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Trans dispute prompts new gay faction to break with Stonewall.

Europe’s biggest LGBT rights organisation has split after being accused of promoting a “trans agenda” at the expense of gay and lesbian rights. Stonewall is known for campaigning for the equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people across Britain…

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Human rights comm’r calls homosexuality an “abomination”.

A member of the Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission is refusing to apologize for a series of Facebook posts in which he lamented the “promotion” of homosexuality and transgenderism, claiming it offensive to his religious beliefs. Brother LaKendrick Coburn El…

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Right-wing activist: ‘make homosexuality unthinkable again’.

Radical right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire served as the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Harrison County (Ohio) Republican Party last Thursday, before returning to his webcast the following morning to obsessively attack Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for being gay…

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The nations with the highest/lowest levels of LGBT acceptance.

An updated study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law ranked the world’s nations by levels of LGBT acceptance.  The current report updates and expands a previous Williams Institute report, “Polarized Progress: Social Acceptance of LGBT People in 141 Countries, 1981 to 2014.”…

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Politician in meltdown over a ‘queer’ running for president.

A Tennessee elected official drew applause Monday night during a homophobic rant lamenting “a queer running for president.” Sevier County Commissioner Warren Hurst recited a list of societal woes during a hearing on establishing the community as a “gun sanctuary,” according to…