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Month: April 2018
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Russia website wants users to hunt gays in Saw-inspired horror ‘game’.
A new website in Russia is encouraging people to ‘report’ LGBTI people to be targeted for torture. ‘Chechnya’s Comeback’, the website says, referring to the local government-sanctioned brutal torture and executions of alleged gay men in the Northern Caucasus. In the week since the website called, ‘Saw’, launched at least three men have been violently assaulted.
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A growing problem for Trump’s military transgender ban — Facts.
Since President Trump announced in March that the Pentagon would prohibit many transgender people from serving in the military, thousands of Americans have been in limbo, not knowing whether their careers were over or whether they would be barred from even joining the armed forces.
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The outrageous lack of LGBT visibility in pro team sports.
Five years ago, Jason Collins came out as an openly gay NBA player and it appeared as if the sports world — especially in pro male sports leagues — was about to undergo a seismic change in regards to LGBT athletes. Collins’ coming out was the lead story on the CBS Evening News on April 29, 2013…
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It’s gay wedding cake time at the Supreme Court.
It’s crunch time at the Supreme Court. In the next nine weeks, the justices must decide who can come into the United States and who can vote. They must define the power of the government to follow you, inform you and shut you up. They must settle disputes over basic activities of daily life…
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Joy Reid’s missed opportunity.
MSNBC host Joy Reid offered a complicated on-air apology on her show on Saturday over homophobic rhetoric she is alleged to have used in posts on a now-defunct blog. She didn’t apologize for writing the posts; in fact, she didn’t admit to writing them at all, oddly explaining that…
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