Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill: North Carolina Governor Doubles Down
(Anti-LGBTQ North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory) Republican leadership in North Carolina can’t take a hint. After sparking a massive controversy earlier this year with the so called “bathroom bill” designed to marginalize trans people, the Tar Heel State’s Governor Pat McCrory is lashing out again…
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Gays Against Guns: LGBTQ Activists Take a Stand Against Gun Violence
A group of LGBTQ activists are taking a stand against gun violence, with hundreds participating in direct actions against gun companies and their allies around the country. Gays Against Guns (GAG) formed following the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando this past June, in…
Read MoreOrlando Shooting: ‘Angels’ Block Westboro Bigots
(“Angels” arrive on the scene to help block Westboro Baptist Church members from funerals for Orlando shooting victims) The Westboro Baptist Church – a fringe, virulently bigoted and homophobic congregation based in Kansas – has made headlines throughout the years, picketing national tragedies in efforts to…
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Congress Could Have Prevented Orlando Shooting
(The gunman who killed 50 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando used an AR-15 assault rifle, a military-grade weapon that the NRA wishes to keep legal for everyone to purchase) The public’s response to the tragic Orlando shooting on Sunday has largely been hopeful…
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Orlando Shooting: Help Victims of Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Last night, a lone gunman committed the single largest mass shooting in the history of the United States, targeting the LGBTQ community in Orlando, Florida. At least 50 people were killed and more than 50 hospitalized when a man open fired at Pulse nightclub using…
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Trey Pearson, Christian Rock Star, Comes Out
Trey Pearson – lead singer of the popular Christian rock band Everyday Sunday – made waves this month, advancing visibility of the LGBTQ community in a social sphere long-considered hostile to non-heteronormative lifestyles. In a thoughtfully penned and emotionally riveting open letter, Pearson came out…
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6 Artist Reactions to the N.C. Bathroom Bill
(Bruce Springsteen cancelled a North Carolina performance in protest of the discriminatory HB2, also known as the bathroom bill) Since North Carolina passed HB2 – legislation colloquially known as the bathroom bill that prohibits transgender individuals from using restrooms that correspond to their gender -there has been…
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Germany Poised to Annul Convictions of Gay Men
(Participants in Cologne’s 2014 Gay Pride March) The Federal Republic of Germany took a positive step toward atonement this week, as the government announced that it would annul convictions of homosexuality left over from a now repealed law known as Paragraph 175. The annulments will…
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