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The FCC started a new 3-digit suicide hotline: 988
Every year over 1.8 million LGBTQ people consider suicide. Here’s how a new number can save their lives.
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Chick-fil-A donated another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups
Earlier this year they were caught giving money to anti-LGBTQ organizations. And new tax documents show even more donations.
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The Advocate & Out’s editors both resign amid financial troubles
Their departures follow months of lawsuits, two rounds of layoffs, and a bevy of unpaid freelancers. What will happen to these two historic publications?
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Lesbian who was hospitalized after conversion therapy found dead
A priest started “counseling” her in high school and told her not to tell her parents. Her parents found the scars on her arm years later.
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Mural of transgender icons vandalized with mustaches
It’s the largest mural in the world honoring transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
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YouTube changes its policy on anti-LGBTQ hate speech, but will it work?
“YouTube loves to manage PR crises by rolling out vague content policies they don’t actually enforce.”
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Blind transgender woman beaten by mob of teens as she got off a bus
She had to use pepper spray on the bus, but the gang followed her outside.
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Starbucks fired a trans manager after a cop complained on Facebook about her employee
A police officer complained about being called a “pig” at Starbucks. Now the trans manager is out of health care.
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Facebook under fire for refusing to remove ads that say PrEP is dangerous
PrEP is safe & effective for preventing HIV, and LGBTQ organizations say the ads at putting people’s lives at risk with misinformation.
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Inmate who murdered the trans woman he was forced to room with is sentenced to death
Correction officers removed Carmen Guerrero’s friendly bunkmate, and bought in one that promised to kill her if roomed with her. He followed through.
