to add sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to their anti-discrimination amendment in the state constitution. Reproductive rights are on the ballot in 10 states as well. And California, Colorado, and Hawaii voters will decide if their states will repeal their constitutions’ […]

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