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Life
The Obamas will produce an upcoming film about Bayard Rustin
The director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is attached to direct, and the writer of the Milk biopic is writing the screenplay.
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Politics
Biden administration reverses Trump official’s last minute attempt to limit LGBTQ rights
A Trump appointee told the Justice Department that it should “hesitate to apply” a landmark LGBTQ Supreme Court victory.
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Commentary
The LGBTQ community has fought for the right to exist. Now it’s time for us to fight for more.
In 2021, we have the opportunity as a community to stand up, in defense of others and ourselves, and decide what kind of society we will have.
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Bias Watch
A hate group employee is now leading diversity & inclusion efforts in the Department of Education
Weeks ago, Sarah Parshall Perry was defending J.K. Rowling on the Family Research Council podcasts. Now, Betsy DeVos has bought her aboard to oversee inclusivity within the DOE.
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News (USA)
Federal appeals court rules that anti-trans school bathroom policies are unconstitutional
Gavin Grimm just won another court victory against the Gloucester County School Board of Virginia and its transphobic student bathroom policy.
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News (USA)
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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LGBTQ History
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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News (USA)
Mike Pompeo just hinted that he considers LGBTQ civil rights ‘superfluous’
The U.S. Secretary of State said he considers some civil rights superfluous, comparing them to too many ice cream cones. Wait, what??
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News (USA)
Gavin Grimm’s former school board still insists its transphobic bathroom policy isn’t
The former school board seems determined to prove in a court of law that they’re legally allowed to force trans students to use a separate or incorrect bathroom.
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LGBTQ History
This black queer legal pioneer helped launch Ruth Bader Ginsburg onto the Supreme Court
Ginsburg named her as one of the co-authors in a career-defining legal brief, even though Pauli Murray had no hand in writing it.