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DOJ urges civil rights agency to flip LGBT stance.

The Trump Justice Department is urging the federal employment rights agency to change its position and tell the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that businesses can discriminate against transgender employees without violating the law, according to sources familiar with the deliberations…

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15-year-old boy holding crucifix blocks LGBT march in Poland.

LGBT+ equality march in the city of Płock, in Poland, on Saturday while wielding a crucifix to “counteract evil deeds”. The teenager, Jakub Baryła, describes himself as a “Catholic, traditionalist, conservative and patriot”. He told wPolityce.pl he came up with the idea when…

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Anti-LGBT groups are determined to oust LGBT legislator.

Danica Roem, a Democrat in Virginia who represents the 13th state House of Delegates District, and the first openly transgender state legislator in the entire country, is facing Republican Kelly McGinn in her 2019 re-election campaign. But along McGinn, Roem is also…

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Parents don’t want this anti-LGBT priest teaching their kids.

Rev. Erik Richtsteig is supposed to become a new youth pastor working with kids ages four to 15 in Salt Lake City’s Catholic schools. But more than 150 parents have signed a petition opposing his appointment after discovering his anti-LGBTQ and misogynist…