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Congress turns back anti-LGBTQ adoption amendment.

Legislation that would allow adoption and foster care agencies receiving federal funds to discriminate against prospective parents because of sexual orientation or other factors has been defeated. The measure, known informally as the Aderholt amendment, was…      

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Impartial LGBT news needed to advance global human rights.

“Filthy”, “diseased”, “devil worshipper”, “disgusting”, “abnormal”, “paedophile”. These were real words used by some media outlets around the world this year when reporting on LGBT+ people. This might sound shocking. After all, we are more accustomed to…      

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The erasing of LGBT content from federal websites.

One of the first things LGBT advocates noticed after the inauguration of Donald Trump was what happened to the White House’s LGBT rights website—namely, it vanished. That removal—as Snopes and other fact-checkers noted…      

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Gay penguins ‘kidnap’ chick from straight parents.

A gay penguin couple “kidnapped” a chick at Denmark’s Odense Zoo while the baby’s parents went for a swim, according to a zookeeper. The zookeeper, Sandie Hedgegard Munck, said the gay penguins wanted to be parents and likely…