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Chick-fil-A has increased its funding of anti-LGBT groups.

Recently released 2017 tax filings show that the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated more than $1.8 million to three groups with anti-LGBTQ policies, continuing the fast food restaurant’s long tradition of anti-queer giving despite claiming to have no political or social agenda…

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Why this story about Pete Buttigieg has gone viral.

An amazing story from TIME Magazine’s editor-at-large, Anand Giridharadas, has gone viral and now America is falling even deeper in love with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Giridharadas was backstage before an event with Buttigieg and introduced the candidate to…

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Man contracts HIV while taking PrEP ‘on demand’.

A man living in Sydney was diagnosed with HIV despite taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) drug. Steve Spencer is believed to be the second person in Australia and the seventh person in the world to contract the virus while taking…

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School official loses job after allegedly harassing trans teen.

The school board in Harrison County, West Virginia, voted on Tuesday not to renew the contract of a school official who had been temporarily suspended late last year for allegedly harassing a transgender male student. Lee Livengood, an assistant principal at…

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US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ now exporting hate to the UK.

An American anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ with close ties to the Trump administration has spent more than £410,000 in the UK since 2017, openDemocracy can reveal. ADF International – which opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage equality – is also connected to a small number of…

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Japan urged to stop sterilizing transgender people.

Human Rights Watch urged Japan on Wednesday to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized to have their gender changed on official documents. A 2004 law states people wishing to register a gender change must have their original reproductive organs removed…