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Iowa Republicans give up on removing transgender people from state’s civil rights protections
A Republican leader announced that he was killing the proposed bill that would have paved the way for Iowa to stop providing protections and medical care to trans people.
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Pete Buttigieg has issues with people of color — on his own staff
While the out mayor’s been courting Black and Hispanic voters, a new report says people of color in his own campaign are struggling to be heard.
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South Korea discharged its first transgender soldier. She’s planning to sue.
South Korea determined that being transgender is a “mental or physical” handicap in pushing for an immediate discharge for its first trans soldier.
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Don’t leave out the Q: study concludes the term queer is a ‘distinct’ sexuality
The term still offends many people, but research reflects that people are using it to define their sexuality – and this study lends credence to it.
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This conservative lawmaker’s sister pleads for him to drop proposed hormone blocker ban
Utah Rep. Brad Daw was asked by a PAC to ban hormone therapy for trans youth. His sister, married to a trans man with a trans child, writes that he needs to be ‘educated’ first.
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Husband of Miss Trans America founder sentenced to life for her murder
Before her murder, activist Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien had “almost single-handedly created the community” for trans people in the Northeast U.S.
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Is this Catholic NFL owner trying to bury stories of child sexual abuse?
New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson has deep ties to the Catholic Church, and a lawsuit alleges her team is assisting them in cleaning up their image after child abuse allegations.
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Bayard Rustin was convicted for having sex with a man. Lawmakers want to finally address it.
Advocates in California want an official pardon as “an affirmation of what Rustin knew all along: that he was not a criminal for being gay.”
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Apple TV show retelling true story of gay refugee blacklisted across Middle East, Russia
Little America’s episode ‘The Son’ is focused on a gay Syrian immigrant. Now it’s being banned in 11 countries, and one of its actors can’t enter the United States.
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Joe Rogan may cost Bernie Sanders more support than ever
An examination of Joe Rogan’s extensive history of bigoted remarks may be most damaging to Sanders’ campaign – which has already associated itself with multiple anti-LGBTQ people.