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Republican Candidate for US Congress Defended Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy

Steve Negron A Republican Congressional candidate has defended voting against a ban on gay ‘cure’ therapy. New Hampshire state lawmaker Steve Negron is the GOP candidate for the US House of Representatives in the state’s Second Congressional District. Negron picked up the Republican nomination in a narrow primary vote on Tuesday, just weeks after he publicly defended voting against cross-party legislation to ban gay ‘cure’ therapy. Steve Negron The candidate was among Republicans to oppose the state’s recently-introduced law that bans the provision of conversion therapy to minors. He was challenged over his vote in an interview with local TV station WMUR, […]

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Trans Woman Shot Dead in Florida is 20th Trans Person to be Killed this Year in US

Londonn Moore was found shot to death in the early hours of Saturday morning. (Londonn Moore/Facebook) PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world A transgender woman of colour has been found shot dead in Charlotte County, Florida. Londonn Moore is believed to be the 20th trans person to be killed so far this year in the US. Moore, 20, was shot multiple times near Sawyer Circle in North Port early on Saturday morning (September 8). Local media have reported on Moore’s death, with some outlets referring to the […]

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After ‘Homophobic’ Arson Attack, Lithuanian Activists Fly 500 Rainbow Flags

Fillmaker Romas Zabarauskas (left) and LGBT+ activists handing out free Pride flags in Vilnius on Friday. (Arcana Femina) PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Two Lithuanians have responded defiantly to a series of arson attacks against the LGBT+ community in Vilnius—by buying 500 rainbow flags to wave around the city. Filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas and LGBT+ rights activist Tomaš Ilja decided to fundraise thousands of euros to buy the flags after arsonists targeted the office of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL)—the country’s only non-governmental organisation representing LGBT+ people—on […]

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Pentagon Defends Plan To Expel HIV+ Service Members

Bloomberg reports: The Trump administration defended a new military policy that will allegedly result in HIV-positive service members being fired in violation of their constitutional rights when it takes effect Oct. 1. The “Deploy or Get Out!” directive is intended to improve military readiness by weeding out soldiers who can’t deploy overseas for more than 12 consecutive months “for any reason.” An earlier directive from the height of the AIDS crisis prevents soldiers with HIV from deploying overseas, meaning the new policy may make it impossible for them to serve. But the military has wide latitude in deciding who can […]

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MC at LGBTQI Journalist’s Conference Calls Attendees ‘Things and Its’

Marshall McPeek (Screen Capture) The emcee at an LGBT journalists’ organization annual conference Saturday night called attendees “things and its.” Marshall McPeek, a meteorologist at a Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate station in Ohio later apologized and resigned his membership to The Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA). “Ladies and gentlemen, things and its,” were the words McPeek chose to begin the evening’s event in Palm Springs, California, which was hosted by Fox News. But it was a tweet from Mary Emily O’Hara, who covers LGBTQ news for Condé Nast’s them, that drew attention to McPeek’s offensive remarks. Those remarks were seen as especially […]

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Gay Student Who Fled Kenya after Conversion Camp Threat Wins $10,000 Award for Courage

A gay student who was forced to flee Kenya after his family tried to send him to a gay conversion camp has been awarded the Colin Higgins Foundation’s annual Youth Courage Award. Mahad Olad’s terrifying ordeal in the summer of 2017 left him with no contact with his family, who brought him to Kenya under the pretence that it was a “vacation.” Mahad Olad (Instagram) Receiving the Youth Courage Award also means that he will receive a $10,000 grant. The award is given to an inspiring person within the LGBT+ community who has overcome adversity brought on by their identity. […]

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California Legislature Passes Bill to Provide Teachers with Tools and Training to Support LGBTQ Students

The California Assembly passed AB 2153 — legislation to provide the state’s teachers and school staff with the tools and training they need to support their LGBTQ students — Wednesday evening with strong bipartisan support, following a similarly bipartisan 33-3 vote in the Senate on Monday. The bill is authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) and sponsored by Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, and now heads to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature. “Our public school teachers and staff are on the front lines of ensuring that all California children — regardless of background, zip code, sexual […]

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Will Singapore be the Next Country to Decriminalize Gay Sex?

A veteran diplomat has urged Singapore’s LGBT+ community to challenge a law prohibiting gay sex after India’s Supreme Court struck down the country’s ban on Thursday. Tommy Koh, the country’s former UN ambassador, called for a class action suit to change Singapore’s Section 377A law, which, like India’s now-defunct legislation, was put in place under British colonial rule. Singapore’s Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam has also raised the possibility of repealing the law, which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison and predates Singapore’s independence in 1965 by a decade. Tommy Koh is currently serving as Singapore’s Ambassador-at-large […]

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India’s Highest Court Struck Down a Law Banning Queer Sex

India’s highest court has just struck down a more than century-old prohibition on gay sex, calling the Victorian-era law “irrational, indefensible, and manifestly arbitrary.” The ruling represents a hard-fought victory for gay-rights activists in India, who have been battling the law for more than a decade. But it’s also a symbolic break with India’s colonial past. The law, known as Section 377, dates to when the British Empire ruled India. The court’s ruling on Thursday effectively makes it illegal to discriminate against people based on sexuality, though it doesn’t permit same-sex marriage. Section 377 was inconsistently enforced, but police and […]

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Eighth-Graders Win Award for Best LGBTQ Project in California History Day Competition

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The GLBT Historical Society grants an annual Young Scholar Award to the best LGBTQ project in the California competition for National History Day. This year’s winners are Allison Brustman, Alex Granlund and Sophia Valdez, who were eighth-grade students at Spring View Middle School in Rocklin, Calif., when they participated at the state level in May. They also received an honorable mention from California History Day. This month, all three start as freshmen at Whitney High School in Rocklin. Here’s their report on their winning project: National History Day is a nationwide competition where kids in grades six through 12 pick […]

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