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European Parliament adopts measure to ban conversion therapy

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The European Parliament voted in favor of a ban on conversion therapy this Wednesday. The demand is now being sent to the European Commission for a response. The move comes after the European Citizens’ Initiative successfully petitioned the European Parliament to take up the issue. Starting in 2024, the ECI gathered over 1.2 million signatures from EU citizens to ban conversion therapy. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a debate on the matter earlier this week, which resulted in the committee adopting two opinions, one calling for stronger enforcement of the EU’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the […]

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Library board members refused to ban a book about a trans boy. The county fired them all.

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In December 2025 – shortly after North Carolina’s Asheboro Public Library board voted to keep Call Me Max, a children’s picture book about a transgender boy, on its shelves – the Randolph County Board of Commissioners dismissed eight out of nine library trustees without giving a reason.  Betty Jo Armfield, one of the dismissed, was shocked. “I felt frustration, anger, and grave concern for the library staff and for the public that accesses the library,” she told LGBTQ Nation.  For Armfield, what stung most was not just the dismissal itself, but what it signaled about the future. “This dismissal has set a […]

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Botswana officially removed its anti-sodomy law from its Penal Code

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Botswana’s anti-sodomy law has been officially repealed. Section 164 of the Southern African nation’s Penal Code used to ban sodomy and carried a possible seven-year sentence with it. But in 2019, the country’s High Court ruled unanimously that the law was unconstitutional. “Human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized,” wrote Judge Michael Leburu for the court at the time. “Sexual orientation is not a fashion statement. It is an important attribute of one’s personality.” “Personal autonomy on matters of sexual preference and choice must, therefore, be respected. Any criminalization of love or finding fulfillment in love dilutes compassion and […]

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University system chancellor orders schools to end academic programs “centered on” LGBTQ+ identities

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The Texas Tech University System is shutting down all its academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity. In an April 9 memo, Chancellor Brandon Creighton, a former Republican state lawmaker, gave provosts at the system’s five universities until June 15 to conduct reviews “to identify specific degree programs, official tracks, majors, minors, and certificates that meet the ‘centered on’ threshold” and to submit their lists of programs to the Office of the Chancellor, the Texas Tribune reports. The memo defines “centered on” as “when sexual orientation or gender identity serves as the primary subject, main theoretical framework, central narrative, or driving […]

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Between Trump and Christian nationalism, MAGA Catholics have a big problem

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As if going to war with Iran wasn’t enough, the Trump administration has apparently chosen to go to war with the Vatican as well.  In a move that is shockingly stupid even by his own standards, Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on Pope Leo on Sunday. In a screed on Truth Social,Trump complained that the pope was “WEAK on crime and terrible on foreign policy,” and even took credit for the pope’s election. “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting […]

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Whistleblower reveals how gay Trump appointee turned Kennedy Center into corrupt “playground”

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An ex-staffer at the Kennedy Center who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement after he was fired in March is now adding his insider knowledge of the corruption of the renowned arts center to an investigation by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). Josef Palermo, hired by ousted Kennedy Center President Ric Grenell in April as curator of visual arts and special programming for the arts center, says he saw “cronyism, incompetence, and a series of bizarre moves that would lead to the Kennedy Center going dark.”   Amid “cancellations, shrinking audiences, firings of old staffers and influxes of new ones,” there was […]

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Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: “Trans discrimination is sex discrimination”

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The Supreme Court of Montana ruled on Tuesday that trans residents of the state have a right to update their legal documents to accurately reflect their genders. “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote in the court’s decision. “Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person’s sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain. Hence, the inability of transgender Montanans to receive government-issued identification documents accurately reflecting their […]

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New report shows affirming adults are critical to the success of LGBTQ+ students

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Glisten, the LGBTQ+ education advocacy group, has a new report out detailing what it’s like to be an LGBTQ+ student today, “at a time when their identities are being weaponized against them.” Those identities “are being debated and restricted,” said the group’s CEO, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, and “this study speaks truth to a menacing power.” Speaking the truth in this year’s report were the students themselves; for the first time, Glisten conducted focus groups to hear the kids describe their answers in their own words. Key findings paint a layered portrait of LGBTQ+ youth who “are whole people with complex lives that defy the […]

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Gay billionaire Peter Thiel is now a self-appointed theologian

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Having apparently exhausted his interest in seasteading and blood transfusions from young people to ward off aging, gay Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel has found a new topic to explore: the anti-Christ.  Since last fall, Thiel has been touring a four-part lecture series on the figure mentioned in the New Testament as the primary opponent of Jesus in the final days before his second coming. If that seems like an offbeat topic for a Silicon Valley millionaire, Thiel has always been known for his esoteric interests.  Thiel’s interest in the anti-Christ may date back to his own upbringing, as he was raised an […]

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Trump DOJ sues Minnesota over its trans-inclusive school sports policies

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it is suing Minnesota and the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) for allowing transgender girls and women to play on school sports teams matching their gender identity. The case, filed in the Minnesota District Court, is just the Trump administration’s latest attempt to impose a nationwide ban on trans student-athletes (without congressional approval) by harassing and blackmailing states into dropping their trans-inclusive policies. The DOJ claims that schools with trans-inclusive sports policies violate Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex in education. President Joe […]

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