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News (USA)Politician claims school’s rainbow flag sticker is a sign of the “collapse of humanity”
Students and parents slammed him at a board meeting: “My daughter did not choose to be gay.”
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News (USA)Virginia bans conversion therapy for minors. It’s the first southern state to do it.
40% of U.S. states now ban the pseudoscientific torture, but anti-LGBTQ forces are trying to have them overturned in the courts.
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LGBTQ HistoryVirginia passed a statute governing trans birth certificates in 1979. It wasn’t controversial then.
Virginia protected trans people in the 70s without any political opposition. The Old Dominion state is coming full circle.
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News (USA)Virginia Democrats walk out as GOP-invited pastor denigrates gay people on House floor
A man who was with the pastor asked reporters if they knew that the Bible called for the death penalty as punishment for “sodomy.”
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Bias WatchChristian pundit says that Trump is “just too much of a man” for LGBTQ people
The left hates Donald Trump because he’s just too manly, while Barack Obama was “light in the loafers.”
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News (USA)Virginia to become the first Southern state with LGBTQ civil rights protections
The state is working on a lot of LGBTQ legislation following Democratic wins last fall.
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News (USA)Virginia advances LGBTQ rights as Republicans call for secession
Virginia just passed a slate of LGBTQ bill, while Jerry Falwell Jr. wants conservative counties to secede and join West Virginia because the state is getting too progressive.
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CommentaryPeople think we’re a couple now & other ways LGBTQ travel has changed in 3 decades
Once in rural South Dakota, we found ourselves trailed by men in a pickup truck who yelled out “Hey, f****ts!” Now a Delta in-flight ad features a gay couple with a kid.
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News (USA)Virginia lawmakers pass multiple landmark LGBTQ rights bills that are likely to become law
While Republicans had killed pro-LGBTQ legislation for years, with Democrats in control of all the levers of power, the bills sailed through the state senate with bipartisan support.
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PoliticsDanica Roem has an agenda. She’s going to fix the roads & advance equality.
“The people voted for action. They didn’t vote for platitudes. They didn’t vote to be nice.”
