Lily Wakefield

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Democrat Set to Make History as the First Trans State Senator in the US

Trans Democrat Sarah McBride is set to make history as the first out transgender state senator ever elected in the United States, after winning the state legislative primary in Delaware. McBride, a trailblazing trans activist, national press secretary for Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and author of the book Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, already became the first trans person to speak at a major party convention when in 2016 she addressed the Democrat National Convention.Read More But now she is set to make history again. Only four openly trans people have ever been elected to state legislature […]

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Dictionary.com Adds Raft of LGBT+ Words to ‘Eliminate Heterosexual Bias in Language’

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Dictionary.com has released its “biggest ever update”, revising definitions and adding 650 new words relating to race, mental health, climate and the LGBT+ community. The dictionary has revised the definitions of many LGBT+ words to put “people first”, including replacing the word “homosexual” with the words “gay, gay man, or gay woman”. The site explained: “For example, we now define gayness as ‘gay or lesbian sexual orientation or behavior’ compared to the outmoded gloss of ‘homosexuality’. These changes alone affect over 50 entries. “The previously used terms, homosexual and homosexuality, originated as clinical language, and dictionaries have historically perceived such language as scientific and unbiased. “But homosexual […]

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Federal Prosecutor Fired after Spouting Foul Anti- Gay and Trans Comments

Texas assistant attorney general Nick Moutos has lost his job after he was criticised for past tweets in which he called trans people an “abomination” and promoted the QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theories. Moutos is a lawyer and, until this week, was an assistant attorney general in Texas’ criminal prosecutions division. On Thursday (September 3) Media Matters produced a report detailing Moutos’s racist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic and Islamophobic tweets, as well as his support of the controversial conspiracy theories. Every tweet included in the report was published by Mouto in 2020. QAnon followers, among many outlandish claims, believe that Satan-worshipping paedophile rings involving […]

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Gay Ex-Trump official Joins Group that Fought to Keep Homosexuality Illegal

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Richard Grenell, the gay Republican who thinks Donald Trump is America’s “most pro-gay president”, has joined an anti-LGBT+ group that defended US ban on gay sex. Grenell, who served previously as Trump’s interim director of national intelligence, has joined the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) as a special advisor for national security and foreign policy. Described as “one of the main US religious-right legal powerhouses” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLJ is a religious conservative legal organisation founded in 1990 by televangelist Pat Robertson, with a long history of fighting against LGBT+ rights and equality, and of spreading harmful […]

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Teacher ‘Put on Leave’ for Supporting LGBT+ Rights; Black Lives Matter

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A teacher in Texas has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after she allowed students to submit their pronouns and posted LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter images on her virtual classroom. An image of Roma High School English teacher Taylor Lifka’s remote learning site was posted online Friday (August 21) by Marian Knowlton, a Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st district who took offence at her efforts to include trans students, women, students of colour and queer kids. It shows an avatar of the teacher standing infront of posters advocating for Black Lives Matter and LGBT+ rights, among other human […]

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‘Anti-gay’ Couple who Pointed Guns at Black Lives Matter Protesters to Speak at RNCC

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The “anti-gay” white couple who stood outside their mansion and pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters will “definitely” speak at the Republican Party convention this month. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are both personal injury lawyers, made headlines around the world after they were filmed pointing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters from the steps of their palatial mansion in Portland Place, Missouri. On Monday, August 17, the McCloskey’s lawyer told the New York Times that the couple would “definitely be speaking” at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Albert Watkins said in an interview that Mark McCloskey, who threatened Black Lives Matter protesters with […]

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China’s Oldest and Biggest Pride Festival Announces Indefinite Hiatus

The oldest and largest Pride festival in China, ShanghaiPRIDE, has announced that it is “taking a break from scheduling any future events”, in a huge blow to the country’s LGBT+ community. When ShanghaiPRIDE began in 2009 there were 3,000 people in attendance, marking the first time a large LGBT+ Pride festival had ever been held in mainland China. The organisation has evolved and grown over the last 12 years, introducing year-round events including a Rainbow Bike Ride, Pride Run, conferences and panels. But on Thursday, August 13, organisation released a “goodbye announcement” titled “The End of the Rainbow” in which […]

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Three Cops Jailed for Murder after Throwing a Trans Woman Out of a Moving Car

Three police officers have been jailed for murdering a trans woman in El Salvador, in the nation’s first-ever homicide conviction with a trans victim. According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Camila Díaz Córdova, a 29-year-old trans woman, had fled El Salvador for the US after being subjected to death threats by a gang, but was deported two years ago as she could not provide enough proof that her life was in danger. Díaz Córdova, a sex worker, was picked up by three police officers in January 2019 accused of creating a public nuisance. The officers handcuffed her face-down and brutally assaulted her in […]

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Beloved Gay Doctor Dies from Coronavirus in his Husband’s Arms after Months of Battling the Pandemic

A gay Baltimore intensive care doctor passed away from coronavirus in his husband’s arms after months of battling the pandemic on the front line. According to the Baltimore Sun, Dr Joseph Costa, 56, was the chief of the critical care division at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. As he was dying in the hospital he worked at on Saturday, 25 July, his husband of 28 years David Hart held him, while around 20 of Costa’s colleagues held a vigil. Hart said: “Those who cared for Joe were his best friends. A housekeeper who knelt by his bed and shook with […]

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Three Black Trans Americans Murdered as Epidemic of Violence Reaches Record Levels

Two more Black trans women have been murdered in the US this week, and reports have emerged that a Black trans man was killed in June. Their deaths mean there have been at least 25 trans people murdered in the US in 2020, just over halfway into the year. The Human Rights Campaign tracked 27 violent fatalities throughout all of 2019. According to local New York TV station WPIX, 32-year-old Tiffany Harris was stabbed to death in her Bronx apartment early Sunday morning (July 26). She was initially deadnamed and misgendered by the police and the media, but was correctly identified by people […]

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