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News (USA)
Ted Cruz hit with a White Claw can at Houston Astros parade as crowd boos him
The incident follows the anti-LGBTQ senator getting booed at Yankee Stadium last month.
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News (USA)
Armed fascists protesting church’s drag queen bingo fundraiser meet resistance
Protesters on both sides of the demonstration, which lasted for hours into the early evening, carried guns.
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News (USA)
Man who allegedly beat, stomped & called trans woman a “demon” arrested
Houston police arrested Salih Alhemoud following a separate assault.
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News (USA)
Hamburger Mary’s supporters played ABBA songs to drown out neo-Nazi protestors
The Nazi protestors called LGBTQ people “fa***ts” and said that drag queens shouldn’t be allowed near children.
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News (USA)
Biden appoints two out advocates to help provide employment for people with disabilities
Two experienced leaders in the LGBTQ and disabled communities will now serve on “one of the nation’s largest” agencies for employment of people with disabilities.
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News (USA)
A trans woman sitting outside is gunned down in the open. A murder suspect is on the loose.
Iris Santos’ family is “requesting the community’s help with identifying the suspect” who apparently targeted and shot her while she sat at a table outside.
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News (USA)
Gay & lesbian former employees say standing up for a trans woman cost them their jobs
Multiple lawsuits allege that a Houston bakery discriminated against the dismissed employees.
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News (USA)
Is your home state LGBTQ friendly? See how your state measures up.
A lot of people may assume their state is friendly, but in reality, 25 states — half of the 50 United States — are rated in the lowest category.
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News (USA)
Asia Jynaé Foster, a trans woman, was murdered on the Transgender Day of Remembrance
“Asia was outgoing, funny, and she could put together a read that left everyone around her scrambling to pick up their jaws.”
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Commentary
The GOP has only one tool left to hang onto power. It’s voter suppression.
Republicans have given up trying to win over voters. Instead, they are trying to make it as hard as possible for minority & urban voters — including LGBTQ voters — to cast their ballots.
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Bias Watch
Two Texas LGBT Facebook groups are sharing Islamophobic & anti-Black Lives Matter posts
The groups accuse BLM of “planning to burn our church down & end Christianity.”
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Life
Is ‘Closet Station’ closing up? A look at a college’s newly found tolerance
10 years ago, Texas A&M was one of the pinnacle anti-LGBTQ universities in the country. A decade later, some of the changes described by the students will surprise you.
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News (USA)
Teaching assistant accused of sexually abusing student to turn him straight
The 51-year-old woman met the student at school – and they attended the same church.
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News (USA)
Itali Marlowe was shot to death last month. Her roommate is a suspect.
Police in Houston are trying to find the person who shot the black transgender woman.
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Mayor Pete ‘made history’ by talking about his coming out at the Democratic debate
“I was not interested in not knowing what it was like to be in love any longer.”
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News (USA)
Houston’s city hall was lit up with trans flag colors in memory of Tracy Single
She is the 16th known transgender person murdered this year.
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News (USA)
Customer called ‘fat’ & ‘gay’ on a restaurant receipt. Owner says it wasn’t ‘personal.’
One of the owners made the excuse that “it was just the server’s way of identifying the customer.”
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News (USA)
A man shot this gay man to death & then bragged about it online
Prosecutors say that the alleged killer “hated homosexuals” and bragged about robbing & shooting a gay man.
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News (USA)
Houston drag queen story time organizers quit after death threats from Loving Christians™
“People are being threatened. People are being hurt. We believe in what we’re doing, but we don’t believe in putting our friends, our families, or our children in danger.”
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News (USA)
Did Ellen forgive Chris Pratt for attending an anti-LGBTQ church?
Ellen Page criticized him for attending a homophobic church last week; now Ellen is tweeting support for him.