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Activists Demand Debate Moderator Grill Mike Pence on his Being Anti-gay

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Activists have demanded that the next debate moderator grill Mike Pence on the Trump administration’s homophobia and transphobia, after LGBT+ rights went unmentioned during the first presidential debate. LGBT+ issues were sidelined in the presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on Tuesday (September 29). The messy and hostile debate amounted to 90 minutes of insults and accusations peppered with constant interruptions from the president, who refused to abide by moderator Christ Wallace’s rules. On October 7, the vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will take place, moderated by USA Today journalist Susan Page. But activists are determined that the […]

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Mother Threatens to Sue after Teacher ‘Bullied’ her Lesbian Daughter for Holding her Girlfriend’s Hand

A mother is threatening to sue an Indiana school district, claiming that her gay daughter was singled out by staff and subjected to “humiliating” homophobic bullying. Melissa Hart has filed a formal complaint against the administration of Charlestown High School, alleging “discrimination, failing to protect a student from bullying and violation of students rights.”× She claims her 17-year-old daughter faced multiple instances of homophobic discrimination and bullying at the hands of a teacher and an administrator. Speaking to the News and Tribune, Hart listed multiple occasions where the teacher “humiliated” the teen in front of other students by making “inappropriate and derogatory comments” related […]

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Michigan’s Lesbian AG Slaps Felony Charges on Homocon’s Wohl, Burkman for Robocalls

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a lesbian, announced Thursday she has filed felony charges against conservative hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman — who have a history of deceit and unscrupulous dealings — for misleading robocalls discouraging Michigan residents from voting by mail. Nessel said in a statement the robocalls, which were made in Black-majority areas around Detroit, go above and beyond those “flooding our cell phones and landlines each day” in a battleground state for the 2020 election. “Any effort to interfere with, intimidate or intentionally mislead Michigan voters will be met with swift and severe consequences,” Nessel said in a statement. “This effort specifically targeted minority voters […]

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Jon Hoadley Hopes to Become Michigan’s First Openly Gay Congressman

In 2017, Jon Hoadley came home one day to find his partner, Kris, sprawled on the bathroom floor. “He was barely able to move, he had been throwing up for over 18 hours,” Hoadley, 37, told NBC News. At the hospital, the couple received devastating news. “The doctor comes in and says, ‘I think you have multiple sclerosis,’” he recalled the doctor telling Kris. Hoadley said the constant headache of dealing with insurance companies and hospital bills since his partner’s diagnosis is a major reason he made affordable health care a priority in his campaign to represent Michigan’s 6th Congressional […]

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Three-quarters of LGBTQ Voters Back Joe Biden, GLAAD Poll Finds

With the presidential election a little more than a month away, a new poll finds 75 percent of LGBTQ voters are supporting Democratic candidate Joe Biden. According to GLAAD’s State of LGBTQ Voters report, released Thursday, just 17 percent of the respondents said they were pulling the lever for President Donald Trump. Five percent said they plan to back another candidate and 2 percent remain undecided. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percent. The poll, conducted by Pathfinder Opinion Research from Sept. 21-25, indicated 88 percent of the 800 LGBTQ respondents were registered voters. Of them, 92 […]

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Chicago’s LGBTQ Neighborhood Dropping ‘Boystown’ Nickname

Chicago’s LGBTQ neighborhood is dropping its longtime nickname, “Boystown,” following a petition started by a local activist claiming the moniker lacks inclusivity and promotes bigotry. “The Castro, Greenwich Village, West Hollywood, and many more. LGBTQ neighborhoods exist for all intersections of queer identity. Chicago’s is the only gendered nickname,” said the petition, which was addressed to the Northalsted Business Alliance. Last week, the alliance announced that it would no longer use the nickname in its marketing campaigns when referring to the neighborhood, which sits on the city’s North Side. Instead, it will revert to the name Northalsted. “While a personal identifier cannot […]

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Man Killed with a Machete after Grindr Hook-up

A man in New York City is believed to have been violently hacked to death with a machete during a Grindr hook-up. Juan Alonso, 50, has been charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon after police were called to an apartment in the Bronx on Sunday evening. Alonso’s flatmate had returned home to discover the victim’s naked body and Alonso, machete in hand, standing over him, police say. The victim, whose name is not yet public, is believed to have met the alleged killer on Grindr. A police spokesperson said that officials “are investigating whether there was […]

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Religious Bigot Rallies Followers Behind Trump’s SCOTUS pick so LGBT+ Rights ‘No Longer See the Light of Day’

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A Republican has urged other conservatives to back Amy Coney Barrett as the new Supreme Court justice so that LGBT+ rights “will no longer see the light of day”. Brian Brown, head of the anti-gay National Organisation for Marriage, told his followers that it is “absolutely imperative” that Barrett be appointed to the Supreme Court in an email.× Brown, who once compared himself to Jesus and has fought to reverse progress on LGBT+ rights, told followers that they must launch an “unprecedented effort to ensure that this justice confirmed without delay”. “I’m asking you to make a sacrificial financial gift to [National Organisation for Marriage] right […]

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Michele Bachmann Claims Christians Will ‘Be Punished for What the Bible Says’ If the Equality Act Becomes Law

During her Sept. 18 appearance on pastor Todd Coconato’s “Bombshell” podcast , right-wing former Rep. Michele Bachmann frantically warned that if Joe Biden is elected president, he will make it a priority to pass the Equality Act and strip Christian conservatives of their rights. If passed, the Equality Act would expand federal civil rights laws to include protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. However, Bachmann warned that not allowing Christians to discriminate on such grounds would amount to unconstitutional discrimination against Christians. “Joe Biden has said the very first thing he would do as president of the United […]

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Biden to LGBTQ Advocates: ‘You Deserve a Partner in the White House’

Joe Biden on Thursday doubled down on his commitment to LGBTQ rights, including his support for the Equality Act, in a message to the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights group. Speaking in advance of the group’s Unite for Equality Live virtual event, the former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee said America is at a turning point: “This election is going to determine our future for a very long time.” Pointing to a litany of crises — the pandemic, economic decline, climate change, wildfires, threats to LGBTQ equality — Biden said the common denominator is President Donald Trump. “A president […]

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