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Orrin Hatch asks Congress to ‘protect LGBTQ individuals.’

The longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate urged colleagues to “protect LGBTQ individuals” in his farewell address on Wednesday. After four decades in Congress, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is set to retire in January with the coming of the 2019 Legislative…

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Teenage trolls are screwing up LGBT scientific studies.

Scientists studying LGBT youth may have a big problem on their hands: meddling kids. More specifically, meddling kids who think it’s funny to identify as gay or lesbian on surveys—and who then give exaggerated responses to other questions about…

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Knowing just one gay person shifts attitudes on LGBT issues.

Sociologists have long proposed that when people establish certain relationships, they may change their attitudes about issues, often referred to as the contact effect, explains Daniel DellaPosta, assistant professor of sociology at Penn State and an affiliate of the Institute for CyberScience…

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Kansas senator leaves GOP for Democrats citing LGBT issues.

A Kansas state senator is leaving the Republican Party and becoming a Democrat, citing differences over LGBTQ issues and Donald Trump. The “last straw” for Barbara Bollier was when the state GOP adopted anti-transgender language in its platform, she told…

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Political commentator hurls homophobic slur live on air.

MSNBC is once again dealing with a network host’s alleged homophobic comments after Morning Joe anchor Mika Brzezinski casually tossed off what can be a slur on live television Wednesday morning. The Morning Joe host was talking about an interview…