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Has “lesbian” become a dirty word among young queer women?

“I’m not a lesbian anymore.” I first said those words aloud three years ago. I was 19, and my partner at the time, whom I’d entered into a relationship with as an out-and-proud lesbian, no longer identified as a woman. Their gender transition coincided with a trend I’d noticed in the women-loving-women…    

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16 states ask Supreme Court to limit LGBTQ workplace protections.

Sixteen U.S. states, including 13 attorneys general and three GOP governors, are asking the Supreme Court to limit protections for LGBTQ workers. The states on Aug. 23 filed an amicus curiae brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn a recent decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that held that workplace anti-discrimination laws extend to transgender workers.    

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No, Pope Francis: LGBT kids should ‘stand up, be proud,’ says ex-Irish president’s gay son.

LGBT+ activists have rebuffed Pope Francis’ suggestion that gay children should be taken to see a psychiatrist as “ignorant” and “unacceptable.” The Pope had been to Ireland on a two-day trip in occasion of the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families, which faced protests by…    

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The Pope said that gay children need psychiatric help and the Vatican spins it.

The Vatican on Monday rolled back on Pope Francis’s recommendation that parents seek psychiatric help for children who show homosexual tendencies. The Pope made the comments to journalists as he was flying back to Rome from Ireland, but the Vatican later removed his phrase from its official account, saying he had not meant to suggest that homosexuality was a mental illness.    

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Denver 9-year-old dies by suicide after reported bullying for being gay.

A Denver mom is grieving the loss of her 9-year-old son, who killed himself on Thursday after he was reportedly bullied at school. Jemel Myles told his mother, Leia Pierce, that he was gay this summer, Pierce told local station KDVR TV. “And he looked so scared when he told me. He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay,’”…