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Month: January 2018
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Tens of thousands of American LGBT kids are subjected to ‘conversion therapy’ before they hit 18.
An estimated 20,000 LGBT children in the US are subjected to conversion therapy from a licensed health care professional before they turn 18, claims new research. Conversion therapy is an effort to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity and is grounded in the belief that being lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or trans-gendered is abnormal.
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Is the reported spike in anti-LGBT homicides fake news?
LGBT media outlets are implying the Trump administration is responsible for reports that the LGBT homicide rate doubled from 2016 to 2017. The media reports are citing an 86 percent increase in homicides, indicating a disturbing and sudden rise in violence. The details are laid out in a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs titled…
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Efforts to help LGBT Puerto Ricans after Maria ‘being forgotten’.
An activist from Puerto Rico who attended the National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual Creating Change conference in D.C. on Saturday said efforts to help the island’s LGBT community after Hurricane Maria are “being forgotten.” “The LGBT work being done in Puerto Rico is being forgotten,” said Wilfred Labiosa, co-founder of Waves Ahead, a group that provides assistance to LGBT Puerto Ricans and other marginalized groups.
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Government okays LGBT festival in Myanmar, where homosexuality is still a crime.
The government of Myanmar gave approval for an LGBT gathering for the first time this weekend, allowing the &Proud festival to be held in a public park in Yangon. Organizers have historically held the film and culture series in secret, given the nation’s ban on homosexuality, a holdover from British colonial rule.
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Want a gay sports bar to watch Super Bowl LII? Check out our list.
For decades it was assumed that the LGBT community had little interest in sports outside of some softball teams. Those stereotypes have gone by the wayside, replaced by an explosion in the last decade of, among other things, sports (and sporty) bars catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans men and women.
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