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California GOP opposes national party’s anti-same-sex marriage platform

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The California Republican Party has sparked a battle with the national GOP by proposing to remove the national party’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion from its state political platform. Supporters say removing these two items will help align the California GOP platform with the values of California voters’ values while helping Republican candidates win statewide elections. However, opponents say removing the items would betray the party’s conservative values and contradict the anti-abortion and anti-gay stances of the GOP presidential candidates. The 2020 — that is, current — national Republican platform continued the party’s opposition to same-sex marriage (even though the U.S. […]

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Four arrested for “acts of homosexuality” in Uganda

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Four people have reportedly been arrested in Uganda in the Buikwe district, located in central Uganda along Lake Victoria. Police told the AFP that that four people – two of whom were women – were arrested after receiving a tip that “homosexuality” was happening at a massage parlor in the area.  “The police operation was carried out following a tip-off by a female informant to the area security that acts of homosexuality were being carried out at the massage parlor,” said police spokesperson Hellen Butoto. The arrests come just months after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the country’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act, which […]

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Gay elder beaten & burned by nursing home workers, now dead

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Ted Brown said his now-deceased civil partner of 50 years, Noel Glynn, received bruises and cigarette burns from homophobic workers while living in a London nursing home for nine months. Brown sued the local council that oversees the home, and the council offered a £30,000 ($38,266 U.S.) settlement to Brown two years ago, but he said he hasn’t received any of the promised money yet. Glynn lived in the Albany Lodge Nursing Home in Croydon in South London from December 2018 to October 2019 while receiving care for dementia. Brown paid £1,400 ($1,787) a month for Glynn’s care. Brown said two LGBTQ+ […]

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A majority of queer youth feel hopeful despite widespread bullying & stress

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Nearly half of all LGBTQ+ youth feel unsafe in school settings, and over half said they had been bullied due to their queer identities, a new report from the Human Rights Campaign(HRC) found. But even though over half of queer respondents also showed signs of anxiety and depression, majorities of LGBTQ+ youth have also come out to their families and feel hopeful for the future nonetheless. The HRC’s 2023 LGBTQ+ Youth Report surveyed over 13,000 LGBTQ+ youth between the ages of 13 and 17, from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Approximately 54% of transgender and gender-expansive youth and 46% of […]

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Trans blogger convicted for discussing her life under Russia’s supposed child protection law

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A Russian court has convicted — and possibly detained and beaten — transgender blogger Milana Petrova for allegedly violating laws against spreading “LGBTQ+ propaganda” and “discrediting” the Russian military. Petrova had allegedly posted LGBTQ+ content, including details about gender transitioning, as well as criticisms of Russia’s army on her public Telegram channel, the Russian independent news outlet Novaya Gazeta reported. It’s not surprising that Putin opposes gay marriage and transgender rights. What’s surprising is how many Republicans in the U.S. agree with him. Her channel’s content was reported to Russia’s Center for Combating Extremism by Ekaterina Mizulina, Director of Russia’s Safe Internet League. […]

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LGBTQ+ Holocaust memorial in Berlin attacked with Bible verses & arson

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In Berlin last weekend, a vandal defaced the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under National Socialism with biblical quotations denouncing homosexuality before attempting to set fire to the concrete structure. Overnight on Saturday, a security guard witnessed a man, still at large, throw a burning object at the memorial. The structure didn’t sustain any lasting damage. Our activism was born in these forgotten papers—and lies—generated decades ago, retooled and weaponized for our time.  The concrete cube, erected in 2008 at the edge of Tiergarten Park near the main monument to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, features a small […]

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Idaho’s Teacher of the Year flees state after being attacked for LGBTQ+ allyship

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Idaho’s 2023 Teacher of the Year has fled the state after facing vicious attacks from right-wing parents. Fourth-grade teacher Karen Lauritzen told the Boston Globe it has been one of the worst years ever in her two-decade-long career. After being honored as Teacher of the Year, conservatives began attacking Lauritzen for her previous social media posts supporting LGBTQ+ people. The conservative Idaho Tribune called Lauritzen a “left-wing activist” who “follows drag queens on social media, promotes LGBT events, promotes transgenderism, Black Lives Matter, and is active in local politics, promoting liberal ideology.” The article also blasted her for liking posts on social and emotional learning […]

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A generation full of fighters: Young progressives are rising up to defend LGBTQ+ equality

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Run for Something, the progressive political organization dedicated to recruiting and supporting young candidates running for office down ballot, was founded in the ashes of Hillary Clinton’s losing presidential bid on the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. Clinton campaign veteran Amanda Litman and political operative Ross Morales Rocketto have been helping turn progressive under-40 candidates into winners ever since. According to National Press Secretary Juan Ramiro Sarimiento, about twenty-five percent of the group’s endorsed candidates for this election cycle are LGBTQ+, reflecting a level of diversity among Gen Z and Millennials not found in older generations. Sarimiento, who is queer […]

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Biden administration urged to add gender-affirming care to proposed abortion rights protections

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LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, including the Human Rights Campaign and the Trevor Project, are asking the White House to add gender-affirming care to new rules under consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services, strengthening health privacy protections related to abortion. The proposed changes to HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, would bar law enforcement officials from accessing information about abortion across state lines in pursuit of prosecutions in states where the procedure has been drastically limited. Like the right to abortion, access to gender-affirming care for minors has been severely curtailed or legislated out of […]

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Ron DeSantis gaslights LGBTQ+ people: I’m not “demeaning” anyone!

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Gov. Ron DeSantis – one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ governors in history – has yet again stood behind his widely mocked anti-LGBTQ+ campaign video by claiming he is not in favor of “demeaning” anyone.  While speaking to Bret Baier on Fox News, DeSantis took “responsibility” for the ad and yet also continued to defend himself. He said the issues the video brings up (like the fact that Donald Trump expressed support for trans people once, years before he was president) are “totally legitimate.”  “I don’t believe in demeaning anybody, and we have not done that since I’ve been governor,” he said. “These […]

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