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Month: December 2017
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Transgender rights lead NPR’s top LGBTQ stories of 2017.
As gay, lesbian and transgender activists around the United States felt a renewed sense of urgency under a new administration, 2017 cast a definitive spotlight on transgender rights. Earlier this year, President Trump proposed a ban of trans service members in the military, and his administration rescinded Obama-era guidelines on the rights of transgender students under Title IX. Read the full article HERE.
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Professional wrestler comes out as gay and says he tried ‘conversion’ therapy.
A professional wrestler has come out as gay and said he tried to ‘cure’ his homosexuality. Mike Parrow, a 34-year-old wrestler from Orlando, Florida came out as gay in a new interview. He tells Gay Star News: “I’ve always known I’m gay… That was never a question in my mind.” Read the full article HERE.
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Bashing gays is a bad political strategy.
As the 2018 election campaign is set to begin in earnest, a leading gay-rights advocacy group has some advice for Pennsylvania office-seekers: Don’t think you can win by running roughshod over LGBT citizens. “Likely voters across Pennsylvania overwhelmingly support LGBTQ-inclusive policies and are less likely to vote for a candidate who does not,” says a Dec. 29 release of polling data compiled for the Human Rights Campaign. Read the full article HERE.
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2017 Was a Bad Year for Egypt’s LGBT Community. 2018 Could Be Even Worse.
Homosexuality is not technically illegal in Egypt. But Egyptian authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community, its supporters, and advocates for social liberalization more broadly. In September, the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila played a concert to an audience of 30,000 in Cairo, led by openly-gay singer Hamed Sinno… Read the full article HERE.
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Chechnya’s first openly gay man forced to apologise on national TV.
The first man to publicly come out as gay in Chechnya has revealed he was publicly shamed and forced to take back his comments. Mover Eskarkhanov received death threats and was forced to apologise on national television after he told Time magazine that he was gay. Read the full article HERE.
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