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HRC reaches out to LGBTQ evangelical Christians with faith guide.

Today, the Human Rights Campaign ( HRC ) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ( LGBTQ ) civil rights organization, released Coming Home to Evangelicalism and to Self, a guide for LGBTQ evangelical Christians. HRC worked with an advisory team of evangelical Christian scholars and advocates to develop and shape this essential resource.    

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Aging is harder on LGBTQ people than heterosexuals.

A federally funded research project is releasing details about the effects health inequalities can have on members of the LGBTQ community as they age. The project, titled Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study, is researching the lives of 2,450 50 to 100 year old LGBTQ Americans…  

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Did the Trump administration say employers can fire workers for being gay?

A legal argument offered in a discrimination case by the Justice Department in 2017 disclaimed Title VII protections for sexual orientation but didn’t change extant law. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) September 2017 involvement in a labor dispute case before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made the online rounds…  

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$1 million gift to San Diego State supports Pride Center, LGBT studies.

Robert DeKoven, a former Associated Students president at San Diego State University in the late 1970s, has made a planned gift to support SDSU’s Pride Center and LGBT Studies Program. The $1 million gift was announced July 11 at SDSU’s Pride Flag Raising Ceremony, an annual campus event. SDSU is the second university…

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The trans man whose pioneering surgery was a Russian state secret for decades.

Dr. Viktors Kalnbērzs still remembers the day in the winter of 1968 when the phone in his office rang and changed his life forever. On the other end of the line was his friend Vladimir Demikhov, a pioneering transplantology surgeon, who told him about a potential patient named Inna.  

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Boston Globe, Seattle Times promote LGBT editors to sports leadership roles.

This month, a pair of journalism institutions promoted LGBT editors to leadership positions in their sports departments. The Boston Globe promoted Rachel Bowers to assistant sports editor, and The Seattle Timespromoted Stefanie Loh to assistant sports editor. Bowers and Loh both identify as lesbians…