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Activists brutally attacked by Donald Trump supporters in New York City
The men are said to have chanted, “Trump, Trump, Trump!” and “Blue Live Matter” before launching a physical attack.
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This friend of our enemy is our enemy: meet a trans woman men’s rights activist
Right-wing blogger Theryn Meyer claims it is only conservatives who can guarantee “you the freedom to be who you are.”
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Navigating gay club life as a blind man
“We negotiate life differently,” says 35-year-old Belo Cipirani.
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Banned: TV in Indonesia can no longer portray drag queens or ‘effeminate’ men
“Airing this content thus can encourage children to learn and/or justify inappropriate behavior.”
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Guess what these LGBT protesters chanted at an antigay Christian conference?
They targeted Pastor Rick Warren’s meetup for hosting guests hostile to gays and Muslims.
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Playwright, activist Larry Kramer turns 80 but ‘the fight’s never over’
Larry Kramer continues to rage. The playwright and activist turns 80 on Thursday and neither recent illness nor the glow of a new marriage has softened the urgency of his demands.
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How a sheltered housewife became the foremost in-your-face challenger of Christian homophobia
A modern day pro-LGBT Joan of Arc, Kathy Baldock’s advocacy is not from behind a computer screen, but face-to-face interaction with the most rabid anti-gay ministers in the U.S. evangelical movement.
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Author and transgender activist Leslie Feinberg is dead at 65
Leslie Feinberg, the author best known for the 1993 novel “Stone Butch Blues,” died Saturday at home in Syracuse, N.Y., of “complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections,” according to Feinberg’s partner and spouse, Minnie Bruce Pratt, a poet and professor at Syracuse University. Feinberg was 65.
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Jamaican activist ends legal challenge to anti-sodomy law amid fears for his safety
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican gay rights activist who brought a legal challenge to the Caribbean island’s anti-sodomy law says he has withdrawn the case after growing fearful about his safety. Last year, Javed Jaghai made headlines after initiating a constitutional court challenge to Jamaica’s 1864 law that bans sex between men.
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Longtime AIDS activist takes up a new fight: defending the FDA
WASHINGTON — As an AIDS activist in the early 1990s, Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington to challenge the Food and Drug Administration. Gonsalves was part of the confrontational group Act Up, which staged protests outside the FDA’s headquarters, disrupted its public meetings and pressured its leaders into speeding up the approval of experimental drugs for patients …