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Trump Renews Pledge in State of the Union to Beat HIV/AIDS

n a speech touting economic growth and promising “the best has yet to come,” President Trump in the State of the Union address Tuesday renewed his pledge to beat HIV by 2030. Trump made a call to beat HIV/AIDS to cheers from lawmakers in the joint session of Congress during a portion of speech dedicated to health initiatives under his administration. “We have launched ambitious new initiatives to substantially improve care for Americans with kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and those struggling with mental health,” Trump said. “And because Congress was so good as to fund my request, new cures for childhood cancer, […]

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Every Single UK Venue Has now Dropped Hate Preacher Franklin Graham

Every single UK venue booked by anti-LGBT preacher Franklin Graham has now ditched his events, after an outcry from activists. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. However, every single venue booked for the eight-date tour has now cancelled, after being made aware of his extreme anti-LGBT views. Last UK venue drops Franklin Graham The Utilita Arena in Newcastle was the final venue to announce it had axed the preacher, following […]

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Gay Lawyer Claims He was Fired after Leaking Anti-trans Trump Administration Emails

A gay lawyer has said he was fired from the US Department of Education (DoE) because he acted as a whistleblower and leaked anti-trans Trump administration emails. Dwayne Bensing was a lawyer for the Office of Civil Rights within the DoE and had worked for the federal government for more than five years. In the summer of 2019, the SPLC-designated anti-LGBT+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a complaint with the DoE. The group alleged that a Connecticut policy which allowed trans student athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender was unfair, and that it discriminated against cisgender women. […]

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New York State Park to be Renamed after Trans Pioneer Marsha P Johnson

A New York state park will be renamed to honour the trans activist Marsha P Johnson, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said. Cuomo announced that East River State Park in Brooklyn would be renamed at the Human Rights Campaign greater New York gala on Saturday February 1. Johnson, a black trans woman who worked as a sex worker, is most well-known for her involvement in the 1969 Stonewall uprising, often seen as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. She was also a trans rights pioneer, and in 1970 she founded “Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries” otherwise known as “STAR”, with […]

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Ten Men Behind Bars to await ‘Judgement’ for a Secret Gay Wedding in Mauritania

Ten men have been jailed in Mauritania after a video emerged of a gay couple appearing to take part in a traditional wedding ceremony. Homosexuality is illegal in the North African country of Mauritania and punishable by death under Sharia law, although there are no known cases of executions in the past decade. The arrest of the ten men marks a rare enforcement of the Islamic law, and if convicted they could face the death penalty by stoning. They were detained by police after a video of the ceremony surfaced on social media. It soon began circulating in local news and […]

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NYPD Charges Man In Gay Dating App Murder

The New York Daily News reports: The babyfaced killer from Oklahoma who murdered an Upper East Side man 40 years his senior — after meeting him on a dating app — used a knife or a sharp ceramic object to mutilate his victim’s head, a Manhattan prosecutor alleged at his arraignment early Saturday. The suspect, 24-year-old Alex Scott, had met 64-year-old Kenneth Savinski on Wednesday, the same day he allegedly killed him in a “vicious, ferocious, crime scene attack,” Assistant District Attorney Shira Arnow said. Inside the apartment, Scott attacked Savinski, stabbing him in the face and neck, severing his carotid artery […]

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GLAAD Extols LGBTQ Ads, Trolls One Million Moms on Eve of Super Bowl

With the news that this weekend’s live broadcast of Super Bowl LIV will feature at least eightLGBTQ-inclusive ads, it’s fitting to pause and take a moment to appreciate how far we’ve come in the struggle for LGBTQ acceptance – even if it’s only to remind ourselves that, no matter how disheartening the political tides may be, there is still reason to hope that support for the community continues to grow within the culture at large. On Friday, GLAAD issued a statement marking what they called “an unprecedented level of LGBTQ inclusion” scheduled for Sunday’s FOX airing of the NFL championship game, […]

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Elizabeth Warren Would Ask a Nine-year-old Trans Kid to Help Pick her Education Secretary

Elizabeth Warren has vowed to get help from a nine-year-old transgender boy in picking her secretary of education. The Democratic presidential hopeful told supporters in Iowa that she would ask Jacob, a nine-year-old transgender boy who she met at an LGBT+ event, to vet her picks for the cabinet role. Elizabeth Warren: Trans kid will sign off on education secretary pick Speaking at an event in Cedar Rapids this week, she said: “For my secretary of education, number one it has to be someone who has taught in a public school. “Number two, a young trans person asked [me] about […]

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Two More UK Arenas Cancel Hate Preacher Franklin Graham’s Events

Two further venues have cancelled rallies by US hate preacher Franklin Graham, as a backlash grows to his planned UK tour. The Trump-supporting preacher, who is known for praising Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws and blaming gay people for a “moral 9/11”, is set to visit the UK at the start of Pride Month in June as part of an evangelist tour. Venues hosting the tour have faced complaints from LGBT+ activists – with a Liverpool conference venue dropping him on Monday. Following the pressure, two further venues have followed suit. Franklin Graham dropped by Sheffield and Glasgow venues Glasgow’s SEC Arena confirmed on Wednesday […]

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Neighbors Turn a Trans Woman’s House into a Rainbow after Transphobes Kill her Cat

For years, a trans woman had been quietly dealing with the abuse a neighbour pelted her with, until the person killed and cut her cat in half. All for hoisting an Pride flag outside her house. Angelina Bouros, based in New York, US, discovered her cat Rambo’s body ditched behind her shed. An incident that was the boiling point of unrelenting harassment that stretched back to 2017. Transphobic neighbour cut woman’s cat in half because she had a Pride flag.  But after sharing the incident on Twitter, Rosendale locals pulled together to support her by transforming her house with the colours […]

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