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High school senior class surprises this lesbian couple by electing them as prom king & queen
They became the first queer couple to receive the honor within the school district. Some parents tried to take away from their moment, with one even bringing up their genitalia at a board meeting.
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Mike Pence, Republicans, conservative Christianity, and conversion therapy
Pence and other political “leaders” who support these draconian measures should talk to people who have been impacted the most.
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This award-winning video about a transgender girl will warm your heart
“I felt like somebody came with a key and opened the cage and said you’re free to go.”
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Remembering Leelah Alcorn by picking up trash
An Ohio man needs help to preserve the memory of the transgender teen whose suicide note pleaded “Fix society, please.”
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Transgender teen’s suicide continues to draw attention — one year later
17-year-old Leelah Alcorn urged people on social media to “fix society” before stepping in front of a tractor trailer in southwest Ohio.
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Officials close investigation in trans teen’s suicide, refer to her as ‘Mr. Alcorn’ in final report
The death of a troubled transgender teenager who begged people to fix society has been deemed a suicide.
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Transgender teen cites family bullying in suicide note: #HisNameWasZander
Another transgender teen has taken his own life, leaving behind a suicide note describing sexual trauma and alleged bullying by family members.
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Transgender teen Leelah Alcorn’s death stirs action in U.S. and beyond
Although many details about her life and death are still unclear, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, has become, within days of her death Dec. 28, the face of a growing movement of people hungering for acceptance.
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Hundreds gather in D.C. to speak out on transgender issues following teen’s death
More than 300 people gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday raise awareness of issues facing transgender individuals and to honor a 17-year-old transgender teen who took her own life last month.
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Laverne Cox responds to the death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn
Guest hosting on ABC’s “The View” on Thursday, transgender actress Laverne Cox responds to the death of Leelah Alcorn, a 17-year-old transgender teen who died by suicide just days after Christmas.
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Sara Gilbert: ‘It’s more important to let go of the idea that you have a son, than to lose your child’
On Dec. 29, Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen from Ohio, stepped into the path of an oncoming semi truck on a interstate highway. Today, “The Talk” discusses transgender teen suicide.
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Cincinnati official speaks out for LGBT youth after transgender teen’s death
Cincinnati’s first openly gay councilman has used a council speech to offer support to youth who are struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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A gay dad’s requiem for Leelah Alcorn, the Matthew Shepard of our time
Matthew Shepard’s murder left and indelible impression that has become part of our collective culture to this day. This week, another tragedy, another life destroyed, left a similar impression — the death of Leelah Alcorn.
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Parents of transgender teen who committed suicide: ‘We loved our son’
The parents of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who identified as female and who committed suicide on Sunday, are speaking out, and in statements ignoring Leelah’s gender identity, say they loved their “son.”
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Uninformed religious leaders are guilty of causing Leelah Alcorn’s pain, desperation, rejection, and death
I place culpability and thus, guilt, on Christian and conservative leaders who, over the past four decades, have constructed an extreme intensity of cultural and religious discrimination against the LGBT community.
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Transgender teen struck and killed on Ohio interstate in apparent suicide
A previously written suicide note later appeared on the teen’s Tumblr blog through scheduled publishing in which Leelah Alcorn describes the pain of being “a girl trapped in a boy’s body” and her Christian parents’ refusal to allow her to transition.