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California students walk out en masse in protest of school board’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies
The school board’s latest attack was to ban Pride flags, which one parent said represented “the devil.”
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Nicole Watson started a youth support group after her son came out as trans
The Hometown Hero and prison worker started a support group for LGBTQ+ youth that provides mental health assistance and other services.
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Portia Cantrell is connecting LGBTQ+ elders with younger people
The Hometown Hero wants you to know: “One day everyone is going to be older and will realize the resources I’m fighting for are important.”
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Lee Lawson is honoring elder LGBTQ+ veterans after fighting for gay rights for decades
The Hometown Hero put it simply: “I like to help people.”
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Rightwingers tried to stir outrage over trans teen winning homecoming queen. They failed miserably.
Angry parents were left sputtering as students rallied in support of the trans teen.
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Accidental activist Willow Kawamoto helps people struggling to be their authentic selves
The Hometown Hero said that she sees her “face in every single one of them struggling to try and be their authentic selves.”
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John Waters gets Walk of Fame star, declares he’s “closer to the gutter than ever”
“I’m so respectable I could puke,” the cult director said of his Hollywood moment.
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Pageant teen Reese Johnson is providing resources for LGBTQ+ people in Southeast Michigan
The LGBTQ Nation Hometown Hero is bringing Pride to her small town.
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Candace Owens suspended from YouTube over hateful anti-LGBTQ+ content
She claimed that trauma and social contagion cause homosexuality. Now her colleagues are surprised she got booted from YouTube.
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Viktor Veltstra provides closure by identifying queer & trans violent crime victims
The LGBTQ Nation Hometown Hero works hard to identify victims so that “nobody is forgotten.”