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Nation mourns out mayor after he dies by suicide
“I’m just as human as everybody else in the city,” the late Kevin Ward once said in an interview.
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Black trans woman who is a “beloved community member” is shot to death
Nikai David just turned 33 years old before her life was cut short last week. She’s at least the 50th trans or gender non-conforming victim to violence in 2021.
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There are only 5 Black trans elected officials across the entire United States
Trans people are underrepresented in elected office, and even fewer are people of color. Candidates and advocates say that campaign finance and economic disparities are major factors.
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Police groups are banned from participating in New York City Pride “effective immediately”
NYC Pride organizers will drop official NYPD security & not welcome police groups until 2025. LGBTQ law enforcement groups called their decision “shameful” and invoked Stonewall in their defense.
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Gay teen’s family sues the school where he was relentlessly bullied before he died
The Black gay teen was only 15 years old when he took his own life.
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A suspicious death investigation ensues after a Black trans woman’s body is found in canal
Police and local media have intentionally deadnamed Aidelen Evans, with an investigator commenting that there are a “multitude of reasons why.”
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Advocates warn Senators: Gorsuch poses a ‘significant threat’ to our community
“His views are fundamentally at odds with the notion that LGBT people are entitled to equality, liberty, justice and dignity under the law,” say LGBTQ advocates.
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Human rights groups urge public officials not to attend ‘Values Voter Summit’
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend this week’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust.