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“Of course we’re women,” the offending float’s sign said. “We sit down to pee.”

Maybe insulting a police officer’s sexual orientation isn’t a great idea when you’re being arrested.

It’s very easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom of being an LGBTQ person because we still have to fight for the rights and protection of our people every day. Let’s take a look at the other side for a moment.

A group of teens yelled “every kind of homophobic slur that you’ve ever heard” at the couple.

“I felt disgusted being treated like I didn’t even matter,” the man said.

“It’s horrible, I keep getting really upset about it,” the survivor’s father said. “These people need to be named and shamed.”

“He said we shouldn’t be holding hands,” John-Paul Kesseler remembered, before the attacker started beating him with a wine bottle.

The mayor has called the attack “disgusting” and police are asking for anyone to share information that will ensure the “appalling hate crime” doesn’t happen again.

The men were taken to the hospital after the attack while the culprits got away.

“I love you guys, I really do,” Jahmal Howlett-Mundle told his teammates. They showed him love back.

Andrew Dymock will go to prison for at least seven years, despite claiming that his bisexuality was in “direct contradiction” with the anti-LGBTQ allegations he was charged with.

The hate preacher rambled about how “the rectum was created for defecation, not penetration…” and two women got him to stop talking by kissing passionately.

My daughter and I at the start of our first parade for Pride in Macclesfield.

“I absolutely would not have gotten to where I am today without Jae,” Rayna Harvey said about her spouse throughout her transition.

Andrew Dymock told investigators that he can’t be part of an anti-LGBTQ extremist group because he himself is “bisexual, but lean[s] towards being homosexual.”

“As a school committed to stopping bullying and creating a safe environment, we no longer think that J.K. Rowling is a suitable representative, because of her recent words about the trans community.”

A Golden Arches franchise will help a gay night club qualify to reopen by serving their meals with the bar’s drinks.

“Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?” he asked sarcastically.

From feeling out of place in middle America to dealing with a hate crime – that could have been worse – across the pond, there are constant reminders that trans people are not welcomed everywhere.

The State Department’s handling of the case was needlessly cruel and furthered no compelling government interest, according to Immigration Equality.