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More than one thousand rally in Tel Aviv to protest recent anti-LGBT violence
TEL AVIV — More than a thousand people marched in the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday to protest against transphobia and anti-LGBT violence in Israel.
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Arrests spread across Nigeria, unleashed by wide-ranging new anti-gay law
LAGOS, Nigeria — Arrests have spread across Nigeria as dozens more people perceived to be gay have been rounded up and questioned, activists said Friday, describing another wave of police attention unleashed by a wide-ranging new anti-gay law.
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Okla. Rep. Sally Kern: ‘Homosexuality is not a civil right, it’s a human wrong’
Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern, who once called homosexuality “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam,” decried a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Utah man who went on hunger strike says fighting homosexual movement is ‘mission in life’
Trestin Meacham, the Utah man who went on a two-week hunger strike until the state stopped allowing same-sex couples to marry, now says that his “purpose in life is to stand against the homosexual movement.”
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Gay prisoner in Mexico blinded following attack by cellmate who gouged his eyes
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — A gay prisoner in Mexico remains hospitalized and recovering from injuries after his cellmate gouged out his eyes.
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Former St. Louis cop charged with felony harassment of LGBT couple
SAINT LOUIS — A one-time St. Louis police officer has been charged with a felony count of “harassment motivated by discrimination to frighten or disturb another person” stemming from an incident last month in which he allegedly harassed and intimidated an LGBT couple.
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Scotland school chaplain sacked for saying gay is a ‘perversion,’ ‘disorder’
GLASGOW, Scotland — A Church of Scotland chaplain has been sacked from a Glasgow school after describing being gay as a “perversion” and “disorder” during a discussion about marriage equality.
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Chris Kluwe: ‘I was an NFL player until I was fired by two cowards and a bigot’
MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota punter Chris Kluwe says his special teams coordinator made anti-gay comments while Kluwe was with the Vikings, an allegation the coach “vehemently denies.”
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The ugly collusion between ‘religious faith’ and bigotry
There is an ugly collusion between religious belief and bigotry which we don’t talk about, and it didn’t begin with the LGBT community. It wasn’t that long ago when religious belief and faith was used to justify slavery, segregation, and anti-Semitism. Sadly, the LGBT community seems to be the last bastion where it is okay to justify demonizing people under the guise of “adhering to one’s faith.” … Folks who do these things always seem to think that they own the word “Christianity” and everyone else is beholden to their interpretation.
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The year in homophobia: Ten of the worst anti-LGBT stories of 2013
By all accounts, 2013 was a banner year for the gay rights movement: The Supreme Court struck down the worst part of the Defense of Marriage Act, nine new states legalized marriage equality, polls showed Americans backing gay rights in ever-growing numbers, anti-gay crusader Ken Cuccinelli was defeated in his bid to become Virginia’s governor, the Boy Scouts loosened their discriminatory policies, and the “ex-gay” movement began to self-destruct.