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Pro-Trump congressman who thinks LGBT+ rights have gone too far accused of sexual harassment

Madison Cawthorn has once again been accused of sexual harassment, this time by his former college classmates. The freshman House representative and toadying Donald Trump supporter is facing fresh allegations after being previously accused of sexual misconduct last year.× Several people who knew the North Carolina Republican during his days studying at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, in 2016 alleged that he touched them inappropriately, among other claims. BuzzFeed News spoke with more than three dozen people who accused Cawthorn of or corroborated reports of sexual harassment and misconduct on the leafy Christian college campus. He was known on campus for his […]

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Trans inmate forced to share a cell with a convicted rapist and murderer. He raped her that same night, court told

A trans inmate is taking legal action against the Michigan Department of Correction after she was allegedly thrown into a cell with a male rapist who sexually assaulted her less than a day later. In a lawsuit filed to the US District Court Tuesday (2 March), seen by The Detroit News, corrections staff are accused of ignoring the trans inmate’s pleas for help, accusing her of lying and mocking her claims. The prisoner, identified in the lawsuit only as Jane Doe, says she was forced to share a room at the G Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson with “a known rapist and murderer imprisoned for life […]

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Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds donates childhood home to LGBT+ youth charity

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Dan Reynolds, professional tall man and Imagine Dragons singer, has donated his childhood home worth $1 million for it to become an LGBT+ youth centre. As part of LGBT+ advocacy group Encircle’s ‘$8 Million, Eight Houses’ campaign, the 34-year-old reflected on the difficulties queer youth face.×ADVERTISING Reynolds, an outspoken LGBT+ ally, and his wife Aja Volkman are to donate the Las Vegas, Nevada, property to be converted into one of Encircle’s new facilities, which will offer vulnerable queer youth a crucial lifeline. Both Reynolds and Volkman will serve as honorary co-chairs of Encircle’s new campaign, according to NME. Dan Reynolds: ‘I’ve watched throughout my life the […]

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Republicans launch Equality Act rival that would ‘undermine’ LGBT+ rights in the name of religious freedom

Republicans are launching a rival to the Equality Act which will allow them to discriminate against LGBT+ people on the basis of religious freedom. The “Fairness for All” Act was reintroduced by Utah Congressman Chris Stewart on Sunday (28 February), days after the Equality Act was passed by the House of Representatives, as a way to “harmonise religious freedom and LGBT+ rights”. Like the Equality Act it would outlaw LGBT+ discrimination in employment, housing, jury selection, credit and federally assisted programs – except, of course, when that discrimination is based on religious beliefs. “It is hard to really love our neighbours when […]

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Trump mocks trans athletes in first sinister speech since leaving the White House

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Donald Trump mocked trans athletes in a sinister first speech since leaving the White House in January. The disgraced former president gave his first public address since leaving office at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday (28 February). n a speech that dragged on for an hour and a half, Trump repeatedly hit out at Joe Biden, pushed the false idea that the election was stolen, and characterised immigrants as “predators”, “rapists” and “drug smugglers”. Around 42 minutes into his speech, Donald Trump turned his attention to trans athletes, lambasting Joe Biden for advancing protections for LGBT+ people. “Joe Biden and […]

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Diverse group of cities have highest rates of gay households

Once known for singer Anita Bryant’s anti-gay rights campaign and a ban on gay and lesbian adoptions, Florida is now home to two metro areas with among the highest concentrations of gay and lesbian coupled households in the U.S., according to a new report released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Orlando and Miami had the fourth and sixth highest percentages respectively of same sex coupled households in the U.S., according to the report released this week using data from the bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.  San Francisco, Portland and Seattle topped the list. Austin was No. 5 and Boston came […]

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Anti-LGBTQ coalition targets Equality Act in the name of America’s children

A new initiative backed by a coalition of right-wing organizations is courting lawmakers and parents in an effort to stop the passage of the Equality Act — a federal LGBTQ rights bill — and promote policies targeting transgender Americans at the federal and state levels. Backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, Family Policy Alliance, Heritage Foundation and other national and local groups, the Promise to America’s Children coalition says it is fighting “a culture – and sadly, a government – around us seek to sexualize our children for the sake of a political agenda.” “It’s no surprise that the ugly […]

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Equality Act Passes House In 224-206 Vote

The US House of Representatives has voted to pass the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights bill prohibiting discrimination against LGBT+ people in all 50 states. The House voted 224-206 on Thursday (25 February) to pass the sweeping legislation, which substantially expands the existing 1964 Civil Rights Act to include specific protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.ADVERTISING Its passage represents an enormous step forward for LGBT+ rights in America as it finally addresses the “patchwork” state coverage that leaves countless queer people vulnerable to discrimination. Representative Ritchie Torres, the first LGBT+ Black and Afro Latino member of congress, said he felt […]

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Log Cabin Republicans Oppose Equality Act: Lesbians, Gays, And Bisexuals Will Become An “Extinct Species”

From the Log Cabin Republicans: Gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of society would effectively become an ‘extinct species’ under this bill. That’s because it would enshrine the gender identity agenda that is counter to gay rights. For decades, we gays preached to the world that we were ‘born this way,’ and that being gay, lesbian, or bisexual ‘is not a choice.’ We did not challenge nature or the science of our biology, nor millennia of human history’s distinctions and separations of the two sexes. Now, that’s turned on its head. For the gender-identity and trans-obsessed crowd, how you were born […]

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