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More people now support allowing businesses to refuse LGBTQ customers.

Americans are conflicted over whether Christians like Colorado baker Jack Phillips should have the right to refuse service to queer customers. In handing a narrow victory to a Christian baker who refused to make cakes for a gay wedding, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to punt a bigger question down the road: whether Americans can use religion to justify discrimination against LGBTQ people.

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LGBT leader calls for boycott of Alaska Airlines over treatment of gay couple.

Alaska Airlines is the latest carrier facing the ire of an advocacy group over an onboard incident. The president and chief executive of the New York LGBT Network is calling for a boycott of the Seattle-based carrier over an incident in which a gay man was asked to give up his seat next to his partner so that…    

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ICE releases 14 transgender asylum seekers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released from its custody 14 transgender women who are seeking asylum in the U.S. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts in a July 31 press release that announced the trans women’s release said they had been detained at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, N.M.    

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7 historical facts about the Gay Games.

The opening ceremony for the Gay Games takes place in Paris this weekend, kicking off 10 days of athletic and cultural events celebrating diversity, love and equality. Open to people of all sexual orientations and all levels of athletic ability, the 10th edition of the Games is expected to draw 15,000 participants from more than…    

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Adameve.com reveals where America stands in LGBTQ issues.

Adameve.com (https://www.adameve.com), America’s most trusted source for adult products, is interested in all facets of sexuality. In their latest infographic, they take a close look at today’s U.S. LGBTQ statistics, and the results may surprise you. This informational bulletin provides data on everything from the cities with the highest concentration of LGBTQ individuals to how Americans really feel about same-sex marriage and adoption, and more.

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Christian group target LGBT+ youth with deceptive gay cure videos.

Anchored North – a ‘Christian Media Ministry’, violated targeted content rules to deliver slyly insidious ‘gay cure’ videos to LGBT+ youth on social media. Social media giants have decided that evangelical group Anchored North contravened social media rules in order to target LGBT+ youth with videos which at first seem to celebrate homosexuality before offering a ‘gay cure’…    

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How a small church in Massachusetts became a destination for LGBTQ asylum-seekers.

On a quiet street in Worcester, Massachusetts, there’s a little white clapboard church with a steeple called Hadwen Park Congregational Church. Over the past decade, this classic-looking, century-old New England church has become a destination for migrants who were persecuted for their gender or sexual orientation…