Month: April 2018

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Global LGBT funding up but worry as bulk goes to North America.

April 26, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Global LGBT funding up but worry as bulk goes to North America.

Although funding to support sexual minorities is growing, reaching about $250 million in 2016, three-quarters of the money is going to western countries, campaigners said on Wednesday. More than 500 foundations and governmental agencies gave a total of $524 million to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) causes in 2015 and 2016 combined, almost a quarter more than in the previous two-year period, researchers found.

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid says anti-gay posts on her old blog were ‘fabricated’, the internet disagrees.

April 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off on MSNBC’s Joy Reid says anti-gay posts on her old blog were ‘fabricated’, the internet disagrees.

MSNBC news host Joy Reid has been the focus of controversy this week over her old blog, and her assertion that someone may have manipulated the Wayback Machine’s archive of that content to make her look bad. On Monday, Mediaite published a series of newly discovered “homophobic posts from Joy Ann Reid’s old blog that she denies were actually written by her.”

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Remember that Indiana pizzeria that wouldn’t cater a gay wedding? It closed.

April 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Remember that Indiana pizzeria that wouldn’t cater a gay wedding? It closed.

Even before marriage equality became law, businesses were declaring they wouldn’t provide service a same-sex wedding. There’s been bakers, florists, photographers—even a calligraphy company says it refuses to make invitations for a gay couple’s ceremony. But then there’s Memories Pizza, the Walkerton, Indiana, pizzeria that dove into the culture wars in April 2015…

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Victory Fund endorses 35 more LGBTQ candidates for 2018, spotlights four new historic races.

April 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Victory Fund endorses 35 more LGBTQ candidates for 2018, spotlights four new historic races.

Today LGBTQ Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, endorsed 35 more LGBTQ candidates, raising to 109 the total number of candidates endorsed this cycle. Four previously endorsed candidates – San Francisco mayoral candidate Mark Leno, Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon, …

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These states want to make LGBT adoption as hard as possible.

April 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off on These states want to make LGBT adoption as hard as possible.

In the three years since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, anti-LGBT groups have been desperately looking for state-level victories wherever they can get them. And this year, they’re going after foster children. Yes, foster children. Three states—Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado—will soon weigh anti-LGBT legislation that would allow religiously-affiliated child placement agencies to turn away same-sex couples…

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Trump’s focus on teen abstinence makes it harder for LGBTQ people to learn about safe sex.

April 25, 2018 compassq Comments Off on Trump’s focus on teen abstinence makes it harder for LGBTQ people to learn about safe sex.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued new funding guidelines for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPP) grantees on Friday, one day after a federal court ruled that the Trump administration couldn’t cut off funding for those programs. Now, not only will the government shift resources toward abstinence-only programs, but organizations advocating for LGBTQ health say…