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Oregon principal ousted for making LGBTQ students read Bible as punishment.

The principal of a rural Oregon high school who issued Bible readings as punishments to LGBTQ students has stepped down as part of a settlement between his district and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon. Bill Lucero “repeatedly failed to respond to LGBTQ students complaints” during his tenure at…

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Kim Davis vs. the gay guy denied a marriage license for County Clerk.

A local political race in a northeast Kentucky town is drawing attention well beyond the Appalachian community. A gay man who was refused a marriage license by the current county clerk is running for that very position. David Ermold hopes to win his Democratic primary race tomorrow, so he has a chance to unseat Kim Davis.

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LGBT fans should be prepared to face discrimination Russian World Cup.

Thousands of England fans will travel to the world’s largest nation for Russia 2018, which begins on June 14, and the Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) – in partnership with the Football Association and Foreign and Commonwealth Office – has issued travel advice which warns attitudes may be less tolerant than at home.

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Study: Vast majority of LGBTQ teens feel unsafe at school.

A new survey of LGBTQ teens released last week shows that the vast majority of young people report feeling unsafe at school and regularly hear family members make negative comments about LGBTQ people. The survey of 12,000 teens aged 13-17 was released by the Human Rights Campaign and the University of Connecticut on May 15.

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Pope Francis tells gay man: ‘God made you like this’.

Juan Carlos Cruz, who was sexually abused, says pontiff told him God did not mind that he was gay. A survivor of clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him that God had made him gay and loved him, in arguably the most strikingly accepting comments about homosexuality to be uttered by the leader of the Roman Catholic church.

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A woman running for Congress filmed herself yelling at a transgender woman for using the bathroom.

Viral footage shows a transgender women being confronted in a Denny’s bathroom by a woman running for Congress. Jazmina Saavedra, who’s running for US Congress in California’s 44th District and is the spokeswoman for the California branch of Latinos for Trump, posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday…