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Eight year old dressed as Hillary for Halloween targeted with homophobic abuse
An eight year-old boy dressed as Hillary Clinton for Halloween and one of his moms shared it on Twitter. Antigay trolls attacked when it went viral, but love trumps hate.
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Desperate Trump supporters call for repeal of women’s right to vote
After FiveThirtyEight tweeted an electoral maps showing Trump would win if only men could vote, some of his deplorables want to push the clock back to 1919.
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Mike Pence’s ‘Mexican Thing’ and ‘Drop to my knees’ lines win debate
Social media had a field day with Mike Pence’s two most memorable, dirty sounding lines of the night.
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English football punishes player who tweeted that gays should ‘burn’ and ‘die’
Andre Gray was suspended for four matches for social media comments he made four years ago.
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‘Nightline’ host to gay editor Milo Yiannopoulos: ‘You’re an idiot’
“Milo Yiannopoulos represents the tip of the iceberg in a rising tide of hate and abuse in social media,” the “Nightline” host said, “one he clearly sees as a noble purpose.”
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Openly gay ‘Steven Universe’ staffer hounded by fans, quits Twitter
The storyboard artist felt she had no choice but to delete her Twitter account after fans starting hounding her.
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Bette Midler apologizes, sort of, for transphobic Caitlyn Jenner tweet
Bette Midler has since deleted her tweet, which read: “Now that @IAmCait has been cancelled, will she go back to being Bruce? Will Kris take him back? Do I smell a re-wedding?!”
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Christian group says ‘turning gay’ didn’t help Olympic diver Tom Daley
The group also attempted to cast doubt on the fact that Daley is truly gay, blaming the seduction of “older man” Dustin Lance Bass.
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Blake Shelton apologizes for old sexist, racist, anti-gay tweets
The tweets maligned gay people, made light of rape, and suggested that people speaking other languages are terrorists.
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Staying high in the days of going low: Lessons from Michelle Obama
When verbal abuse becomes part and parcel of the everyday parlance, we have created a society characterized by zero tolerance of inclusion and diversity.