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Election NewsTwitter blew up on Pete Buttigieg for criticizing Barack Obama… in a fake quote
The journalist who misquoted Buttigieg has already apologized, but the hatred the fake quote generated is breath-taking.
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LifeEllen is going to get the Carol Burnett Award at the Golden Globes
The award will honor Ellen for her lifetime of contributions to television, on- and off-screen.
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Election NewsMondaire Jones could be America’s first gay black member of Congress
He grew up in poverty – now he wants to pull people up.
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News (USA)A federal judge has overturned Obamacare’s transgender protections
Judge O’Connor was appointed to the federal bench by former president George W. Bush, who was in the news last week for his friendship with daytime talk show host Ellen Degeneres.
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News (World)Trump administration denounces Uganda’s new ‘Kill the Gays’ bill
But they stopped short of promising sanctions if the bill becomes law.
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LGBTQ HistoryFrank Kameny devoted his life to fighting for gay rights. He lived to see the end of DADT.
Kameny replaced “Homosexuality is unfortunate” with “Gay is good” long before many LGBTQ historic figures were even out.
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News (USA)The Trump administration told a town to remove its rainbow crosswalks. The town said no.
The Trump administration said that the crosswalk could encourage pedestrians to loiter.
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PoliticsThe Trump administration told the Supreme Court that trans discrimination should be legal
Their argument is that trans women aren’t really women. The 54-page brief is just a riff on that.
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News (USA)Philadelphia fires 13 cops for posting anti-LGBTQ & racist comments online
Officers were using the word “f–got” on social media and saying transgender women should get raped. The Fraternal Order of Police says they are “disappointed officers will be fired without due process.”
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News (World)The Philippines’ president says he’s ex-gay: ‘I became a man again’
This is the third time this year that he has made the same claim.
