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Study shows that homophobic people tend to have a low IQ.

For most people, this seems like common sense, but now there is science to back it up. Science Direct published a study called, “The cognitive roots of prejudice towards same-sex couples”. (linked below) The new study shows that people who…

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Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists.

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was…

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The best of the worst anti-LGBT meltdowns of 2019.

Gay rats, trans penguins, tops and bottoms, oh my! Right-wing media outlets have never shied away from attacking LGBTQ people by spreading bigotry and misinformation — but in 2019, the right-wing outrage was often just plain ridiculous. Here is Media Matters’ roundup of…

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Teachers face test to make sure they’re not too LGBT-friendly.

Foreign teachers of Indonesian private schools have been forced to take tests to determine their sexual orientations and attitudes towards LGBTQ rights. The tests come from a 2015 federal law forbidding the country’s 168 international schools from hiring anyone with…

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The march for LGBT rights is storming through red states.

Chris Hartman hunched over his laptop keyboard in the corner of a campus classroom late one evening this fall, pondering an unfamiliar but welcome dilemma: Kentucky’s LGBTQ rights groups, including the one he leads, were making too much progress for…

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Interior Department cut ‘sexual orientation’ from ethics guide.

President Donald Trump’s Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination. “You shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunities for all Americans regardless of race, color, religion…