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Carrying on the fight: What’s the state of LGBTQ funding?

When the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made marriage equality the law of the land, the funders who’d helped make it possible got to declare victory, a rare pleasure in the world of philanthropy. But as many of the movement’s leading figures made clear at the time, the work was far from over.

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New Hampshire’s Republican governor expected to sign ban on transgender discrimination.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) is expected to sign a bill in the coming weeks that would ban discrimination in the state based on gender identity. The New Hampshire Union Leader reported that the Republican-controlled state Senate passed the legislation last week.

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Tokyo Rainbow Pride marchers dazzle in colorful parade.

Thousands marched today (6 May) in Tokyo Rainbow Pride – one of the city’s two annual gay Pride parades. Over 7,000 people marched through the country’s capital from Shibuya to Harajuku. This is up from about 5,000 people in 2016. This year’s theme was ‘Love and Equality,’…

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New gay “dating” app allows you to discriminate against HIV positive guys.

This just in: There’s a new gay hookup, er, dating app on the market and it claims to be far superior to all the others. Taimi was developed by a group of anonymous tech guys from Silicon Valley who set out to create “the safest gay dating & social media” after allegedly facing “unspeakable discrimination…

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Tens of people show up at Christian group’s anti-LGBTQ “Freedom March”.

Remember the Pulse nightclub massacre survivor who announced he was now straight thanks to Jesus? The other reason that was controversial was because he was at today’s “Freedom March” in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Christian group “Voice of the Voiceless.” It was a rally dedicated to convincing LGBTQ people…

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Tulane Medical School’s controversial history of gay conversion therapy.

“It’s heartbreaking,”  History Professor Randy Sparks said. “As a gay person, it hits home for me. To imagine that this is the sort of thing being done to people like me not very long ago – it’s just tragic.” 46 years ago, under the direction of Dr. Robert G. Heath, Tulane School of Medicine conducted a controversial gay conversion experiment.