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Exporting hate: U.S. anti-LGBT movement goes to Italy.

Powerful U.S.-based anti-LGBT hate groups, including the World Congress of Families (WCF), are working alongside global online petition platform CitizenGO to train, meet with and support three influential anti-LGBT groups in Italy, a Hatewatch investigation reveals…

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Elections: This is how Russia manipulated LGBT Americans.

LGBTQ+ social media users users were specifically targeted by a now-infamous Russian troll farm purposely meddling with the 2016 election, according to two new reports released this week. In one, a finding published by Oxford University, the survey of the damage…

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Utah Senator blocks confirmation of lesbian on EEOC.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is blocking the confirmation of a woman to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) who religious conservatives call “the Dragon Queen of Religious Bigotry.” Chai Feldblum, who is a lesbian and whose father was an…

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San Francisco gay bars were target of ISIS supporter.

The defense for aspiring terrorist Amer Alhaggagi is now complicated by a video that shows the Yemeni-born man plotting to use homeless people to bomb public buildings. The undercover FBI video, obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, shows Alhaggagi in 2016 expressing…