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The state of the LGBTQ community in the labor market.

Tomorrow, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its employment numbers for the month of June, which is National LGBTQ Pride Month. Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in 2015, support for marriage equality in the United States has continued to grow among the public.  

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Is ‘telemedicine’ the future for rural LGBTQ patients?

Dr. Crystal Beal’s office isn’t like most physicians’ offices. There are no patients in a waiting room. In fact, there’s no waiting room at all. That’s because Beal, a family medicine physician in Seattle, practices telemedicine — using a computer-based out of their Capitol Hill apartment. (Beal uses they/them pronouns).  

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Collin Martin is only 3rd out gay man to play in men’s Big Five regular season.

Collin Martin, the Minnesota United midfielder who came out publicly last, became only the third publicly out gay man to play in a major regular-season professional sports competition in the United States. Martin entered the United’s match against Toronto FC in the 79th minute.  

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LGBTQ group struggles for recognition at Mormon-run BYU.

The Understanding Same Gender Attraction group at Brigham Young University has tried unsuccessfully for three years to get recognition from the school. An LGBTQ group at the Mormon church-owned Brigham Young University has tried unsuccessfully for three years to get recognition from the school.  

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England’s World Cup game or London Pride? People are torn.

England have won a World Cup penalty shootout for the first time, beating Colombia and making it into a quarter-final against Sweden – which is happening at the same time as Pride in London. Because of this, the glorious victory, which meant that six of the World Cup’s eight remaining countries have legalised same-sex marriage, has got some LGBT football fans feeling torn.  

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The suicide epidemic and LGBTQ youth.

With U.S. rate at 30-year high, it’s time to protect the most vulnerable. here’s probably no eerier, more terrifying feeling than entering a silent room to check on someone’s welfare and finding them dead by their own hand. Imagine discovering a lifeless body with its face frozen in death, the eyes staring but seeing nothing…