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Three-quarters of LGBT People Want More Support from Companies—and Not Just for Pride

New research suggests that LGBT+ people want companies to implement support services, instead of just sponsoring Pride events or using the rainbow flag in their marketing. The latest research by YouGov indicates that queer people would prefer businesses to actively implement networks that will support LGBT+ staff and customers over actions such as paying to have a float at a Pride parade. The study of 1,711 adults in the UK—136 of whom were LGBT+—revealed that nearly three quarters of LGBT+ people said they would feel “more positive” if companies introduced services or policies to support their LGBT+ customers.In comparison, half of LGBT+ […]

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In-N-Out Burger’s $25,000 Donation to California GOP Brings Call for Boycott

California Democratic Party Chair Eric Bauman is calling for a boycott of In-N-Out Burger after the fast-food chain donated $25,000 to the California GOP to boost party coffers ahead of the November election. Bauman called for the boycott of the popular California-based chain via his Twitter account late Wednesday with the following: “Et tu In-N-Out? Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party… it’s time to #BoycottInNOut – let Trump and his cronies support these creeps… perhaps animal style!” According to a public filing dated Aug. 28, In-N-Out Burger made a contribution for $25,000 to the California […]

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California Legislator Shelves Bill to Ban Paid ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’

The author of a high-profile measure to curb paid “conversion therapy,” which purports to change a person’s sexual orientation, said he is shelving his bill Friday in hopes of finding consensus with religious communities that vigorously opposed the proposal. The bill by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), which would have designated paid “conversion therapy” services as a fraudulent business practice under the state’s consumer protection law, easily cleared prior legislative hurdles thanks to large Democratic majorities in both chambers, as well as a handful of Republican votes. But after religious groups assailed the proposal, calling it a threat to their right […]

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15 Countries Condemn ‘Inadequate’ Russian Response to Chechnya Homophobic Purge

A protest in Berlin calling on Russian President to put an end to the persecution of gay men in Chechnya. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty) A group of countries have triggered an international action against Russia over the homophobic purge in Chechnya. Human rights monitors first reported in February 2017 that authorities in Chechnya – an autonomous region of Russia – were carrying out a homophobic purge. Gay people in the region have faced arrest, torture and execution, but the Kremlin has consistently refused to intervene, even as Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov publicly stated that homosexuals are “not people” who should be removed to “purify” […]

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Death Penalty For White Supremacist Killer Of Florida Gay Couple: “Homosexuals Are A Disease To Mankind”

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reports: Peter Avsenew, convicted of killing a Wilton Manors couple days before Christmas 2010 and stealing their car to escape to north Florida, who told a jury in January that he had no regrets and a judge in March that he had killed before and would again, has been sentenced to die. He is the first defendant in Broward to receive a death sentence since a new law was passed in 2017 requiring juries to be unanimous in finding an execution is warranted. It seemed to be the result Avsenew wanted — after his conviction last […]

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Supreme Court Rebuffs Catholic Agency Over Same-sex Foster Care

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to force the city of Philadelphia to resume the placement of children in need of foster care with a Catholic agency that refuses to accept gay couples as foster parents. In a decision that Catholic Social Services had said would force its foster care program to close, the justices refused the religious agency’s request for an injunction compelling the city to allow it to place children in foster homes while litigation over the dispute continues in lower courts. In the brief order that did not give any reasons for the decision, three conservative […]

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9-year-old Boy Commits Suicide after Coming Out to Classmates, Says Mother

Jamel Myles (Photo via Fox 32/Twitter) A 9-year-old boy from Denver, Co. was found dead after he was bullied by classmates for coming out as gay. Denver Police say the death is being investigated as a suicide. Leia Pierce found her son Jamel Myles unresponsive just four days after he told his fourth-grade classmates at Joe Shoemaker Elementary School he was gay. According to Fox 31, Jamel came out to his mother over the summer before the school year started. “And he looked so scared when he told me. He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay.’ And I thought he was playing, so I […]

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California Is The First State To Denounce ‘Corrective’ Surgery On Intersex Children

California’s legislature passed a historic resolution on Tuesday that affirms the rights of intersex people. The resolution, SCR-110, formally condemns unnecessary surgery on intersex babies that is often performed by doctors to “correct” the child’s genitals. The resolution defines intersex people as “individuals born with variations in their physical sex characteristics” and who “may present with differences in genital anatomy, internal reproductive structures, chromosomes, or hormonal variations.” The resolution was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) and co-sponsored by social justice organizations interACT and Equality California. “Our resolution (#SCR110) urging the medical profession to delay medically unnecessary genital surgeries […]

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Candidate Releases ‘Groundbreaking’ Political Ad About his Experiences of Homophobia

Rufus Gifford A Democratic candidate has released a raw political ad opening up about his experiences of homophobia. Rufus Gifford is one of ten Democrats seeking election to the US House of Representatives to represent the solidly-Democratic Massachusetts District 3. Ahead of the party primary on September 4, Gifford has released a “groundbreaking” ad, focused on his own struggles as a gay man.While many LGBT candidates are keen to not focus too much on their own identity, Gifford puts it front and centre. In the ad, he says: “Anyone who can look in the face of a gay kid who grew […]

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Lesbian Declared Married to her Partner of 50 Years, Who Died in May

(Bonnie Foerster/Facebook) A lesbian is now officially married to her longtime partner, who died months ago. Utah Judge Patrick Corum declared 74-year-old Bonnie Foerster legally wed to her “soulmate” and common law partner Beverly Grossaint, who died in May at the age of 82, just a few weeks after the couple celebrated their five-decade anniversary together. Foerster was crying tears of joy following the rare ruling on August 21. “I’m numb from happiness. I’m married,” she said, quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune. “I’m a married woman. I’ve waited 50 years,” she added.The couple met in New York in 1968, after Foerster […]

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