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Ron DeSantis is furious Disney challenged him on ‘Don’t Say Gay’

In an appearance on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis continued his week-long diatribe against the Walt Disney Company for its opposition to the anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Parental Rights in Education bill’ the governor signed into law earlier…

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Concern when LGBT books were purged from Target.com

On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books—many of them by debut authors—were inexplicably missing from Target’s website, despite a number of the titles having previously been listed for pre-order. Brian D. Kennedy…

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Seattle Pride dumps Amazon over anti-LGBT political donations

Amazon will not be a part of this year’s Seattle Pride, after the organization cut ties with the retailer over its donations to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians. Seattle Pride released a statement explaining that it would no longer be partnering with organizations…

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Here’s what happened at the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Disney walkout

Yesterday, Disney employees walked out en masse to protest the company’s funding and support of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Protestors flooded the company’s animation headquarters in Burbank, taking to the streets and getting loud in order to be heard…

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Amazon is still selling a harmful DIY conversion therapy book

Last year gender nonbinary YouTuber Caelan Conrad created a Facebook account for “Carol Marinara” and joined numerous “Gender Critical” or Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) groups on the site. What they found was essentially a cult that expresses hatred of…

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Drug companies shut off Botox & Cialis shipments to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is finding himself in a hard spot after several major drug companies announced they would stop delivering non-essential medications like Botox and Cialis to Russia. The country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has led to sanctions from…