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Trump Admin Settles Lawsuit By LGBTQ Groups, Will Allow Pride Flag To Return To NYC Stonewall Monument

The federal government agreed on Monday that the rainbow Pride flag could fly at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, reversing its decision to remove it and dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives. The removal of the Pride flag in February from the monument, which is in Greenwich Village, drew fierce backlash from L.G.B.T.Q. people across the country and state and local elected officials in New York, who saw it as an attack on the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement. The agreement, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, settled a […]

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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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South Carolina man faces hate crime charges after shooting into Myrtle Beach LGBTQ+ nightclub

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A South Carolina man has been charged under a local hate crime ordinance after authorities say he fired multiple gunshots into a well-known LGBTQ+ nightclub in Myrtle Beach, according to The Sun News. Timothy James Truett, 37, was arrested Thursday and charged with assault or intimidation based on political opinions or the exercise of civil rights, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and discharging a firearm into a dwelling, Myrtle Beach police told the outlet. The charges stem from a Wednesday morning shooting at Pulse Ultra Club, an LGBTQ+ nightclub that has served the community for nearly 15 years. The venue is not affiliated with Pulse […]

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TV judge slams homophobic father who sued his gay son for conversion therapy costs

Shortly after this discovery, Gregory spent $6,000 to send his son to conversion therapy, which Michael ended up running away from due to the toxic and cruel conditions at the establishment. Michael only agreed to attend conversion therapy out of fear that his parents would disown him and throw him out of the house. At first, Gregory tried to gaslight the situation into making the son responsible for not “fulfilling his promise” of attending conversion therapy, which Judge Williams quickly denounced in the viral clip. “You’ve gaslit this young man for far too long. He’s still a youth and he’s […]

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Georgia educator says she was forced to resign after telling student she’s gay

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A Georgia special education paraprofessional says she was pushed out of her job after acknowledging she is gay during a conversation with a fourth-grade student in a moment she describes as an attempt to challenge anti-LGBTQ+ remarks in real time. Cameryn Lovett, who worked at Mulberry Creek Elementary School in the Harris County School District, said administrators pressured her to resign following the interaction, which took place as students waited to be picked up after school. “He was talking badly about gay people. He was saying he didn’t know any gay people because they are bad and stuff like that, so I […]

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Boston University removed Pride flags. Backlash forced its president to back off

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Boston University has paused enforcement of a policy that led to the removal of Pride flags from campus offices, stepping back after weeks of escalating protests and faculty warnings that the school was suppressing free expression. In a letter to the campus community on Monday, Boston University President Melissa Gilliam said the school would temporarily halt the removals and acknowledged the harm the policy had caused. “Our university and our policies exist within a larger social context, one that is dynamic and complex,” Gilliam wrote. “I have heard how difficult and painful that has been. I am deeply sorry.” Gilliam described the decision not as a […]

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Immigration judge faces criticism for ‘atrocious’ probing of gay asylum seeker

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Audio recorded from a hearing in New Mexico is raising serious concerns about how LGBTQ+ asylum claims are handled in US immigration courts. According to The Advocate, Immigration Judge Samuel Williams spent nearly three hours pressing a gay Iranian asylum seeker on intimate details of his same-sex relationship during a spring 2025 hearing, questions which advocates say reflect troubling misunderstandings about how LGBTQ+ people survive in countries where being out can be deadly. The man, who fled Iran fearing execution, described living in secrecy, maintaining a heterosexual marriage as cover while navigating a relationship with another man under constant threat. His attorney, Rebekah […]

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These anti-LGBTQ+ Georgia Republicans did drag themselves, unearthed photos show

Rep. Mike Collins in drag in his high school yearbook.Piedmont Academy yearbook in 1985. Carter, whose real name is Earl LeRoy Carter, is seen wearing a long dress and sash in the Robert W. Groves High School yearbook for 1975, the year he graduated from the school in a suburb of Savannah. There is no caption attached to the drag photo, but there is a strong resemblance to Carter’s senior photo in the same yearbook when the two are compared. The congressman was also the subject of a Reddit thread in 2025, where a user posted another photo of Carter in […]

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I Live in Colorado. Conversion Therapy Destroyed My Life.

At 12 years old, upon returning home from school, I saw my dad sitting in the living room. I immediately knew something was wrong. “Come here,” he said, with my computer in his lap. He proceeded to show me the pictures of men kissing that he had found in my search history. “If you live this way, either you’re gonna kill yourself or someone’s going to go out and kill you for it,” he told me. “And neither of those things matter because God will never love you again.” I couldn’t say anything. In our world, my dad was the […]

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Pennsylvania House approves Malcolm Kenyatta’s marriage equality bill to update outdated state law

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State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta rose on the Pennsylvania House floor and offered a line that cut through hours of legislative debate and decades of legal inertia. “God did not make me to hate me,” he said. Minutes later, the chamber voted to move Pennsylvania closer to matching its laws to that principle. The Pennsylvania House passed legislation Wednesday to codify marriage equality into state law, approving the measure in a 127–72 vote with bipartisan support, according to NBC affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh. The bill would redefine marriage in state statute as a union between “two individuals,” replacing language dating back to the 1990s that limits marriage to “one man and […]

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