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The numbers are in favor of LGBT rights.
Most Americans oppose restricting the rights of LGBTQ people, a new report from Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has found.
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Phoenix LGBT center to rise from the ashes with a $275,000 donation.
A Phoenix LGBT youth organization received a $275,000 donation to help build a new facility after a July 12 fire destroyed the center’s previous location. The one.n.ten youth center said Tuesday that the Bob and Renee Parsons Foundation made the donation to help complete construction on the new center, which will be located at the Parsons Center for Health and Wellness at Central Avenue and Portland Street.
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Gay fathers become activists for Aussie same-sex marriage.
It was a scene that plays out nearly every day in schoolyards across Australia: A couple, standing among a dozen other parents, waited for the final school bell to ring. On cue, Reid Duggan-Tierney, 7, came bounding out of school last Friday and ran toward Michael and Jarrad Duggan-Tierney — his fathers.
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The drag parties in 1933 that started Hollywood’s gay nightlife.
The lights over the Ship Cafe were still advertising the “Last Night of Jean Malin” when, on the morning of 10 August, 1933, the main attraction, his boyfriend Jimmy Forlenza and fellow actor Patsy Kelly piled into his car to head off to a party at the Hollywood Barn.
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Sharing LGBT history in Connecticut.
A piece of history will be on display this month, and organizers hope the money raised will help establish the state’s first historic site focused primarily on presenting LGBTQ history. Connecticut Landmarks will hold a fundraiser on the 50-acre Palmer-Warner property in East Haddam which was home to preservation architect Frederic Palmer and his partner Howard Metzger from 1945 – 1971.
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40 years for the LGBT Jewish synagogue.
Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, one of the United States’ oldest LGBT synagogues, kicks off the Jewish New Year with a celebration of its 40th anniversary next week. The congregation will be holding its High Holy Days services at the Herbst Theatre, and the public is welcome to attend, officials said.
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UN losing the first independent LGBT expert.
Vitit Muntarbhorn, an international law professor from Thailand and the first-ever United Nations (U.N.) Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, has resigned effective October 31. In a September 8 letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council, he regretfully cited illness and family obligations as the reasons for stepping down.