“After seeing the rainbow flag in the window, I’ve had it with this place and have thrown in the towel.” An anti-gay review on Yelp that called a restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts “absolutely disgusting and unacceptable” prompted other customers to voice their support for the cafe.
On the eve of Alabama’s special election for the U.S. Senate in December, Nathan Mathis showed up at a Roy Moore rally in Houston County carrying a sign and an opposing viewpoint. A peanut farmer and former state legislator, Mathis was driven by tragedy. His daughter, Patti Sue Mathis, took her own life at age 22, in 1995.
Following a report last week of violent threats against a 12-year-old transgender girl in Oklahoma, the family now says they are hoping to flee their current neighborhood and move to a more inclusive environment outside of the state. The child, whose name is Maddie, was reportedly taunted on social media by…
Deadpool 2 star Brianna Hildebrand “felt a lot of responsibility” in portraying Negasonic Teenage Warhead for a second time — this time as the genre’s first openly gay superhero on the big screen. “[Star and co-writer Ryan Reynolds] sent me an email about it while they were in the writing process asking if I would mind if they gave Negasonic a girlfriend…
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general who died Saturday at age 80, was a champion of the rights of LGBTQ people, among many others. Annan died after a short illness, surrounded by members of his family, said a statement posted on his official Twitter account. The Ghanian diplomat was a “global statesman and deeply committed internationalist who…
Beneath Camp Meriwether’s flagpole stood 11 girls, right arms bent and raised to their brows in a salute. In that moment, they made history. The girls were among 200 boys at Camp Meriwether, Oregon’s historic Boy Scouts camp, as they became pioneers in breaking down the 108-year-old scouting organization’s gender barrier…
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