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News (USA)
Joe Biden appoints out gay man to lead the White House’s personnel office
LGBTQ leaders and advocates are cheering the news of Gautam Raghavan’s new appointment as the head of hiring within the White House.
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News (World)
Activists & civilians mourn after trans soldier banned from military is discovered dead
Sgt. Byun suddenly passed just over a year after her discharge from the South Korea’s military, which earned the country scrutiny from the United Nations and LGBTQ activists.
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Politics
Pete Buttigieg wants UN ambassador job but Hillary Clinton may nab it instead
The Washington rumor mill has both former presidential candidates in the running for the major diplomatic position in the Biden administration.
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Politics
Why Mayor Pete is the right choice to be Joe Biden’s UN ambassador
With America’s relations with the international community at the lowest point in modern history, it’s time for Pete Buttigieg.
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Politics
Pompeo plans to use the UN General Assembly to promote his anti-LGBTQ agenda to the world
The report calls same-sex marriage a “divisive” controversy and claims that religious freedoms are the most important while completely ignoring LGBTQ rights otherwise.
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Health and Wellness
UN says forcing intersex athletes into medical interventions violates human rights
Some sports organizations require cisgender, intersex athletes to take hormone-altering drugs to compete.
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News (USA)
Trump invites pastor who called homosexuality an “epidemic” to UN panel on overturning sodomy laws
Johnnie Moore opposes LGBTQ equality in the U.S., but he represented the Trump administration’s effort to decriminalize homosexuality abroad.
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Life
Cyndi Lauper is going to win an U.N. award for her LGBTQ advocacy
Lauper will be the first person to be honored with the award.
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Politics
Donald Trump says he stands ‘in solidarity with LGBTQ people’ (as long as they’re not American)
His “solidarity” doesn’t extend far enough to give LGBTQ asylum seekers visas or allow U.S. embassies to fly rainbow flags.
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News (World)
Brunei government defends gay stoning law as a way to ‘nurture’ their citizens
If the rest of the world was more tolerant of their intolerance, diversity would be somehow stronger, they say.