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Hero teacher resigns after being told to sign a contract comparing homosexuality to pedophilia

A teacher at a Christian K-12 school has resigned and pulled her own son out of the school after the administration asked parents to sign a contract condemning homosexuality and comparing it to bestiality and pedophilia. “Not only could I not sign that as a parent, I couldn’t agree to be a teacher in a school that had that vocabulary and language around some of the most vulnerable kids that we interact with,” Helen Clapham Burns, who worked at the Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane, Australia, said on the news program The Project, while close to tears. Burns also expressed devastation that […]

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LGBT+ Ukrainians are ready to fight for their freedom if Russia invades

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LGBT+ people in Ukraine are afraid of what’s to come as tensions escalate between their country and Russia.  Ukraine and Russia have been at war with each other since 2014, but there are fears that conflict could spill over after Russia deployed tens of thousands of troops to its border with Ukraine in recent days.  Since then, the United States has put 8,500 of its own troops on alert to send to Ukraine if the war worsens, and NATO announced that it was sending ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe in preparation for a potential conflict.  A Russian attack, […]

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Mayor of Mississippi city accused of withholding $110,000 in funds over LGBTQ+ books

The Mayor of a Mississippi city is accused of withholding $110,000 from a public library because they carry LGBTQ+ books, according to the Executive Director for the Madison County Library System.  Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee reportedly said that he had received complaints from citizens about three children’s books and one adult book at the Ridgeland Public Library, according to NBC affiliate WLBT of Jackson.  The books either had titles referencing the LGBTQ+ community or depicted them in the book, executive director Tonya Johnson said, according to the news station.  NBC News could not immediately reach McGee for comment on Friday, but the […]

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Donald Trump vows to ban trans athletes nationwide if re-elected president

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A defiant but still very much defeated Donald Trump vowed to ban trans athletes nationwide if elected to a new term as president. Trump, the former firebrand Republican president, took to Conroe, Texas Saturday night (29 January) for his first Texan MAGA rally since 2019. In a meandering speech that stretched more than an hour-long, Trump laid out a string of promises certain to roil his critics – LGBT+ people included – at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. “We will ban men from participating in women’s sports,” he told his toadying supporters dressed in “Trump 2024” t-shirts and hats. “So ridiculous.” He also decried […]

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Arnie Kantrowitz, Pioneering Activist and GLAAD Cofounder, Dead at 81

Arnie Kantrowitz, a pioneering activist for LGBTQ+ rights and founding member of GLAAD, has died at age 81. Kantrowitz died January 21 at a Manhattan rehabilitation center, his life partner, Dr. Lawrence D. Mass, told The New York Times. The cause of death was complications of COVID-19. Kantrowitz was “an early champion of gay rights and an indefatigable campaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media,” the Times notes. Mass, a founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, called Kantrowitz “a true sage and champion.” He became vice president of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups founded in the wake […]

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Frenzied gang threaten to stab gay man and trans woman in disturbing viral TikTok

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A group of rowdy men told a gay man and a trans women they would stab them and demanded they leave a London takeaway all while filming them. An alarming and since-deleted TikTok video shows the moment Valentino Kyriakou and Naya Martinez were targeted by a group of men in Wembley, west London. According to the BBC, the pair said that as they waited for their food at Tasty Chicken along Bridge Road on Saturday (29 January), the group targeted them. A Metropolitan Police Service spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that “inquiries are underway to identify those shown in the video”. PinkNews has also contacted […]

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4 charged after overdose death of out actor Michael K. Williams

Four men face charges that they were members of the drug distribution crew that supplied a deadly mix of drugs to Michael K. Williams, the renowned actor from “The Wire” who overdosed just hours after buying fentanyl-laced heroin in a sidewalk deal recorded on surveillance video. All four were arrested Tuesday and are accused of distributing fentanyl-laced heroin of the kind that caused the death of Williams, who gained fame playing Omar Little on the HBO series that portrayed drug crews like the one authorities say the four defendants belong to. Three of the defendants are accused of belonging to the crew […]

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Joe Rogan Continues to Spew Anti-Trans Rhetoric on His Spotify Podcast

Yet again, podcast host Joe Rogan is using his platform — an estimated 11 million listeners per episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast — to spew harmful anti-trans rhetoric and false information while platforming bigotry.  On his January 25 episode, Rogan hosted Jordan Peterson, a retired Canadian psychology professor turned right-wing provocateur who posited that being trans is both a “sociological contagion” and similar to the now-debunked “satanic panic” of the 1980s. When Rogan steered the discussion to the subject of transgender people, Peterson explained his opposition to Canadian federal Bill C-16, which amended the country’s human rights protection to include gender identity. “I knew full well […]

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Equality California Endorses State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond for Re-Election

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced its endorsement Thursday of California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who is running for re-election in 2022. Thurmond has been a strong supporter of Equality California’s Safe and Supportive Schools program and recently personally intervened to help defeat an anti-trans policy proposal in the Chino Valley Unified School District. He is committed to closing the learning and equity gaps that were amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic and stopping discriminatory policies directed at LGBTQ+ and other vulnerable students. “Superintendent Thurmond is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ students, committed to ensuring […]

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